Stacy Conaway http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog   apple, mobile & web technology Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:16:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Tim Berners-Lee introduces the Web http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/tim-berners-lee-introduces-the-web http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/tim-berners-lee-introduces-the-web#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:43:45 +0000 Stacy http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/?p=4981 From the UseNet archives we have Tim Berners-Lee’s 1991 introduction of this technology he developed called the WorldWideWeb.

WorldWideWeb is a hypertext browser/editor which allows one to read information from local files and remote servers. It allows hypertext links to be made and traversed, and also remote indexes to be interrogated for lists of useful documents. Local files may be edited, and links made from areas of text to other files, remote files, remote indexes, remote index searches, internet news groups and articles.

My favorite bit from the post:

This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.

They had no idea what they were on to. In 21 years this went from a side project in a science lab to one of the most important technological revolutions in human history.

* A little more UseNet fun with this 20 year timeline of significant posts and introductions, including the first mentions of Microsoft, Apple’s Lisa and Macintosh, cell phones, fax machines, Y2K, Linux, spamming and much more.

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Adobe’s statement to developers:

HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively [...] that makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.

Steve Jobs was right.

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Anyway, I came across some ideas at this site, Ikeahackers.net. Someone posted a great looking idea for a standing desk using about $250 worth of Ikea pieces. I like it. There are some really good ideas on that site.


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PayPal claims:

  • Will work with iOS and Android
  • 2.7% transaction fee (Square charges 2.75%)
  • Accepts VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, checks, invoices and PayPal accounts
  • Funds are immediately available in your PayPal account
  • Free card reader and mobile app (like Square)


]]> http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/paypal-here/feed 0 iFixit.org http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/ifixit-org http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/ifixit-org#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:54 +0000 Stacy http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/?p=4826 iFixit.org — The People Who Are Fixing the World — is a new project by the talented and helpful team at iFixit.com, the ‘free repair manual you can edit.’ I have used iFixit to get detailed instructions on upgrading our Macs and it’s been a really useful resource. You can find repair guides for all kinds of things—including game consoles, automobiles, cameras, household items and more. They have a free repair manual app for iPhone and iPad so you can download guides right from your mobile device.

On ifixit.org, we’ll be writing about the problems caused by our throwaway culture. [...] We’re going to profile repair gurus and share why people fix things.

They are also working on a documentary: Fixers, a film about repair. I’m looking forward to this.

]]> http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/ifixit-org/feed 0 A Brief History of Computing Platforms http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/a-brief-history-of-computing-platforms http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/2012/a-brief-history-of-computing-platforms#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:33:06 +0000 Stacy http://www.stacyconaway.com/blog/?p=4806 For a fascinating illustration of the trend towards mobile computing, check out the short video (28 sec) below showing the history of some popular computing platforms, starting in 1975 and running up to the present. It includes some oldies like the TRS-80, Amiga, Atari, NeXT and Apple II as well as the now familiar Windows PC, Mac, Android, iPhone and iPad.

Originally posted in The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing, an excellent bit of analysis by Horace Dediu at Asymco.

Note the last few seconds of the video where Android, iPhone and iPad rocket to the top.

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