Apple's recent Mac event ended with a visit from an old friend (they were missing Justin Long, I guess they could not afford him).
So I thought I would look back at the famous “Get A Mac” ad campaign (also called “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC”). Has it really been 14 years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rV-dbDMS18
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac
Facial identification for other animals (bear, cows, monkeys), is this something that was really a requirement?
It is adorable to see the animation of Bear face locating. I had not thought of this use.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/22/tech/face-recognition-bears-cows/index.html
The Internet Archive has come to the rescue of an old obsolete Flash archive with a new emulator.
Flash was abandoned for good reason (speed, security, proprietary), but this solution brings back some of the old playfulness of Flash.
Library link: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash
This amused me, clear cases for Class Apple computers, so you can see history.
Bit expensive, but I could see putting my old //e & Mac SE inside one.
https://maceffects.com/products/maceffects-clear-case-for-macintosh-se-se-30
Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs talks about Modbook from Axiotron, the only 3rd party pad to run Mac software.
This is amazing hardware was a failure, but still was pretty amazing, How rare? I never heard of it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoX-5KIh9Q
Modbook site: http://www.modbook.com
Ahmed Ayoub has a great head to head analysis of two major franchise mobile apps.
They don’t get much bigger than Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and Marvel Strike Force.
https://uxdesign.cc/game-ux-analyzing-the-experience-of-two-major-mobile-games-89d91f91a57d
This is not a tech posting, but it is an intellectual property case I find interesting, regarding a recent lawsuit regarding DragonLance.
Wizard Of the Coast shut down authors Weis & Hickman, who had the right to continue to create Dragon Lance books. How should this have been handled?
