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Barbara Walters names Steve Jobs most fascinating person of 2011

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2011)

This probably isn't the most important honor Steve Jobs has ever picked up, but Barbara Walters has named Apple's co-founder as the most fascinating person of 2011, as reported by USA Today. Unfortunately the article doesn't actually tell us why, instead focusing reality show personalities, ...

Jean-Louis Gassée glad Apple chose NeXTSTEP over his BeOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 11th, 2011)

Jean-Louis Gassée now writes a weekly column about Apple, but back in the day he was head of the Macintosh division under Apple CEO John Sculley. After his removal by Sculley in 1990 following nine years of service, Gassée started Be, Inc which developed BeOS, a multithreaded, ...

John Lasseter receives star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honors Jobs

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Pixar head (and current Disney chief creative officer) John Lasseter recently was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in addition to being honored for all his great work on Pixar's movies and Disney's animations, Lasseter himself passed on some of the honor to Steve Jobs. Jobs ...

Spotted in Los Angeles: Thank you, Steve

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2011)

I spotted this great piece of graffiti art on the streets of Hollywood while heading home last night, and thought you TUAW readers would enjoy it. Unfortunately, I have no idea who actually put this up -- there wasn't any tag or signature on it, and it was just on a wall otherwise covered with ...

Mac 101: How to tell if an older app will run on OS X Lion

by Chris Rawson (Jul 21st, 2011)

If you have a lot of older programs hanging around on your Mac, chances are some of them may not work correctly (or at all) after upgrading to OS X Lion. Most programs put out in the last few years should at least launch in Lion, though it may be some time before they run well. However, there ...

Lion will drop support for earliest Intel Macs

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th, 2011)

In the past two releases of Mac OS X, we've seen the baseline support for legacy machines hiked a notch higher each time; for Leopard, eliminating slower G4s from the working list, and for Snow Leopard dropping PowerPC support entirely in favor of the newer Intel models. Now, with the developer ...

Apple will discontinue .Mac HomePage viewing Nov. 8

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 8th, 2010)

Apple has given final notice to those publishing content through the old .Mac service. A note was sent to MobileMe members today stating that as of November 8th, Web pages published using the obsolete .Mac service will become unavailable. Those publishing via iWeb will not be affected. If ...

PPC Macs 'likely' to be unsupported by Firefox 4

by Michael Rose (Aug 26th, 2010)

While it may not come as much of a surprise, it's still going to aggravate owners of aging PPC Macs that the upcoming Firefox 4 browser is probably going to drop support for the older architecture. Mozilla program manager Mike Beltzner noted that the next version of the open-source browser, ...

Grackle68k: a Classic Mac OS Twitter app

by Dave Caolo (Nov 17th, 2009)

It's always nice to own the latest and greatest Apple hardware, but some of us still use vintage machines. I've got a G3 All-In-One on my workbench that displays iFixIt PDFs while I work. I'll admit that I've wanted to tweet from that machine from a dedicated app, and now I can. Grackle68k is a ...

The growing list of unsupported Macs

by Dave Caolo (Oct 22nd, 2009)

Out with the old, in with the new. This week's hardware releases were met with new additions to Apple's vintage and obsolete hardware lists. The following have been added, and I'm sad to say that I'm still using the Dual Ethernet Airport Base Station: iBook G4 (Early 2004) iBook G4 (14" Early ...

Mac-savvy Obama staffers frustrated with legacy White House

by Robert Palmer (Jan 22nd, 2009)

According to the Washington Post, the incoming U.S. presidential administration has inherited quite the challenging IT environment: The White House. President Obama's staff -- accustomed to Macs, social media, and having the latest equipment -- found Windows PCs with Microsoft Office 2003 in their ...

Viva System 7

by Damien Barrett (Mar 16th, 2006)

The first Mac I bought (though I'd been using them since the LC days) was a PowerMac 7100/66 in 1994, and it was my dream. I even paid extra for the GeoPort modem (remember those gnarly beasties). It shipped with a special version of System 7 (v7.1.2) that was optimized for the new PPC chips to ...

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