prosthetic knowledge
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Corrupt.desktop by Benjamin Gaulon
Software app to glitch any Apple Mac computer’s desktop display. It could also be used as some kind of public glitch art display / virtual vandalism / Situationist act … as demonstrated in a Mac Store in the following video:
Corrupt.desktop [Fnac] from recyclism on Vimeo.
Corrupt.desktop glitch, in real time, the computer’s desktop image. So if you want to glitch your local Apple Store or Apple Retailer simply download the App (from the shop’s computer):
DOWNLOAD Corrupt.desktop [don’t forget to film it!] →Corrupt.online, Corrupt.video and Corrupt.desktop are using the same algorithm, which consists of a binary alteration of the original data. So technically Corrupt damages the data on a binary level, which result in unpredictable and beautiful results.
A project by Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Benjamin Gaulon, based on Corrupt a web based Glitch Art Software allowing its user to upload and share corrupted images on www.corrupt.recyclism.com.
This project is made with the openFrameworks library.
More Here [including another video ;) ]
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“1 billion, 51 million 855 thousand dollars” —Damages Samsung have to pay to Apple in the patent dispute between them.
Verdict via The Verge
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Own-a-Mac - The Movie (1987)
Promotional 15 minute film from Apple, promoting the Macintosh SE business computer. Skip the first 30 seconds, and be prepared for terrible music and dreadful situation comedy:
Own-a-Mac. The Movie. Apple Computer, Inc. 1987
A promotional video of Apple Computer Inc. to promote their new (in 1987) Macintosh SE business computer. The power to be your best.
Macintosh SE - The powerful, expandable, business computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE
Video resurrected, restored, digitized, edited and preserved for the world by Urs KönigDiscovered via muchkaev
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Fractal Apple by Kwon Jung Jun
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Xerox Star User Interface
A look at the computer which inspired Apple and Microsoft to develop and evolve the system with which we use a computer the past 30 years:
First half of a demonstration of the Xerox Star user interface from 1982. The Lisa and Mac interfaces that would follow a couple years later are dismissed by some today as being merely a direct ripoff of Xerox’s work…but in watching this it becomes apparent that Apple’s UI was in fact an evolution of these concepts, not a 1:1 copy. The Star UI has little to no direct manipulation, nor any visual distinction for radio buttons or check boxes. In other places, such as networking and printing, the Star was many years ahead. The Star UI laid the foundation but it was not copied whole cloth as some will claim.
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The Apple Collection 1986/87 (via The Trad)
Catalogue featuring branded fashion items from the tech giant, 80s style for all men, women and children.
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Jobs was looking into using Wi-Fi for phone calls (via Crave) 
Now THIS would have been a complete industry game-changer:
Apple might have launched the iPhone without the help of carriers if Steve Jobs & Co. had found a wireless workaround.
IDG today reported that Jobs apparently spent the better part of two years leading up to the release of the company’s first iPhone trying to figure out how to turn Wi-Fi spectrum into a network that users could make phone calls on, as opposed to relying on carriers to get the job done.
Jobs “wanted to replace carriers”, said John Stanton, the chairman of venture capital firm Trilogy Partners, during the Law Seminars International event held in Seattle yesterday. “He and I spent a lot of time talking about whether synthetically you could create a carrier using Wi-Fi spectrum. That was part of his vision.”
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Apple II graphics
A computer graphics demo recorded onto VHS in 1987, uploaded to YouTube. The visual instability of the video gives the graphics an effect that is contemporary fashionable, a look which many video artists would kill for today:
Apple II graphics taken from an old VHS tape c. 1987. Music by me done with a vintage Waldorf Microwave synthesizer. Pardon the crude quality and editing.
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MacPaint-Style Portrait Of Steve Jobs By mrgif
We wouldn’t be the designers we are if it wasn’t for this man.
RESPEK and RIP
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Siri means something in Japanese that is … well ….
“You see, in Japan, where Siri isn’t even going to be available when the iPhone 4S goes on sale there Oct.14, the word sounds a lot like ‘shiri’—which means buttocks.”
via BuzzFeed
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Phone Story
Game that looks at the dark side of telephone manufacturing (and recently banned by Apple)
Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. Under the shiny surface of our electronic gadgets, behind its polished interface, hides the product of a troubling supply chain that stretches across the globe. Phone Story represents this process with four educational games that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West.
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New Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m Thinking Printers’ via The Onion
SAN FRANCISCO—Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the company’s future. “Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, black-and-white—the future of technology is in printers. I am absolutely convinced of that,” …
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Commodore 64 US Commercial from 1982, taking a swipe at Apple
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“This is very weird. I am experiencing the exact same issue recently. Most notably just minutes ago when i called my GF and i saw a “picture” of myself from today when i was at the office. I know it was from today because i had the exact same shirt. The weirdest thing is that picture is not stored on my iphone. Anyone else experiencing this?” — A thread at Apple support discusses an issue with iPhones, taking pictures of its users unaware. [link]
