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◄ ‘The Alternatives are a Real Step Backwards’

Paul Potts, in a write-up over at Folklore.org: The Newton programming application, although flawed, gave us a taste of what software development could be – faster, more efficient, allowing us to focus...

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◄ Print your own Newton battery tray

Davis Remmel shows that hard-driving spirit that Newton owners are known for, especially after discovering the price of battery trays for his Newton MessagePad 2000: The two clips on the front AA...

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◄ iPad handwriting recognition apps found lacking

Brian Mikol at Atomic Firefly: While there’s clearly a range of active third-party development going on to bring handwriting recognition to the iPad, unfortunately in my tests they’re far from the...

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◄ Newton MessagePad sings ‘Still Alive’

Jonathan Coulton makes geeky music for geeks. That’s why this video from YouTube user KonogoRaiana, featuring Coulton’s “Still Alive,” the ending theme from Portal, makes so much sense. The text file...

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◄ Newton as a ‘broken promise’

In honor of today’s iPad announcement, here’s another Newton appearance on a “worst of tech” appearance — this time on Bloomberg’s Tech’s Biggest Broken Promises slideshow: Known as Newton, the name of...

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◄ Newton reviewed 20 years later

Don’t know how I missed Harry McCracken’s Newton MessagePad review over at Time.com. All in all, it’s fun experiment: take a tech journalist who has no direct experience with the Newton, and have him...

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◄ Good lookin’ iPad lock screen

Nice work over at HairyDalek.

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◄ List your Newton at eBay My Gadgets

Sandwich Video‘s Adam Lisagor introduces eBay’s new My Gadgets product — and the video features a Newton ($210!) among other classic gadgets. Seems like a good option for those of us who used to (or...

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◄ 20 Years Later, the Newton Lives

Head over to Wired.com for a lovely write-up on the 20-year-old Newton Community from Cade Metz: After its debut in early August 1993 — twenty years ago — the Newton was widely derided as a flawed...

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◄ Off-The-Grid Productivity With an eMate

Matt Gemmell on “Working in the Shed“: We live in an age of ubiquitous information and communication, so distractions have never been more pervasive. We have too many choices of what to look at or...

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