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How to Watch Super Bowl 58 Free from iPhone, Apple TV, Mac, iPad, Web

Feb 10, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Watch Super Bowl 58

Super Bowl 58 (or Super Bowl LVIII) is set to begin on February 11 at 3:30PM PT / 6:30PM ET, where the San Francisco 49ers will face the Kansas City Chiefs at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. The game is being aired on CBS live, but if you don’t have a TV with an … Read More

Watch This 1984 Macintosh Promo Video, Featuring Bill Gates!

Jan 28, 2024 - 1 Comment
Bill Gates talks Macintosh in 1984 promo video

Would you believe that one of the original promotional videos for the Macintosh featured none other than Microsoft’s Bill Gates?! In this fun video from 1984 you’ll see a young Bill Gates from Microsoft expressing his enthusiasm and extolling the virtues of the Macintosh computer. The famous rivalry between Apple and Microsoft hadn’t quite heated … Read More

Scroll Through Every Mac Desktop & Laptop Ever Made

Jan 27, 2024 - 3 Comments
Mac40th website is a fun find for Apple fans

The Mac turned 40 this week, and if you’re still on an Apple history kick, there’s a fun website that’s worth exploring called Mac40th. Mac40th.com showcases every desktop and portable Mac ever made by Apple in a continuous stream of Macs, displayed in random order. But it’s not just Macs, interspersed with tons of photos, … Read More

Macintosh Turns 40

Jan 24, 2024 - 1 Comment
40th anniversary of the Mac

The Macintosh computer, which has played a pivotal role in shaping personal computing and design principles throughout the entire tech industry, has turned 40 years old.

Play Tetris on the Mac (or Any Device) via the Web

Jan 20, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Play Tetris on the Mac from the web

Tetris is a classic and fun game that has hallmark simple yet challenging gameplay. Something about trying to piece together falling geometric shapes into lines is satisfying, and considering there are some studies that demonstrate Tetris may be good for the brain, what’s not to like? But if you want to play Tetris on your … Read More

How to Track Santa from Mac, iPhone, iPad, PC, Android, etc

Dec 24, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Track Santa with NORAD

Want to track Santa’s progress as he delivers gifts around the world? You can do that, thanks to NORAD.

5 iPhone Tips for the Holidays & Christmas

Dec 22, 2023 - Leave a Comment
iPhone tips for the holidays

The holidays are here, so let’s cover a few iPhone tips that will help you get the best use of technology over Christmas and New Years. From capturing and sharing moments, making sure your device lasts through the festivities, getting festive, to staying connected to those you’re apart from, let’s use your iPhone well this … Read More

Get a Twinkling Lit Christmas Tree on Your Mac Desktop

Dec 17, 2023 - 2 Comments
Christmas Tree on the Mac desktop

Would you like to have even more Christmas spirit on your Mac, in the form of a twinkling Christmas tree? Of course you would! If the falling snow and blinking Christmas lights weren’t enough for your Mac desktop, you can add a little Christmas tree into the mix too, complete with a Christmas countdown. Christmas … Read More

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is Free to Watch This Weekend

Dec 16, 2023 - 1 Comment
A Charlie Brown Christmas

The classic cartoon “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, about a child who is upset about the commercialization of Christmas, is free to watch this weekend only on Apple TV+ (though you can continue to watch it free with an Apple TV+ free trial at any other time). Perhaps you had grown accustomed to watching the heartwarming … Read More

Put Falling Snow & Christmas Lights on Your Mac Desktop with MacLampsX

Dec 15, 2023 - 5 Comments
MacLampsX puts Christmas lights and falling snow on the Mac desktop

If you want to get your Mac into the holiday spirit, why not put some blinking Christmas lights and falling snow on your Mac screen? That’s exactly what the free Mac app MacLampsX will do for you, decorating your Mac for the holidays, complete with customizable holiday light bulbs, snowfall, and holly. You can change … Read More

Get Out of Boring Zoom Meetings with Zoom Escaper

Dec 12, 2023 - 1 Comment
Zoom Escaper

Stuck in another boring Zoom Meeting? Ready to be done with those dull virtual meetings or Zoom classes for the moment, or the day? Zoom Escaper will come to your rescue, by allowing you to “self-sabotage your audio stream, making your presence unbearable to others” according to the apps developer, LOL! Zoom Escaper is an … Read More

How to Watch “Charlie Brown Christmas” for Free with Apple TV+

Dec 10, 2023 - 1 Comment
Watch Charlie Brown Christmas

Apple now has the exclusive rights to “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, which means if you’d like to watch the Christmas classic from 1965 this holiday season, you’ll need to watch it through the Apple TV+ service. Fortunately, Apple TV+ offers a free seven-day trial, so you can sign up for the free trial long enough … Read More

Watch These Apple Newton Commercials from the 1990s

Sep 9, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Apple Newton commercial

Do you remember the Apple Newton commercials from the mid 1990s? The Apple Newton, which was Apple’s Personal Digital Assistant and first tablet experiment, used a stylus for input, had internet connectivity, and some really cool features that only recently came to the iPad – like Scribble. A YouTuber has put together a collection of … Read More

Watch “Pirates of Silicon Valley” Full Movie & Enjoy the Old Apple vs Microsoft Rivalry

Sep 4, 2023 - 2 Comments
Watch Pirates of the Silicon Valley full movie for free on archive.org

The 1999 movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” offers a fun dramatization of the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft, from their origin stories at the beginning of the Personal Computing era, through their different philosophies and products. And the best part is, even though it’s Hollywood, it’s actually reasonably accurate! Pirates of Silicon Valley is loosely … Read More

Build a DIY 1984 Macintosh Running Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Sep 2, 2023 - 1 Comment
Original Macintosh running Mac OS X

Ever thought about converting that dusty old original Macintosh in your garage into a modern Mac? Probably not, but this person did, and they have documented the entire project of converting an original 1984 Macintosh into a modern Mac capable of running a much more modern operating system of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Of … Read More

Watch “Love Notes to Newton” Documentary on the Apple Newton [Video]

Aug 19, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Apple Newton and iPad

If you’re a longtime Apple fan, you may recall the Apple Newton, the Apple PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) that debuted in 1993. It had a pen-input based screen, handwriting to text capabilities, a whimsical and fun user interface (sigh), and many features that we all take for granted and use regularly today on iPhones, iPads, … Read More

Build a Tiny Working Macintosh from a RaspberryPi

Aug 13, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Build your own Tiny Macintosh

If you’re seeking out a very unique hobby project or weekend endeavor, perhaps you’d be interested in building a tiny working Macintosh out of a RaspberryPi? Nobody said it would be easy, but if you’re adventurous, dedicated, and patient enough, you can follow a set of instructions to build your very own Tiny Mac out … Read More

Watch This 1953 Documentary on the Transistor

Jul 30, 2023 - 7 Comments
1953 documentary on the transistor

No matter what device you are reading this article on, it would not be possible without the invention of the transistor nearly 70 years ago. Transistors are basically just mini-semiconductors that regulate voltage flow, and when many transistors are combined in large numbers, they create microprocessors (the Apple M1 chip has 16 billion transistors, for … Read More

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