Miscellaneous Ramblings

Miscellaneous Ramblings, 2001 Archive

• Review: Contour Perfit Mouse, 2001.01.03. "I can comfortably recommended it without reservation."
• The S900 Diaries: New Year Edition, 2001.01.17. The recalcitrant S900 works and is attached to the home network.
• Upgrading the StarMax 3000, 2001.01.26. The upgrade potential of the Motorola StarMax 3000 and 4000.
• Miscellaneous upgrade advice, Charles W. Moore, 2001.02.05. Tips on upgrades for StarMax, SuperMac, and other Mac OS computers.
• High-end word processing for a low-end price: Free, 2001.02.12. One-time Microsoft Word rival now a powerful freeware alternative.
• WordPerfect feedback & addenda, 2001.02.19. Mail about Word Perfect, Seagate drives, quiet fans, cat haters, control freaks, and toilet paper.
• Almost high-end graphics for a low-end price, 2001.02.26. Review of a very low-price, highly featured alternative to Photoshop.
• Free POP3 email, 2001.03.06. Nine tested sources for free email accounts.
• Silence is golden: The quest for quiet computing, 2001.03.08. In the quiet of winter, a quiet computer is a treat.
• Silence Is Golden, ColorIt!, StarMax Upgrades, and More, 2001.03.12. Feedback on computer noise, free email, ColorIt!, and more.
• Add FireWire, USB to older Macs, 2001.03.19. It's easy to add FireWire and USB to older PCI Macs and clones.
• Will Mac OS X Mail end email diversity?, 2001.03.26. Can Apple's email client displace Outlook Express, Eudora, Emailer, and others?
• Going High End Requires Some Adjusting, 2001.04.01. That old PowerBook G3 has got to go....
• Religious computer wars revisited, 2001.04.04. Is the Mac "Catholic" and Windows "Protestant"?
• Taste, style, and the Mac, 2001.04.13. A look at Macintosh styling - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
• Cube hitting its stride?, 2001.04.17. Thanks to recent price reductions, the Cube appears to be hitting its stride.
• The best low budget Macs, 2001.04.24. The best values in new and used Macs, desktop and portable.
• Cube feedback, 2001.04.30. Reader responses to "Cube Hitting Its Stride?"
• Moore's Mailbag, 2001.05.01. Feedback on budget Macs, religious computer wars, OS X Mail, and Motorola StarMax.
• Should you run Linux instead of OS X?, 2001.05.09. Why you might want to run Linux on your Power Mac or PowerBook instead of Mac OS X.
• Restoring after reformatting your hard drive, 2001.05.15. The Mac OS is pretty robust, but things can go wrong.
• The OS X curmudgeon grumbles again, 2001.05.22. We're giving up a lot of flexibility and ease-of-use with OS X.
• The OS X curmudgeon grumbles again, part 2, 2001.05.29. More thoughts on Mac OS X vs. the classic Mac OS and reader feedback.
• The reliable all-in-one 500 series, 2001.06.04. For inexpensive, reliable word processing and email, these older Macs are great.
• More "curmudgeon" feedback, 2001.06.05. More reader feedback on Mac OS X vs. the classic Mac OS.
• Female dissatisfaction in the IT industry, 2001.06.11. A glass ceiling or a different approach to computers?
• Not all Mac-heads are lefties, 2001.06.18. Many Mac users are known as conservatives.
• The Mac and politics: Point & counterpoint, 2001.06.25. More thoughts and reader feedback on Mac users and the political spectrum.
• Review: SpellTools freestanding spell checker, 2001.07.02. Why you might want a freestanding spell checker - and other things SpellTools can do for you.
• Anti-spam measures marginalize low-end Macs, 2001.07.09. As ISPs adopt SMTP authentication to prevent spam, 68k Mac users seem are being left out in the cold.
• Low-end Macs and email authentication, 2001.07.16. Email clients for 68K Macs that support SMTP authentication and other solutions to authenticated email access.
• Broadband access for all not a luxury, 2001.07.24. Access to new technologies is a key to economic growth and reducing world poverty.
• Politics and the Mac Web, 2001.07.26. Why the Mac Web has a place for politics.
• What your computer's color says about you, 2001.07.30. The color you choose reflects your personality.
• Do sub-laptop computers make sense?, 2001.08.06. Is there a place for bigger-than-a-PDA, smaller-than-a-notebook computers?
• Reader feedback on sub-laptops, 2001.08.10. Reader thoughts on the QuickPAD sub-laptop.
• Small vessel navigation on the Mac, 2001.08.13. Navigating with Macs, GPS, and software.
• Sub-laptops, trade-ups, Tex-Edit, and small vessel navigation, 2001.08.20. The Sony Picturebook, PowerBook trade-up programs, writing with Tex-Edit, and small vessel navigation.
• SuperMac & StarMax advice, WordPerfect downloads, 2001.08.22. Troubleshooing a SuperMac, adding ethernet and other upgrades to StarMax, and where you can download WordPerfect for free.
• Review: QPS Que! QuadSlim M2 FireWire hard drive, 2001.08.27. Compact, bus-powered FireWire hard drive highly recommended.
• Mixed bag mail bag, 2001.09.11. Pig Latin, faxing & DSL, sublaptops, portable CD burners, StarMax & SuperMac advice, navigation, and more.
• Browsers.alt, 2001.09.19. Three alternatives to Internet Explorer for Mac users.
• USB, curmudgeons, ESD, and browsers, 2001.09.28. Reader feedback on USB, curmudgeons and OS X, ESD, and the WannaBe browser.
• Free POP3 email services, 2001.10.02. Mac users have several options for free POP3 email (most offer Web-based access as well).
• Some little programs that keep me using OS 9.x, 2001.10.09. A couple very helpful productivity tools not yet available for Mac OS X.
• Configuring four popular Mac email clients, 2001.10.17. Step-by-step instructions for setting up accounts in four email clients for the Mac.
• XP ballyhoo builds to a crescendo, 2001.10.25. Windows XP™: What all the fuss is about.
• MR Mailbag, 2001.10.29. TypeIt4Me, SpellTools, free email, freeware, shareware, and more.
• Portables replacing desktops in users' plans, 2001.10.30. PowerBooks and iBooks "best choice" for more and more Mac users.
• The best browser for recent Macs: Another view, 2001.11.06. Another perspective on the best browser for recent Macs.
• Browsers, bus errors, 'Books, OS X, clones, Microsoft, and more, 2001.11.07. Readers and writer interact on a variety of issues.
• Eudora's Mood Watch: Annoying or entertaining?, 2001.11.20. Is Mood Watch annoying censorware or an example of why censorware doesn't work?
• OCR software for the Mac, 2001.11.27. Three programs for turning printed, scanned, or faxes text into editable word processing files.
• Browser wars, OCR, and more, 2001.12.05. Why OmniWeb was ignored, positive impression of OmniPage 11, VRAM for a StarMax, and more.
• Bible software for Macs and Palms, 2001.12.19. Seven Bible study programs for the Mac - and one for the Palm.
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