My mom still uses an old Power Macintosh G3 All-in-One, with MacOS 8 installed on it. While it still suits her needs (email and web browsing) for the most part, I’ve been thinking of how to upgrade or replace it. Here are some links that I have found about the topic.
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g3aio.shtml
http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto3.html
http://lowendmac.com/stotler/06/0731.html
http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0628.html
http://lowendmac.com/thompson/06/0103.html
http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0515.html
http://wamcom.org/
http://icab.de/
Entries from November 2006
Upgrading an old Mac
November 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Mac
How to fix Skype 2.0.0.6 crash on Mac OSX
November 7th, 2006 · 7 Comments
I had been unsuccessful in running the latest version of Skype on my Mac – it would crash on startup. I finally found the solution in one of the comments on Skype’s versiontracker.com entry: add Skype.app to Application Enhancer’s “Master exclude” list. I did this, and now Skype works fine!
Tags: Mac · Tips & tricks
Speedtest.net: a pretty neat (and accurate, in my case) connectivity speed tester. (1)
Wordpress widgets
November 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Only now I have started playing with Wordpress widgets. One nice thing is that as long as you are using widget-aware themes, the structure of your sidebar remains the same throughout theme changes.
I noticed that the widget-configuration GUI doesn’t work perfectly with Safari. The widgets in the sidebar representation sometimes appear mangled, and the [...]