Posts by The Spacebar
New episode! @corbin.io and @tallshmo.com discuss Microsoft Kin, the Windows Phone spinoff that went from launch to death in two months.
YouTube: youtu.be/IFkWKKxZEIU
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Techathon 2025 is this Saturday, September 27th, 2025! I'll be raising money for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with a bunch of tech journalists, creators, and other cool people.
We're gonna play games and talk about tech stuff for 12 HOURS. Get ready!
Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font : FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS. www.spacebar.news/apple-histor...
Preserved as TrueType format vector art, here are some historic examples from the Apple System font: Apple logo striped, Apple logo outline, AppleShare, Apple Desktop Bus Sony 'HD' floppy logo, generic floppy, SCSI, Apple AUI (network)
Preserved as TrueType format vector art, here are some historic examples from the Apple System font: Macintosh Help, original QuickTime lgo, original 'wait/busy' wristwatch cursor icon, FireWire Boot Camp, PowerPC logo
Preserved as TrueType format vector art, here are some historic examples from the Apple System font: Newton 'attention' icon, Newton logo, Newton undo, Newton Extras Newton Dates (Calendar), Newton Names (contacts)
Apple don't believe in legacy support & will regularly strip frameworks they deem too old (macOS 26 Tahoe finally drops FireWire, for example) but there's one place in current macOS where the past still lives - the 'Apple Symbols' font.
www.spacebar.news/apple-histor...
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I remember using Opera Mini on my little Ericsson candy bar with an incredibly slow connection; reading news on a text-optimized site while on the train. www.spacebar.news/the-flip-pho...