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Simple Beep
By Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusTechnology
Simple Beep episodes
- e80 – Fictional Mac Draft
As Apple turns its attention to TV and movies, so do we! In this episode we pick our favorite appearances by Macs and other Apple products on the big and small screens.
e80 – Fictional Mac DraftEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Mighty Mouse speaker
- Halo Universal Binary upgrade
- HaloMD
Draft Sources- Starring the Computer
- Macs in Movies
Draft Picks- Performa 600 from Blank Check
- Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh from Seinfeld
- Macintosh Portable from Salute Your Shorts
- Apple II from LOST
- with Apple III monitor
- EXECUTE key
- Quadra 700 from Jurassic Park
- iMac G3 from Jessica Jones
- PowerBook Duo from Seinfeld
- Seinfeld apartment re-creation
- iMac G4 from The O.C.
Begun, the sticker wars have.
Bring Out Your Dead- "The files are in the computer!"
- tangerine iBook in Legally Blonde
- PowerBook in Mission: Impossible
- Mac vs. PC in You've Got Mail
- Steven Seagal's Newton
- various Macs in Chuck
- "Hello, Computer!"
- PowerBooks in Sex and the City
- Jeff Goldblum’s PowerBook 5300
53 min - e79 – Bungie
This episode is all about the venerable game developer Bungie and how they got their start on the Classic Mac. We cover all their titles, including a trio of Marathons, terrible code names, and the coolest game Steve Jobs had ever seen.
e79 – BungieEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Talking Moose is coming back
- scary moose
Bungie- Alex Seropian and Jason Jones
- Operation Desert Storm
- the game
- the military campaign
- Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete
- 7 Steps to World Domination
- Pathways Into Darkness
- Mac App Store port
- Marathon
- creative retail boxes
- Pfhorpedia
- in-game terminal text
- Super Marathon for the Pippin
- modern ports
- Myth
- Halo
- Macworld 1999 demo
- Marathon references
- Oni
- Bungie West
- modern ports — with assistance from The Omni Group!
- canceled sequel "Death and Taxes"
- Destiny
- Activision/Bungie deal ended in 2019
1 hr 24 min - Talking Moose is coming back
- e78 – Apple Audio
Apple has been building computers — and standalone products — with sound capabilities for over 40 years. We discuss 1-bit audio, incredible hardware hacks, usable and unusable old speakers, a CD drive with a horrible logo, and even the HomePod.
e78 – Apple AudioEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadNews and Follow Up- Macintosh Garden
- main site
- mirror on Internet Archive
- classic Word on The Talk Show
- history of AppleLink (from Eric Schwarz)
- confusing MacWrite version numbers
Speakers- Apple II's 1-bit speaker
- Macintosh 128K's 8-bit speaker
- sound as video hack
- TAM's Bose speakers
- iMac G3's Harman Kardon speakers
- iPod Classic speaker sounds
- Taptic Engine is like a speaker
- AppleDesign Powered Speakers I and II
- AppleDesign book
- Macworld article
- monitors with speakers
- AudioVision 14
- Multiple Scan 14, 15, 15AV
- AppleVision/ColorSync monitors
- PowerCD
- manual PDF
- Kodak Photo CD format
- Apple Pro Speakers
- Griffin iFire
- G4 Cube amplifier
- iPod Hi-Fi
- HomePod
1 hr 5 min - Macintosh Garden
- e77 - Word Processors
This episode, we trace the evolution of Mac word processing from MacWrite to the present. Along the way we find a secret moose, complain about Microsoft, and learn that some apps have true staying power.
e77 – Word ProcessorsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownload- Evelyn Berezin, inventor of the first word processor
- TeachText
- readme files
- Stickies
- Antler Notes
- OS X application
- Dashboard widget
- SimpleText
- TextEdit
- source code
- Cocoa
- standard text controls
- vertical text
- MacWrite
- 5 versions
- Claris
- e25 – The Works
- "MacWorks" name
- internet archive emulator
- page number in scroll bar
- Microsoft Word
- version 1, versions 3–5
- Pogue's Jingle Bells parody
- audio .mov!
- the great Word 3–6 debate
- WordPerfect
- Nisus Writer
- The Nisus Way
- Joe Kissel
- Take Control Books
- History of Nisus
- QUED
- "nisus" definition
1 hr 39 min - e76 – System Alert Sounds
For our 4th anniversary episode, we return to our roots of discussing classic Mac sound design. We cover the tragic backstory of the Wild Eep, the immortal Sosumi, the poorly named "ChuToy", and much more.
e76 – System Alert SoundsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Shirts coming back!
Alert Sounds- original Control Panel
- the Simple Beep tone
- HyperCard and other sound formats
- Quack and Sosumi origins
- Duck application
- Sosumi CSS
- Wild Eep's sad story
- "The Natural Eep"
- Kaboom
- Apple's SimpleSound utility
- "Wish List: New Mac Alert Sounds"
- Moof
57 min - e75 – MacAddict
This episode we revisit MacAddict magazine and its freakin' awesome coverage of the Apple world in the late '90s.
e75 – MacAddictEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- 25th anniversary Myst playthrough
- Part 1
- Part 2
- New receipt and luggage emoji easter eggs
- Wi-Fi adopts version numbers
- Rumor mill follow-up
- "Asteroid" honeypot rumor
- "Super Secret Apple Rumors" GarageBand demo
MacAddict Magazine- Archives
- Issues 1–112 on the Internet Archive
- Issues 113–125 on Kiwidget
- Mac|Life
- early issues
- official website
- Attitude.
- "Hey look it's a PC!"
- "That's aggression"
- Office Space printer scene
- the appeal to teens
- Bungie ads
- Abuse
- Myth
The Disc- ISO images on the Internet Archive
- Ed discovered some music
The Website- The MacAddict Network
- original green and purple
- toned down green and purple
- ugly beige
1 hr 17 min - 25th anniversary Myst playthrough
- Myst 25th Anniversary on Twitch
A quick announcement:
Myst 25th anniversary on TwitchEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadWe'll be doing our first live event on Twitch, on Monday September 24 at 8:30 PM Eastern time. We'll be streaming Myst on its 25th birthday!
Follow Ed's Twitch account for broadcast notifications or watch on our new Live page.
Catch up on our previous Myst coverage:
- e16 – Myst
- e63 – Mysterium
1 min - e74 – The Rumor Mill
With an iPhone event right around the corner, the Apple rumor mill is operating at full capacity. We examine how this important part of the Apple world got to where it is today, from wild speculations, to Apple lawsuits, to outright hoaxes.
e74 – The Rumor MillEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?
- Airport 2 on iPod Hi-Fi
- Love Notes to Newton
Rumor Sites- Mac OS Rumors
- As the Apple Turns
- Wired – "MIA: Jack Miller"
- short-lived relaunch
- AppleInsider
- Think Secret
- Nick "DePlume" Ciarelli
- Mac mini rumor
- MacRumors
- full-time gig as of 2008
- Buyer's Guide
- SpyMac
- the iWalk hoax
- iWalk at Wired
- attempted pivot to video
- Crazy Apple Rumors
- joked about "iPad"
- 9to5Mac
- Mark Gurman
Major Rumors- LC to be made by Tandy?
- Macintosh III / Quadra
- System 8 and Copland
- Be acquisition
- Gene Munster's Apple TV
- click-wheel iPhone
- teardrop iPhone 5
- Apple Car mockups
1 hr 13 min - e73 – The iMac at 20
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the original iMac, tracing how the revolutionary Bondi gumdrop evolved into flagship desktop Mac of today.
e73 – The iMac at 20Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Steve Jobs App Store interview
- Love Notes to Newton now available
History of the iMac line- iMac G3
- Simple Beep e39
- Stephen Hackett's iMacs at the Ford Museum
- Simple Beep e23
Not quite.
- iMac G4
- leaked in TIME magazine
- design introduction at Macworld SF 2002
- "tongue" ad
- Pixar's Luxo Jr.
- Apple Pro Speakers
- iSub and SoundSticks
- iMac G5
- "From the creators of iPod"
- Front Row
- Intel iMac
- introduction with MacBook Pro
- Aluminum iMac
- Slim unibody iMac
- Retina iMac and iMac Pro
- SO MANY PIXELS
- iMac precursors
- Macintosh Color Classic
- G3 upgrade
1 hr 3 min - e72 – The App Store at 10
We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the App Store launching on July 10, 2008. After a brief history of the store itself, we pick some of our favorite, most influential early iOS apps.
e72 – The App Store at 10Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownload- Follow up: Apple Causal
- Ink
- The Sweet Solution
- Steve's announcement
- Gruber's take
- Phil Schiller's reaction [🤬 audio]
- PastryKit
- App Store launch
- There's an App for That
- Timeline of App Store changes
Our app picks- Pandora
- Ed's Pandora setup
- PandoraJam
- Facebook
- Springboard-like interface
- Joe Hewitt's Three20
- "Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny"
- Shazam
- Apple acquisition
- Instapaper
- GDPR woes
- 1Password
- Apple acquisition??? (no.)
- Simplenote
- Gruber's review
- redesign by tap tap tap
- Twinkle
- Tapulous
- Neven Mrgan's web apps
- Glyphboard
- Pie Guy
- …and his native apps
- Tap Tap Revenge
- Picross
- for Nintendo DS
- PicGrid, Pixelogic, Paint it Back, Picross Touch
- Hexologic
- Yelp
- Wimbledon
1 hr 22 min - Follow up: Apple Causal
About Simple Beep
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A podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community. Hosted by Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius.