Low End Mac Archive for February 26

February 26 in Apple and Low End Mac History

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?

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!

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.

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.

Opera the best browser for the Mac, Charles W 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."

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.

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

App Store clears out smut, edit Excel and Word docs on your iPhone, Apple ups download cap, and more, iNews Review. Also BMW Mini Countryman meshes with iPhone, Photoshop 1.0 ported to iPhone OS, new apps for Facebook users, Driving Sports TV, and more.
Apple tops in reliability and customer service, OWC's speedy SSD, SanDisk SSD shipping, and more, Mac News Review. Also 27" iMac shipping normally, washing your keyboard, Matias keyboard has stand for iPhone, Belkin USB 3.0 products, and more.
Next gen MacBook Pro to have Intel 'i' CPUs and Nvidia Optimus graphics?, iPad not a laptop, and more, Mac News Review. Also George Fox students will have iPad option, would you buy an iPhone OS laptop?, first 64 GB SDXC memory card, and more.