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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.

e30 – Ten Years of Intel Macs

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Intel-based Macs, which were released in January of 2006. Always on the quest for more performance per watt, we contemplate Apple's big hardware and software transitions of the past, present, and even the future!

PowerPC to Intel

Current and future transitions

e29 – Software Packaging

It's a Boxing Day special all about when software came in boxes (or cans, sometimes). We cover everything from staid operating system packaging to odd un-stackable shapes to wild, fictional shareware box art.

Third party – unique boxes