Low End Mac Archive for March 26

March 26 in Low End Mac History

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.

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.

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.

TextEdit, a hidden powerhouse that comes free with OS X, Eric Schwarz, The Power of Mac. Although easily overlooked, TextEdit could be all the word processing software a lot of Mac users ever need.
The Panther upgrade fee letters and multiprocesor kudos, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Mailbag. Readers swear Panther will be free or won't be out until long after WWDC. Others agree Apple must avoid another no discount upgrade fiasco.

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.

Bringing my Apple Lisa back to life, Ted Hodges, Vintage Mac Living. The floppy drive wasn't working the keyboard was rough. Some homebrew fixes got everything working again.

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?

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.

iFixit iPad Teardown, New iPad Warmer than Old, Use Your iPad as a Wireless Display, and More, iOS News Review. Also repairability of the new iPad, screen size matters for tablets and smart phones, app helps fight speeding tickets, and more.