Why is Hallowe’en like Christmas? Because both have become commercialized to the point of morphing into insanely materialistic binges fueled by greed maintained by non-stop advertising? Because both, having lost all meaning as holy times, have become holidays with no more true significance than a ski weekend? Because 25 (Dec) = 31 (Oct)? Or, to […]
James Savage and John Leake have released the 503rd episode of their RetroMacCast podcast. Join them as they discuss the latest Apple and Mac related eBay finds: Tempest Mac, Apple leather wallet, and iMac cat bed. They discuss iMac G5, and news includes connecting an original Mac keyboard to an iPhone, SE/30 webserver, redesigned Airpods, […]
The Biggest Change to the society of the Fourth Civilization will not be pervasive computing technology per se. Certainly, the compound, sliding, dual bevel mitre saw we call the computing appliance, whether in big iron, small iron, desktop, laptop, pocket, or embedded form, is already ubiquitous. One assumes the embedded form will soon also be […]
RetroMacCast, the long running retro Macintosh podcast hosted by James Savage and John Leake, has reached the 500th Episode. This episode is special to us here at A.P.P.L.E. as well, as it features our own Brian Wiser talking about the Lordlings of Yore project as well as the 2019 rendition of Kansasfest. James and John […]
Technology News and Views Since 1983 The Future–Not What It Used To Be August 2019 The usual bunch of idiots will be no longer. Mad magazine, which gored everyone’s ox in ways that ranged from hilarious to despicable (depending on whose ox) but were always in exquisitely wretched taste will cease publishing new material. One […]
July 2019 The news of Jony Ives’ Departure from Apple to lead his own design company cannot, despite iCook’s comments, have a positive spin put on it for Apple’s future. Each industry, each profession, each discipline has its practitioners and its leaders. A few of these have iconic founders–people who made themselves the sine qua […]
This column is a little late because the Spy placed it on hold until after the June 3 announcements at the annual keynote WWDC speech. Items put on the table by iCook include those of modest importance to the Spy, but of more note to some people, including: the expected (and leaked) replacement of iTunes […]
The RetroMacCast Episode #492 has been released. In this episode, James and John discuss their latest Apple related Ebay finds as well as the game, Colony. They also talk about the “Show Time” event among other items. To listen to the latest edition of the podcast, check out the RetroMacCast website at:http://retromaccast.libsyn.com/ Please follow and […]
It was the best of sheds… until it became the worst of sheds. Oh, wait. Introductory sentences structured that way are yesterday’s news. Well, what the Dickens… The Spy has a small shed used to store his garden technology–tools, fertilizers, a very few chemicals, pots, fencing, poles, rototiller, etc. All of it is low tech. […]
Kevin Savetz and Carrington Vanston have released the 29th episode of their Eaten by a Grue podcast. This episode, the two wayward Infocom geeks interview Steve Meretsky, programmer extraordinaire who was responsible for a number of titles produced by Infocom in the 1980’s and 1990’s. To listen to the latest Eaten by a Grue episode, […]
