All 39 pages of Apple's advertisement from Nov/Dec 1984 issue of Newsweek, presenting the Macintosh and its then unique interface.
Apple bought all of the advertising space in November/December special election issue of Newsweek in 1984, and devoted it entirely to promoting Macintosh. Below you can see all 39 pages of the advertisement.
unCloud - Open wireless network to LAN exhibition
unCloud is an application that enables anyone with a Mac laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information. Once it is launched, a passerby using a mobile internet device can connect to this open wireless network. Users can access information wirelessly while at the same time remain disconnected from the internet. unCloud does not depend on a remote datacenter making it an ideal application to run in a train or at a café.
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.
Piezo
A simple audio recorder for OS X that lets you record the audio output of any app, or from your Mac’s audio inputs.
.osx
A collection of OS X tweaks, from the popular (disabling autocorrect) to the obscure (enabling AirDrop on unsupported Macs).
Paparazzi
Paparazzi is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.
Update: As themegeneration points out in the Notes, the draw of Paparrazi is that it grabs entire webpages, not just what you can see in your browser window.
Media Converter
Simple but advanced converting for Mac OS X
Media Converter proporciona una interfície molt senzilla per a convertir fitxers multimèdia als formats que més us convinguen. Ve amb uns quants perfils predefinits: DivX, DVD (NTSC i PAL), H.264 per a iPod/iPhone, MP3 i WebM. I se’n poden afegir tants com facin falta: aquest és justament l’avantatge que presenta amb relació a Miro Video Converter.
A més a més, Media Converter és programari lliure i utilitza internament una llarga llista d’excel·lents paquets de programari lliure: ffmpeg, lame, x264, libogg, libvorbis, etc.
Quicksilver
Quicksilver (“Act without Doing”) té un nou web i pareix que una nova vida. El repositori de connectors impressiona bastant.
Simple
Once set up, Quicksilver hides in the background, waiting. Tap a simple hotkey, and Quicksilver’s minimal interface pops up. From here, your options are limitless.
Intelligent
Quicksilver learns what you want, when you want it. Quicksilver’s intelligence makes searches, actions and commands effortless.
Adaptable
Quicksilver’s greatest forte is its adaptability through plugins. With plugins installed, you can do anything from controlling itunes, to calling a contact on Skype, to resizing an image for emailing. This is all done directly from Quicksilver’s simple, minimal interface.
How-To: Create PDFs from your iOS device
Instruccions, pas a pas, per a activar l’AirPrint (impressió des d’iOS) amb qualsevol impressora connectada a la xarxa local i, en segon lloc, per a crear documents PDF que puguis llegir tot seguit en el teu dispositiu iPad/iPhone/iPod touch (ingredients: CUPS-PDF i Dropbox).
Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It
La recepta de John Gruber (Daring Fireball) per a alliberar el Mac de la càrrega del Flash. Recomana desinstal·lar el paquet d’Adobe, en compte d’utilitzar filtres com ClickToFlash. I en cas de necessitat sempre es pot obrir una pàgina amb el Google Chrome, que no utilitza el Flash del sistema sinó que porta incorporat el seu plugin propi.
Fraise
Fraise és el successor directe de Smultron i per tant a hores d’ara el millor editor de textos lliure per a mac.
Fraise is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs – like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on..
Homebrew
An alternative to MacPorts. Via One Thing Well.
Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn’t include with OS X.
NetNewsWire 3.2, NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone
Finalment estan disponibles les noves versions de NetNewsWire per a Mac i iPhone/iPod touch. La novetat més important, com ja sabíem, és la sincronització via Google Reader.
The HyperCard Legacy: Programming for the People
The Mac SE was actually not as important to my life (and career) as was the software that came with it for free - in particular, an unusual and innovative application called HyperCard. HyperCard was a tool for making tools - Mac users could use Hypercard to build their own mini-programs to balance their taxes, manage sports statistics, make music - all kinds of individualized software that would be useful (or fun) for individual users. These little programs were called stacks, and were built as a system of cards that could be hyperlinked together. Building a HyperCard stack was remarkably easy, and the application quickly developed a devoted following.
HyperCard was the brain child of Bill Atkinson, one of Apple’s earliest employees, and the software engineer responsible for (among other things) the drop-down menu, the selection tool, and tabbed navigation. Bill played a big role in making the Mac what the Mac was - a personal computer that made the whole process of computing easy for the general public. HyperCard represented perhaps the bravest part of this “computing for the people” philosophy, as it enabled users to go past the pre-built software that came on the machines, and to program and build software of their own.
