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September 8 in Mac and LEM History

Sept. 7 - Sept. 9

1999

• Big sound from the little iMac, Evan Kleiman, Mac Happens. How to improve iMac sound with your stereo.
• The ethernet alternative to USB drives, Dan Knight, MacUSB. Is a networked Mac a reasonable alternative to a USB hard drive?

2000

• Building a back-to-school bundle, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Sometimes the best computer bundle is one you create yourself.
• Salad, Cozmo, Cozmo's Email. A second serving of Cozmo's email, including musings on Apple IIs.

2003

• 17" 1.25 GHz iMac G4 and 15" 1.0 GHz iMac G4 introduced.
• My Mac Plus revisited, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "In the process of rooting around, I came upon my old Mac Plus, packed away in its original box."

2006

• Inside your notebook's battery: Ordinary AA Li-Ion cells, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. That expensive battery in your notebook computer probably holds less than $20 worth of off-the-shelf AA Li-Ion batteries.
• Andy Hertzfeld, software wizard: From Apple to Google, Joshua Coventry, Cortland. Andy Hertzfeld, an innovative software engineer, loved the Apple II, helped create the original Mac OS, and cofounded Radius, General Magic, and Radius. Today he programs for Google.
• Compared with creaky old Windows, OS X is a pleasure to use, Brian Richards, Advantage Mac. Compared with bogged down Windows 9x and 2000 computers, a late 90s G3 with OS X is a breath of fresh air.
• 30 days of old school computing: A partnership and weird network problems, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Another participant in 'Vintage Mac Survivor' and troubleshooting some very strange server behavior.
• MacBook random shutdown, inside a notebook battery, Portectorz for MacBook, EVDO support, and more, The 'Book Review. Also MacBook Q&A, Logitech's revolutionary laptop mouse, Danger Mouse in black, bargain 'Books from $119 to $1,899, and more.
• Core 2 7% faster, iMac goes Core 2, G4/1.6 GHz dual, SAFE drive secures data, wireless headphones, and more, Mac News Review. Also how to share a printer with OS 9, more praise for Logitech Revolution mouse, CrossOver lets you run Windows apps without Windows, a USB car charger for the iPod, and more.
• The genes that make us human, home theft via identity theft, danger of a shared calendar, and more, Ed Eubanks Jr, Tech Tracker. Also virtual theft in the online world, Google's eavesdropping software, hacking a voting machine, being green, energy independence, clever use of an Xbox 360, and more.

2008

• Are G3 Macs still viable work machines?, Simon Royal, Mac Spectrum. For basic tasks - writing, email, and using the Web - a G3 Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 and sufficient memory provides plenty of power.
• SATA, SATA II, SATA 600, and Product Confusion Fatigue, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. In addition to the original SATA specification and the current 3 Gb/s specification, SATA revision 3.0 is just around the corner.
• Seashore: A free, basic image editor for Mac OS X, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Seashore is an open source image editing program for Mac OS X that uses parts of the GIMP but also integrates will with the Mac OS.

2009

• OS X 10.5.8 update provides incentive to get 10.6, Charles Moore, 'Book Value. Installing the 10.5.8 update was unproblematic, but one old bug reared its ugly head. Maybe 'Snow Leopard' will fix it....

Sept. 7 - Sept. 9

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