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May 28 in Low End Mac History
2001
- Celebrating 80 MB hard drives, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. "How much space is 80 MB? Well, the answer depends on your perspective."
2002
- Apple's ulterior motive, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. How Apple is pursuing new markets within the corporation by advertising to CEOs, CIOs, and IT.
- What we hate on the Web, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Hundreds of Web users told us what they dislike on the Web - and how strongly they dislike it.
- Toward a less annoying Web, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Now that we know how you feel about annoying Web stuff, what's a webmaster to do?
- How a Colour Classic became my only desktop Mac, Stuart Bell, My Turn. Thanks to an iBook, an '040 accelerated "Mystic" Color Classic comfortably replaced a G3 upgraded Power Mac 6500 on the desktop.
- Quiz: Are you a Mac-head or PC drone?, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. A quick way to determine whether you're Mac addicted or assimilated by Windows
2003
- The point of no return?, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Has the iTunes Music Store reached the point of no return - or will the record companies pull their support?
- iTunes sharing lets Mac users become low-end radio stations, Alan Zisman, Mac2Windows. iTunes 4 lets Mac users share their music with other iTunes 4 users on a local network or over the Internet.
- PowerBooks and static, beige G3 questions, OS X and serial ports, used Mac values, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also USB drives on Windows PCs, getting to the Power Mac 8500 motherboard, a blue and white G3 sleep anomaly, Yikes! as a Road Apple, and StarMax 3000 pricing.
2004
- They can take your personal information, but they can't take you, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. "...while people can steal your credit card numbers and social security numbers over the Internet, they can't steal your personality."
- Why the VCR is doomed, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Just as the iPod has replaced the Walkman and is replacing the Discman, digital video recorders will displace VCRs - and Apple could become the iPod of the DVR market.
- Track your stolen Mac, BlueChip G3/1 GHz canceled, identify your 5400 RPM drive, and more, The 'Book Review. A color-changing mousepad, high performance FireWire drives, a new laptop stand, TimeLeft battery tracker, bargain 'Books from $600 to $1,929, and lots more.
2008
- My 4 favorite PowerBooks, Carl Nygren, My Turn. The PowerBook 150 has a big screen for a vintage PowerBook, the 165c has color, the 100 is diminutive, and Lombard has USB and a great keyboard.
- Tools for getting your vinyl records into iTunes, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing. The old LPs longed to be played, but how do you use your old record player with your Mac?
- Netscape 7 for OS 9, Compact Flash faster than hard drive in PB 1400, MacSpeech Dictate, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also using VNC over a network so two Macs can share one monitor and the VTBook graphics upgrade for Pismo.
2009
- Eudora successors face off: Eudora 8 working well, MailForge almost ready to ship, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Qualcom abandoned Eudora, Eudora users often have issues with latest versions of OS X, but Mozilla-based Eudora 8 and MailForge have stepped in to replace the beloved app.
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