What to do with your old iMac

Do you have an unused iMac G3 sitting around? Before you relegate that old iMac to the garbage heap, or turn it into a planter or an (mac)aquarium, here are some other ideas to put it to good use.

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Firelight Xpress SmartDisk
Review

SmartDisk’s new Firelight Xpress has new new feature that no other hard drive yet has. An LCD on the drive’s front panel allows you to see the most recent date information was saved to the drive, and the amount of free space remaining. Worth an extra $50? Read David Weeks review to find out.

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OWC Mercury On-the-Go Pro FW800 Hard Drive
Review

I am constantly amazed at how small things are becoming in the world of computing. I remember BIG cpu’s, BIG floppy’s and BIG headaches when dealing with all of it. Now we have Mac mini’s and in keeping with “down sizing,” OWC is offering the Mercury On-the-Go Pro FW800 Hard Drive. Worth the money? Read the review to find out.

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Macspiration 43
Easy Online Albums with Homepage and .Mac

All the buzz lately has been about iLife ’06 and iWeb. iWeb is a great tool for making websites, and I use it myself, but before iWeb there was Homepage. Homepage was, and still is, part of .Mac. If you have a .Mac account you can easily use Homepage to make a variety of webpages. I’m going to discuss making a photo album today

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MyMac.com Podcast 89
Alex Fielding

Chad and Tim interview Alex Fielding about his time at Apple, World of Zeus, and much more. Also this week, a new MacBook and MacBook Pro unwrapped. Segments include a review of the Case-Mate Patriot Line, the Dashboard Minute, and a Speedy Review of the A5 from Audioengine.

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Alex Fielding
MacMinute.com
Audioengine.com
Jack of all Widgets
Clockish
Case-Mate Patriot Line

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Macspiration 42
Ten Common Tech Terms

At MyMac.com, and other computer sites, terms like freeware, burn, jpeg, and more are being used all of the time. Sometimes we (the writers) take for granted that the audience understands what we are talking about. I figured I’d make a list of ten of the more common terms we might use in articles. You might look at a lot of the words below and think they are common sense. What might be common sense to you might be totally foreign to another person.

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