Thanx! But unfortunately Dropbox only shows a zero-MB-file...
Anyway - "Automatic 2" "Showrss" "uTorrent" will give this/my challenge a very new direction ...
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Inaugural Winter PowerPC Challenge! January 1-7, 2017
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Thanx! But unfortunately Dropbox only shows a zero-MB-file...
Anyway - "Automatic 2" "Showrss" "uTorrent" will give this/my challenge a very new direction ...
First day on G5, nothing to report really. just spent all day watching brooklyn nine nine worked fine in VLC
Thanx! But unfortunately Dropbox only shows a zero-MB-file...
Anyway - "Automatic 2" "Showrss" "uTorrent" will give this/my challenge a very new direction ...
Try again , might have posted too early before it had fully synched, this links to the Public folder
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e73y5qc28urarxt/AADlDkhtqVdXc1qLk5TxvtmNa?dl=0
I am starting to believe that this is my situation as well.
I am not engaged in the challenge simply because I have been part of the challenge since 2003 when I converted to Mac.
I do have access to my MacPro at work, but the only time I really use that Mac for personal use is either hard drive cloning or iTunes backups/restores with my iPhone.
My MBP isn't my daily driver. That would be my PowerBook and now my G5.
98% of my personal daily Mac use is browsing the internet. Even my PowerBook does fine for that.
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Ignore the "0". Just initiate the download. It's 13.1MB.Thanx! But unfortunately Dropbox only shows a zero-MB-file...
Anyway - "Automatic 2" "Showrss" "uTorrent" will give this/my challenge a very new direction ...
I'm stepping in, one day later. I'll use my 15" PowerBook G4 1.5GHz and my MDD Dual 1.25GHz FW800.
I'll write some notes on mikiotty.wordpress.com, no videos (if not necessary to show something).
...aaand here we are. Man, it's been a while since I used this Mac.
I'll write some notes on mikiotty.wordpress.com, no videos (if not necessary to show something).
...aaand here we are. Man, it's been a while since I used this Mac.
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I did not sign up for this challenge because I have been away from the PowerPC section of this forum for quite some time. Since I am not signed up for this challenge, in the spirit of this challenge, I will still try to stay with my two 12 inch Powerbook G4 laptops for all my computer needs this week. This should be interesting.
Hey, @Gamer9430, I'm on the participants list on the first post twice, just to let ya know.
It's been going well so far! Got my MDD right now here in front of me with my latest acquisition, my 17" Studio Display, listening to some music by The Eames Era on Spotify, posting on here and checking Twitter.
It's been going well so far! Got my MDD right now here in front of me with my latest acquisition, my 17" Studio Display, listening to some music by The Eames Era on Spotify, posting on here and checking Twitter.
Sniffing around the PPC forums again, just to see what's up. I'm now in college, and abruptly dropped PPC altogether during my later high school years. That being said, if I hadn't received my 1,1 Mac Pro (and later a free 4,1 Mac Pro), I'd either be using my PMG5/iMac G5 alongside my 2009 MacBook Pro, or I'd have the MacBook Pro be a "desktop" machine (with attached monitor) and use some PPC notebook on the side.
Three things accelerated my unwillingness to continue using PPC products (which I actually used mainly, even after my first Intel machine was introduced to me in 2012).
1. I was focussing on college-related material and had to stop distracting myself with vintage tech equipment
2. I started using iMessage/Messages more (on desktop) and currently have to rely on it for all my instant messaging, save for Facebook Messenger. I couldn't even stay on Snow Leopard on my Intel machine, since it would mean no Messages.
3. My 2003 PowerMac G5 was noisy and sucked a lot of our expensive electricity, and it felt weird using it when my silent laptop would do everything I was doing and more. I switched back to my iMac G5 as my main desktop, but it slow browsing speeds altered my timeliness on completing homework assignments; and the sheer noise of that desktop started to drive me insane. (Typing papers on it was fine, though). Seriously, 2015 was a BAD year for the integrity of PowerPC Macs. After around 2012, things fell apart because many websites began filling themselves with utter B.S., like integrated media content and such. The Web is a pain even on a new computer...
I COULD probably do the challenge, but I'm on break and have no school work. I'm barely doing anything on normal machines as it is; and most of it is Web-based stuff that the PPC Mac would have a hard time dealing with. I could try it back at college, but college sites and such, which I often visit, would probably be a total pain on a PPC Mac - and I'd have to transport something weak, such as a PowerBook, all the way to my university.
Like I've said, if I were a grown adult with a job and predictable path, I could probably have a PowerMac G5 or some PPC Mac set up on my desk, to perform tasks that I already am aware of. I mean, if someone's job is making spreadsheets, they already know what every day of their career is gonna look like and what exact piece of technology they need to get them through their job. Schoolwork isn't too demanding for many computers, but life isn't too predictable at the stage of being a student.
So, at the most, I could have possibly had a PowerMac on the side or something (along with my MacBook), but I came upon Mac Pros and such. Much better computers to use as daily drivers. Heck, I am wondering if I would have still completely given up PPC, regardless of whether or not I had received those Mac Pros. I'm sure I would have gravitated closer to the MacBook Pro. I just can't imagine what I would still do on a PowerPC Mac these days, besides typing papers and reading the e-mails (and I barely use e-mail anymore). My needs have changed.
Three things accelerated my unwillingness to continue using PPC products (which I actually used mainly, even after my first Intel machine was introduced to me in 2012).
1. I was focussing on college-related material and had to stop distracting myself with vintage tech equipment
2. I started using iMessage/Messages more (on desktop) and currently have to rely on it for all my instant messaging, save for Facebook Messenger. I couldn't even stay on Snow Leopard on my Intel machine, since it would mean no Messages.
3. My 2003 PowerMac G5 was noisy and sucked a lot of our expensive electricity, and it felt weird using it when my silent laptop would do everything I was doing and more. I switched back to my iMac G5 as my main desktop, but it slow browsing speeds altered my timeliness on completing homework assignments; and the sheer noise of that desktop started to drive me insane. (Typing papers on it was fine, though). Seriously, 2015 was a BAD year for the integrity of PowerPC Macs. After around 2012, things fell apart because many websites began filling themselves with utter B.S., like integrated media content and such. The Web is a pain even on a new computer...
I COULD probably do the challenge, but I'm on break and have no school work. I'm barely doing anything on normal machines as it is; and most of it is Web-based stuff that the PPC Mac would have a hard time dealing with. I could try it back at college, but college sites and such, which I often visit, would probably be a total pain on a PPC Mac - and I'd have to transport something weak, such as a PowerBook, all the way to my university.
Like I've said, if I were a grown adult with a job and predictable path, I could probably have a PowerMac G5 or some PPC Mac set up on my desk, to perform tasks that I already am aware of. I mean, if someone's job is making spreadsheets, they already know what every day of their career is gonna look like and what exact piece of technology they need to get them through their job. Schoolwork isn't too demanding for many computers, but life isn't too predictable at the stage of being a student.
So, at the most, I could have possibly had a PowerMac on the side or something (along with my MacBook), but I came upon Mac Pros and such. Much better computers to use as daily drivers. Heck, I am wondering if I would have still completely given up PPC, regardless of whether or not I had received those Mac Pros. I'm sure I would have gravitated closer to the MacBook Pro. I just can't imagine what I would still do on a PowerPC Mac these days, besides typing papers and reading the e-mails (and I barely use e-mail anymore). My needs have changed.
A jailbroken iPhone with the Remote Messages tweak installed solves this for me (a long time ago as I was doing this on the G4 when I got it).
All you need on the PowerPC Mac side is a Fluid app or a FoxBox with the homepage set to the IP address and port (333) of the phone.
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Yep. As a "grown adult" I have to agree. If life and tasks are not predictable a PPC-Book is not the device "to rule them all".
(And if I could carry only ONE device, the 2012 the non-retina MacBookPro would be my only choice.)
PPCs are more a kind of a special task-force for well defined missions ... (which could make them the only necessary device anyway)
Thinking about consumption of energy, the use of a G5 really comes close to driving a 40y old Chevy.
But it's good fun, sometimes proof of concept but in most instances it's a good device at hands and with mSATA nearly unbreakable.
"works for me" means, I can use it for group-fax, mail, office, remote-access, beamer-companion, PDF-stuff of all sorts etc.
Togehter with my iPhone6 and iFiles this combination is nearly without limits.
If the shoe fits , wear it...
Have fun
ps: I really miss my (stolen) MacBookAir 11" 2014 which had been the one-for-all ...
And running the (now damned to obsolescence) late 2008 alu MacBook with attached BassJump-subwhoofer is really a step forward...
[doublepost=1483391185][/doublepost]I wonder if there's an application, that makes the Powerbooks keyboard an input device for my iPhone.
(An App like that exsists for intel-macs: one keyboard)
Or an app, that is able to display the connected iOS-device on the PPCs screen.
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Wow! Wish I had known about this earlier. Fluid seems nice. However, the other things I explained still keep me from going back. I think, however, that I could have survived with an iMac G5 and Macbook Pro, alone (now knowing how capable Fluid and Fox Boxes are).
2009 Mac Pro was hard to pass up.
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Yeah, Remote Messages has been around for a bit.
Your other two points are specific to you so in your case they are legitimate and valid reasons. As you noted though that if you had a steady job and predictable lifestyle things might be different.
I haven't been in school since before 2004 and my profession means that the school I attended had Macs. So, between work and school, I've never been in a situation where I did not have some sort of computer at hand to accomplish the needed task. And most of the time you were expected to use the school computers to get projects done so you had access to those computers and their tools.
It was therefore, unnecessary for me, to NEED an Intel Mac or anything other than what I posessed.
My wife went back to school in 2016 though so the PC laptop she had won in a raffle became necessary for her, especially since she had an online course. I will freely admit that her little 12" PowerBook would not have cut it for her.
One of the nice things though about being a Graphic Designer. I always have access to a computer.
Yeah, most people who use PPC Macs have at least one Intel Mac on the side for applications that they wouldn't be able to run on the PPC Mac.
One who ONLY uses PPC Macs would have to be someone who doesn't rely on social media, doesn't play modern games, browses little, has set work applications that he uses, etc. Seems to me that a PPC Mac is a better business computer than anything else. It's a distraction-free environment.
I got far, though. I didn't get my own Intel machine in general until 2012; and after I did get that Intel Mac, I used it for around a year before going back to my PowerPC iMac and practically using it full time. I was then on PPC pretty much full-time (my MacBook sat unused for a while) until I got my 2006 Mac Pro in Dec. 2015. Actually, if things were more predictable, the one and only thing I'd use an Intel machine for would be games (and maybe impatient 'I-want-to-just-get-this-information-now' Web-browsing). I don't game much, but the games I play are not for PPC Macs, nor could a PPC run most of them. So, if everything else were predictable and I were open to solely using PPC Macs, I'd probably have a PowerMac G5, a PowerBook G4, and some cruddy 'gaming PC' for games.
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BTW, do you use Facebook? I am wondering if Fluid or Foxbox would work for Facebook Messenger messages. There is a nice unaffiliated Messenger desktop app out there, but it's for Intel/AMD only. Does anyone send and receive Facebook messages from their PPC Mac? (I don't even like the website itself on a modern computer... just need it for contacting people.)
One who ONLY uses PPC Macs would have to be someone who doesn't rely on social media, doesn't play modern games, browses little, has set work applications that he uses, etc. Seems to me that a PPC Mac is a better business computer than anything else. It's a distraction-free environment.
I got far, though. I didn't get my own Intel machine in general until 2012; and after I did get that Intel Mac, I used it for around a year before going back to my PowerPC iMac and practically using it full time. I was then on PPC pretty much full-time (my MacBook sat unused for a while) until I got my 2006 Mac Pro in Dec. 2015. Actually, if things were more predictable, the one and only thing I'd use an Intel machine for would be games (and maybe impatient 'I-want-to-just-get-this-information-now' Web-browsing). I don't game much, but the games I play are not for PPC Macs, nor could a PPC run most of them. So, if everything else were predictable and I were open to solely using PPC Macs, I'd probably have a PowerMac G5, a PowerBook G4, and some cruddy 'gaming PC' for games.
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BTW, do you use Facebook? I am wondering if Fluid or Foxbox would work for Facebook Messenger messages. There is a nice unaffiliated Messenger desktop app out there, but it's for Intel/AMD only. Does anyone send and receive Facebook messages from their PPC Mac? (I don't even like the website itself on a modern computer... just need it for contacting people.)
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I haven't had any issues for the purposes I've put my Macs to. And the MBP I have is little used.
But my usage never seems to be common, either for computers or phones/devices.
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Yes, I do use FB. Mainly on my PowerBook. The tweaks I have done to T4Fx allow decent usage for me.
Sometimes it goes south so I usually resort to Safari (still on the PowerBook) to get things done.
I do have a Fluid app for it and a FoxBox but I don't use them much.
For fb messenger try use this:
http://shand0w.github.io/messenger0/
There is also tutorual for ppc skype modification:
http://lowendmac.com/2016/using-skype-on-your-ppc-macintosh-in-2016/
http://shand0w.github.io/messenger0/
There is also tutorual for ppc skype modification:
http://lowendmac.com/2016/using-skype-on-your-ppc-macintosh-in-2016/
My G5 is taking two Time Machine backups at once right now.
One from my MBP running Snow Leopard and one from my PowerBook G4 running Leopard. Both backups are stored on a 1TB WD Green drive plugged into a two drive USB 2.0 dock which is plugged into a USB 2.0 hub connected to my G5.
G5 has simply been handling it - unlike my G4 which seemed to have issues with the dock.
One from my MBP running Snow Leopard and one from my PowerBook G4 running Leopard. Both backups are stored on a 1TB WD Green drive plugged into a two drive USB 2.0 dock which is plugged into a USB 2.0 hub connected to my G5.
G5 has simply been handling it - unlike my G4 which seemed to have issues with the dock.
Great link! I wish I'd yuse FB for messaging...
And I wish, there was a client for WhatsApp, iMessage, Apple Notes..
For Outlines "TaskPaper" does work.
For Notes "MacJournal" is cross-platform.
Same for "SOHO Notes"
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Today has been more of a customization day. Working on projects like the macOS Sierra theme pack. I haven't used the internet much today.
I did update the iOS screensaver since I wanted it on my G5, so here is a new post about it if you want it too.
https://powerpccentre.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/updated-ios-7-screensaver-for-leopard/
I did update the iOS screensaver since I wanted it on my G5, so here is a new post about it if you want it too.
https://powerpccentre.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/updated-ios-7-screensaver-for-leopard/
Where do you these files?Today has been more of a customization day. Working on projects like the macOS Sierra theme pack. I haven't used the internet much today.
I did update the iOS screensaver since I wanted it on my G5, so here is a new post about it if you want it too.
https://powerpccentre.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/updated-ios-7-screensaver-for-leopard/
There is a link on that Wordpress post, but here is the direct:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BwEu0DzoksSld1d0a0hYbXdMWkE
I downloaded the file. Unzipping it gives me a series of files. I just need to know where they go.
None of them have .saver at the end which I am aware is the designation for screen saver.
These are the files:
iOS 7 lockscreen by bodysoulspirit.qtz
Wallpaper.jpg
iOS Lockscreen by bodysoulspirit.qtz
iOS Wallpaper.jpg
Preview iOS.png
Preview iOS7.png
Readme.pdf
Oops, sorry. The Readme looked a lot like your blog post so I kinda skipped over it.
You're all good! I tend to quote a lot of stuff between readme files and the blog post.