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My One Problem with Things 3
I’ve been playing with Things 3 a good bit lately. It’s a beautiful app on the Mac and iOS, and the sync engine seems to be rock-solid.
When I first played with it, I was baffled by the app’s UI for creating repeating tasks. After some time, I’ve come to see what the app is doing. There is, however, one problem I can’t overcome.
You can’t check off a repeating task early.
Kbase Article of the Week: iMac - Technical Specifications⇢
The specs of the original iMac really show how far things have come.
iMac: Just in Time⇢
Horace Dediu, writing at Asymco:
But the iMac is a historically significant machine. It allowed Apple to start on a new trajectory. It did this by first offering a financial lifeline. Sales of Macs, which were at the time the only source of revenues for Apple, increased from 2.7 million to 3.8 million a year. This at a time when Windows PCs were shipping about 100 million units. That was enough to ensure survival. Today Mac units are five times higher while Windows PCs are about 2.5 times higher. The following graph shows the impact of iMac on the Mac’s trajectory.
Installing a Floppy Drive in Your 233 MHz iMac
The iMac was famous for leaving the floppy drive behind, but it turns out that the logic board had the header and pins used by other Macs at the time for the drive. Some hardware tinkerers got it working.
More on the iMac Anniversary
If you haven’t read enough iMac G3 stuff, here are some more articles you should check out or send to your read-it-later service of choice:
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Six Colors: The original iMac: 20 years since Apple changed its fate — Jason Snell writes about the machine’s impact, and covering it for Macworld, which only sent the editor in chief to cover the event.
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Newsweek: Steve Jobs Unveils the iMac — Steven Levy’s exclusive look at the new machine, from May 1998.
Twenty Years Ago, Steve Jobs Introduced the iMac G3
Today marks twenty years since Steve Jobs introduced the very first iMac G3.
Apple’s press release for the machine is pretty great:
It’s a good thing there’s no law against a company having a monopoly of good ideas. Otherwise Apple would be in deep yogurt for the ideas that Steve Jobs shared with the crowd at Apple’s Flint Center auditorium Tuesday, May 6.
Two Decades of iMac⇢
Michael Steeber at 9to5Mac has an incredible roundup of the iMac’s evolution over the last 20 years.
Connected #191: I’m Expecting to Have Problems⇢
This week on Connected, Myke and I chat with John Voorhees about rumored products, dead products and Apple’s Q2 results.
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Pure Zen⇢
Mark Wilson, writing at Fast Company, has discovered how good System 7 was.
Apple Posts Record Q2 Results⇢
Apple has just published its financial results for Q2 2018. The company posted revenue of $61.1 billion, an increase of 16% from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.1 million iPads, 52.2 million iPhones, and 4.1 million Macs during the quarter.
Revenue, iPhones and iPads were all up year-over-year; the Mac was down a touch. Services is up 31% over this time last year.
Kbase Article of the Week: Locating your PowerBook’s Serial Number⇢
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