I’ve been thinking Apple’s next keyboard should be an iPad. Or, you know, a multi-touch display that can also handle gestures & display a dock or app launcher or palette or menus. OS X and iOS may not be converging in the next couple years, but that doesn’t mean Macs don’t get sexier.

I love the Mac. I love what it did for me, it gave me a lot of freedom I wouldn’t have gotten any other way. However, it stopped short of where it could have gone, and in doing so, I hope serves as a lesson for future generations of technologists. Dave Winer: 30th Anniversary of […]

johnthelutheran: Everything From This 1991 Radio Shack Ad You Can Now Do With Your Phone.

Electronica Artist Owl City/Adam Young Designed iOS 7 Sounds [Updated] – Mac Rumors

Electronica Artist Owl City/Adam Young Designed iOS 7 Sounds [Updated] – Mac Rumors I sort of hate my phone now.

danielrehn: minusbaby made a *.PAT of Susan Kare’s original MacPaint fill patterns. It works with Photoshop versions CS2—CS6 on Windows / OS X. Download → http://minusbaby.com/drop_box/minusbaby-macpaint.pat News you can use.

About the new iWork for Mac: Features and compatibility

About the new iWork for Mac: Features and compatibility There has been a lot of noise about the fact that the long-awaited iWork updates removed a lot of features. This support document explains that Apple intends to reintroduce many features and continue to add new ones. I’ve never seen Apple discuss a software roadmap like […]

rickwebb: Oh this is just a Macintosh running Mac System 7 IN A BROWSER. Jesus.  Entirely true. I played a complete game of Risk in this (& won handily, I must say).

Sometimes people call Apple a hardware company, but that’s not quite right. Others have said they’re a software company, pointing out that it’s the quality of the software experience that really sets them apart, but that’s not quite right either. Having watched Apple for nearly 30 years now, and having worked at 1 Infinite Loop, […]

OS X Mavericks: Notes and First Impressions

Features Control-command-space opens an emoji panel! (@SteveStreza) In Safari 7, results opened from a Google search show up in History with their real URL, and not the Google redirect one. FINALLY. (macstories) The battery menu will now show you a list of apps using “significant” energy. (macstories) With iCloud Keychain, Safari can automatically generate random […]

I don’t believe Apple added 64-bit support to iOS 7 and all their apps just to prepare for an eventual transition to 4GB memory capacities in future iPhones. I think this was to do with something more impending. Do we know any product category that Apple would be interested in, that would require the use […]