“The current plan is to strap this lowlife to a tree and feed him or her a rare African species of flesh-eating fire ant. And then we’ll film that person being devoured from the inside-out, and then post that video on our revolutionary new iCloud.”

Haha!

Jobs hasn’t just created better computers, he has created a world that nobody else could envision. He brought an artist’s sensibility to a field previously populated by capable but tone-deaf engineers. He didn’t just make beautiful looking hardware, he took what was a dead screen full of little green letters on a blue background and turned it into an astounding, enchanting world of graphics, music, and video that has become a central feature of contemporary life. – Advertising and the Future of Apple

Thanks @Gruber Daring Fireball for the link!

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

- Steve Jobs

Evil Dead: The Game iPhone App

The Evil Dead the iPhone Game teaser trailer:

Apple does not allow Adobe’s Flash on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. As both a designer and consumer, I think this is a good thing. And it’s good for you too. I could tell you why, but I’m going to let Steve Jobs tell you instead. Here’s some of my favorite quotes:

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

On Being ‘Open’:

Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.

The Full Web:

Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.

Mr. Jobs makes great points about reliability, security and performance, and:

…letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform.

All true. Discuss!

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Anatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo.

Special thanks to Mashable.com for the tip!

My Perfect iTunes Equalizer Settings for Great Sound

Open the equalizer, and from the pop-up menu, select “Make Preset.” Call it “Perfect,” because it is, and set the following levels, from left to right (skip the Preamp section)…