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Created on Jun 11, 2006, 21:08 by Rui Carmo, not updated since.

Folklore tells a lot of tales about the creation of the original Mac. These days, of course, it's all about Mac OS X.

Resources:

The Vintage Mac Museum - a trip down memory lane.

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So here's an idea or two	About the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update	Five things that are still broken in browsers, ten years later	jQuery
Wishlist	iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X	Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.1 Update	Shuffle Newsletter May 2008
Foxes on fire, and other entertainment	Apple in Parallel (on GrandCentral)	MediaLink	Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts
GUIP201 - USB Net ShareStation	BlackBerry Bold's Similarities to iPhone Purely Coincidence, Really	Lux	How to Switch to the Mac
Huawei E220	Office 2008 (the somewhat delayed review, now post-SP1)	Finder	Internet Tablet Video Converter updated: now also for Mac
Yugma	vim	ezQuake	Press Policy
VGA/DVI cables are not long for this world	Yuuguu - free screen sharing	Me, Mini-Me, Mini Attention Spans and Mini-Laptops	Four examples of Internet anti-news
History Meme	Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.3 Beta	On Yaki and Google App Engine	DisplayLink Mac OS X Beta Drivers
Mac Shot First: 10 Reasons Why CanSecWest Targets Apple	Outlook	Teleport	Safari 3.1
Description of the Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update	IMAP Backup Script	Those guys in the woodwork	The Joy of Webpads
Gone, Without a Trace	Musings on Photo Galleries	SSH	Apple - QuickTime - Apple March 6 Event
Reading Steve Jobs	Serial Numbers	Regarding iPods, Developers and Attention Spans	The Forgotten Delicious
Native GTK+ Mac theme	Skype 2.7 Release Notes	China Mobile: 400,000 iPhones are using our network	Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update
Games	Books	netgrowl.py	TrueCrypt 5.0 now has Mac OS X support
Hey Apple, How About Fixing Your Insecure iDisk?	Planet Tao of Mac - Frequently Asked Questions	How Not To Support The Mac In Your Government	Entourage 2008 Review
An update on my RSS setup	Apple Store - Portugal - At long last, but...	iJam	The Silver Surfer
Office 2008 first impressions	PeekIt	VectorDesigner	There's a blue light in my future
DisplayLink for Mac (soon)	Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii	Touching Base	DTerm
MediaLink for PS3	Shelf - Context for MacOS - now in Python	Adium 1.2	XBMC port to Mac OS X
Classic On Intel	First Look: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008	MacEdition Returns	Mac OS X market share sets new record at the end of 2007
Changes	About The Author	Crucial Mac Scanner	Merry $HOLIDAY!
Mac OS X 10.5.2 to deliver sprawling list of fixes for Leopard	DisplayLink's new VGC 4.3 supports Vista Aero 3D	Dear Google Mail Developers	facefuse - Google Code
When religion bites	Citrix 10.00.600	Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 goes RTM	Outsourcing My Stuff
Thoughts on File Explorers	Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10	ies4osx: Run Internet Explorer 5/6/7 Natively in OS X	A Month Of Seeing Spots
Focused on Writing	Scrivener	Warsow	Apple's "Don't Give Up on Vista" ad on Vista's CNET page
PersonalBrain for Mac OS X	HOWTO: Write iSync Phone Plugins	So, this is a better Mail.app?	Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update
Mac OS X 10.4.11	Android SDK	Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.9 Update	Mac OS X 10.5.1 on the way
stevenf.com: Try Again	blacktree-alchemy - Quicksilver on Google Code	Growl 1.1.2	Spotted Snakes
HP PSC 950 in Leopard	New Backend for the Seam Carving GUI	Skyrails	Leopard Archive and Install
Hear The Leopard Spots Roar	The Touch, spotted - a lot more than Leopard	Safe Distance	New Citrix Client Beta (10.00.128b1)
Should we put the iPod Touch on a milk carton here in Portugal?	It's About Time, Indeed!	Leopard Season	"I Solve Practical Problems"
PhotoLine 32	Geek Throwdown: How to sync two or more Macs?	HyperDither	Books
Easing Off	Ramble On - Uphill both ways with a Timex Sinclair	Adium X 1.1.3	Paging Cupertino: Does Interlog REALLY want to sell Macs?
Bricks Ain't Hard, Life Is	Updated Citrix Mac ICA Client Coming Soon and Request for Beta Users	Pixelmator Manual	Microsoft announces Mac Office 2008 pricing, upgrade details
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Announcement	Two Months With An E90	Could The Apple Pundits Stop Writing About Mobility, Please?	State of the Nation
The iPhone Timeline	IBM Lotus Symphony	Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Teaser Site	The Flow Of Mercurial
The Five Social Pluses of Using Apple Gear	Virtual Network Computing (VNC)	VNC and Monitor Antics	SwitchResX
My Five Wishes for Leopard	GIMP using the Mac OS X Menubar	HEY INTERLOG, GOT THESE YET?!	Long Break
The State of Mac Gaming	Portable Home Directory over NFS on OSX	Dropbox Screencast	Deploying Qt Mac Applications Without the Hassle
Retro MacOS Wordpress Theme	Planet Cocoa	Ten Days With Lightroom	Apple Shoots Self In Foot With iMovie'08
Daring Fireball: Feedback	GetBundle	Skype 2.7 for Mac beta integrates Address Book contacts	Pixelmator
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 Update	How to redesign the Leopard dock so it sucks less	Thunderbird Mac OS X system address book integration	~~Ten~~ Nine Feeds I Stopped Reading, And Why
Das Keyboard	Form Above Substance	Minesweeper - The Movie	Anymails - visualization of received e-mail
SSHKeychain 0.8	Adding support for your phone to Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.1	Midsummer Terminal Evenings	Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta)
John Dvorak - Me and My Mac	TimeDrawer	Mindquarry	Mindquarry, the Open Source Collaborative Software
Mac OS 10.4.10: The Worst System Update Ever?	twaiku - Google Code	ChocoFlop - Release Alpha 0.64	Five Things Nokia Needs To Address To Beat The iPhone
Coming soon : Universal RDC	Avant Window Navigator	MacPorts v1.5 released	Extra Device Profiles For Nokia's Media Transfer Application
The QuickTime 7.2 disaster: Breaks all CFM apps on Intel-based Macs (Office, Photoshop CS2) for some	Five Incongruous Things About The iPhone	Apple (Support?) In Portugal	iPhone Remote
Mandarin	iPhone - From Announcement To Launch	My New Phone	The Tao of Mac
Blink	Flushing my system	Post-Keynote Notes	Gravitating Towards Some Stuff
Nokia Multimedia Transfer	Quentin's Presentation	Subversion	Musical Counterpoint To The Hypothetical Humorous Aspects Of iPhone Pricing (And Other Things)
Monday Mode	Speed Bumps	HOWTO Setup GPRS/UMTS Access On a Mac	On Coda
Stuff That Has Been Piling Up	On Three	Monday Mode	Wiki Editing, Mind Maps and Usenet
How To Run vmware-console Remotely With Apple's X11 -	Minor Achievements	Google/Desktop	Five Reasons Why I'm Not Installing Google Desktop for Mac
Beyond The Red Line	CleanArchiver	Office Thoughts	Thursday
Blips On The Radar	Stuff I've Been Looking At	Graphics	Personal Interlude
Flash 9 Stupidity	ActionScript	10.4.9	Mind Maps
SIP Clients	iTunes 7.1	The Switcher's Application Guide	Zero Sum Game
The One That Got Away	Fresh News	Sony/Reader	The Last Phone You'll Ever Wear
Ah, The Wonderful Internet	Alan Cox++	The Switching Game	Sizzling Switching
Catching Up	Musings On Context, Blogging and Computing	A Narrow Look At Vista	All Those Pretty Colors
Attack Of The Rampaging Visio Flowcharts	Blackberry Pearl	The Not-So-Wild Side	iPhone Updates
News Flashes	iPhone - The Early Years	So Close, And Yet So Far	Relaxing
Mulling Team Management Tools	Looking Forward to 2007	2006, From My Perspective	Merry $HOLIDAY
The StealthBook	Fonts	Rolling My Own iPhone	Burning My Feeds
Gotta Love the Wiimote	I Still Hate Mondays	Parallels Workstation	Look Ma, No Mice
Things I Can't Get Around To Do, Part One	Computer Vision	HOWTO	HOWTO Perform Bluetooth Dial-Up in Ubuntu
Halibuts and Shrimps	Quake	Five Things I'd Like To See On a "Next-Gen" Game Console	Feet Up
Random Remainders	Wired	To The Beat	Drumming Up Some Business
Holiday, Google Wikis and Gnome Musings	Quicksilver	Moderate Calm	The Sharper Edge
Virtual PC	That Yucky Glossy Screen.	Work, Resumed.	Jumbo Link Mode
Temporarily Out of Order	Quartz Composer	Dimmed	EagleFiler
Remote Desktop (Microsoft RDP)	.Mac - And Round And Round We Go...	More Heads Than One	ScreenRecycler
Resources:	The Biz, Reloaded	New Blackberry software for Mac	The Apple+Google Hype, iPhoto, and a Reality Check
Icons	Mighty Mousing	Spreadsheets (*.wks):	Office Files
Data For The Ages/Time Capsule	Trips Down Memory Lane	Mid-Point	De-Tanning
Concept Maps	Mira	NX	Finally, Some Decent Vacation Time
Series 60 R3 Annoyances	Random Walks	iPod (Classic)	Showtime
Vodafone Mobile Connect Box	Mac mini	Sieves, Cubes and Other Trivia	Bring On Holographic Storage
Re-Plumbing Mail	Yes, Device Drivers Are Buggy, And Everyone Kept Missing The Point	Why The Washington Post Needs Actual Journalists	Plotting UNIX's Revenge
iBreak	A Spotty Take On Leopard's Features	John Gruber	Buzzing Back
My 2 Euro Cents Regarding Apple's New Product Announcements at the WWDC	Preparing for Launch	Casual Debunking	Mac OS X
Bricked, Twice	HSDPA Support In Mac OS X 10.4.7	Link Spree	Monday, Oddly Enough
.Mac's Missed Opportunities	Minor Notes on VoodooPad 3 and .Mac	Random Linkage	The Drunken Canaries?
Topical	Yojimbo on the Cheap	Link Spree	Apple Jam Recipes
Comfy Football with Quicksilver and an Xbox	Google/Video	Visor	Earth + SketchUp = Virtual Playground
The MacBook Has Landed.	Mac	The Five Partisan Canned Replies	How To Annoy Platform Partisans
Qnext	Short Notes	Triple Six	Decisions, Decisions.
On Mark's un-Switching, and Lemmings	Universal	The Obligatory Five Random Things	VideoConferencing
Three Panes - The Right Way, At Last!	Musings on Non-Mainstream Technology	Mulling the MacBook	Front Row
Wii-ing on PowerPoint	Big Cube	Dipping My Toes	Mac OS X Updates
Hit Play To Resume	Out of Phase	Get a Mac	The Razor-Thin Mobile Computer
Minor Topics	Syndication Policy	Selling Macs in Portugal... Using Windows	All Is Well For Now
Google Maps Goes European	XScreenSaver	Universally Late	Minor Earthquakes
Europe, That Foreign Nation	Boot Camp, The Sales Pitch	Getting The Hang Of Tuesdays	Got Citrix?
Ear Drumming	Boot Camp	Side-Switching	Apple
The Tele Teaching Tool	Curling	Fedora Core 5 Released	Cubed
Kinky GTD	Apple/Portugal/Support Centres	VMware Server	Poor Man's Screen Sharing
The Citrix Dashboard Widget	Placeless GTD	More Mail.app Gripes	VoIP
Combing Sand	Living in a Box	Post-Dinner Reading	Back
iSync	Finally, a Reason to Look at Vista	Windows in a MacBook?	MacBooks and Other Happenings - The Sequel
PocketMac	More Positive Stuff	More Important Stuff	MacBooks and Other Happenings
My Sole Prediction for MWSF Tomorrow	Odds and Ends	The Hours of Service Pack 2	Third Time's The Charm
Keynotes in CES Sharp	A Minor Note On Confidentiality	A Few Notes on the PlayStation Portable	Making the Mouse Redundant
Monday Mode	Ten Things I'm Looking Forward To In 2006	2005 in Review	Miscellaneous Hacktivity
Merry Xmas, Everybody!	The Five Unwise Men	The Reindeer Are Coming	MySync
DIE, DIE, (D)IE!	Midnight Oil	Week's Edge	Interstitials
Five Rumors You Might Be Familiar With	Catching Up	Scribing	Miscellaneous Oddities
Personal Spam	Random Walk	Rainy Break	Sno
Xmas Phones	HOWTO Deluge	ZTerm	Thoughts On File Sharing
News Recap	Restlessness	Minor Updates	Back To Our Scheduled Programming
Three Notes	A Quiet Day...	Miscellaneous Geekery	Plug Me In
Dances With VMware	News Flush	Quiet Time	PVR
Some Folk Just Don't (Want To) Understand	Public Service Announcement - iCal Syncing Sucks	Tick Tock	Catching Up
Other Stuff	The Day Apple Killed Television	Mental Note	Stuff I Didn't Do On Vacation
One Month With a 350D	Hardware/Plextor/PX-TV402U	Tag, You're Not It	Backup 3.0
Backup Day - Almost	Patently Absurd	Minor Replumbing	Gnome/Applications/Gobby
Nokia Collector	Passing Through	Random Juicy Tidbits	Hyperlinked PDF Generation?
TurboGears - off the Rails?	Quake III Arena	Idle Musings By The Beach	Vacations, Pools and Canonballs
I Must Be Dilbert	Typesetting/TeX	Return of the Quickies	HIG
After the iPhone, Silence...	And Now, For Something Completely Different	Global Marketplace? Hah!	iPhone Madness, Again (and Again, and Again...)
HOWTO: Install DokuWiki on Tiger	The GIMP	The Mac, Google's Second-Rate Platform?	Stereo Migraine
Feed Me	File Juicer	Moonlighting	Feed Raid
Random Tidbits	Take Two	Is Mac OS X Becoming Crufty?	Bullet Time
Miscellaneous Remote Geekery	More Backlog	MIDlet Runner	Five Random Annoying Things That I've Had To Put Up With This Week
World Domination	Synchronicity Revisited	Momentous Stuff	Real News
SonyEricsson HID Profiles	28 Degrees	Word	Word
Remotely Possible	Donating Hardware In Lisbon?	Cooling Off	So What Is Rosetta, Anyway?
Linux, Microsoft and the Osborne	Five Misconceptions Regarding The So-Called Apple-Intel Deal	Mice and Cake	Pastilha, I Hardly Knew Ye
Leisure Notes	Musings on File Management UIs	Certifiably Secure	TextEdit
HOWTO Convert (and Rotate) Windows PDFs	Link Mode	UML and Mac OS X Goodness	Ruby Shower Epiphanies
Stripe Three	Needing a Change	Monday Mode	iScroll2
Recharging	10.3.9 - Safari in Uncharted Lands	Ouch...	Laptop Linux, Revisited
Miss Congenial Allergy	The Wheel, That Radical New Concept	Back To Work	ReGrowl - A Growl Notification Relay
Nvu	Link Mode	Where Do You Want To Groove Today?	Wednesday
Cat For Hare	A Test Of Patience	News Trawling	Notes:
Chilling Out	News, in a Nutshell	3G On Your Mac	Coding Challenge: Build the best VNC client for the Mac
Brownout Gone Black	Behold, the Monolith	Reflections Of a Much Too Tired Tecnophile	Monday, Obviously
Ten Open Source Projects Worth Keeping Track Of	Figures	Backlog	The Worst Day? Not Really
Getting A Custom Mac in Portugal Is Damn Nigh Impossible	Apple Calls	iMac G5: A New Hope	Mini Madness
Cement Shoes	Apple Distribution in Portugal, Revisited	Hey, Cupertino, We Definitely Have A Problem	Workshop Day
Playing Catch-Up	We Apologize For The Inconvenience	Keynote Intermezzo	Relaxing Sunday
Re-Focusing	Resources:	Interstitial Progress	Projects/PicoRendezvous
Predictions for 2005	2004 in Review	A Minor Rant on Apple Distribution	Merry Xmas
Como Estas?	Cursory Links	2004 Predictions, Revisited	Restful Day
Open Source Myopia, Revisited	MSN Toolbar Suite: First Impressions	My Delicious Library Review	Initiated Vacation Countdown
Mobilizing Your Delicious Library	Palmolinux?	Apple and IBM, Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G	PowerPC
Xmas Phones	Purring Comebacks	Growl - Why Don't We Make This a Standard?	Extreme Shopping
Vodka and Strawberry Ice	Minor Things	A Leisurely Stroll Through the News	Miscellaneous Coding
The Empire Strikes Back	Practical Subversion	General Failure, Destroyer Of Worlds	Slight Overload
Fall of the Web Wall	Coming up this week	Birds Of A Feather	Completely Biased News Coverage
Blackberry Day.	My Third Fedora	Burst Mode	The Duck
Five Quickies	Tired.	Five Things I Don't Like About Modern Phones	RadioSHARK
A Bit More on TextMate	Idle Surfing	That Bird, by Thunder!	The Near-Perfect PDA?
The Opaqueness Of Proxies	HOWTO: Installing RedHat 9 on a Qube 3	Thought of the Day	Little Gripes
Getting Things Done	Essential Happenings of Yesterday	Dowsing - Even Better than del.icio.us.	Hey, You With the RSS Reader!
Why I Hate Mondays	NLSU2 Bootstrapping	Linking Spree	Geeking Out
The Ugliest Phones In The World, and Then Some	Networking Oddities	The iMac G5	Geek Timeline
The Odd Monday Out	Odds and Ends of Digital Warfare	Take Two Tablets and Call Me in a Month	Twisted SIPping
Peripathetic Rant On Mac OS X 10.3.5, Bluetooth and RFID	Bluetooth HID Support in Mac OS X 10.3.5	Mac OS X/DNS and .local	Mozilla
Click-By Links	Firefox Search Plugins, Quicksilver Update	Geek Toast	Partition Day
Miscellaneous Exchange Geekery	The Day After	The Linux Pendulum	Keyboards are Back in Style
Return Of The Links	Notes On The Z1010	The Perfect (Smart)Phone?	RSS Trawling
Stuff I've Missed	Odds and Ends	The First Real, Live Mac Virus, Photographed In Action	Resources:
The Top Five Mac OS X Applications I Can't Live Without	Housekeeping	The Quest, Revisited	Focus Shift
Don't Panic	The Day After	Fix a Troubled Mac	Put a Monkey In Your Phone
Juggling Windows	Rhapsody In Yellow	Lessons Learned	Backlog Squared
Bandwidth Capping and Eyecandy	Short News Bites	Backlog	The Usability Wars
PowerPointing Blues	The Humane Mac	Let's Have An Argument, Then	Link Mode (Again):
Nokia's Lifeblog	Time Does Not Dilate	VCD	Need Internet Access In Portugal?
The Y Window System?	A World Gone Mad	Slow News Day	Unreality Sucks
Palm Dumping Mac OS X Support?	Crystal	Dog Tired	Address-o-Sync
Monday Rush	cocoAspell	The Panther Won't Print At Home - Or Will It?	Surface Tension
Monotheists, Liberals, and The Blind	BlueDock	Link Mode	Slow Progress
Calendar Day: Sync, Mix, Crash.	MIDIfy Yourself	Too Many Machines?	Combing The Net
Why GarageBand Matters	My Precious	The MacWorld 2004 Keynote	Deep Impact
So MIDP is a Standard and Java is portable, huh?	Want to help port KDE stuff to Mac OS X?	2003++	Happy New Year!
Konquering Mac OS X?	Address Book Trivia	LyX/Mac	HOWTO: Enable Rendezvous on Fedora Linux
Winding Down	AppleScript/Share2Blue2th	Pattern Recognition	Unobtrusive Tech
Hardware/Plextor/PX-708UF	Rendezvous on Fedora	The Magnesium iMac	Random Stuff
Indigo	Series 60/Software/Veta Universal	Notes on the Sony Ericsson AT Menu Commands	Romeo
The Wi-Fi Blackberry	Dual Burn-In	The PC Junkyard	Offsets
Holiday Time, Marketing Deluge.	Links To Exaustion	Monday Shift	Quiet Day, Low Traffic
Cutting Corners