Low End Mac Archive for July 3

July 3 in Low End Mac History

The best sounding Mac games, Brian Rumsey, Low End Mac Gaming. "...these games are all good enough with the speakers off that their good audio effects are added bonuses, not the only bright spots in otherwise dismal games."

Bumper snickers, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. If Mac user's made their own bumper stickers....
Overheated IBM leads to air cooled iMac, John Twelker, My First Mac. I was so disgusted with IBM that I went down to my local Apple reseller and bought my first Mac.
Web tips and rants, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal. Site changes, planning, archiving, too long URLs, navigation, code compression, efficiency, broad browser support, and more.

Turning the tables, one software company at time, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope. Will acquiring Emagic bring Windows users into the fold or drive them to another solution?
Scattershots, Kevin Webb, The Mac Webb. What we might see at the Expo, thoughts on the "Switch" campaign, the Mac product grid, and wonderful iPod service.
Overcapacity or underutilization?, James Brock Clark, My Turn. We have the technology to vastly improve communication, but too many resist change, preferring yesterday's solutions.
Website automation with PHP and MySQL, part 12, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal. How Low End Mac uses PHP and MySQL to track, sort, and display links to new site content.

Panther: Time to pull the plug on the beige G3, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. If Apple won't fully support the old beige G3's hardware, it's time to leave the machine behind when OS X 10.3 ships.
Clever product idea for TiBooks, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Here's a simple idea that could make it a lot easier to plug things into the back of the titanium PowerBook G4.
Blue Chip G4 price drop, 1.1 GHz PowerPC 750GX, FlexUSB, NoSleep, Temperature Monitor, and more, The 'Book Review. Worldwide wireless access, new 802.11g card, hot swap hard drive enclosure, widescreen wallpaper, and bargain 'Books from $239 to $3,099.

The Macintosh Portable started a notebook revolution, Carl Nygren, Classic Macs in the Intel Age. Before Apple introduced the Mac Portable, notebook computers were text-based and ran MS-DOS. Ever since, graphical interfaces have been the norm for laptops.

Mac OS X: Major and Minor Versions, Simon Royal, Tech Spectrum. Some versions of OS X make a lot of significant changes, while others are mostly tweaks to improve on the previous version.
Everybody Get Skinny!, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing. The iPad is thin and light. So is the Retina MacBook Pro, which is almost unupgradable. Time to go back to a Power Mac?
MobileMe: The Unappreciated Super Cloud That Changed the World, Chris Carson, Building Bridges. Plagued with problems at its birth, MobileMe helped paved the way for today's many cloud services and today's iCloud.