Our friend Alfred has posted a new video, this time a review of the new ad by Microsoft in a style all his own!

Alfred's Intro:
"In this video, I take a very serious and granular look at the new ad campaign launched by Microsoft, which has a focus on pricing centric to Apple's line of notebooks."



Review : "I'm Just Not Cool Enough To Be a Mac Person" Ad

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 21 - 31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Xerox Suit, Oracle Takeover & Jesse Jackson on Apple".

March 21 - 31: Xerox Suit, Oracle Takeover & Jesse Jackson on Apple

An article at PCWorld.com by Phil Shapiro. It begins:
"Back in 1989, in the same year Tim Berners-Lee was cooking up the world wide web, I asked myself if there were some way to connect joy and thinking in the minds of elementary school children. With the help of a talented Apple employee, Dave Lyons, I assembled a collection of logic puzzles named Number Squares that ran on Apple II computers. Back in those days the Apple II was king.
I founded a software company and sold that software commercially between 1990 and 1995. When the Apple II computer was discontinued by Apple in 1994, I thought the lifespan of that software had come to an end.
What I didn't anticipate is the talented person who created AppleIIGo, a Java applet that runs Apple II software within a web browser. When I heard about AppleIIGo, I posted a short note on the AppleIIGo discussion forum asking if there was anyone who could help create a disk image of the Number Squares logic puzzles I designed way back when. Robert Stone, from Columbus, Ohio, answered the call."

Read More:
The Apple II Gains Eternal Life in the Web Browser

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 14 - 20 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Lots Of Mac History, 1 Million Macs, 'Wicked Fast', Tell-All Book, Darwin".

March 14 - 20: Lots Of Mac History, 1 Million Macs, "Wicked Fast", Tell-All Book, Darwin

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 7-13 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Newton Pioneers Prepare To Leave, MessagePad 2000 Ships, Bunnies, Columbus".

March 7-13: Newton Pioneers Prepare To Leave, MessagePad 2000 Ships, Bunnies, Columbus

Some folklore for Friday with this bit of Macintosh history at Folklore.org by Bruce Horn. It Begins:
"Imagine the challenge: designing and implementing a brand new, graphical user interface, operating system, and core applications for a small personal computer to compete with the IBM PC. That's what we were going to do with the Macintosh.
The year was 1981, and I had just graduated from Stanford University. The past eight years I had spent as much time as possible working in the Learning Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. PARC was the place where everybody who was anybody in computer science wanted to go work, or at least visit. And I had just decided to leave PARC to join Apple (see Joining the Mac Group)."



Read More:
Folklore.org - The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The March 1-6 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Gassée Born, Homebrew Starts, Raskin Out".

March 1-6: Gassée Born, Homebrew Starts, Raskin Out