Welcome to Flashback Friday, this week, we're going on a very nostalgic journey back to Apple's most golden moments of television, back to the most memorable moments in their ads. The times when you can't get that ad song out of your head. Although it is very hard to narrow down years of history, we picked the most ads that can leave a song on repeat in your mind. 1- Exodus Honey –...
Apple fans rejoice! Apple's worldwide developer conference is a few days away, taking place in San Jose Conference Center, where the very first WWDC took place in 1988. The San Jose venue was the home of many later WWDCs all the way till 2002 when Apple switched to Moscone West in 2003. We are very excited that Apple is going back to its roots, in fact, last time Steve Jobs took the...
Welcome to a new feature on Flashback Friday where we’re going to occasionally look back at the beginning of a smartphone line and compare it to its newest iteration. Up this week, the Galaxy Note says hello to the Galaxy Note 4. The original Galaxy Note was introduced at IFA 2011 and released on Oct. 29, 2011. The Galaxy Note 4 debuted at IFA 2014 this year, but has no official...
Science fiction writers are always popular to turn to for predictions on what future technology holds for the world. Issac Asimov went on record in 1964 with some pretty dead-on predictions for 2014, and some that weren't quite as dead-on. Recently a video surfaced of Arthur C. Clarke making some pretty accurate predictions about what computers would be like in the future. Seeing as he...
When you look around you, it's amazing just how much technology really is there in absolutely everything we do. For instance, the famous ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve. When I went hunting for a video for New Year's Eve I was trying to find something from the 1950s or 60s, but then I stumbled on this one from 1990 into 1991. I have no clue why I was so amused by the fact...
Already an endangered species, the drive-in theater as facing its biggest threat ever from the drive by movie studios to change over to all digital projection in the coming years. One of the most expensive parts of releasing a film – outside of the budget, of course – is producing thousands of 35mm prints. A film takes numerous reels, and then you have shipping to contend with, the...
It may seem odd to even think about the VHS vs Beta format war in this day and age, but I think there is still a lot to be learned from it. One of my all time favorite quotes has so many applications in the world: "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." Edmund Burke As big as the first format war became in the 1970s, you would think there wouldn't be a person in...
In this week’s Flashback Friday, we’re going to a personal place for me with my all time favorite computer, fondly referred to as “Frankenstein.” As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, my first computer was a Commodore 64, and while it ignited my love for computers, it was Frankenstein that turned it into an obsession. Between the 64 and Frankie, as we lovingly called it in my house, I used a...
All of this talk of improving maps lately has made me think back to my family’s first GPS, and then it makes me think, “Yeah, iOS 6 Maps may suck, but at least it’s in color.” Our first GPS unit was a Garmin GPS V like the one you see above. Clunky, difficult to connect to the satellites and just an all around pain in the behind. I couldn’t imagine how GPS was ever going to become...
Ah, the Mini Disc. Yet another in a long line of failed formats. I've made a few references to the Mini Disc over the course of this column, but I realized I've never actually included a video of it. Shame on me. While this video isn't 100 percent about the Mini Disc, gaming editor Joey Davidson insisted I include the weird little alien Sony tried passing off as a mascot for a little...