First, this commercial, or anti-commercial, from Joy of Tech. I’m a Windows kind of guy, so I wouldn’t have known this, but Apple is getting into banking, and offering some impressive interest rates. As this article suggests, their 4.15% rate is better than traditional banks are offering and may spark banks to raise their current […]
This K Chronicles brought me back to my (second) senior year in college, when my wife and I canceled our Chicago paper because it was such a downer. We still got the South Bend Tribune, whose editorial page was also depressing but which at least was not a compendium of murders. Ignoring problems doesn’t make […]
Stop! You’re both right! CSotD is two – two – two sites in one! And, at this fraught moment, there are enough humorous political cartoons that we can do a whole posting of nothing but. We’ll start things off with a bit of pure stand-up schtick from Drew Sheneman (AMS), who draws for the […]
Tom May, associate editor at Creative Bloq, reviews Apple’s newly announced Pro tablet iPad Pro along with the new stylus Apple Pencil. Having dropped the ball so much in the film-making arena (bad-mouthing Final Cut Pro seems to have become a professional sport within the movie industry), we weren’t sure could ever get back into […]
Life In Hell and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening drew some posters for Apple Computer back in the 1980’s in exchange for a printer. Bear in mind a LaserWriter printer back then was cost $7,000.
From Business Insider: There’s a team of 100 product designers, marketers, and hardware and software engineers working on a smartwatch at Apple, Bloomberg reports. The size of the group suggests that the so-called “iWatch” project has moved beyond test stages. Bloomberg named two engineering managers, Achim Pantfoerder and James Foster, as involved int he project. […]
For those of you using Apple’s Mac OS, the newest operating system, Mountain Lion, is publicly available today for download through the App Store for $20. Before you download, Roaring Apps has the intel on which versions of different software are ready for the new OS (version 10.8). A quick summary of the more popular […]
Scott Adams on a recently killed Dilbert strip: My editor thinks this comic is inappropriate for newspapers. He might be right. You won’t see this one published anywhere else.
Poynter reports that the release of the latest operating system (iOS 5) for Apple’s iPad and iPhone has caused a surge downloads for newspapers. The new OS comes with a new app called Newsstand where users can subscribe to magazines and newspapers. One of the examples cited was the NYTimes app which saw 189,000 new […]
As reported earlier, Forbes magazine will be printing a 60 page graphic novel detailing Steve Job’s introduction to Zen and its influence on his life and work at Apple. They’ve posted four more pages. Here’s their description of what was posted: The action takes place in the mid-1980s, after Steve left Apple and went on […]
Tom Pappalardo notes that many of the visual props (newspapers, televisions, music players) used to create context for comics are getting smaller and harder to use. The visual language is evolving as technology evolves: In many ways, technology?especially consumer-driven technology?has been striving for the same thing as cartoonists for years now. Simpler, smaller, more streamlined. […]
Business Week has picked up The Joy of Tech and is now running the webcomic on their website, iPad and in their weekly magazine. This is a real thrill for us, as we are big fans of the magazine and its tech coverage, and with a circulation of over 917,000, we’ll be reaching a lot […]
Interesting rumor from The Mac Observer. Apple may be working on building a set of template tools for iPad-based magazines to include in its Xcode developer tools. Assuming the report is accurate, such a move would give developers a standardized set of tools that could make it easier for creating publications as apps. Also rumored […]
While we await for Ruport Murdoch’s The Daily to launch (rumored/reported for January 17), Google is making noise that it isn’t going to let Apple own the digital subscription plans for newspapers and magazines apps. News organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal currently have free iPad apps but are free for […]
Apple launched their Mac Store today. The new store is the iTunes App Store equivalent for your Mac software. I’m assuming over time a lot of the iPhone, iPad apps will be ported over. I love my ArtRage app on my iPad – so I went looking to see what’s available in the new Mac […]