Baseball fans who don't live near their childhood homes have several options for watching their favorite teams' games, but there's a great new way. The Roku, a small $99 box which easily attaches to your TV, lets you watch any game by any team in near-HD quality, provided you're not geographically ...
Use another Mac as a second screen?
For years, I have heard the question "can I use my old iMac as a screen for my laptop?" or variants of it, and the answer has always been no, an iMac is a full computer, and you can't use it as a dumb display. That was until I discovered ScreenRecycler, a brilliant application which makes possible ...
Ode to the PowerBook 2400c
I'd like to take a moment to tell you about my favorite Mac. The Macintosh PowerBook 2400c, the subnotebook version of the more widely known 3400c, is one amazing Mac. It's almost usable today if you have replaced its PowerPC 603ev CPU with a G3, which of course I did. In fact, I have the cool 320 ...
urgent: Apple II floppy update
How to get a 5.25" floppy onto a modern Mac Warning: this post contains some serious Apple retro geekery. I've actually had to exercise serious restraint with the details. You may want to skip this one unless Apple II's, Color Classics, SCSI ethernet interfaces, PowerBook 2400's, and other Apple ...
Seagate offers 7200 RPM, 500 GB drive for laptops
There are a handful of companies who manufacture hard drives: Hitachi, Samsung, Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba (who just this year bought Fujitsu). In a testament to the benefits of a competitive marketplace, they are always attempting to leapfrog one another by offering bigger, faster ...
Apple II Update
A while back I planned to pull my beloved Apple //e (circa 1993) out of storage with the intent of a) having fun, and b) archiving anything noteworthy I found on my many 5.25" floppy disks. I did, and the experience was both better and worse than I imagined. The experience was wonderfully tactile: ...