Memory Protection

Memory Protectors Unite! This month we look forward?! Josh & Matt don't have a shiny new keynote to watch so they get excited about web browser release notes instead. They talk over Apple's future releases and how their product matrix starts to extend into software as well as hardware, why Apple's (current) software strategy favors consumers over pros, and Steve's iMovie dream finally comes true.

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• The YoYo power cord was introduced with the Original iBook, we talk about it in our July 1999 Episode
• Aleph One: Marathon Open Source project
• The Panic Podcast Episode 4: Audion & On;

• SoundJam MP gets bundled with PowerLogix G3 Upgrade Cards
• OmniWeb browser beta released for OS X
• IE5 Preview Released
• Apple Announces Settlement for iMac Clones Knockoff Lawsuit
• Bungie's Oni to be released on the PS2
• Apple announced WWDC - Stevesie is going to keynote
  • WWDC 2000 Website
• Apple forces a small mac-focused e-card company into shutting down, this website used copyrighted Apple material

• Apple's Digital Hub Strategy

• Josh:
  • Movie: The Road to El Dorado
  • Game: Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
• Matt:
  • Movie: High Fidelity
  • Comic: Planetary

Welcome back Memory Protectors! This month sees Apple jetting off to Tokyo for Macworld 2000 where Phil tries Sushi for the first time. There isn't much to report other than a few product announcements. We discuss Apple's big bear codenames for OS X, Josh's deep, deep knowledge of wine & apple varieties, we announce our contest winner from last month, and we dive into Apple's diverse choices when it comes to processor architechture with a new segment we like to call: Chip History.

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• Story of Panic's MP3 software:
  • The True Story of Audion - by Cabel Sasser
  • Welcome to Macintosh - Don't Panic
• When did Netscape become free? January 22, 1998
• AppleWorks End of Life
• iTools became .Mac (2002), which became MobileMe (2008)
• MacOS Codenames
• Single window mode
  • You can still access it via the terminal (even in Catalina)
• Zev's tweet

• Apple continues its trend of advertorial content with iMac DV spot on Oprah's show
  • Transcript from the show
• Maybe in response to Bungie open-sourcing Marathon 2 last month, Mac Game Designers Urged To Release Old Projects To Open Source
• Apple rolls out Technician Repair Program
• Where the heck is Netscape?
• SoundJam MP Bundled With I-Jam Portable MP3 Player
  • MP3 Player designs were crazy

- Apple dumps more ARM holdings

Wednesday, February 16, 2000 @ the Nippon Convention Center - Announcements from the show: - New G4 towers servers - New PowerBooks get Firewire ports - New Graphite iBook

• Chip History theme song by Aaron Boothroyd
• Motorola can't make faster chips
• Where is the 500mhz PowerMac G4?
• People complaining that now there aren't enough options

• Josh:
  • Book: The Girl with the Pearl Earring
  • Game: Pokémon Stadium
• Matt:
  • Game: Resident Evil Code: Veronica
  • Game Vagrant Story

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month we're left speechless as Steve Jobs teaches us all about his brand-new 'lickable' Aqua interface for Mac OS X. Phil Schiller becomes more powerful than we could have ever imagined, Ron Burgess is spent & Steve gets to keep his job.

If you're into great audio quality, get ready because Matt got a new mic. and everything sounds 💯.

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There is a transcript of this episode available.

• Maine Senator proposes to stockpile rice & beans - Here is the link to the actual proposal

• MP3 player software is making inroads
• SoundJam smoothes out streaming playback
  • The True Story of Audion - by Cabel Sasser
  • Welcome to Macintosh - Don't Panic
• Microsoft prints brochure with a screenshot of Netscape for Mac
  • Here's a photo of the brochure
• Bill Gates out as CEO, Ballmer is in
• Bungie releases the source code to Marathon 2

Video Link

Power Phil

• iTools recap from iMore
  • iReview
    • Only lasts until February 2001
    • Disappears Quietly
  • iTools
    • Apple discontinues Kidsafe
• Upgrade #281: Your Historical Knowledge Has Been Noted

Josh: - Game: Mario Party 2

Matt: - Game: Crazy Taxi

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month we depart from our Apple focus to discuss the crisis that was Y2K. What is it? What does it mean? How did we prevent it, how much did it cost and what were its effects on society? Has the success of Y2K made us complacent in the face of larger more catastrophic global issues?

Follow Up:

• Siri's Original UI was much different than Apple's implementation

Hot Cocoa:

• Apple buys iphone.org
• Microsoft's stock price reaches an all-time high
• Apple ships the 22" Cinema Display
• Dell & Gateway get into the all-in-one game
  • Dell Web PC
  • Gateway Profile 2
• Apple tries to make iMovie happen
• Star Wars: Episode 1 - Podracer is finally released for the Macintosh

Topics:

• Y2K!
  • Articles referenced for this episode:
    • Y2K Bug on Encyclopedia Britannica
    • Wikipedia Y2K Entry
    • We're Finally Learning the Lesson of Y2K — and It's Too Late by Colin Horgan
    • How Our Response to Y2K Reveals What We'll Do About Global Warming and Swine Flu by Farhad Manjoo
    • Y2K Worrywarts Look Back - Wired
    • International Y2K Cooperation Cente
  • Who is to blame for Y2K?
  • The Apple Lisa was not Y2k Compliant...
  • ... but Mac's were...
  • ... until 2040?!
  • In Maine, cars were registered as horseless carriages
  • Also in Maine, one legislator wanted to stockpile $50 million worth of rice and beans to prepare for the disaster

Recommendations:

• Josh:
  • Movie: The Green Mile
  • Game: Harvest Moon 64
• Matt:
  • Movie: Galaxy Quest
  • Game: Shenmue (Japanese Release)

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month we get lost in Apple's web of mergers and acquisitions as we close on the miWillenium. We get to a point where we don't know how to end the show, similar to the point in these show notes, I just don't know how to stop...

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Follow Up:

• Was the iMac upgraded between launch and iMac DV? Yes - the life-savers colors were release in early 1999

Hot Cocoa:

• Apple gets into the spooky spirit
• Matt's Quicktime Corner:
  • Phil Schiller gives the keynote speech for the new QuickTime Live! Conference
  • Steve Jobs To Deliver Webcast Speech As Pixar CEO, QT Not To Be Used
  • Apple adds 6 new Quicktime TV channels to "The Drawer"
  • Use of QuickTime is declining
• iMac Alarm Clock
  • Another one!
  • American Girl Performa
• Apple, ever vigilant about protecting its intellectual property announces an injunction against Future Power & Daewoo from selling it's iMac ripoff, the E-Power computer.
• Microsoft and RadioShack team up to "acquire new customers"
  • Federal judge rules that Microsoft has monopoly powers
• Apple is hoping for a dope xmas season
• Between The Apple Store and other mail order sources on one side and CompUSA and Sears on the other, the days of the independent dealer appear numbered.
• One of the first people convicted for copyright infringement for MP3 distribution
• Interesting article on what Apple looks like after Steve Jobs is gone, again Will 'i' stay or go? (Search for "stay or go")
• Site vision - cool web site article by Jason Snell
• Y2K Prep (Search "end of the world")

Topics:

• Apple's Upcoming Acquisition Of Chip Maker Could Hint At Future Products
  • Bob Mansfield
• ARM holdings
  • Apple was one of original founding members of the company, but sold off their shares in Feb 1999!
• Complete list of of mergers & acquisitions by Apple

Recommendations:

• Josh:
  • Movie: Pokémon the First Movie. A boldly named film
    • Roger Ebert's review
  • Music: Willenium
• Matt:
  • Movie: American Movie
  • Music: Beck - Midnite Vultures

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month we get a little goofy for the spooky season. Apple is firing on all cylinders in October 1999 as Steve introduces the iMac/DV/SE, performs an exceptional iMovie Introduction, and Phil does a pacificst run of Quake 3. Matt discovers that his recycling bin is haunted & Josh spins a cautionary tale of motion sickness while playing Star Wars Episode I: Racer (...with his mom).

Follow Up: - Altivec, what even is it?

Hot Cocoa: - Oni website launched - Oni was the last bungie game on Mac (Wikipedia Link) - New utility checks for apps with Y2k Problems - Go64 - Apple Announces Speed Reductions In G4 Lines, Prices Stay The Same - Has Apple Shifted From The High End To A Low End Focus? - Apple alienating pros is not a new feature. (Google Search) - Pixar's doing well

Topics: - iMac DV Intro Keynote Video - iMac Ram Door - iSub - iMac Comparison: the Original & the DV - countchocula.fun - iMovie Introduction - Jeff Goldblum's 3 new iMac Commercials

Recommendations: - Josh: - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Pokémon Yellow - Matt: - Being John Malkovich - Rayman 2: The Great Escape

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! September '99 was a slow month for Apple news, so Josh & Matt decided to tackle a subject that they have been thinking about since May. They talk Macintosh, the iMac & the iPad. 3 variations on a theme, 3 attempts to redefine what computers are and who they are made for.

This is a fun episode, specs have been known.

Show notes can also be found at this web address.

• Copland
• Tim Cook introduces the Apple Watch
  • It was 2014
• Apple Studio Display & Emac

• Apple G4 ROM Block for G3 Powermacs
  • Apple's G4 ROM Block Will Only Serve To Lose Customers
  • Why the Blocked G4 Uproar
    • Apple was sued at one point for promising PPC upgrades it never produced-so they stopped promising them.
  • G4 Uproar Continues
    • "Apple does not endorse third party after-market processor upgrades in any Apple Macintosh computer."
• The longest internet streaming event EVER!
• New iMac Specs
  • "Specs have been known..." - Matt
• Stephen King's F13
  • Trailer
• Google comes out of beta

Apple's constant re-imagining of what and who computers are for.

• Apple changes it's logo from the 6 colors rainbow to the solid color still in use today
• Though it may return to some products this year?
• Apple's Commercials:
  • 1984 Macintosh Commercial
  • Think Different Commercial
  • ComputerLover™

Josh:

• Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Game: Age of Empires II

Matt:

• The Sega Dreamcast

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! We thought it couldn't happen again, and yet yes, it's happened again! This month Josh & Matt watch another keynote...This time we leave the boring bits by the wayside and dig into what the people really want to hear about: that hot new MacOS 9 Voiceprint feature. Just kidding, we know you want all the details on Apple's new PowerMac G4 and Cinema Display and boy have we got the details, in addition to opinions and a weird energy. Josh was sleepy for this one!

Follow Up:

• Apple CEOs - there was a CEO between Sculley and Amelio: Michael Spindler
• John Siracusa's Avoiding Copland 2010 Article
• When did AIM come to iChat?
  • AIM support launched with iChat in 2002 with OSX 10.2

Quick Time Hot Cocoa:

• The Danger Behind The Apple Store
• Macintosh Computers – The Great Equalizer
  • A bicycle for our minds
• Call waiting USB modem
  • The first computer Matt used
• Bungie sells portion of itself to Take2 Interactive for better distribution - hinting at console launch
  • Halo reveal video
• August 15th, 1999 - The iMac celebrates it's 1st birthday
• Flash gaining traction thanks to Quicktime
• BBEdit 4.6 released
• G4 rumors
• HP Announces Mac Compatible Digital Cameras & Printer
• Instant Messaging War heating up

Topics:

• The Steve Jobs Keynote from Seybold '99 - Video Playlist - 10 Parts
• Sneakers IMDB movie info
  • "My Voice Is My Passport, verify me." - Video Clip
• FireWire history lesson
• Exploration of whether the "classified as a weapon" claim was accurate. Sort of! Kinda.
• Powermac G4 Intro Video
• 17" Apple Studio Display
• Emac
• 2019 Mac Pro intro video

Recommendations:

• Josh:
  • The Iron Giant
  • Pokémon Pinball
• Matt:
  • Perfect Blue
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

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Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month Josh & Matt experience a strange sense of déjà vu as we take a trip to Apple's Macworld Keynote. We talk about destiny, the completion of the product matrix Steve created when he reclaimed his brushed metal throne, a future that never came to pass where Sherlock and Quicktime were the way you interfaced with the internet. Oh, and the time vortex...

Follow Up:

• Jony Ive's early days at Apple
  • Newton Messagepad 110 - What a classic!
• Brushed Metal as a direct analogue for a physical device
  • Apple's Human Interface Guidelines
  • Check out Stephen Hackett's amazing repository of Apple interfaces: Brushed Metal Diaries
• 512px.com Apple History

Hot Cocoa:

• Quicktime: It's Going Places!
  • Quicktime pan flute album
  • Zamfir Master of the pan flute - Watch this commercial, it will change your life
• Apple adds Linux support to Quicktime Streaming Server
• iMac Clone/Copy Lawsuit
  • Apple sues Future Power
  • Future Power's iMac Rip-off Analyzed By Michael Munger
  • More iMac Clones
• Misc:
  • Apple Inks Deal With AOL For Mac/Instant Message Compatibility
  • Apple Plunks US$100 Million Into Samsung - Noted.
  • Wacom Brings Graphic Tablets To USB
  • Apple To Launch An Apple Store In Canada Soon

Topics:

• It's Macworld '99 in New York City! - Video
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley was released in June 1999 - How did we miss that?!
    • WikiPedia entry
    • IMDb entry
  • Macworld 1999 Wikipedia Info
  • Macintosh TV - Weird.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic - The Saga Begins Video
• Sherlock 2:
  • Again, in hindsight - Apple misses the point of a web browser / websites
  • Wikipedia says Sherlock 3 actually was a web application. So close!
• iBook referenced as P1 codename
  • Apple History Link - find all the codenames for your favorite Apple products
  • iBook Commercial Link - Jeff Goldblum at his best?
• Halo Unveiling Video
• ATP 317: Excellent interview with Phil where he talks about the jump stunt.

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• Sherlock 2 (Coming Soon!)

Welcome to the 2nd episode of Memory Protection, where Josh and Matt get serious about the show notes.

This week we discuss: Beige boxes, the iMacification of everything, Apple's penchant for designing divisive user interfaces and whether or not Steve Jobs is prepping the company for a big sale.

• Are there still carbon apps in the wild (as of June 2019)? Yes, but MacOS Catalina is the death sentence for Carbon.

• The PowerMac G3 gets a spec bump
• Sears: a store with different departments that caters to a variety of shopping needs instead of specializing in a single category of consumables, sets up some iMacs. Notice the sign above the iMac display that reads "Brand Central", amazing.
• Mac cloner makes a profit even after Apple kills the clone Mac market.
• The iMacification of everything is well underway.
  • Behold! The iBrator.
  • Nintendo got into this too.
• Netscape's history, Matt was somewhat wrong about this.
• Tim Berners Lee, our lord and savior of the World Wide Web is unhappy with where the web is headed. Uh oh!

• Skeuomorphs & Skeuomorphic Design
• Dribbble.com
• Panic's Playdate. So excited about Panic in 2019!
• What is the deal with the thumb wheel?
• Interface Hall of Shame - Quicktime 4 Player
• RIP Appearance Manager
  • Gizmo Theme Screenshot
• Apple's Human Interface Guidelines
• The Hockey Puck Mouse
  • The iCatch

• Is Apple for sale?
  • From the "yes" perspective
  • From the "no" perspective
• 20 Years ago, Apple was dealing with the same complaints they are now.
• There's an iMac shortage. Is it due to popular demand? Or is related to that iMac factory fire we talked about last month?
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Nintendo Wii
• The iMac has no competition
• Not being a Windows user Matt hasn't edited his registry in over 20 years, is that what you do to change a driver?