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Making a dial-up Internet Connection in Mac OS 8

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How to connect to the internet in Mac OS 8.6 in 2001, using a dial-up modem.

May 13, 2023 Macs, Technology

Thanks for the Memory in Mac OS 8.6

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For a while, most users worked in Mac OS 8.6, 9.0 was new and a beast, and there was also the Public Beta of Mac OS X. So how did we manage memory then?

April 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

How to maintain your Desktop in Mac OS 8 and 9

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In Classic Mac OS, icons were determined by hidden databases. Here’s what we had to do periodically to keep them from breaking.

April 1, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Are you ready for 13.3 or 9.1?

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Before you update to macOS Ventura 13.3, step through these instructions for upgrading to Mac OS 9.1 from January 2001.

March 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

From resource forks to quarantine, ResEdit to Gatekeeper

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ResEdit changed what was in the resource fork. With Mac OS X, Apple moved away from forks to extended attributes, now used for quarantine flags and more.

December 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Finder Info: how Sierra and High Sierra remember Classic Mac OS

The Desktop and Finder illusions rely on files having a type and creator, and an icon association. These were kept in the Desktop Database, and are now the responsibility of Launch Services.

December 20, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

Which version was that? How to check which version you’re using

Are still running macOS 10.12.6 (16G29)? Where can you find that build number of macOS? Should it matter?

October 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Forks and other system cutlery

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One of the great hidden features in macOS, xattrs are rarely used by anyone outside Apple, largely because they are so poorly supported by functions calls and tools.

August 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple goes for consistency with macOS Sierra

macOS Sierra it is then – but why did Apple choose those names?

June 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The Genius of Mac: ResEdit and resources

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If you wanted to mess someone’s Mac up, you could go into their system files and change things around when they were out at lunch.

June 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

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