March 26 in Low End Mac History
Mar. 25 - Mar. 27
1999
- Melissa,
the first successful email-aware virus.
- Unfilled multi-promises, Dan
Knight, Online Tech Journal. Multitasking, multithreading, and
multiprocessing on the Mac OS.
- Racism, Dan Knight, Mac
Musings. Thoughts on racism and ethnicity.
2001
- Will Mac OS X Mail end email
diversity?, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. Can Apple's
email client displace Outlook Express, Eudora, Emailer, and
others?
- What's right with
PowerBooks, Jonathan Ploudre, Back & Forth. PowerBooks
pioneered and perfected sleep, SCSI/FireWire disk mode, and
AirPort.
- Desktop pictures, Evan
Kleiman, Mac Daniel. How to find and change desktop pictures and
desktop patterns on your Mac.
2002
- The Mac Challenge
kickoff, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac. Final changes to the
Mac Challenge add installation, gaming, and MP3s.
- OS X a superb successor, Eric
Schwarz, The Power of Mac. Not finished yet, OS X is a superb
successor to the old Mac OS.
- Thoughts on the iMac price
hike, Charles W Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings. The harsh
realities behind Apple's decision to increase price of the flat
panel iMac.
2003
2004
- One area where Microsoft's
standard is a good thing, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive. By
using a consistent file format since Word 97, Microsoft has made
their .doc files a de facto industry standard.
- PowerBook wows Windows guy,
true function keys return in 10.3.3, OS 8/9 compatibility chart,
and more, The 'Book Review. Another faulty iBook
logic board, FrogPad adds Bluetooth, new notebook mouse, firePod
FireWire/USB iPod charger, bargain 'Books from $155 to $2,796, and
more.
2007
2008
- When
good software turns bad, Frank Fox, Stop the Noiz. Apple is using
iTunes to give Windows users easy access to Safari 3.1. What's so bad
about that?
2010
- iPad to kill off netbooks, Apple
behind in laptop race, DIY hard drive upgrade kits, and more, The
'Book Review. Also netbooks 'a sea of sameness', replacing a MacBook's
palmrest and keyboard, and an antiglare screen for Late 2009
MacBook.
- Back to Windows from Mac?,
Kindle for Mac, Commodore 64 comeback, desktop sales growth, and
more, Mac News Review. Also Opera sees growth due to Microsoft
browser ballot, getting files off an old Mac, iMac to dominate desktop
growth in 2010, and more.
2012
Mar. 25 - Mar. 27
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