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Simple Beep
By Ed Cormany and Brian SutoriusTechnology
Simple Beep episodes
- e71 – Apple Typography
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Great typography has been part of Apple products since the original Macintosh. From 1-bit wonders to Thinking Different in Garamond to SF Mono, we examine decades of Apple's fonts on screen and in print.
e71 – Apple TypographyEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- QuickTime getting deprecated
- QuickTime 7 vs. X
- Vox Plus twitter bot
Typography- "Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology"
- specimens on GitHub
- font files on GitHub
- Early Macintosh Fonts suitcase
- list of original Mac fonts
- Susan Kare at Layers 2015
- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
- Taliesin/Mobile/meubles
- List of marketing fonts
- Apple's Mac hardware font
- Simple Beep World Tour shirts
A plague of frogs and other dingbats.
1 hr 15 min - QuickTime getting deprecated
- e70 – AirPort
Apple has officially discontinued its AirPort line of wireless products after nearly 20 years(!) We examine how our Wi-Fi has evolved from the original iBook until today.
e70 – AirPortEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- hire Ed!
- Douglas Adams’s DragThing feature request
- e42
- Frontier
- coverage on Daring Fireball
- Cancel/OK sticky notes
- Apple Glyph a Day
AirPort- Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers – Bloomberg
- final cancellation
- 802.11 standards
- Wi-Fi Alliance
- AirPort intro at MacWorld NY 1999
- iBook G3
- Phil Schiller’s death drop
- AirPort website at launch
- Lucent WaveLAN
- ad for original AirPort Base Station
- AirPort Card
- PDF manual
- adapter for iMac G3
- AirPort Extreme
- AirPort Express
- AirTunes (later AirPlay)
- Wireless distribution system (WDS)
- 802.11n update announced via press release
- Time Capsule
- removal of “AirPort” references from Mac OS Lion
- teardown of tower AirPort Base Station
1 hr 11 min - e69 – Apple's Education Initiatives
Apple's March 2018 event highlighted how they've been working in the education space for over 40 years. We pick some of our favorite products and programs they've developed for schools, students, and teachers.
e69 – Apple's Education InitiativesEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- The Secret History of Mac Gaming
- ambrosiasw.com not dead!
Hardware- Macintosh LC family
- At Ease
- All-in-one Power Macintosh 5200 LC
- eMate
- our Newton episode
- AlphaSmart
- Stephen Hackett's AlphaSmart video
- G3 all-in-one "Molar Mac"
- eMac
- laptop charging carts
- iBook cart on Low End Mac
- iPad and iBook carts on Connected
- current MacBook/iPad cart
- Macintosh 512Ke / Macintosh ED
Software- Apple Logo
- in Apple Education Newsletter #3
- Apple Media Tool
- AMT fact sheet
- AMT vs. Director (MacUser October 1994)
- Apple Home Learning
- WiggleWorks
- Earth Explorer
- Enteractive, Inc.
- Michael Spindler
Publications and ProgramsAs I took my hand-built Apple I into Steve Bradley’s computer lab at Homestead High School in 1977, can confirm https://t.co/l8MYL3pYkl
— Chris Espinosa (@cdespinosa) March 27, 2018- Kids Can't Wait
- MECC partnership
- Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT℠)
- example research report
- outcomes of the program
- more outcomes and amazing video
- Apple Distinguished Educator program
- Think Different marketing
- letter to teachers included with poster set
- MLK fold-out poster
1 hr 2 min - e68 – Haxies
The transition from Classic Mac OS to OS X was difficult for many users who felt like OS X removed their favorite features. Enter a little company named Unsanity, who solved those problems and created new ones.
e68 – HaxiesEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- Ed interviewed in 512 Pixels member newsletter
- BASIS 108 at Apple Muzeum Polska
Unsanity and Haxies- Interview with founder Slava Karpenko
- music players Karpenko worked on
- MacAMP and MacAMP Lite
- Unsanity Echo
- Unsanity Mint Audio
- early Haxies
- WindowShade (original)
- WindowShade X
- Appearance Sounds
- Application Enhancer (APE)
- crashes after installing Leopard
- Apple's response
- Unsanity's Leopard compatibility
- Logitech's driver/haxie
- Metallifizer
- UNO
- The Brushed Metal Diaries
- Silk
- Quartz text rendering in 2018
- ShapeShifter
- MacThemes
- Flavours
- what happened to Unsanity?
1 hr 12 min - e67 – Wish Lists
To start 2018 off right, we run through our wish lists of what we'd like to see from Apple — in years past. What will System 7 bring? What will the iPod Phone look like? And will Apple ever make a TV set?
e67 – Wish ListsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- 1st gen iPod nano recall
- MacBook Pro "Staingate"
- Kaleidoscope scheme Twitter bot
Wish Lists1991- 68040 processor
- Quadras
- System 7
- no more MultiFinder or Switcher
- Publish and Subscribe
- QuickTime 1.0 was great
- PowerBook 100, 140, 170
1994- PowerPC 601 processor
- NuBus PC compatibility cards
- configurations for 6100, 7200, 7220
- Cyrix
- better game support
1995- Power Macintosh 5200 LC, 5300 LC
- what if Apple made a TV?
- Macintosh TV
1996- HyperCard for the web
- LiveCard
- Apple Media Tool
1997- Mac clones
- clones in 1997
- very few G3 clones
- Copland replacement
- NeXT acquisition
- NeXTSTEP
- Mac OS 8
- WebObjects
- Newton vs. Palm
- Palm Pilot 1000, PalmPilot, Palm III
- MessagePad 2000, eMate
- return of Steve Jobs
1998- desktop flat-panel
- iMac G3 (CRT), iMac G4 (LCD)
- LCD Studio Display
1999- Connectix Virtual Game Station
- native games
- Halo announced at Macworld Expo
- wireless networking
- AirPort card for iBook
2000- laptop docks
- DuoDock
- Apple Display Connector
2001- xMac
- first-party products for the "digital hub"
- iPod
- ResEdit equivalent
- HyperCard replacement
2006- iTV
- Front Row
- announced as iTV
- launched as Apple TV
- mythical PowerBook G5
- MacBook Pro
- Intel chips ran hot ¿and loud?
- an iPod Phone?
- improved iWeb
1 hr 53 min - e66 – Hardware Failures and Recalls
We love Apple products, but not all of them have been perfect. We remember some of the worst, including exploding batteries, corrupt data, crumbling plastics, and more.
e66 – Hardware Failures and RecallsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle of the Mind
- video of talk
- article format
- WhatTheFont updated
- Macintosh XL's demise
- XProtect
Hardware Failures- Apple ///
- "100% hardware failure" Woz quote
- Dan Kottke's "fix"
- Macintosh II
- ROM not 32-bit clean
- Rev A ROM now rare
- Powerbook 5300 🔋💥
- NiMH replacements
- G3 Blue and White ATA
- iBook Dual USB
- logic board failures
- Titanium PowerBook G4
- G4 Cube
- cracks in external case
- MacBooks
- MacBook cracked plastic
- MacBook Pro GPU failures
- MacBook Air flash storage
- International duckheads
- First- and third-party wall plugs
- Knockoff MagSafe charger teardown
- iPod nano (1st gen) 🔋🌡
- free anti-scratch sleeve
- Antennagate
- free bumper cases
- Bendgate
- Selfiegate
- Hissgate
- Apple Hardware Test
- "screenshots"
1 hr 5 min - The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle of the Mind
- e65 – X
On iPhone X release day, we cover Apple's many uses — and pronunciations — of the Roman numeral.
e65 – XEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- 32 bit apps
- Ford Remote Access (now 64-bit)
- Cabel Sasser's 32-bit list
- App management back in iTunes 12.6.3
- five total Mac architectures
- MODE32 licensing
X hardware- Macintosh XL
- MacWorks XL [YouTube]
- Macintosh IIx, IIcx, IIvx, IIfx
- Mac SE/30 (not SEx)
- Xserve
- Xsan
X software- Mac OS X
- System 1…skip a few…6, 7, 8and9
- X box art
- related software
- BootX
- Xgrid
- X11
- Xcode
- current version
- original release [WayBack]
- QuickTime X
- Final Cut Pro X
- initial reaction
- Logic Pro X
Other odd names and numbers- tvOS 9
- The iTouch
1 hr 3 min - 32 bit apps
- e64 – Architecture changes
It's our 64th episode and big 64-bit changes are coming to iOS as we record, so there's no better time discuss Apple's architecture changes over the years (and to begin talking about "classic iOS apps").
e64 – Architecture ChangesEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadWay of the future.
- Apple embraces the past
- iOS 11 rainbow wallpapers
- rainbow Apple Park shirts
- Face ID logo = Happy Mac
- 32-bit Macs
- Motorola 68000
- 32-bit era of video games
- the "Megahertz Myth" [YouTube]
- 32-bit Addressing on Older Macs
- "32-bit clean"
- 32-bit QuickDraw
- 64-bit transition
- G5 was "the world’s first 64-bit desktop"
- Leopard adds 64-bit apps [YouTube]
- 32-bit being phased out in High Sierra
- iOS apps in transition
- Tilt to Live
- Aquaria
- Canabalt
- Ramp Champ
- Ridiculous Fishing
- Google Earth
- Flight Control
- killed by EA
- Freeverse games
- Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab
- Warpgate
- WhatTheFont
58 min - Apple embraces the past
- e63 – Mysterium and More Emoji
Brian went to Mysterium, the annual Myst fan convention, and brings back stories of Cyan's history, their latest game, and a huge fan project. And in a mega follow up segment, we cover many more emoji easter eggs.
e63 – Mysterium and More EmojiEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadFollow Up- The Emoji Movie is terrible
- Ellen Feiss keynote cold open
- Big City vs. SimCity
- HyperCard on the Internet Archive
- blog post
- Phil Schiller tweet
- submit your own stacks
More Emoji Easter Eggs- Gruber notices Swift on 🏎
- Johnny Appleseed
- Karl the Fog
- F Market & Wharves streetcars
- 🍑 drama
- on the Emojipedia blog
- on Picomac
Mysterium 2017- e16 – Myst
- official conference website
- D'ni language
- documentarian Philip Shane
- Zork
- Mysterium YouTube channel
- Obduction
- cameo at WWDC 2017
- Starry Expanse
- the question mark book
- the "East Path"
1 hr 6 min - e62 – Emoji Easter Eggs
Inspired by World Emoji Day, we take a look at various bits of history that Apple has hidden in its emoji artwork.
e62 – Emoji Easter EggsEd Cormany and Brian SutoriusDownloadIt's the reason for the season.
- Follow Up
- What Apple Thought the iPhone Might Look Like in 1995
- original MacWorld article
- Vintage Apple Macintosh Software Archive
- World Emoji Day
- Emojipedia
- iCal introduction
- early emoji (DoCoMo etc.)
- Infinite Loop 2
- Cupertino bus routes [PDF]
- Half Dome
- Why Apple Watch shows 10:09
- "Here's to the crazy ones…"
- Johnny Appleseed
- "emoji everywhere" provenance
45 min - Follow Up
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.