Odd Character

‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉Can anyone enlighten me on its purpose, language of origin?  If you paste this character and begin typing, your writing is transformed to right-to-left format. Weird!

Site of the Night

I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay!). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers. I figured I could learn something about helping make innovation happen.
It’s been an intriguing read. It’s a remarkably handsome manual, [...]

Site of the Night

I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay!). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers. I figured I could learn something about helping make innovation happen.
It’s been an intriguing read. It’s a remarkably handsome manual, [...]

iTunes drops selling all NBC shows on iTunes Store

NBC and iTunes had a disaggreement eariler this week about the pricing of NBC’s telivision shows on the iTunes store. Apple and NBC had aggreed o nthe price of $1.99.
“We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. [...]