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kottke.org posts about Windows

Real Windows 3.0 Solitaire deck of cards

Susan Kare Cards

Susan Kare, who famously designed the original icons for the Apple Macintosh, has teamed up with Areaware to offer real decks of cards with her artwork from Windows 3.0’s version of Solitaire. Nice example of defictionalization. They’re currently sold out but I’m hoping they restock so I can order a deck. (via subtraction)

Update: Areaware tells me that the cards aren’t out of stock, they are just not in stock yet. So don’t worry…they haven’t sold out or anything.


Upgrading Windows, from 1.0 to 7.0

Watch as some guy upgrades his computer through every version of Windows, from 1985’s Windows 1.0 to the present-day Windows 7.


Nick Tosches wonders where the desktop photo

Nick Tosches wonders where the desktop photo on his new computer was taken and it takes him a year (and several messages to the likes of Bill Gates, the editor of Vermont Life, and S.I. Newhouse) to find out.


iPhone running Parallels

The iPhone runs on OS X, right? So theoretically, shouldn’t you be able to run IE for Windows XP in Parallels?

iPhone ruiing Parallels, har har


DarwiinRemote lets you use a Wii Remote

DarwiinRemote lets you use a Wii Remote as an input device for OS X. Take heart Windows users, WiinRemote is for you.


From worst to first

Lest we forget, Steven Frank reminds us that for quite a few years (which period roughly coincides with Steve Jobs’ absence from Apple), the Macintosh experience wasn’t all it could have been. In the midst of those dark times, I made a post about how frustrated I was with the Macintosh.

I’ve never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs’ faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don’t get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

At my first web design job โ€” at a company that used to sell and service Macintosh computers โ€” they had Macs on all the desks. When I left a year and a half later, everyone had Dells running NT 4.0 instead; the difference in speed, stability, and price was not even close at that time. I didn’t use another Mac until I bought an iBook after the second coming of Jobs and the advent of OS X.

BTW, that Mac sucks post has become something of a meme on Slashdot. It’s been used to call out Java 1.4.2 fanatics, TI fanatics, SGI lava lamp fanatics, Apple laywers, Mac Mini hard drive performance, cat fanatics, Google fanatics, Amiga fanatics, Pittsburgh professors, Apple I fanatics, trolling losers, and so on.


John Gruber on Apple’s Boot Camp, which

John Gruber on Apple’s Boot Camp, which lets you install Windows XP on your Mac (in beta). “You now get to choose between a computer that can only run Windows or a computer that can run both Windows and Mac OS X.”


Khoi Vinh reports on computer technology in

Khoi Vinh reports on computer technology in Vietnam. They’re wired for broadband and Windows still dominates.