Month: January 2012
OnLive Desktop App for the iPad is now in the Apple App Store. The App which allows you to use Microsoft Office on your iPad features 2gb of Free cloud storage as well as the full capabilities of the Desktop version of Office, right on your iPad. For more information, check out the OnLive Desktop Website To Download the iPad App, go to the App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onlive-desktop/id490292278?mt=8
Frank Kunze has posted a slew of new screenshots on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online Blog showing some of his work on the recently announced Eamon Deluxe 5.0. Eamon Deluxe is Franks offshoot of the original Donald Brown created classic Eamon. The latest version of Eamon Deluxe will run on multiple platforms and will also have a number of the original calssics updated to run on the new platform. The Eamon Adventurers Guild was originally run by Tom Zuchowski but…
The Apple Archives site has been updated with the January 2012 update. There are now well over 300 links on the website and we have begun to add more links for the February update. The Apple Archives is a Vintage Apple specific link library and contains links to Apple-1, Apple II, Apple ///, Apple IIgs and Mac 68K specific websites. There are currently over 300 websites in the database and growing. The entire library is maintained by hand and links…
Popular news website Reddit is planning on a 12 hour blackout in protest against the SOPA piracy bill that is currently being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives. Apparently Wikipedia will be joining Reddit in that Protest as will many other websites acorss the Internet. While the goal of SOPA was to make it easier to fight against copyright infringement, the reality is that it provides anyone who claims copyright infringement an easy way to censor the Internet without…
The Beijing Apple store has had a major debacle in its opening of sales of the new iPhone 4S there. The store was supposed to open at 7:00 am but as the time reached 7:15, the crowds of people who had amassed waiting for the sales to begin, began chanting and hurling eggs at the store. Swat teams were called in to control the crowd and the sale of the iPhone there halted. In most other cities, tickets were given…
As predicted here by our staff, Apple has scheduled an education related event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The event which will be held at 10:00 am on the 19th of January will outline Apple’s Education initiative. While many have said this event will feature the iPad 3 prominently, we are expecting it to take more of the Standford and MITx education initiatives in hand and show how those initiatives will integrate with iTunes. As stated in…
A report in CIO states that Enterprise level corporations will likely put about $19 billion USD into purchases from Apple, Inc. this year according to the research firm Forrester Research. This is nearly 20% of the corporate market and will likely increase to a total of $28 Billion USD in 2013. Most of the purchases will be for iPads and Macs according to the report. The iPad has made major inroads into many enterprise level corporations including the airlines and…
Laminar research has released an update for their X-Plane Application for the iPad. Version 9.770 is a maintenance update which addresses several issues including: Autopilot response improved… the plane should lock onto your current pitch and roll when autopilot power is dfirst applied. THEN you should be able to enter heading or altitude mode at your liesure. If you are in a fighter, then the other plane should be a fighter as well. RAM footprint is now lowered a bit,…
The Open Apple Podcast, produced by Apple ][ fans Mike Maginnis and Ken Gagne, is now available on the Open Apple Poscast website. This is the 11th edition of Open Apple and features guest host David Greelish of the Retro Computing Rountable Podcast. This month Ken and Mike run through a host of news items including Steve Jobs’ passing, the 175,000 Apple-1, the 1.6 million dollar apple document, and the John Scully Interview done by David Greelish, as well as…
Kodak, one the verge of being bankrupt, has filed a lawsuit against Apple and HTC suggesting that the companies have infringed on patents held the Kodak. The patents concerned in the release from Kodak stated that Apple and HTC both infringed on: U.S. Patent No. 7,210,161 – “Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Camera to a Service Provider Using a Network Configuration File” U.S. Patent No. 7,742,084 – “Network Configuration File for Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Still Camera”…
A new coating produced by Liquipel, a company in Santa Ana, California, totally waterproofs the iphone. The process, being displayed at CES 2012, cost $59.95 to have done, and the user must ship the iPhone to the company to have it waterproofed. This process can be applied to any smartphone and apparently will protect the phone even if it is totally submerged in water. For more information about Liquipel, check out their website at: http://www.liquipel.com
Vintage Computer festival East (VCF East) keynote speakers have been announced on the VCF website. VCF East is scheduled to happen May 5th and May 6th at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall New Jersey. Considered the smorgasbord of vintage computing, VCF covers the gamut of vintage computing platforms. It also is the only remaining event of the VCF Festivals after the downturn in the economy. The Saturday session will be headlined by the creator of the BASIC programming language,…
A new modification for the Carte Blanche Board allows the user to get 12 bit color output from the board. The creator of the modification for the board, posted the following in CSA2: “I have made a little modification to the Carte Blanche to allow 12 bit color VGA output for the Apple IIgs. The modification is very simple to make. Its just a cable with some resistors and a bit-stream to send the video to the IDE connector instead…
Have you ever wondered what would happened if you dropped your ipad? What if it was dropped out of an airplane? Well, the guys at G-Form already did that one and had to go one better. Using a weather balloon, they took an iPad to 100,000 feet insulated with their G-From Extreme Edge Case. Amazingly, the iPad drops to earth and survives. Dont believe it? Check it out for yourself!:
A.P.P.L.E. has updated the Apple Archives Link site with over 50 new links and now has more than 250 vintage apple links. The site includes categories for nearly every aspect of vintage apple computing including software, emulation and project related links. Some of the new features of the archives include: New Pull Down menus for each category Added DVD and Apple IIgs categories to the archives Single click to website links There currently are another 25 links remaining in the…
Apimac has released the latest version of their iDatabase program. The program which allows users to create and support databases on their Apple portable devices, has a number of features found only on larger database systems. From the Press Release: iDatabase is a simple and easy-to-use database manager that offers the most natural and easy way to organize information and data. With this database manager for Mac, you can manage membership lists, expenses, projects, keep track of your internet accounts…
Egan Ford has updated his new Apple ][ Disk Server once again. The Apple ][ Disks Server allows the user to connect their audio port to the Apple ][‘s cassette i/o port and load complete disk images to the floppy drive. This process now takes less than three minutes according to a note from Egan. Improvements between version 3 and version 6 include: To use the Apple ][ Disk Server, go to the Disk Server website at: http://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/
Datve Ottlani has posted his original Apple /// in 10 EZ lessons videos to You Tube. The videos give a good overview of the Apple /// and its usage for those who have never touched an Apple /// Computer. You can view the lessons from the links below or from Dave’s you tube channel Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Two other videos included in the…
Since reaching a low of $354.23 USD on the day that Steve Jobs died, Apple, Inc’s Stock (AAPL) price has been on a steady climb. The stock closed at $422.40 at the market close and was trading just down from that at $422.28 USD in the after hours market. With Apple expected to announce their 4th Qtr results on the 24th of this month, it is expected that the stock will continue this upward trend baring some unforeseen change in…
Thanks to Arnaud Brossard, the original 1990 version of the Generous Efforts of Many (GEM) CD is now available for download from his website. The collection which included all of the major Apple ][ shareware and freeware up to that point, included some 200mb of software, fonts, utilities and other items related to the Apple ][. The CD is divided into 6 sections, 32mb each, and are ProDOS volumes. They include: GEM.CD.A – (Bootable) Features, Shrinkit GEM.CD.B – Sounds, Games…
