Awesome Apple

Pop Chart Lab’s The Insanely Great History of Apple 3.0 is a chronological checklist of the tech giant’s 534 products, from the Apple I to the iMac with 5K Display. It even comes with System 6-style rails for mounting. Zoom in here.

Our curiosity is piqued by the UI for the upcoming Apple Watch. While waiting for the real deal, programmer Lucas Menge prototyped the same experience on the iPhone, and it seems way better than pages full of icons. Source here.

In what might possibly be the most infamous autocorrect fail of all time, the creators of Replay were showing off their app at Apple’s iPad Air 2 launch – which was broadcasted live – when the tool intervened. Poor guy.

Apple’s iWa– the Apple Watch is packed with features. Perhaps overly packed. YouTuber jacksfilms pokes fun at the new smartwatch and its potentially confusing interface and tricks. Prepare for penis sketches on your wrist.

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus both have the new 64-bit A8 CPU, an improved 8MP camera and NFC, which is required for Apple Pay. The iPhone 6 has a 4.7″ 1334×750 display, while the iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5″ 1920×1080 display.

Apple’s smartwatch offers swappable faces, notifications, Siri, messaging, fitness tracking, maps, weather, calendar, photos, NFC payments, and 3rd party apps. Its UI leverages the crown so you don’t block the screen. Out early 2015.

A smartly designed aluminum stand for iMacs and Apple Thunderbolt monitors, which includes front-facing USB ports, and audio jack and magnetic docking cradles to hold and charge a wide variety of smartphones or tablets.

A tablet conversion of the 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina display. The Modbook Pro X will come with a digitizer pen and retain all of the laptop’s internal hardware. It will have a keyboard dock and rear keys as optional accessories.

Are you excited at the prospect of an Apple smartwatch? YouTuber Matthias isn’t as optimistic. He imagines it will be hyped to the high heavens but won’t actually be that useful. Also, didn’t Apple release a smart watch already?

Boost the storage of your Mac laptop or Mac Mini with the Transcend JetDrive. It comes with all the tools you need to replace your computer’s current SSD. It even has an enclosure so you can reuse your old SSD as an external drive.

On the 30th anniversary of the Mac, Apple sent 15 camera crews around the world to shoot this ad. The crew used only the iPhone 5S to shoot while director Jake Scott and his team edited the footage on Mac-powered workstations.

30 years ago, Apple introduced the first Macintosh with its trademark flash and panache. Today, the Mac has been eclipsed by its smaller siblings, but it’s still the personal computer of choice for many people. Look back here.

There’s still no confirmation that Apple is working on an iOS-powered wristband, but that hasn’t stopped us from wondering what one might actually look like. We’re particularly enamored of the UI on Todd Hamilton’s concept design.

The new Mac Pro can have up to a 3GHz 8-core Intel Xeon E5 CPU (non-upgradable), 2 6GB AMD FirePro GPUs, 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD. It has 4 USB 3, 6 Thunderbolt, 2 Ethernet and an HDMI port. See how it’s made here.

The Flux+Flap is a case, cover and stand combo for the iPad 2 and later. It has a magnetic track that lets you get the viewing angle you want. It also lets you stick the iPad to magnetic surfaces. The cover can also be easily removed.

An iPad case that also has room for other personal items – headphones, charger, iPad stand etc. Like the other BookBook cases, the Travel Journal has a durable exterior that looks like a leather bound book cover.

Now that we’ve been using iOS 7 for a while, we’re used to it. But its new icons have been criticized for being too primitive. Now we know why. Though if you can create Pac-Man in Excel, we guess anything’s possible. (Thanks Flex!)

It may look the same as last year’s model, but the new iPad Mini is a beast, because it has the same specs as the new iPad Air. It now has a 2048 x 1536 7.9″ screen, 64-bit A7 CPU, M7 motion processor and MIMO Wi-Fi antennas.

The new iPad Air weighs 28% less and is 20% thinner than the current-gen 9.7-inch tablet. It’s also got the new 64-bit A7 CPU, M7 motion processor, improved cameras, MIMO Wi-Fi antennas, and still offers 10-hour battery life.

The iPhone 5C has a glossy polycarbonate case that comes in five colors: green, blue, yellow, pink and white. It has the same specs as the iPhone 5, except it has a slightly larger battery, an improved LTE antenna and Facetime camera.

The 5S comes in slate, silver or champagne tinged aluminum, bests the iPhone 5 with a 64-bit A7 processor, 2x CPU/GPU speed, 15% larger image sensor, multi-hue LED flash, 120fps slow-mo video, and fingerprint authentication.

Apple’s App Store turned five this year. To celebrate, they’re giving away five apps and five games for free this week, including Infinity Blade II, Traktor DJ and Badland. Click the link to open the App Store. List of freebies here.

Coming this fall, iOS 7 completely overhauls the user interface, opting for a more minimal and layered design. It also – finally! – has a shortcut to oft-toggled settings as well as a better app-switching interface. More at Apple.