By: Lauren,
on 10/21/2011
This Week in World History - After weeks of speculation about what, exactly, Apple had up its sleeve, Steve Jobs made an appearance on October 23, 2001, that ended the mystery. Jobs announced Apple’s newest product, a portable digital music player that would, he said, put “1,000 songs in your pocket.” The iPod was born.
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 10/6/2011
There are a lot of historic moments that Millennials will use to mark time in their young lives, and one of those will be remembering where they were when they heard their hero, Steve Jobs, had died. Although Steve Jobs wasn’t a Millennial, he... Read the rest of this post
By: John,
on 10/6/2011
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By: Lydia Gil,
on 10/5/2011
La noticia interrumpe la rutina de la tarde. El lavaplatos se queda sin encender, la carne sin descongelar. Los ensayos se quedan con sus errores y la ropa sucia sigue indiferente en su rincón del baño. Ha muerto un genio. Un verdadero visionario, de esos que nos racionan a dos o tres por siglo.
Llevo varias horas pegada a la tele, yo que como mucho miro uno que otro programa de cocina al mes. La historia la conocen todos. El estudiante rebelde. El famoso garaje, pesebre de ideas que cambiarían el mundo. La manzana mordida. Innovación. Fracaso. Revolución. Éxito. ¿Muerte?
A nadie sorprenda la noticia, pero sí la tristeza.
Me pregunta mi hija si el hombre en la tele de espejuelos redondos y suéter negro de cuello alto es John Lennon. "No", le digo, "pero sí que se parecen..."
Abro mi mac y encuentro media docena de mensajes de pésame como si se me hubiera muerto un familiar. Y de veras me siento triste, sin saber exactamente por qué.
Buenas noches, Steve. Que descanses.
Apple ha dejado esta dirección para quienes quieran compartir recuerdos y pensamientos sobre este genio que acabamos de perder: [email protected]<
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 9/22/2011
The action takes place in the mid-1980s, after Steve left Apple and went on to start a new computer company — NeXT, which would later be bought up by Apple (and Steve along with it). The narrative flashes back and forward in time, connecting this influential period to other highlights in Steve’s career and exploring the imprint of Japanese design concepts on Steve’s creative vision.
These pages are set in 1986 at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California. Kobun teaches Steve kinhin, a walking meditation, and alludes to Steve’s quest to understand ma. I’m not trying to spoil anything, but that’s something of a central theme throughout the book.
Steve Jobs, the legendary guru/CEO of Apple, has had a very interesting life — one that could easily have been imagined by a fiction writer, and writer Caleb Melby is turning his early years into a graphic novel with art by interactive agency JESS3. It’s kind of like a real life Batman Begins, with Jobs going to the far east to meet Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist priest following his removal from Apple.
Here’s a couple of art pages…as we said the actual artists name isn’t revealed in the link, but it seems familiar….
The final 60-page book will be released digitally later this fall.
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 8/25/2011
Apple, the hottest brand among Millennials, is changing hands (Steve Jobs — one of the most visionary leaders in marketing and technology — has stepped down as the company’s CEO, and Tom Cook, the former COO, will take his place. We have Jobs... Read the rest of this post
By: Jason Boog,
on 8/25/2011
Social networks help writers, readers and publishers share stories instantly, but they don’t help us archive those stories for future reading.
The Storify platform will help you quickly preserve everything from Twitter posts to photographs to YouTube videos to news stories on a simple, informative page. Below, we’ve listed five ways authors and publishers can use Storify for literary creations.
Here’s more about the tool: “We make it easy to do [to create] by just dragging-and-dropping, creating beautiful, simple stories. We preserve all attribution and metadata for each element. We let you notify all the sources quoted in a story with one click, a great way to help it go viral. Stories with Storify are interactive, and your readers can re-Tweet or reply to the people quoted in stories. Also, Storify’s API opens up new possibilities for developers to display stories in new ways and on different devices.”
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By: Jason Boog,
on 8/25/2011
Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple last night, generating thousands of tweets, articles and tributes. As Jobs steps back, Simon & Schuster said that Walter Isaacson‘s biography of the tech leader will include his resignation when it comes out on November 21st.
Here’s more from PC Mag: “Simon & Schuster spokeswoman Tracey Guest told PCMag that Isaacson ‘speaks to Jobs regularly and is still working on the final chapter of the book.’ … The book promises interviews with Jobs’ ex-girlfriends, foes, family, and fired colleagues. Furthermore, Jobs apparently didn’t demand to review the book before it went to print. There are plenty of unauthorized biographies of Jobs, but this is the first written with his blessing.”
Above, we’ve embedded a video of Jobs introducing the Macintosh computer in 1984. Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography will sell for $19.50 in hardcover on Amazon and the Kindle price is set at $16.50. (Via Publishers Weekly)
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 4/26/2011
An extraordinarily prescient comment about Steve Jobs by an anonymous Apple manager in the January 3, 1983 issue of Time magazine:
“He should be running Walt Disney. That way, every day when he’s got some new idea, he can contribute to something different.”
Twenty-eight years later, he’s pretty close.
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 4/11/2011
Biographer Walter Isaacson has landed a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish an authorized biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. iSteve: The Book of Jobs will be released in early 2012.
International Creative Management literary agent Amanda Urban negotiated the deal with editorial director Alice Mayhew. The manuscript has also been acquired by several worldwide publishers including Little, Brown Book Group (UK), Companhia das Letras (Brazil), and China CITIC Press (China).
According to the press release, Isaacson spent three years interviewing Jobs, his family members, Apple colleagues, and competitors to write this book. He has written biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger.
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By: Lauren,
on 10/18/2010
Apple’s latest iPhone app will clean up your text messages and force you to brush up your French, or Spanish, or Japanese, all at the same time.
This week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved patent 7,814,163, an Apple invention that can censor obscene or offensive words in text messages whie doubling as a foreign-language tutor with the power to require, for example, “that a certain number of Spanish words per day be included in e-mails for a child learning Spanish.”
Parents are sure to love this multitasker, which puts an end to teen-age sexting while also checking homework. In the spirit of the Supreme Court’s 1978 ban on George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on TV,” Apple’s app will shrink their children’s stock of English expletives—or at least render them unprintable—while setting the kids on the path toward bilingualism, or at least a passing grade in French. This new invention from Apple is two things in one: Mary Poppins and the Rosetta Stone, or, for those parents of a certain age, it’s a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Of course, when Apple closes one door, it opens another. Apple may cut off access to bad words in English, but it then redirects that lexical energy in the profitable direction of foreign-language learning. Teens may find their texting vocabulary circumscribed, but if children’s grades go down, Apple’s iPhone censor lets parents activate a tool that “can require a user . . . to send messages in a foreign language, to include certain vocabulary words, or to use proper spelling, grammar and/or punctuation based on the user’s defined skill level. This could aide [sic] the user in more quickly improving his or her fluency of a language.”
As if Steve Jobs wasn’t already intruding enough into people’s wallets and their private lives, the iPhone device will not only watch your language, it will require you to correct your mistakes and rat you out if you screw up. The app doesn’t just make you do your homework, it even tells you when to do it. According to the Apple patent,
The control application may require a user during specified time periods to send messages in a designated foreign language, to include certain designated vocabulary words, or to use proper designated spelling, designated grammar and designated punctuation and like designated language forms based on the user’s defined skill level and/or designated language skill rating. If the text-based communication fails to include the required language or format, the control application may alert the user and/or the administrator/parent of the absence of such text.
The control application may require the user to rewrite the text-based communication in the required language, to include the required vocabulary words and/or to correct spelling and punctuation errors. The control application may require the user to locate the error. If the user cannot correct the error, the control application may provide hints as to the location of the error by first indicating the paragraph, then, the line and, finally, the exact location.
As figure 10 from Apple’s patent application shows (see below), writers of objectionable texts
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 10/6/2010
Obama to host youth town hall (in a one-hour event produced by MTV News and BET News that will see the president addressing 250 young people from varying backgrounds, taking questions from the audience and from viewers via Twitter. The special will... Read the rest of this post
By: Sevensheaven.nl,
on 7/15/2010
Cover illustration for MacFan magazine, featuring a voxel portrait of the enigmatic Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is also a shareholder of Pixar.
Sevensheaven images and prints are for sale at sevensheaven.nl
By: John Mark Boling,
on 6/7/2010
After months of IPad mania, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is set to take unveil the company's next edition of the company's prized smartphone today. Last month, Apple shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become the world's most valuable technology company. The changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history for Apple, which had been given up for dead only a decade earlier, and Mr. Jobs.
In Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World, Michael Moritz revisits his classic work on the history of Apple. In 1984, The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer told the story of Apple’s first decade alongside the histories of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now, completely revised and expanded, Return to the Little Kingdom is the definitive biography of Apple and its founders from the very beginning.
Moritz brings readers inside the childhood homes of Jobs and Steve Wozniak and records how they dropped out of college and founded Apple in 1976. He follows the fortunes of the company through the mid-1980s, and in new material, tracks the development of Apple to the present and offers an insider’s profile of Jobs, whose genius made Apple the powerhouse it is today.
Required reading for Apple fans and competitors alike, Return to the Little Kingdom is timely and thorough, and the only book that explains how Steve Jobs founded the company that changed our world.
By: Sevensheaven.nl,
on 5/1/2010
Apple logo satire, for a news item about Steve Jobs who struck at Adobe because of a dispute about Flash.
You're invited to Sevensheaven.nl for an extended impression.
By: Alex Petrowsky,
on 4/21/2010
The lovely people over at might tees (t shirts for cool nerds) just finished printing the first run of this Steve Jobs/David Bowie mash-up shirt designed by Alex Petrowsky. On alternative earth shirts. Organic, comfortable, and good looking. check out their full collection here.
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 2/17/2010
Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post comes from Bryan Spencer who offers up his first impression of the iPad as a college student. Remember, you can communicate directly with any member of the Ypulse Youth Advisory Board by emailing them... Read the rest of this post
By: John Mark Boling,
on 1/27/2010
Steve Jobs and Apple are in the news again with today's Ipad announcement. Apple fans who are interested in the history of the company should not miss Return to the Little Kingdom, by Michael Moritz, the definitive biography of Apple and its founders from the very beginning. Moritz follows the fortunes of the company through the mid-1980s, and in new material, tracks the development of Apple to the present and offers an insider’s profile of Jobs, whose genius made Apple the powerhouse it is today.
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 10/13/2009
Disney Stores go high-tech (with a major makeover planned to turn them from retail stores into "cozy entertainment hubs." Plus on a smaller scale, Tinker Bell gets a new tomboyish look for her straight-to-DVD movie. And Disney makes a tentative... Read the rest of this post
By: Stacy Curtis,
on 8/8/2008
Hat tip to Daily Cartoonist and Gizmodo and MAD Magazine.
*facepalm*
Jobs is done but left his mark on every corner of wireless technology. It only leaves us asking who won the war between the two titans of modern computer technology? Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates / Apple vs. Microsoft– check out my rendering of an epic match-up of their cyborg selves on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-era-steve-jobs.html