Letting a button be a button.

• Guests
  • Neven Mrgan
• References
  • Welcome to Macintosh episode 1
  • Gruber "Let a button be a button"
  • Neven's At-Home Button Test
• Music
  • Scoring for this Extra is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

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The Power Macintosh 7100 and the BHA.

• Guests
  • Rick LePage
• References
  • MacWEEK Magazine
  • Mac the Knife
  • Power Macintosh 7100
  • Carl Sagan
  • "Billions and billions"
  • Sagan's letter to Apple
• Music
  • Scoring for this Extra is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

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The Apple rumor mill.

• Guests

  • Jason Snell

    • @jsnell

    • Six Colors

  • Rick LePage

    • @rlepage

  • John Moltz

    • @moltz

    • Very Nice Website

  • Mark Gurman

    • @markgurman

    • 9to5Mac

  • Rob McGinley Myers

    • @robmcmyers

    • Anxious Machine

• References

  • Apple introduces MacBook at the March 9th, 2015 Event

  • MacWEEK Magazine

  • Mac the Knife

  • Crazy Apple Rumors Site

  • Quicktime Live Attendees Wish Schiller had Pled the Fifth (Crazy Apple Rumors Site)

  • Crazy Apple Rumors Site shutting down

  • Tim Cook at AllThingsD Conference in 2012

  • Gurman's scoop on the 12" MacBook

  • Gurman's first big find

  • John Gruber on the podcast Tomorrow with Joshua Topolsky

  • Episode 4 of Rob McGinley Myers' excellent Anxious Machine podcast.

• Music

  • The theme music is by Terique Greenfield.

  • Ad music is by Kebu.

  • Scoring for this episode is by the mysterious & wonderful Breakmaster Cylinder.

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The history of Macworld magazine, from it's heyday to shutting down the presses.

• Guests

  • John Siracusa

    • @siracusa

    • Hypercritical Site

    • Accidental Tech Podcast

  • Jason Snell

    • @jsnell

    • Six Colors

  • Serenity Caldwell

    • @settern

    • iMore

    • Personal Site

• References

  • Macworld (Wikipedia)

  • John Siracusa on Steve Jobs & the original issue of Macworld

  • Mac Clones

  • MacUser (Wikipedia)

  • Macintosh II FX

  • Chandler Bing reading Macworld on Friends

  • Macworld to end print edition (NYTimes)

  • Jason Snell: Goodbye Macworld

• Music

  • The theme music is by Terique Greenfield.

  • Ad music is by Kebu.

  • Scoring for this episode is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

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An Apple II, a synthesizer, the movie TRON, and dolphins.

Charlie Kellner playing the alphaSyntauri at Steve Wozniak's wedding

• Guests

  • Charlie Kellner

• Clips

  • TRON Disc Fight

  • TRON Light Cycle

• References

  • Logic Pro X

  • Apple ][

  • Moog Synthesizer

  • Mountain Hardware Sound Card

  • Apple Corps. v. Apple Computer

  • Frank Serafine

  • Dolphin Research Center

  • Bob Moog

  • Herbie Hancock

  • Brian Wilson

  • Steve Wozniak

  • Inquisitive: Behind the App Podcast

• Music

  • Our theme song is by Terique Greenfield.

  • Scoring for the episode was performed on the alphaSyntauri synthesizer.

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Apps before the App Store.

• Guests

  • Neven Mrgan

    • @mrgan

    • mrgan.tumblr.com

    • Panic Inc.

  • Craig Hockenberry

    • The Iconfactory

    • Furbo.org

    • @chockenberry

• Clips

  • WWDC 2007 Keynote

• References

  • John Gruber's negative take on the "sweet solution"

  • One Trip website

  • Apple Web Apps Directory

  • Glyphboard

  • Pie Guy

  • Apple Design Awards

  • Craig Hockenberry, "Beyond Sweet"

  • Craig's article on A List Apart

  • C4 Conference

  • iOS Jailbreaking

  • Original convoluted jailbreaking processes

  • Lights Off by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts

  • Twitterrific

  • XML

  • Steve Jobs's announcement of an iPhone SDK

• Music

  • Our theme song is by Terique Greenfield.

  • Our ad music is by Kebu.

  • Scoring for the episode is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder.

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The rise and fall of skeuomorphs at Apple.

Episode Transcript

• Guests

  • Dave Wiskus

    • @dwiskus

    • Better Elevation

    • Vesper

  • Neven Mrgan

    • @mrgan

    • mrgan.tumblr.com

    • Panic Inc.

• Clips

  • Macworld 2000 Keynote Address

  • Ricardo Montalban on Letterman

• References

  • Skeuomorph (Wikipedia)

  • Corinthian Leather (Wikipedia)

  • Apple's Aesthetic Dichotomy

  • The New Yorker's profile of Jonathan Ive

  • Dave's Macworld article predicting iOS 7's design

  • Evolution of Vesper's design

  • Letterpress Game

  • On Apple's Skeuomorphic UI Textures

  • Steve Jobs' inspiration for leather stitching

  • Neven's story about Steve Jobs

  • The design of Birdfeed

• Music

  • Our theme song is by Terique Greenfield.

  • Our ad music is by Kebu.

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