p>A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece suggesting that Microsoft wasn’t necessarily the evil demon many Mac users think it is. Some
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Author: Neale Monks
Neale Monks has used Macs since 1990, when he was won over by the simplicity of printing from a networked Mac compared to doing the same thing with networked PCs. Since that time he's written for several Macintosh magazines including Macworld and Macformat as well as MyMac.com, InformIT, Peachpit, TidBITs, and the now-defunct AppleLust web site.
Besides using Macs to make his living every day of the week, he likes to tinker about with vintage Macs, and a few years back wrote an e-book called 'Buying Used Macs' published through MyMac.com.
Neale has a degree in zoology and a PhD in palaeontology. He lives in the market town of Berkhamsted on the edge of the Chiltern Hills.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Microsoft…
Last year Jonathan Last wrote a very witty and intelligent piece for the Weekly Standard in which he argued that the Galactic Empire against
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Classic Games: Diablo
Like Quake and SimCity, Diablo is a game that has evolved over many years to become an unquestionable classic. The first version for the
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Advocacy, the Futility of the Mac/PC War, and Why the G5 Won’t Make Any Difference
Advocacy, the Futility of the Mac/PC War, and Why the G5 Won’t Make Any Difference (8-8-03) Dr. Neale Monks. One of the most passionate but pointless little conflicts isn’t going on in some unknown banana republic or between mindless celebrities who used to be married to one another. It’s going on between Macs and PC users.
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SimCity: One Game, Served Four Different Ways
Last week I looked at Quake, a first-person, shoot ’em up game from id Software that despite being eight years old remains one of
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Classic Games: Quake
With no fewer than three OS X versions available, id Software’s best-selling game Quake may be old by computer game standards (the original PC
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FireWire Webcam Shoot-Out: iBot vs. Fire-i
Product Name: iBot Pro Company: Orange Micro URL: http://www.orangemicro.com/ibot.html Category: Webcam Price: $129 Requirements: OS X or OS 8.6+ Mac with FireWire Rating: 3
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Creating CDs from Cassettes and Records Using Toast and the iMic
Product Name: Toast Titanium 5 A few months ago one of my relatives presented me with three boxes of micro-cassettes. They were recordings of
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All good things come to an end: an iMac retrospective
By the mid 1990s, Apple was in trouble. It was losing money and market share. Apple computers were expensive compared to generic beige-box PCs,
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Jaguar Special Edition
Installing Jaguar
System 10.2 Hardware Requirements Mac OS 10.2 ‘Jaguar’ is the latest and greatest version of OS X and comes on two CD-ROMs. It is
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Jaguar Special Edition
System Preferences in OS X 10.2
System 10? More like System 6! One of the surprising things about the OS X System Preferences panel is its similarity to the
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Guy, low cost Ink-jet printers don’t necessarily suck!
A couple of weeks back Guy Searle posted a blog describing his battles with low-cost Cannon inkjet printers (Low cost Ink-jet printers suck). But
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