PowerPC Mac owners can now experience Flash 11.7 with the latest unofficial hack update.
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TenFourFox 17: The Last to Support Plugins?
, Simon Royal,The future of PowerPC web browsing is looking even bleaker with the recent announcement of no plugin support in future releases of TenFourFox.
Windows XP on an EeePC 701 with 4GB SSD… Heres How!
, Simon Royal,The original Asus EeePC can handle Windows XP very well, but the 4GB SSD can be a bit cramped. Here is how to slim it and tweak it.
Flash 11 Hack for PowerPC Updated to 11.5
, Simon Royal,With PowerPC Macs being left further and further behind, the unofficial Flash 11.1 hack from 2011 has now been updated to 11.5.
LaCie 5big Network 2: Network Storage With Some Quirks
, Steve Watkins,At first glance, the LaCie 5big Network 2 could be mistaken for a new Borg ship in the Star Trek™ universe. However, it is actually a 5-bay network file server intended for small business use. Casual users will probably find the LaCie sufficient; power users will be frustrated.
AeroFS Gives Dropbox a Run for Its Money
, Austin Leeds,Talk is cheap. So is storage. But what isn’t cheap is cloud storage, when you need a lot of it – or at least it wasn’t cheap, before AeroFS. Before I get too far into this, I guess I should admit that AeroFS isn’t technically cloud storage – it’s really a syncing solution, similar to [...]
Anticipating the 2013 iPhone Lineup
, Dan Knight,Every year, Apple has an update to the iPhone, and 2013 will be no exception. We can expect an improved version of the iPhone 5, which will almost undoubtedly be called the iPhone 5S, and we can expect the current iPhone 5 to replace the iPhone 4S at the $99 (with contract) price point. view [...]
There was a time when, at least according to rumour, Microsoft made more money – on average – from each Mac user than from each Windows user. That was because most Mac users got copies of Microsoft Office – paying the full retail cost while most Windows users had copies of Windows and Microsoft Office [...]
Many users compliment their Macs with Apple-branded iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets. They all tie together nicely, synching with iTunes. (Whether iTunes has grown into an ungainly combination of music player, video player, and connection device for the range of Apple devices is a question for another article). view full post »
Mophie Juice Pack Plus Review For iPhone 4/4S
, Simon Royal,Mobile phones might have advanced in the past few years, but the batteries powering them haven’t. The biggest complaint from smartphone owners is battery life. view full post »
A Do It Yourself Chromebook
, Alan Zisman,In a recent blog posting, I wrote about a week I spent with a low-cost (CDN$269) Samsung Chromebook – a small and light system running Google’s Chrome OS. view full post »
Avoid Password Insanity with LastPass
, Dan Knight,If you’re anything like me, you’ve had lots of different email addresses over the years, and lots of different websites you log into. The Mac’s password manager does a good job if you have a single Mac, but things gets messy when you use multiple Macs (or multiple versions of OS X on the same [...]
Royal Scrittore
, Tommy Thomas,Long before newfandangled contraptions known as word processors and eventually the Macintosh, and even longer before the iPhone and iPad, the manual typewriter reigned supreme for getting your muse from thoughts to paper. Tactile key action was king here. You had to apply a greater deal of force to each letter you struck compared to [...]
The Macintosh Value Equation
, Chris Carson,Today’s Mac computers are amazing. They’re sleek, slim, extremely powerful, and filled with features like iCloud, AirPlay mirroring, Notification Center, and so on. So why are old Macs holding more value now than ever before, and does it make more sense to buy a new machine or a used one if the cost difference between [...]
Safari held its own for years, and Camino remains a very nice, speedy browser, but for OS X 10.4 Tiger users, Firefox had them both beat – and then the Firefox team stopped supporting Tiger and PowerPC Macs.
Easily Find Apps for Older iPhone OS Versions
, Simon Royal,There are still some apps on the App Store that only require OS 3 without resorting to custom firmware and custom app stores, like the one provided in whited00r, but will work in both standard Apple firmware and whited00r
ScuzzyGraph and ScuzzyGraph II
, Dan Knight,Online information about ScuzzyGraph is minimal. We do know that it allows old black-and-white Macs with SCSI ports to work with an external display. It supports a 3-bit, 8-color palette (some sources say 4-bit/16-color with some Macs), which is a far cry from the 8-bit/256-color output introduced with the Mac II’s first color video card [...]
So You Wanna Build a Macquarium
, Dan Knight,Who needs a screen saver when you can have real fish in your old Mac? view full post »
Best Power Mac G5 Deals
, Dan Knight,view full post »
World Book Encyclopedia 2012 DVD
, Tommy Thomas,In schools, libraries and homes across America, World Book Encyclopedia has always been considered the go-to reference for general knowledge in a clear, easy-to-understand format. Since 1919, World Book Encyclopedia has been in print, and within the last couple of decades, it has expanded to digital formats such as CDs, DVD,s and the internet. The [...]
Around the Web
Around the Web
- Opinion: Doomed Apple Is World's Number One PC Maker, with a Snow Leopard Problem, Jonny Evans, Compuerworld, 2013.02.07. Apple has a problem. People keep on using old Macs while Apple wants them to upgrade. 15% of our readers still use PPC Macs, 6.4% Intel OS X 10.4 or 10.5, and 21.4% 10.6!
- Web: Low End Mac Community on Google+, Google+, 2012.12.22. We've got over 1,250 members at our Facebook change, and G+ now allows communities, so let's see how this plays out.
- Advice: What the End of Google Sync Means to You, Joe Kissell, Macworld, 2012.12.22. If you're using Google Sync, you can continue doing so, but adding a new iOS device might be an issue.
- History: On the PowerBook G3, Stephen Hackett, 512 Pixels, 2012.12.20. "Like the iMac G3, the PowerBook G3 line of notebooks helped revive Apple in the late 90s and the first year of the 21st century."
- Opinion: Why I Refuse to Use Linux on My Macintosh, Taylor Almond, MMC, 2012.12.22. "...Linux on PowerPC Macs is just not an enjoyable experience."
- Advice: Time Capsule for $25, Iurii Garmash, Programmer Blog, 2012.11.27. How to configure Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive to work as a Time Capsule drive.
- History: Apple's Mouse: A History, Stephen Hackett, 512 Pixels, 2012.11.27. A visual history of Apple's mouse from the 1983 Lisa to the present.
- Advice: One Mac, Two Versions of OS X, Christopher Breen, , 2012.11.21. A couple ways to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on the same Mac.
- History: iTunes Through the Ages, Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica, 2012.11.23. iTunes 1.0 arrived in January 2001, before the launch of Mac OS X - and before the iPod. It's grown a lot since the days of "Rip. Mix. Burn."
- Analysis: Out of the Box, James Gowans, 2012.11.21. "Does iOS ship with everything you need out of the box?" Almost.
- History: On the Apple Pippin, Stephen Hackett, 512 Pixels, 2012.11.18. "With the Wii U's release this weekend, I thought it would be fun to look at Apple's [1985] foray in to the gaming console market."
Opinion:
Microsoft Cheapens Windows 8 with Ads, Paul Thurrott, Supersite for Windows, 2012.11.10.
Get Windows 8 for $40 - but have to deal with ads when you use it. Really?- News: Mac OS 9 Lives, , 2012.11.06. New website for those using Mac OS 9. Looks like a useful resource.
- Benchmarks: Shootout: iPad 4th Generation versus iPad mini, iPad 3rd Gen, iPhone 5, etc., Bare Feats, 2012.11.02. Geekbench scores for iPad 2, 3, and mini virtually identical. iPad 4 - well over twice as powerful!
- News: Apple Extends iMac Hard Drive Replacement Program, OWC Blog, 2012.10.16. "A while back, Apple announced a replacement program for 2011 iMacs with a 1 TB Seagate drive. It has extended that to cover iMacs with the same drive dating back to October 2009."
