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Flickr Find: A familiar logo

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Mar 10th, 2009


You can call Steve Jobs a visionary if you want, but the Vanzettis are the real visionaries -- who would have ever thought of using a computer company's logo to sell fruit?! Though it's a little bit squished and the colors are different than we've ever seen (a red apple and a green leaf? why didn't they ever use that on the old IIe's?), the old bite-out-of-the-apple logo is definitely very familiar.

We doubt Apple will take any legal action here -- the Mac makers having a problem with a fruit company would be like a record company having a problem with Apple (oh wait). As long as Vanzetti never tries to release an iOrange, they'll probably be fine.

Thanks, Lucky!

Tags: apple, bite-out-of-the-apple, flickr-find, fruit, fruit-from-italy, logo, vanzetiis, visionary

Filed under: Hardware, Blast From the Past, Flickr Find, Apple History

Flickr Find: Unusual Apple designs from the early 90s

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jan 28th, 2009

TUAW reader Mike turned us on to a Flickr photo set and a related post on Aussie Mac site MacTalk.

MacTalk forum regular Donnie Darko was visiting a used book store in the Sydney suburb of Newtown when he came upon a rare find -- a 1991 copy of a Japanese design magazine called Axis featuring concepts that Apple was working on at the time.

In this jewel are a number of concept computers:
  • The bike computer on the front cover (see photo at right)
  • A wrist-mounted Mac called the TimeBand
  • A device called the Exchanger that shows an American dollar being inserted and another currency coming out of a slot
  • Several server concepts that look similar to Apple servers of the early 90s
  • A very cool flat-panel TV that looks cutting-edge even in 2009
  • Several tablet Macs
  • A device that looks like a hybrid Mac / digitizer tablet
A sidebar in the article shows stills from Apple's classic Knowledge Navigator concept video. It's a fascinating look at what products might have come out of Cupertino in an alternate universe.

Tags: concept, design, flickr-find, flickrfind, mac

Filed under: Humor, TUAW Business, Flickr Find

Flickr Find: TUAW is the word

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 30th, 2008

Rob H. was playing Wurdle on his iPhone when he came across what we'll appropriately call a bug -- apparently the program doesn't actually recognize us as a word (maybe it needs the accent mark over the U?). But we appreciate him trying anyway. Maybe we'll contact the SOWPODS people and see if we can't work this thing out.

And by the way, this is the perfect time to show you one of the new features here on TUAW -- over on the sidebar just above the Featured Galleries, you'll find our TUAW Flickr pool. This is a set of images on Flickr that you, our terrific readers, can add to: just put the "tuaw" tag on your Flickr photos or screenshots, and they'll be put right into the pool and appear here on the page.

So you can share great TUAW-related stuff like this, or anything else all the Mac folks reading the site might enjoy.

Tags: features, flickr, flickr-find, iphone, pool, redesign, screenshots, sowpods, tuaw, tuaw-flickr-pool, wurdle

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Odds and ends, iTunes, Flickr Find

Flickr Find: iTunes genre icons

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 22nd, 2008


Maybe I'm not paying attention (likely), but Derek B. told us about something in iTunes 8 that I'd never seen before -- you can organize your music in Grid view by genre, and when you do, there are some pretty good-looking icons that show up for each genre. I especially like the Blues and Jazz icons (nice nod to the old Blue Note Records in there), but all of them have a pretty neat vibe, summing up each genre as best they can in a colorful little box.

Of course, there will always be more music out there than boxes to put it into, and so Derek B has started up a Flickr group to come up with icons for some of the more obscure genres out there. Replacing the icons is pretty easy to do, and there's even an app that will let you do it with ease -- just find the icon you want, and tie it to your genre. As you can see above, if you don't have an icon for the listed genre, it'll show off your album art (and just like iPhoto, mousing over the picture will let you flip through whatever albums are in there). It's kind of a weird thing to add into iTunes (and it's kind of tough to line them all up -- it's too bad iTunes won't pull down genres for music it recognizes from the iTunes store), but odds are we'll see these icons pop up more later, so getting them all lined up now is probably worth it.

Tags: derek-b, flickr-find, flickr-group, genre-icons, grid-view, icons, itunes, itunes-8

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