For many women (and families) Mother’s Day is a heartbreaking occasion. For others, it’s a day of joy. In our household, I think it’s a mix of both.
That photo is from the weekend our son Josiah was diagnosed with brain cancer. That Sunday, he was baptized in his hospital bed. So many people from our lives showed up, the crowd spilled out into the hallway, with people lining up to visit.
On this day in 1998, Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3:
This announcement mirrors the original Macintosh introduction in several ways. Both times, Steve Jobs was unveiling a consumer machine for the masses with a friendly, all-in-one design. Both introductions took place in the Flint Center, and each greeted the audience with a cheerful “Hello” on the screen.
We’ve got new Connected shirts for sale, just in time for WWDC:
Celebrate the completion of Stephen’s iMac hunt with this limited edition shirt, featuring your favorite international trio.
About a month ago, I set out to find every color of iMac G3. At the time, I only owned one model — a Sage. Today, the family is complete.
I have a lot planned for these machines, but the first step was some documentation. I made a little video of my work:
Keep you eye out for more videos, some podcast episodes and more.
Which is easier to set up, a PC or an iMac G3?
Apple is altering the user interface of Apple Music to make it more intuitive to use, according to people familiar with the product who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. Apple also plans to better integrate its streaming and download businesses and expand its online radio service, the people said. The reboot is expected to be unveiled at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June. The changes will be accompanied by a marketing blitz to lure more customers to the $10-per-month streaming service. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
Stephen is back with an assignment for Federico and Myke, but first: changes come to Withings, auto-correct and Apple Music.
My thanks to our sponsors this week:
While the new Kindle’s $289 price point is still a little mind boggling, apparently Amazon is selling them faster than they can be made. (Whether that’s on purpose or not is anyone’s guess.) I went to go order one today and noticed that it’s out of stock until early June. I guess I can move that review back a bit in OmniFocus.
Looking to upgrade from System 6 to System 7? Be sure to check out this support page that outlines how your documents will fair:
You can move documents between a Macintosh running System 6 and a Macintosh running System 7 without any problems. In most cases, your documents will not change their appearance. For example, if your document uses Times font in size 12, your document won’t change.
An exception occurs when you have TrueType fonts installed and you have documents using numerous odd type sizes.
Impressive, Alex Jason. Most impressive.
Marco Arment has a new app:
Quitter automatically hides or quits distracting apps after periods of inactivity. I’ve found it tremendously helpful to my work efficiency to hide Slack and quit Tweetbot after 10 minutes.
It’s free and works as advertised. I dig it.
On the road to OS X, Apple released numerous updates to Mac OS. To help developers keep up, the company published the Mac OS Anthology. Here’s the introduction to the third version, available in February 2000:
Mac OS Anthology is a collection of Mac OS or System Software releases in up to 32 languages, spanning from Mac OS 7.0 to 9.0. This collection has been gathered for Apple Developer Connection members to conveniently provide Mac OS releases in multiple languages, with the goal of assisting you in extending your product’s reach into international markets and environments.
