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Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by jdofaz » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 10:55 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #19

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it. I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I…

>I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.

I feel similar about the platinum theme that started on MacOS 8

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by nottorp » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

briandear wrote: post #76

nottorp wrote: post #64

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It is. Dare I ask about middle clicking, which should directly open the link in a new tab? :) Please follow the old Apple, that was about usability, not the new Apple, that is only about flashy design...

The old Apple mouse only had one button.

They still supported cmd+click for right click didn't they? As opposed to this site...

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by psadri » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:12 PM UTC

herodotus wrote: post #98

bigiain wrote: post #90

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> BTW, the AI we added did not use neural nets or deep learning. So proper old-school AI then? Perl and regexes?

We took a rule-based approach, coupled with some heavy-duty statistics.

That’s “AI” alright.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by hoorayimhelping » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #19

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it. I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I…

I think 2004 - 2007 OS X was the most beautiful, enjoyable and usable operating system that ever existed. For me, it had just the right amount of stability and features without being bloated or goofy. Aqua was just so freaking beautiful to look at, it still gives me a coupe de cour when I look at it. I loved the pinstripes before they went to brushed aluminum.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by alias_neo » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #31

alias_neo wrote: post #7

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It's unofficial, there was a discussion on Reddit yesterday with people asking if the author would provide access the content to archive it in case Apple DMCAs it, to which he gave some childish strop in response about how he deserves the in(fame)y. You'll find it on /r/DataHoarders if you care to look.

>> to which he gave some childish strop in response about how he deserves the in(fame)y I dunno, he kinda does to an extent? No reason for him to be an asshole about it, but this is an excellent resource and very well-put-together.

I agree, and i'd be 100% on his side if only for a little humility.

It's not his content at the end of the day, and he himself has no rights to use any of it; people in glass houses, as they say.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by amartya916 » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:36 PM UTC

herodotus wrote: post #20

blowski wrote: post #11

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That must be an amazing feeling! Is this a feature that's still in macOS today? Can I see it in action?

The feature is there. I assume our code is still used, but it may have been rewritten since I retired. You can use this as an example if you like: https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/FNR/FNR-269-W.pdf (which is random, but you need two columns in the PDF). Try select from column 1 near the bottom, across to column 2. PDFs are very diverse. Our algorithm does not always work, alas, but it is significantly better…

This is so neat. Like someone else mentioned already, this feature has been very useful for me countless times. In fact, when it doesn't work, I tend to blame the PDF itself :). Thanks a ton!

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by WalterBright » Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC

duncans wrote: post #91

WalterBright wrote: post #63

I didn't see any Mac vs PC ads.

Several in 2006 at least https://www.applearchive.org/2006

Ah, thank you!

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by mrfusion » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

Tbh I don’t understand what this is.

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by filchermcurr » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:06 AM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #92

I cannot see any of the videos. For all the videos, I get this on a black background: Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here. What is that? Anybody else seeing this?

I get that in Firefox, but if I open it in Safari everything plays just fine. You might just have to play the browser juggling game!

Re: Unofficial Apple Archive

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Post by anthk » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #19

I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life. I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it. I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I…

As an ex-KDE3 user, and a Unix starter with Debian Woody, I loved Mac OSX Tiger and stuff like QuickTime VR/Macromedia 3D stuff such as the Street View like (steregraphic?) views on encyclopedias and such.