Word: macintoshs
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...game quickly became the kind of national communion that only TV could make: a daylong ritual and feast, an event that you watched because you needed to watch that thing that everyone was watching. And in 1984, with the debut of the Apple Macintosh ad, the game became a showcase for commercials and seemed to realize its true purpose: to be a massive, expensive, profligate tribute to the desires of America's consumers and to the full bellies of its warehouses. Showy, theatrical and full of talking animals, America's favorite short-film festival erases the boundary between shopping...
...overall effect is more than a laundry list of nifty features. It's the realization of the core metaphor of modern consumer computing, dating back to the Macintosh or arguably to the first computer mouse, introduced in 1968. The idea was that we would all pretend that abstract digital information is physically real, that we could see it and manipulate it according to physical laws. The iPhone takes the graphical-user interface--the GUI, in the parlance, pronounced "gooey"--a step further and makes it a tactile user interface. You're viewing a little world where data are objects...
...said that Facebook has yet to decide whether or not to continue the gift shop beyond the month of February or what to do with the proceeds if the gift shop remains open. The digital icons were designed by Susan Kare, the graphic designing company that created the original Macintosh Computer icon set in the 1980s. “We chose one of the best iconic designers out there for the virtual gifts because we imagine that the gifts are something that could be collectible,” Barker said. Barker also said that, starting today, new Valentine?...
...officer was dispatched to take a report of a theft at the New Research Building at 77 Louis Pasteur Avenue in Boston. An officer arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that they left the area and upon returning discovered their silver Macintosh laptop computer and black carrying case stolen. The reporting party also stated that located in the carrying case was their black Coach wallet that contained various credit cards and $200 cash. At 7:15pm a black carrying case was located in the bathro om. The reporting party stated that the items were there...
...special person knocked down to size is a great American pastime. But there's no point in pretending that Jobs isn't special. A college dropout whose biological parents gave him up for adoption, Jobs has presided over four major game-changing product launches: the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPod and the iPhone; five if you count the release of Pixar's Toy Story, which I'm inclined to. He's like Willy Wonka and Harry Potter rolled up into...