The Low End Mac Collection
This collection of how-to articles, editorials, and other miscellaneous writing is all content that was originally published on Low End Mac from 2000-2003. After I left the site, the content was homeless for some time, but the Internet gods have smiled upon these humble works and chrislawson.net has given them a home. Please enjoy or hate them as you will, but heed this disclaimer:
No information provided herein carries any warranty or guarantee of accuracy or efficacy. By reading these articles, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the author, the Web site, its host, and any other associated entities in the event that you, the reader, screw something up. Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?
Mac Daniel How-Tos
The Mac Daniel column was started by Dan Knight back in 1997 as a sort of Macintosh help desk. The articles are based on questions or problems submitted by readers and fall primarily into the "how-to" category, although there is some editorial content here.
- 01 February 2000: Connecting Macs
- 14 March 2000: Cleaning Floppy Drives
- 24 March 2000: Making a Video Adjustment Tool
- 29 March 2000: Problems With Floppy Disks
- 04 April 2000: How Can I Burn a CD?
- 12 April 2000: Choosing a Good Printer
- 05 May 2000: A Larger Hard Drive
- 06 June 2000: Holy Grail: The Mac IIfx
- 27 June 2000: Resurrected Centris
- 28 July 2000: Upgrading a Power Mac 7500
- 30 August 2000: Best Compact Mac for QuickTime
- 05 September 2000: What's the Best System for my Mac?
- 11 September 2000: Upgrading a PowerBook G3
- 18 September 2000: Upgrading an iMac
- 10 October 2000: The Best NuBus Video Card
- 17 October 2000: What's a Bus?
- 25 October 2000: Macs and Multiple Monitors
- 30 October 2000: Accelerating Unaccelerated NuBus Video Cards
- 06 November 2000: The Best 68K Video Card
- 13 November 2000: Faster SCSI or Ethernet?
- 20 November 2000: Mac SCSI Overview
- 30 November 2000: Free CD-ROM Drivers
- 19 February 2001: How Large a Drive Does My Mac Support?
- 26 February 2001: The Best OS for a Power Mac
- 16 April 2001: Setting Up a Networked Printer
- 25 April 2001: The Lowest-End Internet Mac
- 30 April 2001: Sensible Mac Upgrades
- 23 May 2001: Upgrading the Colour Classic
- January 2002: The Great Classic Mac OS Browser Shootout
- 23 January 2002: Browser Shootout Feedback
Tech Reflections Columns
Tech Reflections was the title of the editorial column I wrote from late 2000 through 2003. While not exclusively Mac-based, it was indeed biased in that direction, keeping with the overall theme of Low End Mac.
- 21 November 2000: OS X Is a Big, Scary, Unknown Beast
- 01 December 2000: Is OS X a Big, Scary, Unknown Beast?
- 11 December 2000: Random Reflections on OS X
- 21 February 2001: Writing on the Web
- 23 February 2001: Flower What?
- 12 April 2001: Long Live GURU
- 26 April 2001: Macintosh Computing on the Cheap — Very Cheap
- 03 May 2001: The Firmware Police
- 08 May 2001: It's Not Apple's Fault
- 10 May 2001: Hands On: Mozilla 0.9, Part 1
- 14 May 2001: Hands On: Mozilla 0.9, Part 2
- 05 July 2002: Press Nazi Says, "No Pass For You!"
Tech Week in Review Archives
While technically falling under the Tech Reflections umbrella, I've separated these out as their own series, because it was as Tech Week in Review that the column truly came into its own.
- 03 August 2001
- 10 August 2001
- 17 August 2001
- 24 August 2001
- 31 August 2001
- 07 September 2001
- 14 September 2001
- 24 September 2001
- 28 September 2001
- 05 October 2001
- 12 October 2001
- 22 October 2001
- 26 October 2001
- 02 November 2001
- 04 January 2002
- 11 January 2002
- 21 January 2002
- 25 January 2002
- 01 February 2002
- 08 February 2002
Other LEM Content
I've lumped together assorted other content — a "My First Mac" article and some software reviews — here.
- My First Mac: From Small Beginnings
- Shareware of the Week: Battery Amnesia
- Shareware of the Week: Extensions Strip
- Shareware of the Week: AOL Instant Messenger
- OS X Browser Shootout — accidentally published in incomplete form in January 2003. Some revision has since been done, but it's still incomplete.