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Matt Groening's pre-Simpsons art for Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 4th, 2013)

Matt Groening of The Simpsons fame worked on some offbeat illustrations for Apple in the late '80s. According to Linus Edwards of VintageZen, Groening has never publicly spoken about the ads, but images of the works are still floating around the internet. Edwards has compiled some of these ...

D'Oh! The Simpsons TV makes it to iTunes

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 27th, 2008)

Back in 2005, TUAW conducted a poll of its readers to see what TV series they wanted to purchase through iTunes. Among the top five was The Simpsons. The Simpsons Movie was previously available through iTunes, but it is one of the movies that has disappeared in the past few weeks. In the past ...

Google embiggens iPhone services with single-screen UI

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2007)

I've been checking my dictionary, but it's hard to find an adequately cromulent word to describe the dramatic enbiggening embiggening of Google's iPhone-specific services. The big G now offers single-screen access to Gmail, Calendar, and Reader among other services, as well as the homerific Search ...

Widget Watch: Simpsons Movie Countdown

by Laurie A. Duncan (Dec 12th, 2006)

This one's for you Simpsons fans. The Simpsons Movie is coming to a theater near you on July 27, 2007. What better way to pass the time between now and then, than to stare at this Simpsons Movie Countdown widget! Unfortunately, it doesn't countdown minutes, hours and seconds - only days. Handy, ...

Death-by-iPod on the Simpsons

by Dave Caolo (Apr 3rd, 2006)

Did you catch The Simpsons on Fox last night? Grandpa Simpson decided that he had had enough of life, and sought out a doctor that would perform an assisted suicide for him. Once the arrangements had been made, Grandpa was wheeled into the execution room and connected to the diePOD, which was the ...

Eat Up Martha

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th, 2006)

Of all the snarky Apple references in pop culture, my all time favorite is this brief clip from The Simpsons. During a school assembly, Kearney tells his buddy, "...take a memo on your Newton: Beat up Martin." He scribbles away only to see the Newton's handwriting recognition interpret his ...