Stone Design NeXT Demo 3rd party software CDRom for NeXTSTEP 3.3 NeXT Cube

Description: Andrew Stone is a legendary NeXT and Apple Developer AKA Obe Wan, I have done business through out the years with the Stone Faily including providing a replacement Dove Fax modem , when theirs went down for the count a long time ago:) The Wiki Does a fine job of summing up the legacy of Andrews creations on this NeXT Stone 3rd party CD and all of the NeXT Demo software on board may still be available so it is a historical look into some magnificent Next products, we can certainly ask ! Also please if you get a chance download some of the Stone Design MAC OS Software , it is awesome and it supports a great old multigenerational family of original NeXT and Apple and IOS developers. WIKI: Fascinated by Steve Jobs’ vision for the personal computer, Stone was the first independent developer for the NeXT Computer to ship a shrink-wrap product, TextArt in October 1989. TextArt allowed designers to manipulate PostScript text with virtual knobs, dials and sliders. By 1990, TextArt had evolved into Create, a drawing program which shipped in 1991. At the same time, Stone Design developed a multimedia database manager called DataPhile. Stone Design was a leader in electronic software distribution on NeXT and was a constant advertising presence on the first ever app store which was also invented using NeXT tools, The Electronic AppWrapper. According to an employee at the Paget Press (the startup responsible for the first app store) it was originally AppWrapper #3 that was first demonstrated to Steve Jobs and showcased Stone Design Apps. where applications like Create and DataPhile were selling along with 3D Reality and other Stone Design Apps. Stone Design Apps can still be found on the iOS App Store today, making Stone Design perhaps the longest running developer actively using electronic distribution via any app store service. A Screen Shot of Stone Design's 3DReality running on the Electronic AppWrapper, the first app store Besides Stone's notoriety in the NeXT World as the first independent software developer to ship shrinkwrap product for the NeXT Computer, were the legendary raves. He and John Perry Barlow (Grateful Dead) threw over 3 years, the first being held at the Exploratorium in October 1992. These parties are still being discussed today because of the mixing of LSD and the NSA together in the same space. Stone's participation with the first government sanctioned Dimethyltryptamine research with Dr. Rick Strassman in Albuquerque in the early 1990s led to a collaboration in the underwriting of DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, documenting the research. Andrew Stone was a featured DMT volunteer in the documentary film DMT - The Spirit Molecule. Andrew Stone serves on the board of the Cottonwood Research Foundation with Dr. Strassman, which provides scientific research into the nature of consciousness. Between that time and Apple's purchase of the NeXT Corporation in December 1996, Stone Design developed a number of other products for the NeXT, including 3DReality, a 3D modeling and rendering package and Check Sum, a personal finance application. Macintosh OS X When NeXT became part of Apple on December 20, 1996, Andrew Stone was asked to help introduce NeXTStep to Mac users and developers. He demoed Create in the keynote presentations at both MacWorld Boston and WWDC in 1997. He was a contributing editor for Mactech for several years Stone Design began to develop for the pre-OS X Macintosh, turning out a healthy number of products for a small independent company, including PhotoToWeb, a slideshow & photo application for the Web; SliceAndDice, a tool for making javascript navigation bars; PStill, a conversion utility for turning PostScript and EPS files into .PDF files; TimeEqualsMoney, a time/expense tracking and invoicing application; PackUpAndGo, a cross-platform archiving tool; and GIFfun for making animated .gif files. All of these applications were eventually bundled together as Stone Studio, but the company continued to develop software, 16 applications in all, which eventually found their way into a single package called Stone Works, which included all the titles above plus eight additional applications including: FontSight, GlobalWarmth, iMaginator, Stone Studio widget, PreferenceCommander, VideationNation, StarMores, and Xaos – Videator Enabled. iPhone & iPad In 2008, Stone began to release apps for the iPhone. His first product, Twittelator, became one of the best selling apps for the micro-blogging service Twitter. Other products included iGraffiti, TalkingPics, Gesture, MobileMix, Soundbite, Pulsar, iCreated, TweetTV and Intentionizer. He has contributed to other apps such as 140Characters, The Daily, Wine.com for iPad, WeGetIn, Trekaroo and Bandojo. Personal life Since his retirement in 2015, Stone spends his time working on his organic farm, doing yoga, reading, hiking, and advocating for solar energy. He's married to internationally syndicated children's public radio producer Katie Stone, and has four children and four grandchildren. He has written an extensive number of articles on programming with the Cocoa code base. He also spearheaded a group called “the Cocoa Conspiracy,” a loose knit ad hoc professional organization for iOS app developers based in New Mexico. These Stone CD's we're brand new no more stacks of floppies as NeXT was the first company to release computer software on CD Rom with NeXTSTEP 3.0 User Developer CD and with the help pf the Sony 1X NeXT branded SCSI CD External Drive made it possible , up until then it had been music cd's only. This was one of the very first NeXT3rd party CD's . In context it was unexplored territory still very cool , many other compilation NeXT 3rd party CD's followed. Steve Jobs visited Alembic Systems and thought it was cool , where I first came in contact with Stone Designs awesome software with version 1.0 of Create :) and Dataphile. The $29.95 helps keep the lights on here at Black Hole as well.

Price: 29.95 USD

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

End Time: 2023-11-28T03:12:34.000Z

Shipping Cost: 9.25 USD