In an unusual move, Steve Jobs has taken the text podium on the Apple web site, writing about his Thoughts On Music, though it might be more aptly titled “Thoughts on DRM” (Digital Rights Management). “Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any […]

Way back in the MPW days, I used to rely heavily on an extension for the IDE that put powerful pasteboard manipulation tools in the window header. Essentially these tools let you treat your pasteboard like a stack, so you could easily accumulate multiple copies and then paste them all out at once. For some […]

There has been some speculation among my programmer buddies that Omni has lost a developer. Given the recent job listing for a Senior Cocoa Coder, many figured they must be restocking the talent. I figured they were just growing (and they may well be), but it turns out they did lose a developer, and quite […]

TUAW points us to a a choice Newton video, from 1993. In spite of some dated production qualities, this video could serve as a template for marketing the greatest features of the iPhone. Syncing, address books, To Dos, “instant messages.” Lots of features ripe for comparison with the iPhone and other modern devices. It even […]