Tim Cook and Israeli PM commune with the GHOST of Steve Jobs Tim Cook and Benjamin Netanyahu have met up in Cupertino during the Israeli PM's visit to Silicon Valley. The pair are thought to have discussed Apple's R&D in Israel, where it operates at least three facilities. Cupertino recently snapped up the Israeli firm PrimeSense, which helped to develop Microsoft's Kinect. The pair …
Susan Kare, the icon designer on the original mac team, has already designed an icon of Steve Jobs. It is 32x32 pixels.
The link is here (warning painful-looking tattoo): http://www.bytecellar.com/2012/09/11/susan-kares-32x32-pixels-of-steve-jobs-on-my-flesh-and-forever/
p.s. I think that this should be one of the standard El Reg icons, given that Steve Jobs appears so often as a subject in articles. There may be copyright problems with it, alas.
Story here- http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Steve,_Icon.txt
Susan Kare went on to work with Microsoft on Windows 3.1, where she designed that OS's standard icon set too, and so she probably has the strongest claim to have defined the visual language used in computer interfaces. Wonder why, even now, you have to click a 3.5" floppy disk icon (or now, just a rectangle with a snipped corner) to save what you're doing? Thank Ms Kare.
(She also designed the "classic" Solitaire card deck on Windows).
> "If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long," the quote reads. "Just figure out what's next."
Wow, that's brainless. Real 'Miss World' stuff. Does it go on to say that he loves kids and animals and would like to help people all over the world?
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