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October 8 in Low End Mac History

Oct. 7 - Oct. 9

1998

• Unix to the core, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. "Mac OS X will look and act a lot like OS 8.x - but it'll keep running if our applications crash."

1999

• Legacy Macs and the professional wedding photographer, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Why one photographer prefers older Power Macs to Apple's G3 and G4 machines.

2001

• Cause and effect: Apple's stock price, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side. A humorous guide to why Apple's stock always drops in value.
• To Qwerty or not to Qwerty, Jason Lo, My Turn. Some alternatives to the traditional QWERTY keyboard for text input.
• The 'Book Review 2001.10.08, Charles Moore. TiBook and other PowerBook bargains, combo drive for WallStreet, cases, and more.

2002

• There's much more to life than Macs, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. "If you know someone at risk for suicide, talk to them. Better yet, try to get them to talk to a professional."
• When to buy a new or newer Mac, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. One more upgrade, or is it time to move up to a new (or newer) Mac?
• Mac myths and urban legends, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 10.08. Which Mac related myths and urban legends have a grain of truth - and which are just horse puckey?

2003

• POPmonitor 2: Kissing spam goodbye, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. POPmonitor 2 unleashes the power of your Mac - under OS 8, 9, or X - to detect and delete spam before you download it.

2004

• Adware, spyware, and security updates: Isn't it fun, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. Windows users have it bad, but Mac users aren't completely safe from privacy-prying on the Internet.
• Text and typography: Serifs and dashes, Jason Walsh, The Low End Designer. For designers, typography is the crucial art of choosing and arranging text on the page to create a readable, attractive display.
• Highest capacity TiBook battery, digital TV comes to PowerBooks, tri-band PC Card, and more, The 'Book Review. Also WiebeTech's new TrayBox, iCover2 'Book covers, IBM's biometric ThinkPad, and bargain 'Books from $150 to $2,588.

2007

• FastMac 8x SuperDrive and BurnAgain DVD: Fast and easy multisession disc burning, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. FastMac's 8x SuperDrive upgrade is remarkably fast compared with older PowerBook burners, and BurnAgain DVD makes it easy to append files to a previously burned CD or DVD.
• The future of 'Quicksilver' Power Macs in the Age of Leopard, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. If the rumored cutoff at 800 MHz or 867 MHz for Leopard is correct, these should be among the oldest Macs supported by Mac OS X 10.5.
• Pages line spacing, subscript problems, and printing booklets, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. More discussion of linespacing problems in Pages, AppleWorks, and browsers, and another free solution for printing booklets.

2008

• Will Apple's iPhone/App Store tornado blow away the competition?, Tim Nash, Taking Back the Market. The iPod, iTunes, and the iTunes Store paved the way for the success of the iPhone and the App Store - and nobody can match that.
• Migrating my law office from Windows to Macintosh, Andrew J Fishkin, Best Tools for the Job. By switching to Leopard Server, everyone in the office will be able to move to a Mac - but which ones will best meet their needs?
• The power of older Macs, why Vista only sees 3 GB of RAM, Wangwriter supplies, and more, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Also the end of an era as MIT HyperArchive shuts down and another suggestion for profiling Windows computers.
• Low End Mac needs help moving to Joomla, Dan Knight, Mac Musings. We've settled on Joomla as the content management system that should work very well for Low End Mac, but we're running stuck with templates.

2009

• Unibody MacBook works with 4 GB RAM, laptops fair game for border search, bigger netbooks, and more, The 'Book Review, 2009.10.08. Also 13" MacBook Pro 'what I wanted', netbooks sales to soar for holidays, 1 TB of internal MacBook or PowerBook storage, bargain 'Books from $179 to $2,294, and more.
• Macs in 12% of US homes, 35 apps for better browsing, BlackBerry Desktop for Mac, and more, Mac News Review, 2009.10.08. Also 5 of 6 Mac homes also have Windows PCs, best open source Mac apps, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 SSDs, MacSpeech for Snow Leopard, and more.
• AT&T allows VoIP, Adobe Flash Pro iPhone apps, Bell Canada gets iPhone, Vonage app, and more, iNews Review, 2009.10.08. Also iPhone OS dominates mobile Web usage, Lotus Domino gets iPhone support, 32 GB iPod touch giveaway, and more.

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