Apple dropped beta 2 of iOS 7 last Monday, just two weeks after the WWDC keynote, setting the precedent for a two week pace that was unheard of in previous beta releases. The Internet and its “sources” say that this two week schedule is indeed going to stick around for the foreseeable future as the …
iOS 7
The big announcement at Apple's 2013 World Wide Developer Conference was the brand new iOS 7, whose look and feel are the largest changes to the iOS since the original iPhone was released in 2007. Apple has a great page about it http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/ with a lot of screenshots, videos, and explanations of the features. iOS 7 …
Mac Museum at Work
I spend a lot of time collecting and organizing things for the Mac Museum but rarely get to actually enjoy the things that are in it. This panorama is a rare instance where I had a chance to do that. From left to right there is a Power Mac 6100/66 (circa 1995) with a 14" …
Mac Museum Additions – March 2013
During the holidays the Mac Museum took a big of a break; I was too busy for eBay and Craigslist and there wasn't much of interest out there. Now that the new year has begun people have once again started cleaning out their basements and the finds have been flowing once again. After these additions …
PowerBook Through the Years: The 1400 Series
It was late 1996 and Apple was trying to recover from a string of failed products, internal mismanagement, and a financial crisis. The PowerBook 1400 was built to rectify the issues Apple had with the 5300 and satisfy the needs of its notebook customers. While it was indeed a large improvement over the 5300, it …
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The Mac Museum Officially Welcomes the 24" iMac
All of my Macs are technically part of the Mac Museum, but only the Macs that physically reside in it truly meet the criteria (i.e. are relatively old and no longer in active use). Thus it was an exciting/sad day a couple of weeks ago when Sally's 24" iMac moved down to the basement to join …
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"iPhone Math"
Aside from not making a lot of sense since Apple just changed the screen size of the iPhone, this has to be one of the most horrible product names I've ever heard of, even if it's internal. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/20/apple-rumored-to-debut-4-8-inch-iphone-math-in-june/
One Man's Trash is Another Man's Addition to the Mac Museum
I look in a variety of places for additions to the Mac Museum – eBay, Craigslist, FreeCycle, other online venues, friends, yard sales, local thrift stores – but sometimes I find things in places I'd never think of, like the Dover Recycling Center. I went there yesterday to drop off a printer and a case …
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PowerBook Through the Years: The 5300 Series
It should have been famous because it was the first PowerPC PowerBook but the 5300 was instead famous for a string of manufacturing and quality issues that gave it one of the worst reputations of any Apple product. Despite its flaws it still made improvements over its predecessor in the form of larger screens with …
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Mac Plus Resurrection
Once upon a time I purchased a working original Macintosh and Mac Plus for the Mac Museum. They came with a large device that was said to be a "modem" but didn't have a phone jack on it. After being unable to figure out how to connect this odd device to a phone line, I …
Relatively Ambitious 