Category Archives: lowendmac

Making use of old Apple computers

Original Macintosh Finder font

Posted on April 17, 2017 by blogmywiki

I am a bit obsessed with Susan Kare’s original 1984 Macintosh bitmap fonts and design and made my own Truetype version of her great Chicago font using BitFontMaker. I then got intrigued by the font used on the labels of … Continue reading →

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Two (3!) new old bitmap fonts

Posted on April 10, 2017 by blogmywiki

I’m a huge fan of Susan Kare’s work – she designed the beautiful fonts and icons on the original 1984 Macintosh computer, a real work of art. I am always telling my students about this. They probably think I am … Continue reading →

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Using an old Wacom Graphire tablet in OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Posted on August 29, 2015 by blogmywiki

I love it when I make things work that shouldn’t and I also love saving money. This does both. I have an old Wacom Graphire graphics tablet model ET-0405-U. It’s not supported by recent versions of OS X, but graphics … Continue reading →

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OS X parental controls on a netbook

Posted on June 1, 2010 by blogmywiki

My kids want to use my Hackintosh netbook – a Lenovo Ideapad S10-2 running Snow Leopard. One of the great things about OS X is its excellent built-in parental controls, but on a netbook with a small 600 pixel-high screen, … Continue reading →

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Big fat hard drive in a 700 MHz G4 iMac

Posted on February 18, 2008 by blogmywiki

Conventional wisdom says that any G4 iMac slower than 1 GHz cannot work with a hard drive bigger than 120 GB. But they were selling 320GB IDE drives in Maplin for only £59.99 and it seemed silly to pay ten … Continue reading →

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