Apple's QuickTake Digital Camera

My first digital camera is
Apple's QuickTake from the 1990's

G3 Desktop 266:
Install QuickTake for Power Macintosh; QuickTake Software, QuickTake Desktop Access Software. Able to read QuickTake pictures.

G3 Mini Tower 300 (Beige):
Install QuickTake for Power Macintosh; QuickTake Software, QuickTake Desktop Access Software, Geoport. Able to read QuickTake pictures, and connect to camera. Copying to desktop froze computer; restart...

Mac SE/30 now with SuperClock!

I picked up an old SE/30 (System 7.1, 16 MHz) in the garbage pile outside of a Church sale and installed the following today;

SuperClock! 3.9.1 (1991)
After Dark 2.0t (1990)
Amazing (1984)
SCSI Tools (1987)
Disk First Aid 7.0 (1991)

9" of black and white screen joy, almost just like my first Mac.
SEE PREVIOUS POST: My First Mac

MPlayer better than QuickTime?

I installed MPlayer OS X 2 version 2.0 (v2.0b4),, and it plays many more formats than Apple's QuickTime Player.

"MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies."

Wow, a totally flexible multi-media player!

MacJanitor FREE System Utility

If you shut down your Mac at night it's not able to run some important self-maintenance.

"Here is another great utility to run the system's daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts (located at /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly). These scripts are normally run between 3am and 5am, and will not be run if you shut off your Mac at night. But with MacJanitor, you can run these scripts by hand periodically and keep your Mac's system databases from getting too large."

MacJanitor from Brian R. Hill brianhill@mac.com

"Because Mac OS X is based on Unix, it performs several automatic maintenance operations throughout the week. But unlike most Unix machines, most Macs are shutdown at night by their owners, and it's at night that these maintenance functions are performed. MacJanitor essentially lets you run those processes right away so that you can save power at night. In addition to improving performance, MacJanitor gets rid of unnecessary files that clutter your Mac."

Mac OS X on G3 B&W

G3 Blue & White DVD 400 MHz:
21 GB Quantum Fireball ATA Hard Drive;
Mac OS X 10.2 only, 3 Partitions,

Boot from OS 9.0 CD, Zero all data, 2 Partitions, Initialize
Install Mac OS 9.0 on first partition
Install Mac OS 9.2 on first and second partitions
Update to Mac OS 9.2.1 on first and second partitions
Update to Mac 9.2.2 on first and second partitions
Install Mac OS 10.2.0 Jaguar (Build 6C115) on first partition

Mac OS 9.2.2 and MAC OS X 10.2.0 Dual Boot Mac.

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