Author: Bill Martens
The FAA has approved the iPad as a replacement for paper maps in the cockpits of commercial aircraft. Traditionally, airline pilots have carried reams of the maps of the airports they were flying into and out of, in a specialized flight suitcase. Now they will really only need their iPad complete with the appropriate maps application such as the one from Jeppesen. According to an article in Bloomberg (http://bloom.bg/fFwLkH), Delta Airlines is one of the major players in the push…
The Apple II Scans website, managed by Mike Maginnis, has announced that they have added the follow on book to Gary B. Little’s Inside the Apple //e. Inside the Apple //c was based on the initial Apple //c and covers the machine in its entirety. Unfortunately, it is lacking in information about the second generation Apple //c as well as the Apple //c Plus which came out later. Still the book is a wealth of information for the user who…
Apple announced their new Garageband App for the iPad. Complete with Touch instruments, recording studio and and Smart Instruments, the app not only makes the iPad a complete musical instrument but also gives musicians the ability to work on their tracks while they are on the go. The program features Drums, Drum machines, Synthesizers, and Keyboards as well as Guitars and other modern musical instruments. The multi-touch ability allows the iPad to be played as if playing the original instrument,…
Snippetspace, the company known for it’s eazy to use iPhone App framework, has released a preview of it’s next version of the package. iWebkit has been one of the most widely used frameworks for building iPhone Apps and iPhone compatible websits during the past few years. Its author, Christopher Plieger, is also taking dontations for the purchase of an iPad so that he can begin building a version of the iWebkit framework for the iPad. According to the release on…
Over the past few months, I have been watching and waiting for someone to take an iPod (yes the small 6th gen Nano) and turn it into a usable wristwatch. Many of my cohorts commented on the same idea in January and February with the first articles appearing about it this past 2 weeks or so. No it seems that everyone is jumping on the band wagon including us. Having had a computer on my wrist since the early 1990’s…
The ActiveGS Plugin has been rolled back to version 3.3.201 due to a bug which was discovered to be causing the Safari version of the plugin not to work. Work is ongoing and a fix is expected soon. In the interim, if the plugin is not working in your browser when you visit the Virtual Apple ][ website, we recommend uninstalling the plugin and re-visiting to re-install the older version of the plugin. If your broswer is working fine with…
There is a story running in a Forbes Blog (http://blogs.forbes.com/elizabethwoyke/2011/03/04/is-best-buy-planning-to-give-ipads-to-all-its-sales-associates/) by Elizabeth Woyke that Best Buy is planning on giving all of it’s 180,000 retail employees an iPad to help them become better sales people. If proved true, it could be a huge gamble for the retailer which is struggling as of late, but it could also have a huge payoff since Best Buy is an Apple sales partner. Best Buy may be counting on their employees becoming better educated…
Conan O’Brien has been known for his ability to have the latest and greatest in Apple gadgets and to poke fun at them at the same time. While his iPhone skit was quite funny a while back, his new iPad2 commercial is absolutely brilliant in the manner it parodies the launch. Stating “Apple is getting a bit cocky” in his monologue, he then turns to the following commercial to take the joke home.
Many eons ago, or maybe it just seems like that, a man named Lord British (A.K.A. Richard Garriott) released a software package to the world which forever changed the manner in which computers and games were thought of. That game from so long ago (actually 1978) was Akalabeth, the predecessor to the now famous Ultima series of adventure role playing games. Now, when it seemed safe to emerge from the darkness safe from the threat of attack by an Orc,…
Brutal Deluxe Software, know for its contributions to the Apple community over the years both in Software and in vintage item reviews and documentation, has once again dug up a few golden items for the community to enjoy. Three vintage French videos are once again viewable. They are as follows: – Le club Apple, 1986 A French-speaking video from Apple France, which introduces its users’ club and after sales department. – Un Apple pour tous, 1987 A French-speaking video from…
Oliver Goguel, author of the ActiveGS App announced that he was pulling the latest version of his app from the App Store. Version 1.21 had been submitted and was ready to be released when a bug was discovered in the app which would cause the iPad to freeze. The bug was discovered after a beta tester used the zoom lock feature and the entire machine froze. ActiveGS has been used for many years now on the Virtual Apple ][ website…
In obvious preparation for next weeks release of the iPad2, Apple has released the iOS 4.3 Gold Master to its developers. With the new technologies implemented into the new iPad2, Apple is hedging its bets that one week will be enough for most developers to catch up on the Apps and get the new Apps into the App Store prior to the release of the iPad. There are sure to be a ton of new apps utilizing the cameras and…
Everyone has probably had one or two programs over the years that they had during the early days of Macintosh that they wished there was a modern equivalent to. While most of us only dream of those retro packagers, one early mac user, Scott Baret wrote an interesting post on just such a list of items he wanted over at the 68K Macintosh Liberation Army Website about his list of items complete with his equivalent finds in the computing world…
Mike Willegal has posted a photo of his fully assembled Brain Board for the Apple II. The Brain Board turns an ordinary Apple ][ computer into an Apple-1 allowing the user to perform all of the same functionality of the Apple-1 computer while utilizing the Apple ][ cassette interface and keyboard for I/O. For more on the brainboard, check out the post at: http://www.willegal.net/blog/?p=1321
Brutal Deluxe Software has released an updated version of their Apple IIgs volume mounting software, MountIt. This updated version contains a number of upgrades aimed at making mounting image volumes much easier on your Apple IIgs computer. Antoine Vignau and Oliver Zardini’s posting follows: Mount your disk image files files directly under GS/OS, just like another volume. MountIt 1.4 is a new Permanent Init File devoted to handling different disk image files (.DSK, .PO and .2MG) of any size (from…
Antoine Vignau, curator and creator of the Brutal Deluxe Apple cassette project has announced that there are more cassettes added to the project this week. According to his announcement: Thanks to some recent purchases on eBay, I have received the following cassettes: – Program Design Incorporated: memory builder / concentration, analogies iq-builder, story builder / word master – Programma International: Echo, Magic squares, Match wits The manual of those cassettes are now online on brutaldeluxe.fr, I need more time to…
Once again, the rumor mills have been running up all types of conjecture of what folks think the iPad2 will be. I can tell you what it will not be. It will not contain anything from the MacBook Pro other than 1 or two new technologies. Most of it will be rehashes and improvements of current technology. First off, memory has been a major issue on the machines from the get go. I have friends who have the 16gb model…
This week, we were thinking about the new iPad2 and the discussions of a holder for the machine came up. So we started searching and came up with a number of case hacks or cases themselves that we thought were absolutely brilliant. The funny thing is that in another few days, many of those hacks will have to change in order to accommodate the long awaited camera that is expected to be in the iPad2. But in the mean time,…
A post on CSA2 this morning mentioned the donation of the entire collection of disks from famed Apple ][ hacker, The Saltine. The collection has been converted and is available on the MacGui.com website. Release from D. Finnigan follows: “Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some 140 5.25” disks, to Mac GUI Vault to be archived. Now the Apple II world has access to…
The A.P.P.L.E. iPhone app of the month is the program Mailroom. (http://www.usemailroom.com/) For those of you who have used the Mailplane app, this program will look quite familiar. This program allows the user of the app to control a number of GMail accounts at the same time. While the developers are different, there has been a cooperation between the authors of the two programs in order to make the iPhone based Mailroom just as good as the Mac based Mailplane…
