NULLWerewolf

NULLWerewolf

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NULLWerewolf
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I still love the Touch Bar… the first iteration was rough but the escape key makes it perfect… it will be sad when my M1 MacBook Pro stops working.

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Apple's MacBook Pro Touch Bar Was Announced 10 Years Ago Today

macrumors.comApple's MacBook Pro Touch Bar Was Announced 10 Years Ago TodayApple introduced the Touch Bar 10 years ago today. At its "Hello again" event on October 27, 2016, Apple pitched the Retina Multi-Touch strip as "revolutionary." It replaced the MacBook Pro's function keys and divided users from the start, arriving in the same controversial redesign as the butterfly keyboard and removal of HDMI, SD card, and MagSafe ports. The Touch Bar died slowly. A physical Esc key returned to the 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2019, then high-end models dropped it in 2021, and the 13-inch MacBook Pro – the last Touch Bar machine – was discontinued in October 2023. No Mac has brought it back since, though in a subtle quirk of history, Apple is expected to unveil its first touchscreen MacBook Pro tomorrow.Related Roundup: MacBook ProTag: Touch BarBuyer's Guide: MacBook Pro (Caution)Related Forum: MacBook Pro This article, "Apple's MacBook Pro Touch Bar Was Announced 10 Years Ago Today" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
NULLWerewolf
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Sorry, but Mozilla helped kill the Web and show other vendors it’s OK to bundle telemetry, spyware and malware. I’m never going to forgive you for Pocket, studies (LookingGlass), telemetry that is difficult to fully turn off and the enablement of DRM (EME) on the Web. Firefox needs to go away.

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Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

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Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With

macrumors.comApple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play WithApple Music has an easter egg on the web: a fully-functional iPod that appears when you load a page that does not exist, such as music.apple.com/macrumors. The easter egg is only visible in a web browser, so you will not be able to see it in the Apple Music app. To avoid being automatically redirected to the Apple Music app, hold down the Command key when clicking on the link on a Mac, or press and hold on the link and tap "Open" on iOS. "Page Not Found," says Apple. "Give this a spin instead." You can navigate the first-generation iPod using the click wheel and listen to 90-second previews of select songs from artists such as Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Drake, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Panic! At The Disco, U2, and more. There is even an easter egg within an easter egg. If you navigate to Settings → About on the iPod and click and hold on the click wheel's center button, you can eventually play the classic game Breakout on the screen. Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs helped to create Breakout while they worked at Atari in the 1970s. The easter egg was discovered on the 25th anniversary of Apple announcing the original iPod.Tag: Apple Music This article, "Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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Happy 25th Anniversary, iPod

macrumors.comHappy 25th Anniversary, iPodApple today marks 25 years since the introduction of the original iPod, one of the company's most significant products and a major contributor to its expansion beyond the Mac. Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod on October 23, 2001, at a small press event in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple's Infinite Loop headquarters. Advertised as offering "1,000 songs in your pocket," the device combined a 5GB hard drive with a monochrome LCD display, a mechanical scroll wheel, and up to 10 hours of battery life. The original model cost $399 and required a Mac with iTunes. Its FireWire connection transferred music and charged the battery, while automatic synchronization copied songs and playlists from the user's iTunes library. Apple said that an entire CD could be transferred in under 10 seconds and a collection of 1,000 songs in less than 10 minutes. The hard drive could also store documents and other files. Ahead of the announcement, Apple invited the press to the unveiling of a "breakthrough digital device," specifying that it was not a Mac. Reports variously suggested a music player, a home stereo accessory, or a handheld device with handwriting recognition. MacRumors rumor roundup published two days before the event included the name "iPod." The announcement received a mixed response. Our original coverage is still available, along with reader comments questioning the device's price, Mac-only compatibility, and significance. One reader described it as "far from revolutionary," while another wrote, "all this hype for something so ridiculous!" The iPod went on sale on November 10, 2001, with readers reporting that they lined up to purchase it. Early forum discussions included complaints about fingerprints on the polished rear enclosure, charging temperatures, and sound quality, alongside a host of positive impressions from owners. Hardware revisions followed in quick succession. The second-generation iPod adopted a touch-sensitive scroll wheel, while the third-generation model introduced the 30-pin Dock Connector in 2003. The full-size iPod gained a color display in 2004 and video playback in 2005. The iPod mini was announced in January 2004, representing the first extension of the product line. It featured a smaller anodized aluminum enclosure in silver, gold, pink, blue, or green, and introduced the Click Wheel, which integrated playback buttons into the touch-sensitive scrolling surface. Apple adopted the same control for the fourth-generation full-size iPod later that year. In 2005, Apple introduced both the iPod shuffle and iPod nano. The shuffle omitted a display and offered a smaller, simpler music player, while the nano replaced the mini with a thin design based on flash storage. Later iPod nano models added video playback, a video camera, and a touchscreen. The square sixth-generation model, introduced in 2010, could be worn on the wrist using third-party watch straps. By April 2007, Apple had sold 100 million iPods, less than six years after the first model reached customers. By its 10th anniversary in 2011, sales had exceeded 304 million units. The iPod touch arrived in September 2007, several months after the first iPhone went on sale. It featured a 3.5-inch Multi-Touch display, Wi-Fi, and Safari, requiring a cellular plan. Apple discontinued the iPod classic in September 2014, five years after its final hardware revision. The iPod nano and iPod shuffle followed in July 2017, leaving the iPod touch as the sole model. The seventh-generation iPod touch received an A10 Fusion chip and up to 256GB of storage in May 2019. It remained on sale without further hardware updates until May 10, 2022, when Apple announced its discontinuation and said it would be available while supplies lasted. In its announcement, Apple attributed the end of the lineup to the integration of music playback across its other products. Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said that "the spirit of iPod lives on" through devices including the iPhone, Apple Watch, HomePod mini, Mac, iPad, and Apple TV.Related Forum: iPod touch and iPod This article, "Happy 25th Anniversary, iPod" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
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feetle.funFeetle - The Daily Word GameChange one letter at a time and get to FEET in as few steps as possible. New puzzle every day.
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feetle.funFeetle - The Daily Word GameChange one letter at a time and get to FEET in as few steps as possible. New puzzle every day.

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GuilRosmer
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VRChat Spookality is kind of ruined for me. Finding avatars in the official world with extremely low quality AI textures just takes all the fun out of the whole event. I don't even want to bother looking through the worlds this year, knowing some of them will feature AI generated content.

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Fizz
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I just came across a past relic I'm particularly proud of. This is a 24-output 8-bit ISA card I designed and built in 9th Grade that let me run stepper motors and similar from inside QuickBasic4.5 and C++. I adapted the design from a POST code reader in Circuit Cellar and it worked spectacularly!

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Cyan
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There aren't a lot of things that make me mad, mostly things that make me sad. But the fact that so little in my age demographic turn up to vote infuriates me to no end.

NULLWerewolf
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Not that it mattered too much as there was very little software compiled for MIPS, Alpha or PowerPC… it’s sad that Microsoft mostly abandoned portability and can’t get Windows on ARM right after the third attempt.