~dylanroscover has done a very cool typographical portrait of Steve Jobs.
Another 44 cool typographic portraits here.
Steve Jobs Typographical Portrait
April 1st, 2009Calvin and Jobs
August 7th, 2008Gizmodo have some Calvin and Hobbes strips repurposed as Calvin and Jobs. Steve, that is.
With thanks to David for the link.
A message for Adam
April 26th, 2008Some great folklore about Steve Jobs (and people telling him Apple’s doomed) and Adam Osborne over at folklore.org.
iTunes Movie Rentals announced
January 16th, 2008After announcing that iTunes has sold 4 billion songs (20 million on Christmas Day), 125 million TV shows, and 7 million movies, Steve Jobs today announced the availability of iTunes Movie Rentals (for US users only!) with content from Sony, Universal, Touchstone, Miramax, MGM, Lionsgate, Newline, Fox, Warner Bros, Disney and Paramount.This will include over 1000 movies available 30 days after DVD release. Watch on Mac, PC, iPod or iPhone within 30s start time (assuming you’ve got decent broadband), and movies available for watching within 30 days but must be watched within 24 hours of starting to watch. US$2.99 for library titles and US$3.99 for new releases
Live Macworld 2008 keynote coverage
January 14th, 2008If you’re up early looking for the keynote coverage (especially if you’re in GMT+9), then you can check out The Unofficial Apple Liveblog (they’ve also got a Twitter feed).Alternatively there’s a feed from Engadget, including a translation in Spanish.Newly on the scene there’s also SteveNoteLive which promises to include pictures.Also, #macrumors on irc2.tecknohost.com if you remember what IRC is
Also don’t forget JoyOfTech’s handy Unofficial MacWorld Expo Survival Kit.
Where the iPhone came from
January 12th, 2008Wired has an article with some of the details on how the iPhone came to be.
Safari 3 for Leopard, and Windows XP/Vista
June 12th, 2007Steve Jobs has announced during the WWDC 2007 keynote that Safari 3 will run on Leopard, and Windows XP/Vista. Faster than IE or Firefox (with iBench HTML test).Includes Google and Yahoo! search. Draggable tabs (including off into their own windows).500,000 downloads of Firefox a day. 1,000,000 downloads of iTunes a day. Over 500 million downloads of iTunes to Windows machines.Beta available from http://www.apple.com/safari
Sun CEO announces ZFS to be Leopard default filesystem
June 8th, 2007According to an article on MacNN, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has announced that ZFS will be the default Leopard filesystem. Assuming that an angered Steve Jobs doesn’t pull it now that his thunder has been stolen of course













