Quad-Core Mac Pro, Carbon-Free Computing, Lonelygirl15 Scam, Microsoft Zune, and More

Recent Tech Tracker articles

• Quad-core Mac Pro, carbon-free computing, Lonelygirl15 scam, Microsoft Zune, and more, 09.15. 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.
• Microsoft high school, Vista reality check, Unbox is spyware, eBay seller tips, and more, 09.11. Also the top secret warplanes of Area 51, the father of blue LEDs, trash to fuel in Florida, the iPod is losing its cool, and more.
• The genes that make us human, home theft via identity theft, danger of a shared calendar, and more, 09.08. Also virtual theft in the online world, Google's eavesdropping software, hacking a voting machine, being green, energy independence, clever use of an Xbox 360, and more.
• Toshiba to build Zune, make your own .mac, how soon an email response?, 17 Office killers, and more, 09.01. Also skipping morning classes in favor of the podcast, a Star Trek thesis, and Nokia's new N80 multimedia phone.
• More in the Tech Tracker index.

Links for the Day

• Mac of the Day: Performa 520, June 199 - the Color Classic grows up with a 15" screen, room for CD-ROM.
• List of the Day: LisaList supports Lisa users.
  
• November 8 in LEM history: 99: OS 9: I think I like it - 01: The simplified Mac life - Soured on Windows - Flea market Mac - 02: Little room for improvement in new 'Books - Combo drive upgrade for iceBooks - 04: Re-Porter - 05: Fix the old iMac or buy a Mac mini? - Apple's Copland project - 06: MacBook Core 2 - MacBook value equation - Cheap is as cheap does - 07: Problems with Classic mode in Tiger - The G4 Power Mac that won't run Leopard

Recent Content on Low End Mac

• Quad-Core CPU Makes Sense in MacBook Pro, OS X 10.6 Causing Overheating, Overseas Power, and More, The 'Book Review, 11.06. Also Late 2009 MacBook reviewed, how to add RAM to new MacBook, 18.4in Acer notebook used Intel i7, and SanDisk SSD chosen for Sony VAIO X.
• Dumping Macs for Google Apps, SSD in iMac, Late 2009 iMac Performance Problems, and More, Mac News Review, 11.06. /newsrev/09mnr/1106.html
• WiFi Paranoia, iMac-O-Lantern, Magic Mouse Does Click, Free Clipboard Managers, and More, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 11.05. Also strange time stamps, problem with ColorIt on Intel Mac, and the story behind OS X 10.5.4 install discs.
• IDE Is Dead; Long Live SATA!, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 11.04. SATA has displaced parallel ATA. While IDE hard drives haven't disappeared, the best deals are in SATA hard drives.
• QuickTime X in Snow Leopard Imports, Trims, and Publishes Video Quickly and Easily, Alan Zisman, Zis Mac, 11.04. The long, slow process of importing video into iMovie to edit it, then render it to another format, is history as QuickTime X does that much more quickly.
• More links in our archive.

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