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February 26 in Mac and LEM History

Feb. 25 - Feb. 27

2001

• Almost high-end graphics for a low-end price, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Review of a very low-price, highly featured alternative to Photoshop.
• Flower Power: Thinking too different?, Dan Knight, iMac Channel. What Apple might be thinking with flower power and blue Dalmatian.
• Mac network appliance: Sound and pictures, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. First steps in creating a digital picture frame-stereo MP3 player.
• New iMac: Attempted murder?, Steve Sarrica, My Turn. Are the new iMac colors a mean-spirited attack on John C. Dvorak?
• Team 6100 grows, SETIonMac. Teams adds tenth member, first Performa 611x.

2002

• Setting up a firewall in OS X, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Everything you need to set up a firewall is built into OS X - except for an easy way to set it up.
• Interview with MacUser's Ian Betteridge, Dirk Pilat, Mac UK. An interview with Ian Betteridge, editor of MacUser, on the state of the Mac in the UK.
• My first new Mac, Kurt Cypher, My First Mac. Three years of used Macs - and now a 600 MHz iBook!

2003

• Switching from Mac to Windows, really clearing a hard drive, OS X and viruses, RAM disks, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. More on replacing Claris Home Page, printing from a classic Mac, getting a CD-RW drive to work with a Performa, SpamBouncer, and why some G4s won't work in G3s.

2005

• Jef Raskin, creator of the Macintosh, 1943-2005, Jason Walsh, Mac News Today. Obituary: Jef Raskin, the visionary behind the Macintosh and a leading authority on interface design.

2007

• Opera the best browser for the Mac, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "In my opinion, Opera is still the best all-round general surfing browser for Mac OS X, and Safari has a long way to go to even come close to matching it."

2008

• 17" MacBook Pro (Feb. 2008). A better, slightly faster Core 2 CPU, a bigger hard drive, and a Multitouch trackpad.
• 15" MacBook Pro (Feb. 2008). A better, slightly faster Core 2 CPU, bigger hard drives, and a Multitouch trackpad.
• 'Santa Rosa' MacBook (Feb. 2008). Speed bump to 2.1 GHz and 2.4 GHz, bigger hard drives, and more RAM in the faster models.
• 14 years of useful service from a Macintosh LC III, Mark Shipp, My Turn. Purchased in 1993, this LC III has been used as a multimedia center, word processing machine, mail server, Internet router, and print server.
• $18 USB WiFi adapter, AirPort flaw in last gen iBook, SuperDrive failure in MacBook, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also DVD-RAM for MacBooks, the quietest MacBook, aluminum PowerBooks and Mac OS 9, and expansion slots in affordable Macs.

2009

• Safari 4 Beta is lightning fast, Simon Royal, Mac Spectrum. The beta of Safari 4 zips through HTML and JavaScript, and Flash performance is also better.
• Test driving Safari 4 Beta, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Safari 4 has some clever and useful new features, but it's not the fastest Mac browser for those using dialup.

Feb. 25 - Feb. 27

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