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e26 – Preserving Mac history with Stephen Hackett

To celebrate our first anniversary, we're joined by Stephen Hackett of relay.fm and 512 Pixels. We talk about the different ways we came to the Mac, some of the weirder things in our Apple collections, and the importance of archiving technology for the future.

Also part of our anniversary celebrations, Simple Beep t-shirts are available!

e25 – The Works

This episode is all about "the best-loved application for the Mac", ClarisWorks. We remember a simpler age of word processing, not understanding how the "New document" command or pixels worked, and some difficult transitions in our productivity workflows.

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Easter eggs followup

Claris

iWork

e24 – Easter Eggs

In this episode we go on a hunt for some of the hidden "features" of classic Macs. It's a menagerie of iguanas, gerbils, pigs, dogcows, tiny swords, and more!

Our favorites

References

e23 – iMac and iPod accessories

This episode we explore the emergence of whole industries to create accessories for the original iMac and early iPods, including everything from floppy drives to FM radio transmitters to really ugly blue plastic and other dumb ideas.

e22 – Widgets

In this episode we talk about all kinds of widgets, gadgets, and little software thingamabobs. We discuss what qualifies as an app, how to hack together a Konfabulator widget, and hardware accelerated ripples.

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