As part of the iPhone6 announcement, Apple Inc. also announced that iOS8, the next version of their mobile operating system, will be released on September 17th. Apple also announced that they will be continuing support of the older iPad 2 with this release as well as the iPhone 4’s, 5’s and 6’s.
World famous designer Marc Newson is joining Sir Jonathan Ive’s design team at apple according to an article in Vanity Fair. The article. While the pair have worked on some projects before, this has all the appearances of a Steve Jobs/Tim Cook style ascendency to the top design position in Apple currently held by Sir Ive. This is not the first time that Marc and Sir Ive have collaborated on projects, having worked together on the famous Apple Red project…
Apple has announced that they will be streaming the Scheduled September 9th live over the Internet. The event which is expected to announce the availability of the iPhone and iWatch among other things will be held in Cupertino at 10am that day. The announcement for the live stream appears on the main Apple website, allowing users to add the calendar item to their calendar app. This is a marked separation from the Steve Jobs era in Apple’s current habit of…
Nishida Radio has released a photo of a prototype HDMI card for the Apple IIe that they have been working on. Proprietor, Koichi Nishida mentioned in a short conversation yesterday that he will be creating the //c version of the HDMi card first. The popularity of Nishida’s previous cards has meant that stock has been dificult for him to maintain as most of the cards sell as quickly as he is able to assemble them. The HDMI cards will likely…
Blake Patterson, author of the Byte Cellar blog has given us a look inside the prototypes of FROG Design Inc. Many of the machines long only rumored to have existed are now available in full living color. Check out more at: http://www.bytecellar.com/2014/09/03/a-rare-glimpse-of-a-memorial-apple-prototype-display-at-frog/
The first hints of anything really happening in the world of the now highly anticipated iWatch come from Apple’s master of design, Sir Jonathan Ive. Sir Ive has been long known for his brashness and his means of shaping the Apple product line and said recently in a New York Times Interview , “According to a designer who works at Apple, Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, in bragging about how cool he thought the iWatch was shaping up to be,…
Apple has released another Developer Preview version of their latest version of Mac OS X 10.10. As they ramp up for release, there are several items in this preview which reflect the direction Apple is taking with the desktop including a number of updated icons in both the System Preferences and the Applications / utilities directories. In addition to these changes, Apple has also removed the Software Update option from the Apple Menu. Updates are now completely handled through the…
This is a nifty little Mac OS X app that both average folks as well as Network Administrators will appreciate. If you have ever been in a position where the network suddenly got slow and you wondered if possibly someone else was using your WiFi, then this is the app for you. Created by IO3O LLC, the Who Is On My WiFi app shows you all of the devices that are currently using the network. The app runs by doing…
Apple has announced an event on September 9th at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Ca. The event which has been long expected by those following the iPhone 6. The schedule currently has the event beginning at 10am PST. Also expected to be introduced are a number of other related products including a new version of iTunes, iOS 8, and the iWatch among others. While the iTunes and iOS 8 are pretty much a foregone conclusion due…
iSchool, or the Pitter Patter of little feats September is supposed to be back to school, but here in British Columbia of the frozen north, the public school teachers union and the Provincial government are so far away from each other in their contract positions that the mediator they consulted walked away from the dispute because his involvement had no prospect of success. It doesn’t help that after a previous government gave the union a sweetheart deal on class size…
According to a posting on Facebook from Mike Maginnis, “Open Apple #38 is published (still August – just made it. Whew!). If you’re a subscriber, it should be appearing in your favorite RSS reader or iTunes shortly if it hasn’t already. This month on Open Apple, we go deep on Lawless Legends with most of the team building it. We’ve managed to corner Seth Sternberger (of 8-bit Weapon fame), Martin Haye, and Brendan Robert (Dave Schmenk, we’re coming for you…)…
The Australian Apple Review has been officially released by A.P.P.L.E.. The release announcement occurred last evening in the Downunder Chat on A2Central’s IRC channel. Accordsing to the announcement made by A.P.P.L.E.’s Bill Martens, “The project is the culmination of a number of people including Andrew Roughan, Brian Wiser and even the National Library of Australia.” the Australian Apple Review was a magazine published in Australia by well known publisher Gareth Powell. In 2005, permission was initially received to reproduce the…
Dagan Brock has announced the creation of a new Apple IIgs focused forum. According to his facebook posting, ” In my grand tradition of A) announcing things before they are ready and B) creating things that we don’t need… I am happy to announce that there’s a new forum on the scene over at http://apple2.gs/forum. I don’t know that we need another forum, but seeing as my intent is to unify the Apple IIgs dev scene a bit, I wanted…
In a recent excursion into the A.P.P.L.E. storage boxes in Seattle, Brian Wiser discoverd a number of issues of our original Mac-A.P.P.L.E. magazine. The magazine which was published from 1986 to 1988 was A.P.P.L.E.’s attempt to differentiate the Mac from the Apple II computers, carry original content specifically attuned to the Mac computers. A total of 15 issues were found in the archives and today, we are happy to announce that the first scan of those Mac-A.P.P.L.E. issues, May 1986…
Mike Harvey has announced through his website, the immediate availability of all of the programs from the full run of Nibble Magazine. Apple II hobbyist Stavros Karatsoidis has spent the better part of 3.5 years typing all of the programs from the magazines into an iPad. The result is more than 1200 programs on a total of 69 floppy disks. The complete disk collection is downloadable for free from the Nibble Magazine Disks page at: http://www.nibblemagazine.com/nibble_disks.htm A complete program index…
Legendary Apple II virtual machine programmer David Schmenk has returned from his secret underground Apple II lair to reveal a pre-release announcement of the next-generation virtual machine for the Apple II family: PLASMA 123. It is so called because the same code segments will run, without change, on the Apple I, the II, and the Apple III. PLASMA is the system behind the upcoming game for Apple II, Lawless Legends. Mr. Schmenk states that he has developed new interpreter technology that is…
The annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote for the 2014 rendition of WWDC will be broadcast live. Breaking with past years, the past several keynotes have been broadcast over the Internet, making it available to more people, especially in light of the popularity of the tickets for the event. WWDC is held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco and is a week long chance for developers to rub elbows with the developers at Apple. It is also a…
ADTPro, the vintage apple disk imaging software, has been updated to version 2.0.0. ADTPro allows users to image floppies from Apple II and Apple III series computers and allows boot strapping of machines directly from a disk image over bare wire. The software handles a number of emulator image formats and supports many of the newer hardware items produced for the Apple II and Apple II series computers. New features in 2.0.0 included as specified in posting by David Schmidt…
Peter Wong has been working on a proof of concept project for the past several years which would allow the Apple II to utilize wireless communications. The project has a number of ideas included and even a version of ADTPro, the disk imaging software managed by David Schmidt with the Bluetooth option on the main menu. While there have been several projects which proved the concept would work, this is the first views which show the full integration of the…
Apple has released version 5.05 of the Digital Camera RAW compatibility driver. The update comes close on the heels of the Mac OS X 10.9.3 update and addresses support for a number of camera in Aperature 3 and iPhoto ’11 including the following: Canon EOS Rebel T5 / 1200D / Kiss X70 Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II Nikon D4S Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 The update is included in the Software Update function. For more information or to directly download the…
