Low End Mac Archive for December 6

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December 6 in Low End Mac History

Dec. 5 - Dec. 7

1999

Monday blues, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom. One computer refusing to start can ruin your whole week.
Designing a computer room, Dan Knight, Low End Mac. Factors to consider in creating your personal workspace.

2000

Picking a Mac for school, Andrew Hill, My Turn. Picking the right Mac for college.
The 'Mercury' PowerBook, Dan Knight & Anne Onymus, RumorLog. What can we really expect from the next PowerBook?

2001

A worthwhile upgrade!, Krishna M. Sadasivam, 10 Forward. Stability and Unix roots make the change worthwhile. Impressed coworkers - icing on the cake!
The 8 year road to Macintosh, Walter R Basil, My First Mac. Eight years with PCs paved the way for conversion to the Mac.
7 great games for Mac users, Korin Hasegawa-John, Mac Daniel. Some excellent games for those who don't care for or have the power for first person shooters.
Microsoft innovation leads to new sentencing guidelines, Broderick Sagacious, The Lite Side. Lawyers seeking to apply Microsoft settlement terms to broad range of cases.
Tips for fighting spam, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Some online resources to help wage the war against spam.
Profile: Radius FPD-Classic, a 1-bit full-page video card for the Mac Classic.

2002

MP3s, photo printers, and iMovie: We've come a long way baby, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Who would have imagined 20 years ago that we'd be listening to music, working with digital photos, and making movies on our personal computers?
No, don't resurrect the Cube for schools, Dan Knight, MacInSchool. Yes, Apple needs a low-cost Mac for the education market, but the Cube simply wasn't designed for the realities of the classroom.
USB start-up key, WallStreet teardown, new laptop bags, and more, Charles Moore, The 'Book Review. Also information on ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and 9000, new drives from WiebeTech and OWC, and bargain 'Books from $690 to $1,690.

2004

Apple and IBM, a marriage made in heaven or hell?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. IBM selling its PC division and teaming up with Apple - does it make any kind of sense at all?
Mac Bible software, POP3 Gmail access, Eudora 5.2 and SSL, OS 9.1 on NuBus Macs, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also dwlindling support for older Macs, archiving Jaz to CD, ethernet on a Mac SE, WMA to MP3 conversion, and Apple II software.

2005

10 things new classic Mac owners should know, Paul Brierley, The 'Book Beat. New to compact Macs? Ten things you really should know before get too confused.
Lombard: A great $400 field computer, Joe Rivera, Mac Fallout Shelter. Rugged, reliable, and feature-laden, this G3 PowerBook also fully supports OS X and is available at decent prices.
The Joy of Six: Apple's fast, svelte, reliable, and still usable System 6, Tyler Sable, Classic Restorations. System 6 was small enough to run quickly from an 800K floppy yet powerful enough to support 2 GB partitions, 24-bit video, and the Internet.

2006

Libraries not playing nice with Macs or iPods, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence. Digital restrictions limit the library's digital audiobooks and ebooks to Windows users who own MP3 players that support DRM. No Macs. No Linux. No iPods. No generic MP3 players.
Corporate greed at work: The RIAA, MPAA, Apple Computer, and Universal Music, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. These four companies are examples of what's wrong with corporate greed today - wanting money for doing nothing.

2007

Faking out the Leopard installer with Open Firmware, Dylan McDermond Unsupported Leopard,. You don't have to hack the installer to make the Mac OS X 10.5 installer run on sub-867 MHz G4 Macs by using this simple Open Firmware trick.
The Swiss Army knife of notebook Macs, John Hatchett, My Turn. The 2000 Pismo was the high point of PowerBook design and flexibility with a great keyboard, expandsion bays, two PC Card slots, and a wonderful curvaceous design.
AT&T's $39 iPhone exchange fee, Juice Pack double's iPhone time, unlocked iPhones, and more, iNews Review. Also PC Magazine finds iPhone 'full of contradictions', using the iPhone in Canada, color earphones, iPhoneDrive updated, translation software, and more.

Dec. 5 - Dec. 7

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