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September 15 in Low End Mac History

Sept. 14 - Sept. 16

1998

• Automatic frustration machines, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "I have a long-term love/hate relationship with ATMs."

1999

• AirPort: The era of easy networking, Dan Knight, The 'Book Page. "Networking has never been this easy."
• PowerBooks for all, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Musings. "I'm here to tell you that the PowerBook empowers you even further."

2000

• Picking a PCI Power Mac, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. There are a lot of models to pick from, so here's a quick overview.
• The main course, Coz, Cozmo's Email. Performas, Quadras, modems, file conversion, and a whole lot more.

2003

• OS X restart tip, 1 GB modules for AlBook, DiskWarror vs. Sleep of Death, Mac Plus value, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also problems with FireMail, a SuperMac S900, and OS 9; the Mac OS as the key to the Mac; and an odd cable.

2004

• 4 shareware programs every Mac designer should try, Jason Walsh, The Low End Designer. GraphicConverter, PDFCompress, Art Directors Toolkit, and TypeStyler: What they do and why they are so useful.
• Writing in Microsoft Word an excercise in frustration, Jeff Adkins, Mac Lab Report. Powerful. Complex. Frustrating. Convoluted. Overkill. All describe Microsoft Word as a writer's tool.
• Mac OS X Panther Hacks, Alan Zisman. "I suspect most Panther users will find enough of these hacks valuable to justify the purchase price."

2005

• Beef up your Mac's security. Mac OS X is already a lot more secure than Windows. Here are several tips that let you further protect yourself and your Mac.
• Speed dial iSync support: A missed opportunity, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. There's no easy way to import or reorganize your cell phone's speed dial numbers on your Mac.
• iPod nano news, reviews, tips, and accessories; iPod backlash, heartbreak, and obsession; and more, iPod News Review. Also libraries that don't support iPods, 1,000 iPod accessories, wake up to music from your iPod, colorful earbuds, new software, and more.
• Apple locks out clones, Intel switch bodes well for Apple, and transition won't be easy for some, The Macintel Report. OS X 10.4.2 for Intel stymies OSx86, efficient CPUs and optimize libraries should help spike Apple sales, Intel switch a challenge to some developers, and more.

2006

• The story behind the Sony Walkman, Tom Hormby, Orchard. Sony's chairman was convinced that a small, portable cassette player would find a receptive market. Everyone else thought leaving out a record function doomed the Walkman.
• eWorld: Apple's overpriced, poorly marketed online service, Joshua Coventry, Cortland. Apple's eWorld was innovative, built communities, and allowed Internet access in 1994, but hardly anyone even knew it existed. And those who did thought it overpriced.
• Reliability can't wait: Reflections of a MacBook guinea pig, Andrew J Fishkin, The Mobile Mac. Lesson learned from using a PowerBook 145B, PowerBook 5300c, Toshiba Portegé 4000, and MacBook: "let someone else buy the bleeding edge."
• iTV will succeed because it lets you watch video on your TV, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Apple realizes that we'd rather watch our TV show and movie downloads on our television sets, not our computer monitors or iPods.
• Core 2 iMac praise, MS Vista 'a pile of crap', Cube redux?, high capacity iPod battery, and more, Mac News Review. Also the Mac Pro's 'pure, unadulterated power', Parallels now runs on the Mac Pro, iMac Core 2 specs, dual G4 upgrade for MDD and Xserve G4, and more.
• MacBook shutdown solved, better batteries after recall, MacBook Pro better for Vista than Vaio, and more, The 'Book Review. Also MacBook troubleshooting, the value of a used iBook, Apple to sell 1 million 'Books this quarter, replacing cells in an old PowerBook G3 battery, bargain 'Books from $299 to $1,299, and more.
• Quad-core Mac Pro, carbon-free computing, Lonelygirl15 scam, Microsoft Zune, and more, Ed Eubanks Jr, Tech Tracker. Also students have option to buy lectures online, students spurn free and legal music downloads, the frustration of anonymous surfing, and Apple's FairPlay undergoes antitrust scrutiny.

2008

• 'I invented the iPod', Dan Knight, Mac Musings. Before CDs came to market, Kane Kramer conceived of a portable personal digital music system that anticipated the iPod and iTunes Store in many ways.
• Does constant Time Machine activity compromise disk longevity?, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Time Machine is a marquee feature of Mac OS X 10.5, but isn't all of that disk activity likely to wear our your drive prematurely?
• FileMaker version history, Mike Weber, Mac Software Guide. A historical overview of FileMaker for the Mac.

Sept. 14 - Sept. 16

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