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April 21 in Low End Mac History

April 20 - April 22

1998

• Not thinking: University of Texas Business School, Dan Knight, MacInSchool. "Teaching computer conformity ill prepares UT business students for the real world."

1999

• Cost effective 7200 upgrades, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel. Four ways to speed up a 7200 without replacing the motherboard.

2000

• Speeding a 7200 on the Web, Julie Fugett, Mac Daniel. How to speed up a sluggish Power Mac 7200.
• Apple's second quarter, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. The game's far from over, but the first two quarters have been fantastic.
• Weekly update, top 20 teams, SETIonMac. Whose in first, whose climbing, whose falling behind. Team Mac Observer is now #19.

2003

• More on the dangers of hot swapping FireWire devices, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Hot swapping FireWire devices can not only damage your Mac's FireWire ports but also ruin your FireWire hardware.
• Third party 802.11b support, RAM for Lombards, Jaguar and Panther upgrades, and lots more, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Also the Mac286 Page, slave drive support under OS X, and the danger of using Norton Utilities for Mac.

2004

• The PowerBook 2004 value equation and Apple's best portable values, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. New, close out, and refurb - what are the best portable values for today's Mac user?
• Nisus Email, free email, spam sentinels, password problems, Internet Explorer, WaMCom, and RAM disks, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Configuring email clients, what is Nisus Email, fighting spam, unknown boot password, one IE for Mac advantage, more on WaMCom, and RAM disk questions.

2005

• Green Apple policy to recycle old Apple IIs, Macs, and iPods, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill. "In celebration of Earth Day, Steve Jobs broke out his Birkenstocks, love beads, and hippie headband to announce the greening of Apple computer."

2006

• Bigger, faster, more: You need it all!, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. Computer users are an odd crowd. They consider old computers essentially useless, yet don't hesitate to buy a new computer that will grow equally old and useless.
• Free and low cost online music services with no DRM, Nathan Thompson, Embracing Obsolescence. Two free and two low-cost online music services let anyone with Internet access download DRM-free music.
• 13" widescreen 'Books 'imminent', colors possible; MacBook available with Windows preinstalled, and more, The 'Book Review. Also lots of Windows users choosing MacBooks, MacBook's underclocked graphics, MacBook firmware update, bargain 'Books from $325 to $2,399, and more.
• Apple most innovative company, Microsoft Defections Could Double Mac market, Mac mini with WinXP, and more, Mac News Review. Also a Mac serial number decoder, top choice diagnostic tools, repair permissions voodoo, PocketMac fo Blackberry provides free synch between Mac and Blackberry, and more.

2008

• Odysseus cometh: The real successor to Eudora, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Eudora was a 'best of class' email client, and Infinity Data Systems hopes to build on that with its forthcoming Odysseus mail client.
• Restoring a half dead PowerBook 100 to full functionality, Carl Nygren, My Turn. The old PowerBook was working from a floppy, but the hard drive simply refused to mount.

2009

• The importance of feel to the computing experience, Charles Moore, 'Book Value. Computing power is important, but a keyboard and mouse or trackpad with the right feel may have more impact on productivity.
• Hacking a WiFi PC Card to work in Apple's AirPort Card slot, Simon Royal, Mac Spectrum. Apple's AirPort Card has become expensive since it was discontinued. Here's how you may be able to adapt an 802.11b PC Card to replace it.

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