Recently I’ve been having a problem with my Mail app, not a big problem, but it’s VERY annoying. I put out a help call
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Category: Opinion
Nemo Memo
Buying a New iBook – A Bargain Hunter’s Dream Come True
A needy family member requested help obtaining an inexpensive Macintosh computer. Barbara decided to give him her aging workhorse G3 Pismo PowerBook during our current summer vacation, and worry later about replacing it. Read more…
Nemo Memo
Windows Is Still Better Than Mac, Right?
Mora Black’s reliable, mission-critical Windows laptop crashed, and she lost all her data. She is self-employed, so she was devastated, not having backed up her drive.
Problem Solving Guy 5: Computer Licensing and Software Piracy
All about Licensing in the world of technology, music, and iTunes.
Read MoreIn Memoriam Susan Howerter
In June 2000, five years ago, MyMac.com lost one of our own. Susan Howerter, columnist and author or the “Stocking Stuffer Steve book” passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. We look back on Susan’s life, and present In Memoriam by Kate Ancell
Read MoreRodney
Call is a yearly tradition, but this is the week I post something on Rodney Lain. Rather the write something new, simply follow this link to see last years post, and feel free to contribute to the discussion below that article.
Read MoreProblem Solving Guy #4: When disaster strikes!
Nemo asks, and Guy answers, this time with solutions for your crashes, bashes, and smashes that occur every so often on your Macs. What can you do to prevent them from happening? Read on, seeker of knowledge.
Read MoreApple and Intel, What Does It Really Mean?
The fact that Apple is moving to Intel chips has certainly raised a lot of questions and noise. It is an interesting change for Apple to be sure. And who would have guessed that as Apple moves to Intel Inside, Microsoft is moving to PowerPC? The new Xbox will be PPC, and if I read Microsoft’s rumblings correctly, so may some PCs be soon too.
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You’ve been punk’d!
Have I been dreaming the last 10 years of this PPC revolution?
Read MoreMac on Intel – The last transition… for a while
There’s of course a mix of shock, fear, anger, excitement, people pretending to be cool and blasé towards the whole thing, and the zombies walking around thinking, "my reality has just been distorted". Some very smart people are sitting in corners, rocking back and forth, saying to themselves, "how could Apple do this? Why? Why? Why? Well, here’s my two cents on why I would have done it if I was Apple or my name was Steve Jobs.
Classic Macs #3: The dual-USB iBook
Neale Monks, author of Buying Used Macs, considers the dual-USB G3 iBooks to be the best value Mac portables about. Find out why in the third of his articles on Classic Macs.
Dashboard is a metaphor for what’s right and wrong at Apple
First, let me say Dashboard is cool, it’s sexy, it’s got neat transitions, and it is the number one selling feature of Tiger. Second, let me say Dashboard is crappy User Interface design, especially compared to what it could have been. The old Apple (before NeXT) would have been embarrassed to ever release anything this narrow in scope, and totally missing the bigger point.
Read MoreClassic Macs #2: The Mac SE
This week Neale Monks, author of Buying Used Macs, looks at the Macintosh SE, the first of the compact Macs to sport the line-up of serial, ADB, and SCSI ports and probably the best value machine around for anyone wanting to start a classic Mac collection.
Read MoreClassic Macs #1: The PowerBook 3400
In the first in a new series about collectable and easily obtained Macs from the past, Neale Monks, author of Buying Used Macs, takes a look at the PowerBook 3400, arguably the first portable produced by Apple that was good enough to replace a desktop machine.
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How Do You Get a Macintosh User to Buy a Dell?
Lets look at a few new ways Apple has hurt customers and potential customers in the last month or so.
Read MoreAfter the Mac Mini, is there still a market for used Macs?
In a recent Podcast, MyMac.com editor Tim Robertson mentioned the fact that the introduction of the Mac Mini might well have made my recent Scroll Down Book “Buying Used Macs” somewhat obsolete. The argument boils down to this: with the Mac Mini offering Internet connectivity, enough horsepower to run most home and office software, and support for all the modern USB and FireWire peripherals, is there really any need to buy a used Mac at all?
Best consumer multi-function printer?
That’s it! I have had ENOUGH! My Epson multi-function printer-scanner-copier has ink that dries up *way* too often, in spite of its low per
Read MoreBeware the Tiger
If you can wait, I would suggest waiting a few weeks, or at least days, after Tiger is released before installing it on your Mac. If you can’t wait, please back up your data.
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Seven things I hate about you – an open letter to the computing industry
There are some things about the industry that just drive me nuts. I’m not going to whine about how come there little rubber feet from my iBook came off so easily, or complain that Bill Gates just doesn’t play nicely. No, what bothers me are things that could be fixed relatively easily, or exist purely for the benefit of the manufacturers and retailers, or don’t seem to have any obvious advantages to anyone.
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Adobe and Macromedia will become one
Sad news, I think, for those who like choice.
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