Ahh yes. Bruce Damer of the Digibarn tells the legendary tale of the Xerox Alto. The grandfather of the GUI, the mouse, and so much else.

Digibarn curator Bruce Damer shows us around the grand old Cray supercomputer. Inspired by Star Trek!

In this installment, Allan Lundell at the Digibarn gives us the scoop how he used a North Star Horizon computer to help launch the craze of working from home.

More fun with Launchy. (It’s a cool little app for launching things fast.) In this Quick Tip, I show you how to launch websites and do website searches fast.

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The 5 downloads you must add to your PC.

We talked with Paul Kocher, one of the architects of SSL about your security.

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This was part of the avalanche of iPhone Quick Tips I posted earlier this week, but somehow escaped my attention. It’s how to use Google Maps new Auto-locater feature on the iPhone.

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The folks at Download.com introduced me to Launchy. It’s a cool little app for launching things fast. IN this Quick Tip, I show you how to launch directories.

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Man these were fun to do. Bruce and Allan at the Digibarn are great folks and have an incredible collection of comuter history. This installment tells how the Sol-20 terminal computer started the Mac-PC war we still endure today. (p.s. this post written on a Mac running Windows).

Daniel Kottke invented a portable Apple music player a lot longer ago than you might guess.