Map of all Apple-Products on a Giant Poster
Neu vom Popchart-Lab: Ein 100x70cm großer Print mit einer Karte aller Apple-Produkte von der Apple I-Platine und Apple Basic über iMac und den Newton bis zum iPad Mini und iOS6. Hier das Teil in SuperHighRes (3500×5850 Pixel), bestellen kann man den Print hier.
All new for 2013: the world’s most comprehensive mapping of Apple products. This print shows every computer, handheld, peripheral device, software, and operating system released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Over 500 products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors which have arisen as Apple has invented–and reinvented–insanely great products.
Pepperspray iPhone Case
Ein iPhone-Case mit integriertem Pfefferspray: „Spraytect is a groundbreaking personal protection device. A smartphone case with a detachable pepper spray cartridge. Combines convenience with security.“ What could possibly go wrong? [update] Neues Bild von deren Facebook-Seite und: Es gibt ein paar Leute da draußen, die sich fragen „ob man das braucht“ und das „wäre ja doch ‘ne nette Idee“ und sowas. Seid Ihr stoned?
Here’s To The Crazy Ones…
„Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the one who do.“
Arte Creative über Johannes P. Osterhoffs Post Privacy-Kunst
Arte Creative hat Johannes’ Post Privacy-Kunst entdeckt, netter Beitrag bei den Art Geeks:
“iPhone live” heißt die neue Performance von Johannes P. Osterhoff. Und die Datenschützer unter euch werden sie besonders spannend finden. Alles was Johannes auf seinem iPhone tut, wird in Echtzeit im Internet veröffentlicht. Und das ein ganzes Jahr lang. Jedes mal, wenn er den Homebutton drückt, erstellt sein iPhone einen Screenshot und lädt diesen automatisch ins Netz. Ganz egal, was gerade auf dem Bildschirm zu sehen ist. Sei es der Posteingang, der SMS-Verlauf, Telefonnummern oder eine seiner unzähligen Apps. Sein Manifest ist hier.
Mit dieser Aktion macht Johannes P. Osterhoff darauf aufmerksam, dass Konzerne wie Apple, Facebook oder Google durch den exklusiven Besitz und Verkauf unserer Daten Gewinne in Milliardenhöhe machen. Die Daten seines iPhone`s jedenfalls sind nicht mehr exklusiv und somit wertlos.
Johannes P. Osterhoff: Meine Daten? Könnt ihr haben! Das öffentliche iPhone…
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Tracking all iPhone-Activity in Public for one year
I track my Google-Searches for Art
One Year of Googlesearch-Feedbackloops as an Art-Performance
You want Google Juice? I give you Google Juice!
TransPrivacy Art-Project in Düsseldorf
iPad-Porn-Adbusting in Berlin
Apple presents Nothing
(Collegehumor Direktnix, via ActuallyGee)
Schöner Spoof von CollegeHumor auf den Apple-Clusterfuck gestern.
Same Procedure as every year: Apple präsentiert ein Telefon oder ‘nen Stöpsel und 50% des Internets rasten aus. Und die andere Hälfte beschwert sich dann über die Leute, die alle Social Networks mit iPhone-Dadaismus überschwemmen (Der Adapter!) und ein paar vereinzelte (wie ich) tun so, als ob sie das alles nix anginge und es nur um ein Telefon ginge. Aber es ist ein kollektiver Internet-Clusterfuck, im positiven wie im negativen. Ich hatte das auf Twitter so formuliert: „People talking about a new Phone. People complaining about People talking about a new Phone. People talking about People complaining etc.“ und dann noch die Phrase „Recursive Apple-Loop“ erfunden, was beides nich so richtig zutrifft. Recursive Apple Clusterfuck find’ ich allerdings ganz gut.
Ernsthaft: Ich musste gestern auf Twitter solchen Blödsinn lesen wie „Improvement is the new Innovation“. Unsinn. Verbesserung ist Verbesserung, Innovation ist Innovation und ein neues Telefon von Apple ist (für mich) so interessant wie ein Korkenzieher. Ein erstes iPhone oder iPad ist interessant und innovativ, in seiner fünften Iteration interessiert das dann aber nur noch Autisten – wovon ich mich auch gar nicht ausnehmen mag. Ich hab gestern auch ein Liveblog gelesen… für fünf Minuten, oder so, während ich Chicken Vindaloo vom Inder gegessen habe. Man kann natürlich auch seriös begründen, warum das iPhone5 völlig uninteressant ist: Apple hat mit diesem Telefon bereits so ‘nen Marktdurchsatz und das Produkt steckt in seinem Innovationszyklus irgendwo im vorderen mittleren Hinterteil (bei dreifünftel wollte ich sagen), wo eben nur noch eine kleinteilige Produktvariation (Der Adapter!) möglich ist, oder halt neue Märkte über bürokratische Mechanismen (Verträge mit Anbietern) erschlossen werden. Nicht aber durch tatsächliche Innovationen. Und nur die sind für mich interessant. Deshalb: Apple presents nothing.
Steve Jobs reincarnated as Warrior-Philosopher in the Sky
Steve Jobs war bekennender Buddhist und wurde neulich als himmlischer Krieger-Philosoph wiedergeboren. Er lebt in einem schwebenden Apple Store Glas-Palast über dem Apple Campus. Meinen zumindest ein paar thailändische Mönche aus Thailand. Steve Jobs in the Sky with Diamonds!
When Apple founder Steve Jobs died after a long fight with cancer last year, software engineer Tony Tseung sent an email to a Buddhist group in Thailand to find out what happened to his old boss now that he’s no longer of this world. This month, Mr. Tseung received his answer. Mr. Jobs has been reincarnated as a celestial warrior-philosopher, the Dhammakaya group said in a special television broadcast, and he’s living in a mystical glass palace hovering above his old office at Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters. […]
“After Steve Jobs passed away, he was reincarnated as a divine being with a special knowledge and appreciation for science and the arts,” the Dhammakaya leader said in the first of a series of sermons beamed to hundreds of thousands of the group’s followers around the world. […] Among other things, he has said the reincarnated Mr. Jobs spends much of his time lounging in a glass palace resembling an Apple store. Phra Chaibul also has said the being formerly known as Steve Jobs is attended by 20 servants, who seem to resemble the Apple store ‘Geniuses’ who help customers set up their iPhones and other devices here on earth.
Thai Group Says Steve Jobs Reincarnated as Warrior-Philosopher (via /.)
Apple-Store Employee Workbook
Gizmodo hat ein aktuelles Handbuch für angehende Mitarbeiter des Apple-Stores zugespielt bekommen und wenn Ihr denkt, die Apple-Verehrung wäre schon Sekten-ähnlich, dann müsst Ihr den Kram mal lesen. Ich mag Apple ja sehr, aber diese Corporate-Indoktrination ist befremdlich, um’s mal höflich zu formulieren.
Sales, it turns out, take a backseat to good vibes—almost the entire volume is dedicated to empathizing, consoling, cheering up, and correcting various Genius Bar confrontations. The assumption, it’d seem, is that a happy customer is a customer who will buy things. And no matter how much the Apple Store comes off as some kind of smiling likeminded computer commune, it’s still a store above all—just one that puts an enormous amount of effort behind getting inside your head. […]
Although the indoctrination is usually skin deep, Apple gives new Geniuses a giant gulp of the Kool-Aid right off the bat. Page 39 gives a rundown of Selling Gadget Joy, by way of the “Genius Skills, Behaviors, and Values Checklist.” Selling is a science, summed up with five cute letters: (A)pproach, (P)robe, (P)resent, (L)isten, (E)nd. In other words: Go up to someone and get them to open up to you about their computing desires, insecurities, and needs; offer them choices (of things to buy); hear them out; then seal the day in a way that makes it feel like the customer has come to this decision on their own. The manual condemns pushiness—that’s a good thing—but it also preaches a form of salesmanship that’s slightly creepy: every Apple customer should feel empowered, when it’s really the Genius pulling strings.
In Apple-ese, this is put forth in a series of maxims: “We guide every interaction,” “We strive to inspire,” “We enrich their lives,” “We take personal initiative to make it right,” which if swallowed, would make any rookie feel like they’d just signed up with a NATO peacekeeping force, not a store in the mall.
How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual
Mac G3/G4-Coffee-Table
Reform Designs verkaufen Tische aus alten G3s und G4s. Ich hätte ja gerne einen flacheren Wohnzimmertisch aus vier alten, bunten iMacs, die noch funktionieren und auf allen vier laufen Games von Ende der 90er. Wie auch immer:
This table is custom-made and individually hand-crafted from retired Macintosh G3s and up to 70% reclaimed materials. Because the reclaimed materials can vary in shape and size, the different combinations make every table we create truly one-of-a-kind! The piece is tension set, and eliminates the need for excess screws, nails, or glues. Whether you’re a modernist, a minimalist, or just a computer geek, this stunning coffee table is sure to turn heads at home or at the office.
Crunching Numbers G3, Crunching Numbers G4 (via Nerd Approved)
Russian Apple Museum
Alex Nasedkin hat auf Livejournal tausend Bilder aus einem Apple Museum in Moskau gepostet. Alle Rechner laufen noch, das älteste Stück ist der Apple II. Ich hab irgendwo beim Macintosh Quadra mit Apple Hardware angefangen, System 7.6 damals, irgendwann vor 16 Jahren. Jeez. Hier die Google-Übersetzung zur ausgestellten Hardware:
A. The oldest one available at the museum – Apple II in 1977. Processor 1 MHz, 4K of RAM, OS, Apple DOS. That’s modestly in these times. The system loaded with a cassette recorder. As you can imagine, this was even before the Apple I, however, it is a fossil, which is now the day the fire will not find. 2. Slightly improved version. 3. Olden Jobs always said that the computer should be beautiful and perfect both outside and inside. 4. 5. While images can be entered with a graphics tablet. 6. The next milestone was the emergence of Macintosh. 7. Subsequent modifications. 8. 9. Computer Lisa. At that point, Apple is actually divided into two camps – Lisa and Macintosh. This is Lisa in his time was worth about $ 10,000, and therefore never got popular. 10. Epplovskaya famous mouse.
11. Apple IIc – hospitality computer and monitor. Left the phone, acting as a modem. 12. 13. Drives. And at the bottom of the left joystick. 14. “The printer.” 15. 16. 17. Macintosh in the left vertical monitor – especially for the publishing industry. Who else would think of this before? 18. 19. Server “Quadra.” 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. And here is the first laptop. 25. Then they called the PowerBook. 26. Data for the 90 very steep. 27. 28. By the end of the millennium there were Aybuki – the quintessence of “apple” design. 29. 30. That’s the first desktop IMac 1998. Available in several colors. Plague, and more! 31. Fashion for transparent. 32. With the advent of the era of zero-LCDs. 33. The word “Macintosh” was reduced to the current “Mac”. 34. The famous “lamp”, remember? 35. Distant precursors of iPhones and aypadov. 36. “Sea” netbook. 37. There was a time, Apple was trying to produce even tsifromylnitsy. 38. The museum also provides software different times. 39. As well as books on PC-Related topics. 40. And such fun bags.
iPhone 5 Icecream
Lieblingseis der Studenten in China grade: iPhone5. Man beachte das Internet Explorer-Icon auf dem Handy. Und das Statement des „staff member of Shenyang industrial and Commercial Bureau“ ist auch lustig.
The price of “iPhone 5” is 1 yuan. Although the ice cream sells really well, the ice cream shop owner told the reporter that it tastes nothing special.
It is an ice cream but with the name of the most popular smart phone, is this not copyright infringement? A staff member of Shenyang industrial and Commercial Bureau told the reporter, “A trademark registration is related to many areas, if Apple does not register the trademark “iPhone” in the food sector, then production of “iPhone 5” ice-cream is not copyright infringement.”
Shhh, Don’t Tell Apple About China’s Iphone 5 Ice Cream! (via Reddit)
The Woz describes his Apple II, 1977
Anlässlich des 35jährigen Jubiläums des Apple II hat das Byte Mag einen 1977er Artikel online gestellt, in dem Steve Wozniak himself sein Hardware-Design erklärt. Bei der für heutige Verhältnisse ziemlich einfachen Architektur verstehe ich sogar noch ein bisschen was von der Maschinensprache. Nerd Alert!
I designed the Apple-II to come with a set of standard peripherals, in order to fit my concept of a personal computer. In ad dition to the video display, color graphics and high resolution graphics, this design includes a keyboard interface, audio assette interface, four analog game paddle inputs (for user supplied potentiometers which vary a resistance which the processor measures), three switch inputs, four 1 bit annunciator outputs, and even an audio output to a speaker. Also part of the Apple-II design is an 8 slot motherboard for IO which has a fully buffered bus, prioritized interrupts, two prioritized direct memory access (DMA) schemes, and address decoding at the individual slots so that multiple bit address decoders are not required on peripheral boards.
The Apple-II cassette interface is simple, fast, and I think most reliable. The data transfer rate averages over 180 bytes per second, and the recording scheme is compatible with the interface used with the Apple-I. This tape recording method can be used with any inexpensive recorder, but as with any such use of audio media only high quality tapes shou ld be used in order to avoid problems due to dropouts from poor oxide coatings on the tapes. In the Apple audio cassette interface, timing is performed by software which is referenced to the system clock, A zero bit is defined as a full cycle of a 2000 Hz signal (500 μs long), while a one bit is defined as a full cycle of a 1000 Hz signal (1 ms long). While reading data, full cycles are sampled, never half cycles, a method which tends to provide immunity to DC offset and other forms of distortion. All the cassette management routines are avail able to user programs as subroutine calls from asse mbly language directly, or through hooks in the BASIC interpreter.
Steve Jobs’ FBI-File and The Woz
Gestern wurde auf Anfrage von Wired und ein paar anderen die FBI-Akten von Steve Jobs veröffentlicht. Da steht nix neues drin (bisschen LSD, widersprüchliche Charakterbeschreibungen etc.), das ist eigentlich langweilig. Eine nette Anekdote ist aber das hier: Derselbe Mann, der Steve Jobs’ als „an individual who was not totally forthright and honest and has a tendency to distort reality in order to achieve his goals“ beschrieb, sagte auch folgendes:
Despite the rough assessment, the man concluded that Jobs was qualified for the government post since “honesty and integrity are not prerequisites to assume such a position.”
In your Face, FBI! The Smoking Gun vermutet übrigens, bei dem bislang Unbekannten handelt es sich um Steve Wozniak: Did “The Woz” Slag Steve Jobs In FBI Interview?
Flaming Lips make Music with Siri
Soundcloud Direkt, via Kate
Ich weiß, warum ich die Lips liebe: „Sound construction piece featuring Lips, Erykah Badu, Siri, and Biz Markie backwards. It’s called “Now I Understand” It’s funny and will be available on SoundCloud for one week only!!! Life is beautiful. Music gets you high.“
Chinese iPhone Riots
Gestern Nacht sollten in Peking die ersten iPhones4S im Apple Store verkauft werden, vor dem Laden versammelte sich eine Meute von rund 1000 Leuten und dann kam die schlechte Nachricht, dass sie das Handy nicht wie angekündigt verkaufen könnten. Also haben sie den Apple Store mit Eiern beschmissen und die Polizei kloppte sich mit Apple-Fanboys. Von Reuters:
Police dragged some people away and photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.
“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?”
“I got in line around 11 p.m., and beyond the line the plaza was chock full with people,” said Huang Xiantong, 26, outside the store. “Around 5 a.m. the crowds in the plaza broke through and the line disappeared entirely. Everyone was fighting, several people were hurt,” said Huang, who wanted to buy a new iPhone for his girlfriend. “The police just started hitting people. They were just brawling.”
China iPhone sales halted after shoppers pelt Apple store, Massive crowds as iPhone released in China (via Gizmodo)
Apple ][+ Datasette-Gameserver online
Pures Nerd-Gold: Der Apple][-Gameserver ist eine Sammlung von Audiofiles, die man über ein Kabel vom Rechner an den Kassettenport eines AppleII-Rechners schickt und per Stream lädt. Geht auch mit Emulator und sowas hätte ich jetzt gerne für 'nen 64er: „The Online Apple II Game Server contains over 200 Apple ][+ and Apple //e games ready to stream directly to your ][+ or //e. If you would prefer an offline version of any game then right-click the WAV, AIFF, or TRACK links.“ Hier noch ein Disc-Server nach dem gleichen Prinzip, aber mit weniger Content.
To load a game from "The Internet" directly into your Apple ][+ or //e:
1. Remove any floppies.
2. Power on your ][+ or //e.
3. Press CONTROL-RESET.
4. Connect your iPad/computer headphone jack to the cassette input jack.
5. Set your iPad or computer to max volume.
6. Select a game from the list to the left (iPad users can scroll with two fingers).
7. At the "]” prompt type “LOAD” and press RETURN.
8. Press the HIFI play button. If you have repeated problems with HIFI, then use LOFI. NOTE: Mail alerts and other system sounds will distrupt the download. Try again.
9. Unplug and Play.
