Happy birthday Macintosh!

Like it or not, love it or leave it, the Mac changed the world on this day in 1984. Its effects continue to deepen and multiply today. We’ll see if Apple introduces a cousin of it on the 27th. “1984 – The first Apple Macintosh, today known as the Macintosh 128K (pictured), went on sale,

BoingBoing: Award-winning assembly-language animation running on a classic Mac

This is really impressive. Somebody was able to use assembly-language programming, which basically is speaking directly to the computer’s CPU rather than going through a nicely cushioned programming system, to make an old black and white Macintosh computer do some pretty righteous animation. I never saw the likes of this on any of my old

Living large via RAM upgrade

Oh yeah. I now have a whopping TWO GIGABYTES OF RAM. Taste that, Mac 512k! Not really impressive when you consider the two gigs cost less than $50. I do remember when a single megabyte dropped below $100.00. Or when a 20 MB hard drive slipped below $1,000. Would it ever end?! Apple’s industrial design,

Was iPhoto causing data corruption and permissions errors?

A while ago, prior to my MacBook’s hard drive being replacd, I noticed that something was occasionally eating pictures. Some photos would come through looking like they’d been run through a circular saw and then sloppily glued back together. Others would cause iPhoto to take its sweet time while opening a picture. Weeks later, while

A great experience at the Apple Store

After making two previous trips to the Apple Store at Bayshore Mall, I’d had enough. I was even ready to be assertive with my demands for service. (How un-liberal, pshaw!) But they went above and beyond my expectations. At first, it didn’t look that good. When the words “replace the hard drive” passed the store Genius’