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TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT: Retro Apple day

by Steven Sande (Jun 27th, 2012)

If you took a look at my post Monday about turning a Kindle Fire into a System 7 Mac and a Newton MessagePad, you know that I've been playing with emulators for about the last week. It's been fun, and today I'll take you on a journey to the ...

Kindle Fire transforms into a Mac Plus and Newton MessagePad

by Steven Sande (Jun 25th, 2012)

Last year when the Amazon Kindle Fire first hit the market, I bought one for US$199 to do research for a book. Since the book was published, I haven't touched the Fire at all -- until now. Based on a story I posted the other day about running an ...

Mac classic OS emulator on Nook Simple Touch

by Steven Sande (Jun 18th, 2012)

So, your clueless Uncle Rob sent you a Nook Simple Touch for Christmas last year, and it's been sitting around collecting dust. Well, here's something you can do with it -- turn it into a Mac running OS 7.5.3. Last November, blogger Mike Cane ...

How 'Marklar' OS X on Intel owes its start to a one-year-old boy

by Michael Rose (Jun 10th, 2012)

It's among the most famous skunkworks projects in personal computer history. Marklar was a secret Apple development program to put Mac OS X on the Intel x86 microprocessor -- or in some sense put it back on Intel, as the underlying NeXT OpenStep ...

Ars looks at 25 years of HyperCard

by Steven Sande (May 31st, 2012)

Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard, which would soon be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around. HyperCard was a wonderful tool; it provided a way for non-programmers to link "cards" of information ...

TUAW TV Live: The 1980's episode

by Steven Sande (May 23rd, 2012)

Note to viewers: By "The 1980's episode" I mean that I'll be doing a retrospective look at some ancient Mac magazines with you looking over my virtual shoulder. I will not be wearing my corduroy suit and disco platform shoes. Yep, it's time to ...

Found Footage: MacPaint introductory video

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 16th, 2012)

Vintage Apple fans should check out Matt Pearce and his "Matt's Macintosh" YouTube channel. Besides current content, his channel is full of videos featuring his 1984 Macintosh 128K. He has a quick tutorial from earlier this year that showcases ...

Daily Update for May 8, 2012

by Steven Sande (May 8th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's ...

Steve Jobs plays FDR in this old Mac sales video

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2012)

It's not often you see Steve Jobs impersonating a former president, but leave it to the creatives who made Apple sales videos to make it happen. Yes, in this never-before-seen footage (well, never seen outside the sales meetings at Apple back in ...

Ultra-rare Apple WALT up for grabs on eBay

by Steven Sande (Mar 11th, 2012)

TUAW readers who are into collecting Apple devices are going to love this eBay find: a prototype of an unreleased product from 1993. The Apple WALT (Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone) was introduced at Macworld Boston in '93, the same venue where ...

Publishing for Apple's Pippin was a bit less curated than the App Store

by Chris Rawson (Sep 7th, 2011)

Let me describe a game for you: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead descends from Heaven and acid-trips his way through a parking lot, trying to avoid getting busted by the cops as he attempts to hug electric guitars. Sound like fun? Sure. Sound ...

Apple called: They want their prototype 3G MacBook Pro back

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2011)

Astute TUAW readers may remember a story from two weeks ago about a prototype 2007 MacBook Pro with a 3G antenna built into the side of the LCD screen as well as a SIM slot. The device was being sold on eBay and had received bids in the ...

How one Newton owner uses his device every day

by Steven Sande (Aug 11th, 2011)

The Apple Newton is ancient history, right? The short-lived device made its debut in 1993 at Macworld Boston, going through seven design iterations before being cancelled by Apple in early 1998. For a hardy group of souls, the Newton is still in ...

Found Footage: Apple introduces Cocoa at the 1996 WWDC

by Steven Sande (Aug 3rd, 2011)

In case you're thinking this footage is about Cocoa, the Application Programming Interface for Mac OS X, you're dead wrong. This Cocoa was a simulation tool and easy programming language for kids that was demoed at the 1996 WWDC by a young man ...

New York's Tekserve gets major facelift

by Michael Rose (Jun 2nd, 2011)

It's one of New York's great indie Mac retailers, made famous by Sex and the City and made successful by thousands of loyal customers... but, if we're going to be frank about it, it was a little bit cluttered and cramped. That's why the team at ...

Player piano rolls made on a Mac... and an Apple II

by Michael Rose (Jun 1st, 2011)

I'm a big fan of the Canadian TV series How It's Made, shown in the USA on the Science Channel. There's something hypnotic and soothing about all those lathes, molds, conveyors and such, producing the things that we all take for granted. One of ...