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April 10 in Low End Mac History

April 9 - April 11

2000

• Troubleshooting my Mac IIfx, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom. The trials and joys of bringing a Mac IIfx back to life.
• Low End Mac at 3, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. A look back at Low End Mac's first three years.
• Team Mac Observer dealt major setback, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Defection costs team several thousand work units, drops back to #19.

2001

• Listen to the music, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel. MP3s, iTunes, speakers, and Napster bring music alive on the Mac.
• Macworld, January 1986, Blast From the Past. Apple's first Mac hard drive, the ImageWriter II, the Personal Modem, memory upgrades, Lotus Jazz, and more.

2002

• Macs: Practical and pretty, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Stylish Macs "glorious but impractical"? You couldn't be more wrong.

2003

• Writing your grant application, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Three crucial tips for writing a grant that won't be rejected out of hand.

2006

• Kensington Keyboard-in-a-Box USB a good low cost value, Hardy Menagh, Empowered. If you don't need a heavy duty keyboard, Kensington's Keyboard-in-a-Box is a good value at just US$25.
• Working the big picture: Project management on the Mac, Ed Eubanks Jr, The Efficient Mac User. You probably don't need Entourage to do your project management on the Mac. How to use iCal and a few other programs to manage your projects.
• Mac OS X Missing Manual 'the OS X book to have', Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. "Whatever aspect of working with the operating system and the 50-odd programs that come bundled with it, you're almost certain to find it addressed in the pages of this book."

2007

• 1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores, 8: How much difference does it make?, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Geekbench scores make it possible to compare the newest 3 GHz 8-core Mac Pro with the 1.5 GHz Core Solo Mac mini - and all the models in between.
• QuickTime 7, Vista, and Toshiba's Tablet PC an example of what's wrong with computing today, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job. "The moral of this story is that computers remain far more problematic than they should be."

2008

• Bringing a PowerBook 100 back from nearly dead, Carl Nygren, My Turn. One of the PowerBooks is dead, and the other one has battery and hard drive problems.
• Apple sues Big Apple for use of apple in logo, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. It may seem wrong for Apple to sue GreeNYC for using an apple in its logo, but the lawyers are just doing their job.
• That old Mac magic isn't gone, but it is fading, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. With Apple's adoption of Intel architecture and a growing market share, the Mac is becoming more mainstream, and the mainstream isn't magic.
• Apple QuickTake digicam found, but how can you use it?, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing. The old IT guy never threw away anything, the new IT guy found a QuickTake 150 while cleaning, and it won't work with modern Macs.
• Intel mini vs. Power Mac, best keyboard ever, uses for old Macs, and more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also using Classic with Intel Macs, problems with Classic Mode, and collective nouns.

2009

• Can a MacBook replace a 12" PowerBook?, safe wakeup for MacBooks, battery tips, and more, The 'Book Review. Also one Mac user goes Windows, MacBook Pro keyboard and trackpad issues, Snow White on a MacBook, wireless USB, bargain 'Books from $170 to $2,999, and more.

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