Sometimes Apple gets its product absolutely right and the unit stays in amazing shape for a long time. Other times it’s poorly manufactured and “winds up “browning like a rotten banana,” just five months after its release, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern. According to Stern’s latest tech newsletter, Apple’s $59 FineWoven cases […]
Ok, this is just kind of retro, fun, and geeky. Threads user Drew Thaler has offered several continuous posts as to the trials and travails of burning CD-ROMS and DVD-ROMS in the late 90s and early 2000s when the authoring and editing software was in its earliest stages. Thaler makes an excellent point as to […]
This is inarguably cool. A series of audio recordings of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been unearthed and is now available online for streaming. The tapes, which were recorded in 1988, centered around Jobs’ first product reveal since being dismissed from Apple in 1985. At the time, Jobs unveiled a new project called NeXT […]
If you’re hankering for some old school Mac stuff to run under macOS, you’re going to like this. A group of developers has created macintosh.js, a JavaScript app that allows Mac OS 8 to run on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The code is available on GitHub, and the developers have promised some goodies from an […]
As heartbreaking as it may be, the first MacBook Pro notebooks with a Retina display are now considered vintage. The notebook was also praised in many reviews, which awarded it top marks for its mix of functionality and portability. Marco Arment, a well-known developer, even called it “the best laptop ever made,” with a “crowd-pleasing […]