Apple Macintosh Links¶
This is a list of places with Apple computer products or services. And a set of links I use to support my home network of Apple products.
Home Network¶
The home network is an example of the always-on wireless web. It works great. Everyone should use a new Airport that is both WAN router and wireless hub.
Internet Gateway¶
I have a Road Runner cable modem as my connection to the Internet. I worry about limitations of having AOL/Time Warner as my connectivity provider. I would have preferred Covad-supplied DSL, but I’m too far from the switch.
Airport Router¶
An Apple Airport. This provides wireless connectivity to the CAB’s Book, iMac1, iMac2 and several other “guest” laptops from employers and the kid’s roving PowerBook and MacBook. It also provides DHCP services to the wired LAN machine.
Starlet Hub¶
The wired network uses a Farallon Starlet 5-node hub. There’s currently only one machine on this network, but a hub makes it possible for other wired machines to be supported.
DVD iMac 2¶
DVD iMac 2 is a low-rent Digital Music and Video editing bay.
This is running Mac OS 10.4.
This has BlueTooth so that my phone, the address book and iCal are all synchronized by iSync.
- Apple Airport wireless card
- Cannon ZR45MC DV Camcorder
- Handspring Visor Deluxe (Blue)
- Pioneer DVR-A05 DVD Writer.
- LaCie 120 Gb FireWire drive.
- D-Link Bluetooth interface (DBT-120).
- Griffin PowerMate knob.
- Griffin iMic audio interface.
- Belkin powered USB Hub.
- Epson Stylus Photo R340, USB interface.
- Epson Color Scanner 1250, USB interface.
- Three disk drives salvaged from old computers, and mounted in FireWire enclosures.
Dell Tower¶
Dell Linux Server. Used for web server-side development of Tomcat Servlets, CGIs, databases and unique application servers.
CA iBook¶
CAB’s iBook. Basic, off-the-shelf 12” iBook: 800 Mhz, G4 PPC.
MacBook 2¶
A garden-variety MacBook.
History¶
Other stuff that has come and gone. The list of stuff that was once high-tech is getting longer and funnier every year.
- A gray, clamshell iBook, dating from 2000.
- A MacSense XRouter Pro MIH-130. A router-firewall that allows the entire home network to use RoadRunner.
- A Performa 6115 CD using L2 cache, a 1Gb SCSI disk, a 250Mb SCSI zip drive, joystick and speakers.
- Dynatek (1G disk), OEM suppliers of FWB’s Disktools.
- CH Products (Jetstick joystick).
- ViewSonic G773 monitor
- Cyber Acoutics MMS-50/CA-50 speakers and subwoofer
- Macsense (Ethernet Transceiver)
- Iomega (250M Zip Drive)
- A Farallon iPrint Adapter to bridge between Ethernet and Localtalk networks.
- A vintage 1985 Mac Plus with a Brainstorm Accelerator and a LaCie 70Mb disk.
- A vintage 1985 Mac Plus with a LaCie 30Mb disk.
- DVD iMac 1 - a blueberry, slot-loading iMac.
- NEC Silentwriter 95 laser printer, “The Darby Press” (FTP site for printer files).
- Global Village Teleport 56K external modem
- Asante PCMCIA Ethernet Card
- NEC 32X CD Player
- A Belkin firewire hub (useless since most firewire devices daisy-chain)
- A Belkin firewire to SCSI converter to make the Zip drive work.
Marketplace¶
Apple Software Updates, check here for the new files list:
Apple FTP sites
Apple WWW sites
While I do a great deal of mail-order, I do buy some things from my local Apple dealer, Castle Computers. They have a complete line of hardware, software and services. This includes web site design.
My primary mail-order vendors: MacWarehouse, and MacMall
Information¶
General Apple Links.
- Dan Slagel’s iMovie FAQ page.
- Apple Computer main site. Also, their Developer University. And their Technical Library.
- Mike Yee’s ULTIMATE Macintosh page.
- Tidbits FTP archive.
- Apple’s Info-Mac Archive. Chock-full of stuff.
- NCSA Mac Archives
- Netlabs PERL distribution area. More general information is available from YAHOO‘s PERL page.
- Sierra. They sell TIM and other games.
- MotionWorks. They sell AddMotion II and Multimedia Utilities.
- DataViz. They sell MacLink Plus translator.
- Graphsim. They sell F/A-18 Hornet, a fine flight simulator
- Microsoft. The evil empire? MacOffice.
- Eudora distribution area
- MacWarehouse, vendor of software, hardware, etc.
- Ajubasolutions (formerly Scriptics), which has the Macintosh version of Tcl/Tk. Sometimes I think this is cooler than PERL (embeddable, simple, rigorous rules).
- Surfcontrol, makers of Surfwatch and CyberPatrol. Surfwatch a little easier to get along with, but not as feature-rich as CyberPatrol.
- Intuit, makers of Quicken and MacInTax.
- Gérard Ceccaldi’s Epson Share to share my Epson 704i around the home network.
- The Python organization (supported by Zope). Forget Tcl, forget PERL. Focus on Python.
- Thorsten Lemke’s Graphic Converter.
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