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Apple only knows new now
English: The logo for Apple Computer, now Apple Inc.. The design of the logo started in 1977 designed by Rob Janoff with the rainbow color theme used until 1999 when Apple stopped using the rainbow...
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Intuit gives pre 64 bit Snow Leopard users yet another reason to stay put
English: A Late 2006 model 17″ MacBook Pro running Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), showing one of the default backgrounds, The Blue Marble. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It’s tax season and many of...
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Lowest prices + Optimizing utilities = previously loved Mac emergence
The Power Mac G5, the last model of the series. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) New cars are less affordable than ever for the average person. You have to hunt long and hard for value in the used car market,...
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Nuke and Pave Remains Most Popular Fix of All
Sawtooth Mountains (Photo credit: gabri_micha) As someone who has done their share of experimenting across the popular computer playing fields that are Windows, Apple and Linux, I remain convinced of...
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Surfing Wirelessly on Old Macs
A Wireless network interface card with a USB interface and internal antenna (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I had an opportunity to restore wireless connectivity to a Pentium 4 HP tower running Windows XP...
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PowerPC Mac ‘Obsolescence’ All Relative
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Microsoft announcing plans to drop support for Mac Office 2008 demonstrates once more that unless you have tons of money to throw at current...
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Citrix XenDesktop Offers Tiger, Leopard Users Virtualization
Citrix Headquarters in Coral Springs (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was so beside myself with excitement (read geeked) over Citrix XenDesktop virtualization technology that although I typically do not...
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Legacy in the New Normal
Floppy disk art (Photo credit: elmindreda) Influenza has become a lot like hard drives in that countless numbers of infectious disease experts say things like, “It’s not a matter of if a flu pandemic...
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Apple Relies On Joiners, Not Switchers
Image via CrunchBase Apple wants you to join their party—their upgrade, buy a new Mac and iPhone when they want you to party. If you can pony up for a new(er) iPhone you can still drink at the Apple...
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Is The Mac User Thrill Gone?
Apple I at the Smithsonian Museum (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The following article is written by a Mac user who has been one long enough to remember when there truly was excitement over the prospect of...
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PowerPC Users Celebrate Independence Day Every Day
TenFourFox icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) For a computing platform that has been given up for dead more times than I care to remember, the PowerPC community of Mac users sure knows how to keep on...
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Apple back to school sales hardly deals
No Deals, Mr. Bond (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Most of my fellow students barely have enough resources to cover basic school supplies like pens, pencils and books. I thought I’d take a look at the...
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Twitterless Tiger, Leopard PowerPC users soldier on
Screenshot as a non-logged-in user, taken on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The inability of Twitter to work on PowerPC Macs is seemingly another...
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The flow is right on a Mac in the night
Mississippi River (Photo credit: christopherbarnette) I thought it was time to try Apple’s Pages word processing software again on the old Mac G4 Sawtooth. It’s Pages ’09, version 4.0.5 and I had not...
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Apple betting ‘free’ OS not cheap at all
Mac OS X booting up in single-user mode (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Apple’s release of OS 10.9 Mavericks a month ago forced business analysts and brand loyalists alike to consider the direction the...
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Survival a foundation for personal, professional triumph
English: Apple Store in Frankfurt (Germany) after death of Steve Jobs. Deutsch: Trauer am Apple Store in Frankfurt am Main nach Steve Jobs Tod (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In order to survive, I didn’t...
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OS, Interrupted: Old school quality for fee contrasts new mediocrity for free
On the last day of 2013 I will be doing housekeeping maintenance on Windows and Mac machines. The Mac is running Snow Leopard and the Windows PC is on Windows 7. Both computers run fine, do everything...
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(Forget bigger iPhone display) Return to quality, Mac clones best 2014 Apple...
The recently acquired space heater was doing its job on a morning where temperatures struggled to reach zero. I initially did not think I would require it as I trusted the PowerPC Mac G4 tower would...
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Microsoft has a winner with discounted, refurbished Surface
All the techno pop music in the background sort of contributed to the rhythmic ease of use with which I operated the refurbished Microsoft Surface RT tablet I recently purchased. It took some time to...
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Value seeking in technologically elitist times
The beauty of technology is in the details. That is, when everything works it’s as if we are living in the best modern world possible. But when not, the world is a lousy place. Value is king and while...
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