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26 July, 2008 By Holden Scott I was on the hunt for the best Word Processing program from the Classic Mac OS (in application to OS 7.x - OS 9.x). While I do have MS Office 98 and 2001, I wanted to see what else was out there. Surprisngly, I don't mind Word 98: it is lean and much faster under OS 9.x, for instance, then Word 2004 ever was in X. And the latest iteration of MS Office (2008) is ... Read More

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By Holden Scott It's funny, because looking back, I now wonder what I was thinking, spending all that time downloading music, organizing genres and tracks, when, years ago, I had already explored a better avenue. I guess I got caught up in all the hype of downloading music. When the iTunes Music Store hit, it just put gasoline on the fire. But why are people still incessantly downloading music, when Internet Radio is so much better? It was around 2001 when ... Read More

By Holden Scott Arrrgh. How many times have I murmured that in relation to battery power woes on older PowerBooks and Newtons... Over the past few months, I have had a bad string of luck with batteries, which is why I decided to write about the issues that I had, and how I overcame them. I have broken it down into two sections, the first section will cover problems and solutions for PowerBook batteries, and the second section will cover ... Read More