When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family. Over breakfast, we’d divvy up the newspaper. I’d go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with yesterday’s stock prices. Scanning down the lines of tiny text, I’d look for SUN, ORCL, MSFT, AAPL, SGI. Then back to…

It’s that time of the year again… Against my better judgment, I have opted, once again, to upgrade my current version of the Adobe Creative Suite (5.5) to the new version (6.0). I am not quite ready t

An amazing rant-comment by “wast334” on The Verge’s post about Instapaper 4.2, which I hope he won’t mind me posting in its entirety: While I don’t fully fault you for indulging in this kind of app, d

I am running two Marathons this year. The first is a carefree jaunt across the Golden Gate Bridge and along the streets of San Francisco. The second is to save a child’s life. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Thomas Brand I work at Children’s Hospital Boston. I spend the majority of my…

BY ANDY IHNATKO ai@andyi.com May 7, 2012 6:22PM Updated: June 12, 2012 8:06AM Any review of iPhoto for iPad (released back in March, priced at just five tiny dollars) has to deal with an awkward truth: It isn’t a terribly intuitive app. During your first go, you’ll find yourself feeling mystified…

One of my early Apple projects has just made its way to YouTube. It was a World War II movie made for the Apple International Sales Conference in the summer of 1984. Embedding is disabled, by you can

Conformity is a powerful instinct. There’s safety in numbers . You have to be different to be better, but different is scary. So of course there’s some degree of herd mentality in every industry. But

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Features Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture The human urge to create art appears magnificently in the Paleolithic paintings from roughly 30,000 years ago at Chauvet Cave, in southern France. Here, the Panel of the Horses. Photographs courtesy of the French Ministry of Culture and…

Font Bureau is a digital type studio and one of the leading foundries for typeface design. For over twenty-five years, Font Bureau has designed custom typefaces for almost every major American publica

The first commercial product that I worked on after going on leave of absence from Apple in March 1984 (see Leave Of Absence ) was a low cost, high resolution scanner for the Macintosh called Thunders

The case of the 500-mile email Read the FAQ about the story. The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originallyappeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.: From trey@sage

I’m so sad this evening—as millions are—to hear of Steve Jobs’s death. Scattered over the last quarter century, I learned much from Steve Jobs, and was proud to consider him a friend. And indeed, he c

Apple's Org Chart (Old…) Not so fast. Until the last sinew, the last synapse gives up, Steve will continue to influence the company he co-founded and later recreated. Seeing he could no longer ‘‘ meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO ’’, Jobs kicks himself upstairs and becomes Chairman,…

Now on Suntimes.com: My memorial to Steve Jobs. http://t.co/vFipDYaT Forgive sloppiness; I didn't want to write this in advance.

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