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In its heyday, it seemed you could not throw a stick without hitting a G3 iMac. They were everywhere, from sitting in the background of some television show, airport kiosks, art houses, or your cousin’s house. The first iteration of the iMac was a PowerPC 750, also called the G3. When it was first released in 1998, it ran at 233MHz, which was quite speedy for its time. But what really made the iMac the huge success it was to become was the form factor. An all-in-one design, sporting a colorful plastic shell, the original iMac was like nothing that came before.
Firelight Xpress SmartDisk
60 GB Firelight Xpress $199.99
120GB Firelight Xpress $299.99.
Company: SmartDisk
http://www.smartdisk.com
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. Also, you can use a small included application to write notes that will display on the LCD; most users will display information about what’s on the drive. This means you don’t have to mount the drive to see what’s on it, and when the drive was last written to.
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OWC Mercury On-the-Go Pro FW800 Hard Drive
Company: Newer Technology
Price: With 160 GB HD (5400-RPM), 8MB Cache, $349.99 USD
http://www.macsales.com
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. Compact in size, the FW800 HD is only 3.5”(W) x 5.5”(D) x 1”(H) (it’s smaller than my hand!) and it only weighs 11 ounces. But being compact doesn’t stop it from doing big things. The unit utilizes Oxford 911+, Oxford 912, or Myson Century Bridge chipsets to accomplish its job. The unit I evaluated came with a Seagate Momentus 5400 160 GB hard drive.
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Microsoft Laser Wireless Desktop Keyboard and Mouse for Mac
Company: Microsoft
Price: $99.99
www.Microsoft.com
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The first thing I noticed upon unpacking the Microsoft Laser Wireless Desktop Keyboard and Mouse for the Mac was that the keyboard and mouse are both finished with an aluminum-like finish to match the G5. The keys were clear plastic, and I was hoping they would light up for low light use (they don’t). The mouse has a nice ergonomic fit, but is designed for right-handed use only. Both keyboard and mouse require batteries, and Microsoft included four Energizer batteries to power the hardware. Finally, I noticed that the documentation provided was awful thin, consisting of a few pamphlets with visual instructions for installing the wireless transmitter, the MS keyboard and mouse drivers on CD (universal binary), and explicit instructions to install the software before installing the wireless transmitter into one of your USB ports.
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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Finally it seems like summer is really here. We had a perfect day for the 4th of July celebration with crowds lining the streets in Warren for our traditional 10 AM start. The cannon goes off promptly at 10 AM marking the start of the parade and in the tradition of Warren 4th of July parades, it was nearly 11 AM before the parade actually got underway. I would guess that there were about 10,000 people in my tiny home town of Warren, Vermont (population about 1000). Grace and I were in the parade with the Mad River Run and Rally, the motorcycle rally that is this coming weekend. Grace rode her Victory Vegas with Fantail Shrimp riding on the passenger seat in the Beastrider. I had Hammerhead in the sidecar. Hammer stole the show again this year. People were oohing and ahhing and taking pictures. I’d swerve over to the crowd and kids and adults alike would come over to pet Hammer. He was taking it all in like he was a rock star. I have to say he was looking pretty good in his sidecar with his Doggles on!
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Some of you might know that I work out of my home in southern Germany for the UK subsidiary of a US publisher. Working from home however also has its challenges. While a VPN client on my company laptop lets me connect to all network services in Oxford, it usually can be painstakingly slow. I am hooked up to a DSL line, asynchronous in nature, makes downloads much faster than uploads. Backing up my 1.5GB in various Outlook mail archives is not an option – not at all.
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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ETYMOTIC RESEARCH In-Ear Premium Headphones
http://www.etymotic.com
The company makes three models of premium in-ear sound isolation headphones, and our combo review mentions each of them:
6i Isolator (thin white cables, long-stem speakers, three-section white flange eartips) cost $149 MSRP [one-year warranty] — designed for all personal digital music players, with enhanced bass response
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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.
1. Download: When you view a website, or email, or anything on the internet, those files are being downloaded to your computer. In other words, they are coming from another computer, somewhere in the world, and being sent to your computer through your internet connection.
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