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Twenty-two years ago, I was in the clouds, walking 1m above the ground, with a wide smile on my face, and couldn’t stop looking at you.
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The Computer History Museum hosted a conversation entitled “Steve Jobs Stories” on Clubhouse the day before what would have been his 66th birthday on Feb, 23rd 2021.
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I received a strange letter signed by Michael Nägele and Andreas Urben of the Swiss Post last week, containing a pack of stickers “I ❤️ advertising” or “Feed me with advertising” in an effort to motivate people to remove their “No advertising please” notice from their letter boxes.
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Wow. I’m having a bit of a hard time believing you are twenty today, but on the other hand, it feels so natural. I’m so proud of the radiant young woman you have become.
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Pinboard is a social bookmarking website that was inspired by del.icio.us’s model of a non-hierarchical classification system in which users could tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms.
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Rene Ritchie posted a great video on his Nebula Channel on the way the iPhone impacted his life and those of so many other creators.
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I feel I should have written about Dave Nanian’s SuperDuper! a long time ago. It’s been in my Application folder since 2006.
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I love this idea. Build your own Apple Macintosh 128K from Rocky Bergen’s papercraft model.
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The Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights launched their new website today. The center was founded a little over a year ago as the first business and human rights center at a business school in Europe.
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Around 24 years ago today, we were enjoying a fresh lime soda at the Venite Bar in Panaji, Goa.
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While this strange year is coming to a close and New Year reflections and resolutions are popping up here and there, I would like to take the time to thank a client who has become a friend, and with whom I share many of my interests, passions and obsessions: Lionel Egger.
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Great illustration found on Instagram this morning.
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I’ll be honest, I was never a supporter of Flash taking over entire web pages, or sites. I felt it as a coup against the open HTML/CSS web. Having learned most of what I know by looking at other people’s source code, I considered Flash as yet another black box.
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Over the course of this Summer, Jason Snell at Six Colors announced his project to “[…] construct a list of the 20 most notable Macs in history.”
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I was thrilled to hear that Apple was going to ship a smaller form factor this year, as my favourite design of all times was the iPhone 4 (and 5 after that).
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Apple presented a great movie clip on the greatness of the people behind the Mac.
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Apple launched its Apple One service bundle on October 30th, which brings together apps like Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade and some extra iCloud storage.
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Apple has finally acknowledged tha Airpods Pro issues I described earlier this year and has launched a AirPods Pro Service Program for Sound Issues.
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I don’t know about you, but I am starting to feel subscription fatigue. There’s a limit to how many I can add to my credit card.
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Name Mangler by Many Tricks is a life saver when you have batches of files to organise and rename, and it’s super fast (and revertible). These actions could all be performed on the command line or via a shell script, but it’s so much faster to launch Name Mangler and get on with whatever you are trying to achieve.