Steve Jobs iPad keynote in under three minutes

This is a beautiful, amazing, great, incredible, awesome, cool, phenomenal video montage of last Wednesday’s iPad introduction at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center.
Bored of watching the full iPad keynote? No problem! The following video … sums it up to convenient 180 seconds of all the important words spoken there. I assure you, that no scene [...]

The Economist reads from ‘The Book of Jobs’

Another day and another reference to Steve Jobs as the savior and this time it’s The Economist making the association — they’re running a piece entitled The Book of Jobs. In it, the publication’s editors wax prophetically about the potential and stakes of Steve Jobs latest play for technological immortality:
If Mr Jobs manages to pull [...]

iPad keyboard, dock, case pricing and functionality

Well, if I could have ordered the iPad by now I would have, as well as most of the accessories. And, that brings up an important, how much do the add-ons introduced by Steve Jobs yesterday cost?
Being a budget minded Mac maven, I’m probably gonna go for the 16GB iPad (wi-fi only), but I’m definitely [...]

Video: Apple’s revolutionary Macintosh [circa 1984]

And look how young Burrell Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, Phil Gibbons, Mitch Kapor, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs all are. Heck I was probably even young, though my children have doubts I ever existed as anything other that huge and fully formed.

I found this VHS cassette while cleaning my office this week. This “Found Footage” comes [...]

Video: Watch Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address

This is one of the rare occasions Apple’s CEO has delivered a public address. Generally only speaks publicly at company product showcases—he’s probably his own harshest critic and we all know he doesn’t suffer fools lightly.

Of course, since he made this speech, he suffered complications of pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant, as well [...]

Jobs ‘extremely happy’ with the tablet

The Mac tablet (a.k.a. iSlate, iPod touch on steroids, etc) has been a long time coming, but it now appears all but certain that the device will be introduced in late January. Apple is telegraphing hits with reports coming in from all quarters, mainstream media and bloggers alike.
Thereupon, The New York Times is reporting comments [...]

Apple pays Jobs a buck

It’s that time of the year again—payday for our favorite fruit company’s CEO. Whereas many children can expect a bounty worth hundreds perhaps even thousands of dollars under the Christmas, Steve Jobs can only look forward to a single dollar.
The Associated Press (via One News) reports that Apple has paid their leader and, as is [...]