Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Inc. has said that a different thinking company like Apple could never have emerged in a group think country of Singapore. His recent interview with the BBC on BBC Radio exposes the ultimate question he has for Singapore: “Where are the creative people? Where are the great artists? Where are the great musicians? Where are the great writers?” Although education and infrastructure play a major role in the foundation of Singaporean society, The whole…
Apple Inc. has released an update for both the Lexmark printers and the Brother printers. This driver updates fix some of the compatibility issues that people were having with the printers under Mac OS X Lion 10.7. Brother Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#brother To Download the Brother Driver version 2.8, go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894 Lexmark Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#lexmark To Download the Lexmark Driver Version 2.7,…
Rumors of a mid sized Apple iPad are once again flairing up on the internet. The latest in a posting from DigiTimes Systems mentions the possibility of Apple launching a 7.85 inch iPad late 2012. The site goes on to compare the Apple iPad and the Kindle Fire, obviously in an effort to give the iPad some competition. While the mini iPad would make some people happy with the fact that the iPad would then be able to fit into…
Sandvox is an easy to use Website Creation package produced by Karelia Software. The package allows the user to produce high quality websites with a minimum of effort and knowledge, yet has all the tools for even advanced web site creators. Currently at version 2.2.3, Sandvox has a number of updates each year and has evolved to become one of the most powerful Website creation pacgaes available. Our Users group has used this package in house here at A.P.P.L.E. now…
The Seattle Retro-Computing Society or SRCS is a group of Retro Computing entusiasts which meet once a month at The Living Computer Museum in Seattle. The group has decided that due to the fact that the fourth Saturday this month would fall on Christmas Eve, there would be no December meeting. The next scheduled meeting of the group will be on the 28th of January, 2012. The meetings last from 10:30am to 5pm and is a chance to get together…
Brutal Deluxe software has added four more cassettes to the Apple ][ Cassette website. The new cassettes, scanned and added by Antoine Vignau, brings the number of cassettes in the collection to 563 tapes. The Cassette was the main storage type for the initial Apple ][ Computers from the advent of the Apple ][ in 1977 until the first floppy disk drives were commercially available to consumers in 1979. They also continued to be used well beyond that time due…
In the 1979-1981 time-frame, floppy disks were quite expensive, yet cassette tapes were a dime a dozen. Dann McCreary had the idea of putting an entire disk on tape. Thus Tape-O-Disk was born. However, after the prices of floppy disks came down to a level where everyone could afford them, the program all but disappeared until re-discovered by Apple ][ collector Antoine Vignau. When Antoine replied to an correspondence inquqiry by Dann, he received back one of the most insightful…
Are you the type of person who has their entire life written down or are writing a book about it? If so, then you will want to look at the new version of Mariner Software’s MacJounral. Version 6.0 was released with over 100 improvements and changes to the journaling program. Complete with new blogging tools, MacJournal allows you to write and entry and share it with the world if that is what your life is about. MacJournal’s efficiencies are the…
Mike Willegal of Mimeo fame has created an online registry of all known Apple-1 computers. While Apple Computer Inc produced 175 of the units in 1976, very few of the machines have survived the years and the tradein program Apple had when they introduced the Apple ][ computer. To date, Mike has catalogued 39 units complete with information about owners, auctions, auction / sale prices and current state of the machine. The original Apple-1 computer sold for $666.66 USD in…
The document of incorporation of Apple Computer Inc, from 1976, has been sold at auction for nearly $1.6 Million USD. The document which was originally held by founding member Ron Wayne, was sold in 1994 to US Businessman, Wad Saadi for several thousand dollars. The new owner of the document, Eduardo Cisneros, a US Television Exec (CEO of Cisneros Corp) and muscle car enthusiast, said about the purchase of the document in a tweet, “Very happy to own a piece…
These are the daily specials from the Electronic Arts website as specified by them at press time. Hot Deal of the Day: Spy Mouse – iPhone — Snack your way through the more than 70 levels and 6 different worlds, outwitting the cats as you move along munching on the snacks. Other Free Items: Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition — iPad / iPhone — Puts the user in charge of a gourmet restaurant and gives 30 gourmet dishes to serve. Pogo…
Apple has posted an update for their iTunes program with the release of version 10.5.2. This update addresses issues with audio distortion with playing and importing of CD’s into the iTunes library. Apple has also improved iTunes Match in this release although the song limit is still 25,000 songs. For more information about iTunes, check out the iTunes website at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Apple has posted a complete break down of the update at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426
Microsoft has released their iPad version of their organizational management software OneNote. Version 1.3 of the OneNote software is a free download from the Apple App Store and allows the user to create up to 500 notes. After that mark, the user would need to purchase the full package of the OneNote program with the in-app purchase option. The full package of OneNote for iPad is $14.99. The package for the iPhone is $4.99. Changes between version 1.2 and 1.3…
It took a letter from a US Senator to get Apple to take down an App which allows users to create a high quality fake Drivers License. According to a story about the App in the LA Time, “Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) sent a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook requesting that the tech company immediately remove the “License” app from its App Store” claiming that the App had national security issues. While there have been many such novelty…
WIlli Kuche has documented the Merlin Macro Assembler IDE Source code and made it available for download. Merlin, which was written by Glen Bredon at Southwestern Data Systems, was available for download for the past two years, however, the version that was available was without documentation and without instructions for building the IDE. Now after a long effort by Willi, the IDE is documented, and according to Willi’s note left on CSA2, “it contains all the source files needed to…
In just under a year, Apple has reached 100 million downloads of Apps for the Mac, this according to a press release put out by Apple today. The Mac store which was started to support Mac OS X, has been growing in leaps and bounds and currently has thousands of apps and has reached this milestone in a very short time. They also announced that the iPhone App Store, which is the example upon which the Mac App Store is…
Donut Games has just released their free iPhone game of the week and this week’s game is the a very “just in time for Christmas” type game, Ruberth’s Kick n’ Fly. The game puts the player as Santa in the position of being kicked into the air by a reindeer. Using various platforms to bounce higher or bounce mushrooms to really get a kick, Santa much collect as many of the ornaments on the particular stage as possible. Each stage…
There is another original Apple-1 computer now for sale on Ebay. The Apple-1 is considered to be the holy grail of the Apple computing world and only a few of them are still in existence. Originally 175 units were sold but Apple offered a trade in policy for the boards when they came out with the Apple ][ computer. This particular machine belongs to a former Apple Computer, Inc. employee, Joe Copson and is inside of a case that is…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal — Mirror’s Edge – iPad Free Games: Flight Control – iPhone Pogo — iPhone (Upgrade to Premium for $.99 or 70% off) Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
This morning, Egan Ford posted a note to CSA2 announcing his online Apple ][ Game Server. According to the announcement, “I’ve completed my cassette port research and achieved gains of 6x (12x with compression). I did have an application in mind. Inspired by the Apple Game Server, I created a web-based version. There is a video tutorial if you just want to see it in action (single take, be kind).“ The game server allows you to connect your PC or…
