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A podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community. Hosted by Ed Cormany and Brian Sutorius.
We're celebrating another major milestone in Apple history: the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the iPod. We cover its incredibly ra...
We're back with a special episode to mark the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X. We remember what it was like to enter the lickable world of Aqua...
After over five years of producing Simple Beep, we've decided to stop recording on a regular schedule. We're really proud of the collection...
In our final regular episode, we celebrate a great milestone: the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the iPad.
This episode we cover the desktop publishing revolution, the Apple-led trifecta that kicked it off in the late '80s, and how it's evolved ov...
A team of ex-Apple engineers in the early 90s made a product that flopped worse than the Newton but might be the reason we have iPhones toda...
Apple hardly ever gives away information about upcoming products…unless you believe that there are secret clues in hidden places. We look at...
Apple's online presence has evolved significantly since the days of the early web. From rainbow imagemaps to WebObjects to epic scrolljackin...
Brian made a summer project of putting a Mac Mini in a Macintosh Classic and it got us thinking about all kinds of mods people have done wit...
The announcement of the 2019 Mac Pro got us thinking about what Apple has called "Pro" in the past. That includes incredibly expensive hard...
Mac OS as we know it today can be traced to one major event: Apple's decision to scrap internal attempts at creating a new operating system...
As Apple turns its attention to TV and movies, so do we! In this episode we pick our favorite appearances by Macs and other Apple products o...
This episode is all about the venerable game developer Bungie and how they got their start on the Classic Mac. We cover all their titles, in...
Apple has been building computers — and standalone products — with sound capabilities for over 40 years. We discuss 1-bit audio, incredible...
This episode, we trace the evolution of Mac word processing from MacWrite to the present. Along the way we find a secret moose, complain abo...
For our 4th anniversary episode, we return to our roots of discussing classic Mac sound design. We cover the tragic backstory of the Wild Ee...
This episode we revisit MacAddict magazine and its freakin' awesome coverage of the Apple world in the late '90s.
We'll be doing our first live event on Twitch, on Monday September 24 at 8:30 PM Eastern time. We'll be streaming Myst on its 25th birthday!
With an iPhone event right around the corner, the rumor mill is operating at full capacity. We examine how this important part of the Apple...
We celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the original iMac, tracing how the revolutionary Bondi gumdrop evolved into flagship des...
We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the App Store launching on July 10, 2008. After a brief history of the store itself, we pick some of...
Great typography has been part of Apple products since the original Macintosh. From 1-bit wonders to Thinking Different in Garamond to SF Mo...
Apple has officially discontinued its AirPort line of wireless products after nearly 20 years(!) We examine how our Wi-Fi has evolved from t...
Apple's March 2018 event highlighted how they've been working in the education space for over 40 years. We pick some of our favorite product...
The transition from Classic Mac OS to OS X was difficult for many users who felt like OS X removed their favorite features. Enter a little c...
To start 2018 off right, we run through our wish lists of what we'd like to see from Apple — in years past. What will System 7 bring? What w...
We love Apple products, but not all of them have been perfect. We remember some of the worst, including exploding batteries, corrupt data, c...
On iPhone X release day, we cover Apple's many uses — and pronunciations — of the Roman numeral.
It's our 64th episode and big 64-bit changes are coming to iOS as we record, so there's no better time discuss Apple's architecture changes...
Brian went to Mysterium, the annual Myst fan convention, and brings back stories of Cyan history, their latest game, and a huge fan project....
Inspired by World Emoji Day, we take a look at various bits of history that Apple has hidden in its emoji artwork.
The iPhone was released to the world 10 years ago today. We celebrate a decade of the device that changed the world.
The announcements made at WWDC 2017 reminded us of a lot of classic Mac technologies, in name, design, and function.
Inspired by the grand reveal of the new MacPaw museum and some new early Apple exhibits in Seattle, we take a tour of the world's greatest A...
The Internet Archive recently made a library of classic Mac software available via in-browser emulation. So we played a bunch of Mac games f...
Inspired by the release of the PRODUCT (RED) iPhone, we trace case colors throughout Apple's history: candy-color Macs, lots and lots of iPo...
We go behind the scenes of Simple Beep: how we create the show, a comprehensive emulation how-to, and our favorite classic Mac resources.
This episode covers a bunch of Apple products that barely or never happened, including a magic tablet, IPTV vaporware, and some wild green m...
Jake Bordens and Thomas Brand join us to share stories of the Newton community, past and present(!)
This episode, we look at the Newton platform — Apple's first attempt at (almost) handheld computing. Recorded on the 10th anniversary of the...
It's our Christmas special episode! We've made our own gift lists of classic Apple products that could fit in a stocking — not all of which...
Ed is joined by Stephen Hackett to talk about the how and what (rather than the why) of Apple chronicling its own history in the new photo b...
We cover the wild, wonderful, and sometimes half-baked history of getting data in and out of Macs. It turns out we've been citizens of Dongl...
After what is surely-for-real-this-time the last event at Apple's Town Hall event space on the Infinite Loop campus, we cover the history of...
In this episode, we share five conversations we had at Release Notes about the history of the Mac, iOS, and finding fellow Apple nerds.
At Release Notes, we joined Stephen Hackett and Christina Warren to pick our personal favorite Macs…and we managed to keep it mostly on the...
Avara, the minimalist 3D mech shooter from Ambrosia Software, just turned 20 years old. We celebrate the occasion and are joined by Scarlet...
Apple announced a lot of things this past week, but they didn't announce One More Thing. This episode is a comprehensive rundown of Steve Jo...
From solid steel balls to unusable hockey pucks to sleek pieces of sushi, we cover all of Apple's mouse designs. And we couldn't stop there,...
Apple has been striving to make their products thinner, lighter, and easier to carry around for well over 30 years. We discuss some landmark...