The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk

Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens – with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.

Play Your PowerBook By Tilting It

With everyone hacking into the new PowerBook bump sensors — accelerometers built into the PB to protect the HD if you drop it — it was only a matter of time before someone figured out a way to control music by tilting. Bumptunes is a script that lets you, um, tilt, rock, bump, or otherwise […]

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2005

PowerBook G5: Keep On Waiting

News flash: Apple isn't releasing a PowerBook G5 anytime soon. A G5 laptop would be bulky, hot, and power-hungry. And ugly. Is it possible? Yes. But it's going to be a while. A long while, like probably 2006. Sound eerily familiar? Only because CDM has been saying just that over and over again, along with […]

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2005

PowerBook: The Theme Song

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2005

New PowerBooks: Laptop Musician Analysis

Peter Kirn - February 1, 2005

Speculation: PowerBook G4, not G5 Coming Soon

Peter Kirn - January 17, 2005

PowerBook G5: Snowball’s Chance?

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2005

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