Netnewswire Mac Serial Terminal

Sep 30, 2004. The thing to do, when you get a crash log—whether you're using Lite or the full version, whether you've bought NetNewsWire or not—is either post it to the. Some Mac developers I talk to like doing little hacks, they like programming little customize-the-system stuff. I understand this:.

My previous article,, published at the end of last year, got a lot of attention. I’m always looking for older PPC versions of great Mac applications graciously made available by their developers, so I thought I’d post a quick follow-up to the aforementioned article. Here are a few more apps you can enjoy on your PowerPC Macs (running Mac OS X 10.4 and above): • — Ulysses III is one of the best Mac applications for writers. If you own a PowerPC Mac, you can’t install the latest and greatest version, but The Soulmen have made available previous versions of the app on their site. Read carefully the descriptions near each package at the link provided. The only version that is completely unlocked and doesn’t require a licence is Ulysses 1.6, for Mac OS X 10.4 and above. I installed it on my 17-inch PowerBook G4 and works just fine.

• — CloudApp is a very nice app to quickly share screenshots and all kinds of files. It installs a menu extra in the menubar and then it’s just a matter of dragging and dropping. It’s now on version 2.0.2, but you still can download version 1.0.3 — the last to support PowerPC Macs — at the link provided. Jr Typing Tutor Serial Key more. (Requires at least Mac OS X 10.5).

•: The best FTP client for the Mac, period. You can download older versions of Transmit from Panic’s archives. I think the last version supporting PowerPC Macs is 4.1.9 — I have it on my G4 PowerBooks running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and when I select Check for Updates from inside the app, Transmit says it’s “currently the newest version available.” Of course you’ll have to purchase a licence to use the app.

• Other Panic apps — Panic has made available previous versions of all the apps they made over the years. Check out, where you can find other great apps like CandyBar, Stattoo and Unison. • — One of the best RSS readers for the Mac.

Now in version 4 Beta, you can still download version 3.2.15 — the last supporting PowerPC Macs running at least Mac OS X 10.5 — from the. It’s worth reminding that older versions of NetNewsWire now can only be used to check RSS feeds manually, as they don’t support RSS services like Feedly, FeedBin, etc., that came after Google discontinued their Reader service.

Stephen Hackett, linking to by Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica,: Andrew Cunningham has learned what I did back in 2008: while OS 9 is fun to play with, it’s terrible for getting actual work done. Well, that’s debatable. And it really depends on what we mean by ‘actual work.’ I’m probably in an advantageous position, since my ‘actual work’ mainly revolves around text and writing. For that, I can be rather productive even on a PowerBook 5300 (a 117 MHz machine with 64 MB of RAM) with Mac OS 8.1, as you can read in the second part of my article,. I’m quite experienced when it comes to vintage Macs and optimising them to make the most of them.

The Ars Technica piece by Cunningham left a bitter taste in my mouth, and as I voiced on Twitter and App.net, I believe the author (perhaps due to inexperience and impatience with vintage hardware and software) hasn’t painted a completely fair picture of how these machines and systems can actually perform. Cunningham writes: And connecting the PowerBook to my router required a trip to the TCP/IP Control Panel to get things working—the OS didn’t just detect an active network interface and grab an IP address as it does now. I’d like to point out that this behaviour isn’t the standard, as far as I know. I have a few PowerPC Macs that can boot either in Mac OS X or Mac OS 9, and a Mac OS 9-only machine, a clamshell iBook G3/300 with 288 MB of RAM. Whenever I connect the iBook to my router via Ethernet, I’m automatically connected to the Internet, with no need to manually configure anything.

The same happens with my PowerBook 5300 on Mac OS 8.1 — it usually auto-connects when I plug in the Ethernet cable. (Sometimes I admittedly have to check the TCP/IP control panel.) Mac OS 9 feels much faster on the 800MHz G4 than does OS X 10.4 or 10.5, and when the system is working smoothly things open and close pretty much instantaneously. That is, unless you get a pop-up message that momentarily freezes the OS, or you have an odd, possibly memory-related crash that requires a restart. I’m sorry if that has been Cunningham’s experience, but again, he makes it sound like something that happens so often, one would think Mac OS 9 is a completely unreliable system. It’s not, at least not in my experience. Granted, if all you’ve known is Mac OS X and expect to open as many apps in a Mac OS 9 system, you won’t enjoy the same degree of general stability. That’s because Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 manage memory differently.

With regard to Cunningham’s poor email experience on Mac OS 9, I can relate. Four years ago I carried out an informal investigation, where I installed as many decent classic Mac email clients as I could find and tried to configure a Gmail account in all of them. You can find a detailed account of that experiment in my article, but in short, I found that the only email clients playing nice with Gmail were Classilla Mail in Classilla 9.x, the Netscape Mail module in Netscape 7.0.2, while the two best clients capable of full Gmail support (at least at the time, in 2010) were Microsoft Outlook 5.02 and PowerMail 4.2.1. As for publishing articles and blog posts online using WordPress, my workaround has always been posting by email, which WordPress supports.

This allowed me to post articles even using my PowerBook 5300 with Mac OS 8.1 and Mailsmith 1.1.8. Cunningham: [] it goes without saying that syncing files between Mac OS 9 and any other system just isn’t going to happen (I mostly use Dropbox, but the service you use doesn’t make a difference). Even using a network share isn’t possible — Mac OS 9 doesn’t support Windows’ SMB protocol, and its version of the AFP protocol is too old to interface with my Mac Mini server running Mavericks. I was only able to do some file transfers using FTP, yet another unencrypted and insecure protocol. And that’s why I use a Titanium PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X Tiger as a ‘server’ when I need to sync files with Dropbox. Since Dropbox (bless those guys) still supports PowerPC Macs running a version of Mac OS X as old as Tiger, I connect the OS 9 iBook to the TiBook and mount the Dropbox folder in the iBook’s desktop. The experience is seamless enough.

After trying to work in Mac OS 9, Cunningham installs Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on his test machine, a Titanium PowerBook G4 at 800 MHz. Note that Leopard has a minimum system requirement of a G4 processor running at 867 MHz. While it’s certainly possible (as Cunningham did) to circumvent this limitation and install Leopard on a Mac with a slower processor — I had managed to install it on a 500 MHz machine — you cannot expect optimum performance. In fact, speaking of — the best and most up-to-date browser for G3/G4/G5 PowerPC Macs — Cunningham writes: In any case, TenFourFox does a respectable job of rendering pages properly, and I’m sure it runs much better on newer 1GHz-and-up aluminum PowerBooks and iMacs than it does on this old titanium G4. On my 1 GHz 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 1.33 GHz 17-inch PowerBook G4 it runs very well.

But it also runs fine on my 400 MHz and 500 MHz Titanium PowerBooks. One thing I’ll say about both OS X 10.4 and 10.5 on this hardware is that it’s laggy no matter what you’re doing. It’s a strange assessment, that doesn’t tally with my experience at all. I have Mac OS X 10.4.11 installed on these machines: • A 400 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 with 1 GB of RAM • A 500 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 with 512 MB of RAM • A 450 MHz Power Mac G4 Cube with 1.5 GB of RAM • A 466 MHz clamshell iBook G3 FireWire with 576 MB of RAM and Tiger isn’t laggy on any of them, especially the Cube, where the Finder is actually more responsive than on my MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, running Mac OS X 10.9.5. As for Leopard being laggy on a Mac that doesn’t meet Leopard’s minimum system requirements, well, I’m not that surprised.

Stuff you take for granted on a modern, multi-core computer with an SSD and lots of RAM is totally different on a system this old. Having dozens of browser tabs open at once, playing some music or maybe a video in the background, syncing Dropbox files, even watching animated GIFs consumes precious CPU cycles that an 800MHz G4 doesn’t have to spare. Download Monster Hunter Iso For Ppsspp Gold more. Exceeding the computer’s once-impressive-but-now-paltry 1GB of RAM, something you’ll do without even thinking if you fire up TenFourFox, prompts virtual memory swapping that grinds things to a halt.

There’s nothing technically wrong with what Cunningham is saying here, but “grinding things to a halt” is a bit of an exaggeration. I do agree with this article. While classic mac OS is not very good for internet stuff anymore, it is still still pretty good for what made it good at the time. Especially graphics design. I am a film maker and animator.

I do most of my work on a Mac Pro but I have an old powermac 9500 that I still use very often to do sketches, rough animations, backgrounds and landscapes. I also do my compositing on this mac when there 3D is not required. It has a G4 700MHz upgrade, a Radeon 7000, 656Megs of RAM and is running system 7.6.

The user experience on this machine is much better than on my 8 cores Mac Pro running Mavericks. On the Mac Pro I have managed to do a proper file sharing using Netatalk so all the files I work on with the 9500 are hosted on the Mac Pro. I love this setup. I’ve yet to upgrade from a G4 1.5ghz Powerbook. I’ve used it for 11 years to edit video (fcp studio 2), record music (MOTU’s Digital Performer v. 5), and work in Adobe Creative Suite (v.

Still can do all those things (I can even edit HD video once Compressor converts to ProRes422 codec), plus host my iPhoto library (2009 version), and Dropbox works on it. Web browsing can be sluggish, so glad to hear of this TenFourFox, I will check it out. Gmail serves up a stripped down interface that I rather prefer 🙂 •. I guess it all depends on how patient you are, and I’m not. I’m writing this on an iMac G4 1Ghz that I couldn’t tolerate in Leopardnot even with just a couple of programs running. After a lot of research and work, it’s now running MintPPC Linux and, for the most part, responds the way I want it to. Libreoffice loads the first time in 12 seconds.

Under Leopard it was at least twice that. NeoOffice was even worse.

Ice Weasel and Dove (Firefox and Thunderbird for PPC) are up in under 10 seconds. The browser slows down too much if there are several tabs with a lot of motion GIFs on them (i.e. I’ll have to try an ad blocker.

Anyway, this impatient user is happy with an 11-year old iMac, again. So, in the OS9/OSX PPC battles, I say “neither”. If you’re a little tech savvy, give MintPPC a try. (Save yourself a lot of troubledon’t use any other PPC distribution or you may spend a lot of time in Terminal. Sound and wireless are particularly problematic.) Oh, BTW, Linux has one major Achilles Heelinkjet printers. The only company with good support for them is HP. I had to sell the one I had and buy an HP when I changed over entirely to Linux.

I could go on and on about dual boot, OS9 virtualizer, multiple desktops, free software, etc., but this is already too long. To find out more, go to mintppc.org.