A man with a watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure.
I built a PTP clock, and now I'm not sure what time it is.
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A brand new full-length article! Be sure to stick around for part 2, as this only covers up to the iPhone 7.
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Now updating the iOS/iDevice chip section. Some more articles coming soon - but I'll spare everyone the flurry of posts which would come with updating A6 thru A17 Pro.
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Every now and again, a LaBouche cover of Smile - Butterfly comes on in my head.
In the process of trying to find out which site plugin went rogue and made it say "This site has experienced a critical error". That plugin was lucky I was preoccupied! 😅
They just updated PowerFox to also have a Mac OS X 10.5 Intel version, also.
powerfox.jazzzny.me/download.html
SSDs are common in computers these days, and today Low End Mac covers the different types you may find in your computer.
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A photo of the top of a G5 powermac, a silvery aluminium mac tower with a front grille of holes for air flow. It still has asset tags on it from Microsoft and Country Life Magazine, in 2004.
Next up - cleaning one of the G5s.
Why ever buy a new Mac when you can always wait? Here at High End Mac, this is how you do it.
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Here's a new full-length article for today! Taking a look at the different image file formats we run into on our Apple gear...
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New article! A brief, visual project rewind to when I fixed up my Titanium PowerBook G4.
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A disassembled 16-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro with no NAND packages on the main board and two of the battery cells replaced with 1.8" iPod hard drives.
Due to rising NAND prices, Apple takes inspiration from the original MacBook Air and ships the M5 generation of MacBooks with iPod hard drives instead of SSDs. Despite the slower speeds, they earned improved iFixit scores due to the better repairability.
#AlternateTimelineApple
A new PowerPC Mac App highlight! Taking a focus on that brand new PowerPC browser.
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PowerFox 26.2.1 for PowerPC Beta comes with 2026 SSL certs and looks very promising, considering I was able to login without issue, browsing many websites with their modern UI (including Apple)!
A few more because of course this is going to be the cover design of all my work notebooks from now until I'm over this phase.
Why does it look like it could be radioactive?
Why does this look like it could be radioactive
The new UI is being worked on, and the basic structure is almost done.
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Cleaned up this one in Photoshop CS4, really like how it came out!
A Casio keyboard that has a bunch of real keys but the main section is a touchscreen with a keyboard shown on it
...but have you ever used a keyboard with a touchscreen with a keyboard on it?