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September 7 in Low End Mac History

Sept. 6 - Sept. 8

1998

• Banner exchanges: Beware the hype of a 1:1 ratio, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "...some banner exchanges are much better than others...."

2000

• Tips from the Mac manager, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Disaster can strike at any time. How we recovered when our server crashed and crashed and crashed.
• Getting a Mac job, Julie Fugett, Mac Daniel. Julie works full-time supporting Macs. Here's her good advice for those who'd love to work with computers for a living.

2001

• Apple and the gray market, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. What is the gray market? Is it a bad thing?
• Repositioning the 'Books, Kevin Webb, My Turn. How Apple could overhaul the PowerBook and iBook lines to increase their market.
• Antique radio design and the Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. The best designs go beyond 'form follows function' to exhibit style.

2004

• Is the tray loading iMac a good choice for OS X?, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. With prices starting under US$200, is a tray-loading iMac a good value for running OS X?
• Dueling Pismo CPU upgrades, 'Book vs. Windows laptop prices, blue and white G3 upgrade tips, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also using Spymac's free email, installing OS 9, third-party DVD-ROM blues, Roamabout card problem, and a low-cost wireless iTunes transmitter.

2006

• The new Mac mini value equation: Core Duo entry level changes everything, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. For the first round, the top-end Intel Mac mini offered far more power for your dollar, but that's not the case with the newly introduced models.
• 30 days of old school computing: Setting up a Mac Classic II, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Fond memories of using a Classic II in elementary school lead to it being the first Mac set up for a month of vintage, very low-end computing.
• Putting Apple's Intel transition in perspective, Trevor Wale, One More Thing. Going toe-to-toe with other computers based on the same CPU is nothing new to Apple. Just look at what Amiga and Atari had in 1985.

2007

• Region free DVD viewing on Macs and Windows PCs, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job. There are three ways to get around region restrictions on your computer's DVD player: software, hardware, and extraction.
• My Newton: Why I won't buy an iPhone or iPod touch, Joe Rivera, Mac Fallout Shelter. The iPod touch and iPhone sound wonderful, but I love the handwriting recognition, fax support, and email abilities of my Newton MessagePad.
• Maintaining Your Mac: Solving Mac disk and hardware problems, Adam Rosen, Adam's Apple. Dealing with damaged directories, messed up file permissions, PRAM problems, and stuck discs.
• Mac mini overpriced, iMac outpaces PCs, switching to Mac a waste of time, and more, Mac News Review. Also adding an eSATA drive to a Mac mini, cost of replacing an iMac's glass face, drives with 1 GB cache coming, reviews, and right-click software for 1-button mice.
• 2 apps every MacBook should have, right-click with Apple's 1-button trackpad, micro flash drives, and more, The 'Book Review. Next year's notebooks worth waiting for, MacBook and MacBook Pro reviews, SanDisk's multicard ExpressCard adapter, and bargain 'Books from $130 to $2,688.

Sept. 6 - Sept. 8

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