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e35 – HyperCard

We discuss one of the defining pieces of early Macintosh software, HyperCard. We cover the application's origins and ambitious vision, the HyperTalk scripting language, our own creations, and the absence of HyperCard-like tools today.

e34 – My Dream App

What was the state of independent Mac software before iOS? We find out by returning to the 2006 competition My Dream App, featuring productivity plants, syncing in space, and meteorological eye candy.

Followup

My Dream App

  • the end of the Dream

e33 – Our Setups: Then and Now

We compare our current setups with how we worked and played on the classic Mac. Along the way we praise modern backups, pay for our previously pirated software, and Brian accidentally downloads malware.

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Our current hardware

Our classic hardware

Our software

now: Safari [Ed], Adamant [Ed], Ghostery [Brian]
then: Netscape Navigator / Communicator, Internet Explorer

now: Gmail [Brian], Airmail [Ed]
then: America Online email [Brian and Ed], Outlook Express [Ed]

now: iTunes [Brian and Ed]
then: Audion [Brian and Ed], MacAMP [Ed], AppleCD Audio Player [Ed]

now: OmniFocus [Ed]
then: Ø

now: TweetBot [Ed]
then: Hotline [Ed]

now: TextEdit [Brian], Atom [Brian], TextWrangler [Ed]
then: SimpleText

now: TextExpander [Ed]
then: TypeIt4Me [Ed]

now: iStat Menus [Ed] recently: MenuMeters [Ed]
then: IP NetMonitor [Ed]

now: Transmit [Brian and Ed]
then: Transmit [Brian and Ed]
the bad old days: AOL FTP [Ed]

now: Lightroom [Ed], Photos [Brian]
then: Finder

now: Ø
then: Roxio Toast [Ed]

now: Google Docs [Brian and Ed]
then: SubEthaEdit [Ed]

e32 – System Hacking with ResEdit

After looking through all the files in the System Folder last episode, we couldn't help ourselves and had to open up some of them in ResEdit. We realized that a lot of classic "hacks" are now standard features…and we found a few Easter eggs along the way.

e31 – The System Folder

This episode is all about the software that made the classic Mac tick. We take a full tour of the System Folder's contents and how they were meant to be manipulated by users…although maybe not with ResEdit.