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Anachronistic Twitter Client Released for Classic Macs

Written on November 18, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and No one has commented

If you’re still running an old Mac PowerBook 550c or something similar, it must be really annoying to not be able to use Twitter via a native client. That’s probably your No. 1 concern, in fact, on your OS 8.1-running machine. You could always use the web interface, but that’s not really a fair solution, [...]

Weekly App Store Picks: May 23, 2009

Written on May 23, 2009 by Olly Farshi and No one has commented

What’s that, you say? You’re looking for iPhone app recommendations alongside a smattering of the week’s Apple news? Read, on my friend, I have just the article for you…
Before I present you with my four recommendations, hand-picked from the freshest apps to launch for the iPhone, it’s time to take stock and review this week’s [...]

How Many OS 9 Die-Hards Are Out There?

Written on December 11, 2008 by Charles Moore and 30 people have commented

How many Mac fans are still using OS 9? It’s a difficult statistic to track, or at least I’ve found it so. Hitslink’s November 2008 market share report shows pre-Intel Mac operating systems still represent a respectable (nearly three times the penetration of Linux) 2.35 percent of total OS usage (vs. 6.51 percent for MacIntel), [...]

Is Classic Really, Seriously, Dead?

Written on August 06, 2007 by Louis Gray and 24 people have commented

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that my boss prohibited me from bringing the Mac OS X beta to work due to its lack of DVD support, or the years that followed when Mac users everywhere decried Quark’s slow progress away from Mac OS 9. Six years after Mac OS X’s debut, the Classic [...]