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Back to the Ol'... (11/29/98)
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So if you're a United States denizen, another Thanksgiving has come and gone; what were you thankful for? After all, when it comes to Apple-related stuff, there was a lot to give thanks for this year: Steve Jobs' continued CEO-ship, continuing profitability, impending growth, the unbelievable success of the iMac, etc. Perhaps you reflected on these many blessings as you ate yourself into a digestive coma and dreamed happy little Mac dreams.
As for us, we had a particularly timely thing to give thanks for; we were grateful to Core Development for posting the "Drawing Board" theme on their website. As it turns out, "Drawing Board" is apparently one of several themes that were originally planned to ship with Mac OS 8.5; it makes the interface of your Mac look and feel like an architect's sketch pad. Window borders and icons are sketched in overlapping pencil lines, checkboxes become red pencil check marks, highlighted menu items are underlined in red pencil, scrolling through menus sounds like shuffling through papers... you get the idea. It's a very pretty piece of work, and we were thankful to be able to try it out. Unfortunately, it turns out that it wasn't Core Development's to give away; once Apple got wind of the link, they requested that distribution cease, and Core complied.
So now we're mostly just thankful that we got to download the theme and try it out before it got pulled. And given how cool "Drawing Board" was when we tried it, we're also thankful that Core Development is working on a "theme construction tool" that will allow third parties to make their own themes for Mac users to install and enjoy. We really hope that Apple decides to release its themes at some point in the near future, if not as part of an operating system update, at the very least as an optional download from their web site. If the other themes they've been working on (including the "High-Tech" and "Gizmo" looks we've seen in screenshots ever since Copland was the big buzz) are anywhere near as cool, we're anxiously awaiting their release.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/29/98 episode: November 29, 1998: The latest buzz about an iMac price drop places the unit at $999 sometime in February, when a beefier model will step in and take over the $1299 price point. Meanwhile, London experiences an odd and less-than-compelling Appleless Apple Expo, and Apple's "Drawing Board" theme made a brief illicit debut, only to have the spotlight turned off shortly after it walked on stage...
Other scenes from that episode: 1179: Caution: Falling Prices (11/29/98) If there's one factor contributing most to the hesitancy of potential computer buyers, it's probably the constant niggling fear that as soon as they plunk down x dollars for a particular model, a week later the same computer will suddenly be available for, say, x-500 dollars... 1180: Apple-Free Apple Expo (11/29/98) Regular viewers will recall that a couple of months ago, there was a bit of a flap about how Apple Expo 98, the largest Apple-focused trade show set in London, was going to be missing one very important ingredient: Apple...
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