📅 February 18, 2014

Steve Jobs Portrait Made Out Of 20lbs Of Electronic Waste

San Francisco artist Jason Mecier has just unveiled a mosaic portrait of Steve Jobs, created using 20lbs of electronic waste

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San Francisco artist Jason Mecier has just unveiled a mosaic portrait of Steve Jobs, created using 20lbs of electronic waste — including cell phones, iPods, headphones, Mac keyboards, CD-Rs, batteries, mice, and memory sticks.

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📅 January 17, 2014

WATCH: ‘Steve Jobs – One Last Thing’ Documentary [video]

Originally aired on November 2, 2011 “Steve Jobs – One Last Thing” documentary includes a never-before-broadcast interview with Jobs from 1994, as well as interviews with a number of those who knew and worked with Jobs such as Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, Ross Perot, and Dean Hovey.

steve-jobs-one-last-thing-dvdOriginally aired on November 2, 2011 “Steve Jobs – One Last Thing” documentary includes a never-before-broadcast interview with Jobs from 1994, as well as interviews with a number of those who knew and worked with Jobs such as Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, Ross Perot, and Dean Hovey.

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📅 November 12, 2013

Steve Jobs Inducted Into Bay Area Business Hall of Fame [video]

Steve Jobs was posthumously inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame last Thursday, and Apple SVP Eddy Cue tweeted a link to the video, and was at the ceremony to accept the award and to give a speech about his former leader and friend.

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Steve Jobs was posthumously inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame last Thursday, and Apple SVP Eddy Cue tweeted a link to the video, and was at the ceremony to accept the award and to give a speech about his former leader and friend.

The video presented a montage of Steve’s greatest hits, overlaid with narration by the man himself. Former Apple VP of Marketing Bill Campbell, who now serves on the company’s board of directors (and as a CEO coach of some renown) speaks briefly about Jobs, his relationship with his wife and kids and his legacy.

Cue then speaks for a few minutes about his relationship with Jobs and gives an anecdote about the introduction of the Bondi Blue iMac.

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📅 March 18, 2013

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel.

Exploding-the-Phone-The-Untold-Story-of-the-Teenagers-and-Outlaws-who-Hacked-Ma-Bel-FSMdotCOMBefore smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system.

Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before.

But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.

Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel.
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📅 November 15, 2012

Aaron Sorkin: Steve Jobs Biopic Will Consists Of Only Three Scenes [video]

Today, at The Hero Summit, Aaron Sorkin has finally let some details slip about the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic that he is writing for Sony Pictures

Today, at The Hero Summit, Aaron Sorkin has finally let some details slip about the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic that he is writing for Sony Pictures. Sorkin revealed that the movie will be comprised of three, 30-minute sections that each take place backstage in the moments immediately preceding some of Jobs’ most iconic keynotes –  the original Macintosh, the debut of NeXT, and the first-ever iPod reveal in 2001.

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📅 October 22, 2012

Check Out This Rare 1983 Steve Jobs Talk At The International Design Conference [audio]

This talk was given by Steve Jobs on June 15th, 1983 at the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA).

This talk was given by Steve Jobs on June 15th, 1983 at the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA). You can hear how Jobs already has a clear vision of the MacBook, the iPad, App Store and wireless devices.

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📅 July 31, 2012

Steve Jobs Almost Leaked The Original iPhone To FedEx Employee

The idea that Jobs would walk outside carrying an iPhone in plain sight shocked this employee, given how much effort Apple put into keeping the product secret at all costs.

Shortly before Jobs and Apple unveiled the original iPhone at MacWorld in 2007, a group of engineers from the iPhone team went to Jobs’ home to debug a problem with the phone’s WiFi.  At one point while the team was working, a FedEx employee buzzed outside the house to deliver a package to Jobs.

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📅 July 27, 2012

Steve Jobs Named One Of The 20 Most Influential Americans Of All Time By Time Magazine [video]

Steve Jobs, Apple’s late founder and visionary, is one of the 20 most influential Americans of all time, according to Time magazine.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s late founder and visionary, is one of the 20 most influential Americans of all time, according to Time magazine.

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