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Enable Extend Desktop on your PowerPC Mac

Mark Sokolovsky,  Articles, Low End Mac Hacks, Mac App Highlight, News - 2025.04.02 - Leave a comment -

Not all Macs are made equal. Many these days can extend their display and even support multiple monitors, however there was a time when the Mac you bought could only mirror the display externally. For those Macs such as an iMac G5 or an eMac G4, there is a piece of software known as Screen […]

Berokyo: A kind-of Launchpad app for PowerPC

Mark Sokolovsky,  Articles, Mac App Highlight, News - 2025.04.02 - Leave a comment -

Way back in 2012 Mac OS X Lion came with a brand new feature called Launchpad – it gave you quick access to your applications folder overlayed across the screen, and it continues to be a staple of macOS to this day, seeing hardly any changes from how it was originally introduced 13 years ago. […]

Add a set of Googly Eyes to your Menu Bar

Mark Sokolovsky,  Articles, Mac App Highlight, Mac News Today, News - 2025.03.11 - Leave a comment -

Does anyone else remember that old classic macOS app which had a set of googly eyes just sitting in the menu bar following the direction of the mouse cursor? Well as it turns out, there’s a modern version of this app which does practically the exact same thing. This app sits in your menu bar […]

Minecraft 1.8.9 for PowerPC Macs

Mark Sokolovsky,  Apple, Tech, and Gaming, Articles, Mac App Highlight, News - 2023.09.07 - Leave a comment -

Officially, Minecraft 1.5.2 was the last version playable on any PowerPC Mac, as it was the last version playable on Java 5. The release date of 1.5.2 is May 2nd 2013, around the same time retina MacBook Pros just started shipping. Minecraft 1.8.9 was released December 9th 2015, adding several features and new textures over […]

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