As written, they would betray more than a decade of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran.
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Basilisk II — the Open Source 68k Macintosh Emulator
I’ve got a virtual machine running MacOS 7.5.3. It thinks it is Quadra 900.
Brave
Ungeniused 008 — Loch Ness Monster
In episode 8 of Ungeniused, Myke and I discuss the Loch Ness Monster. This is part one of two-part series on the topic.
Ars’ iTunes Match FAQ
If you have questions about iTunes Match, you should go check this out.
On iCloud Growth Opportunities
With iTunes Match’s release yesterday, Apple has moved one step closer to its promise of “PC-Free” operation of iOS devices.
iOS 5’s wireless features currently include:
- Contact and calendar syncing
- Software updates
- Importing photos from the Camera Roll via Photo Stream
- Download music from the iTunes Store, or your own library
- iPhone backups
By my count, these things still require syncing with iTunes:
- Syncing/updating iPhoto Events back to an iOS device
- Syncing new ringtones and alerts that aren’t purchased on the device
- Importing videos (Photo Stream just does photos)
- Syncing podcasts1
Imagine a world where any iPhoto event could become its own Photo Stream, or videos would be added to the application OTA.
Old Mac of the Month: the Macintosh IIvx
Editor’s Note: This month’s “Old Mac of the Month” entry is written by Eric Jorgensen. His blog can be found here and he is on Twitter here.
I am twenty-six, which means that I’ve never known a time when the Macintosh didn’t exist.
Like the Macintosh, I was born in 1984. I first met that machine thanks to my grandparents, who, for a reasons now unclear, had an original Macintosh in their home office. I’m not sure why, as neither grandparent is what anyone would ever describe as “computer-savvy.” Fittingly, I don’t think that I ever saw either one use it. During visits to their house, I would sneak away to boot up the Mac and play with MacPaint.
Textastic [Sponsor]
Who says the iPad is only for consumption? Textastic brings the power of a desktop text, code, and markup editor to the iPad.
Textastic supports syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages, and if that’s not enough, you can extend it with TextMate-compatible syntax definitions and themes.
The visual find and replace feature and the list of function and class names let you quickly navigate documents. A cursor navigation wheel simplifies text selection and the extra row of keys above the keyboard makes it easy to type common programming characters.
Jean-Louis Gassée, on NeXT and Apple
ZDNet has posted a great video of Gassée speaking recently in San Jose. Of course, his own Be OS was considered by Apple before NeXT was purchased.
iPod + iTunes Timeline
I stumbled upon this page on Apple’s PR site. It’s weird, and a little out-dated, but it gives a nice history of Apple’s music-centric products.
That Magical Place
MG Siegler, on Google X:
Whatever is going on inside of Google X, I’m fairly certain it’s filled to the brim with the kind of stuff that made us all fall in love with Google in the first place.
Agreed.
Weird Mac Startup and Crash Sounds
While we’re all familiar with the sound Macs make as they power on, there have been some unusual ones in the past. My favorite is probably the Power Mac 6100 death chime, which sounds like a car crash.1
You can download the complete collection of 19 unusual Mac tones here.
Update: From 512 Pixels reader Bryan S:
If you change all of those tones’ extensions to .m4r instead of .m4a you can add them into iTunes and sync them over to an iPhone.