When Is Your PowerPC Mac Too Old?
Charles Moore raises a good point in Thoughts on Using Older Macs as Work Machines: As much as we may love our old Macs, some of them just don’t have what it takes to be productive in the wired and...
View ArticleAeroFS Gives Dropbox a Run for Its Money
Talk is cheap. So is storage. But what isn’t cheap is cloud storage, when you need a lot of it – or at least it wasn’t cheap, before AeroFS Before I get too far into this, I guess I should admit that...
View ArticleDropbox Mobile: A Photo Stream Alternative
Dropbox for your mobile offers a superb over-the-air Photo Stream alternative for older iPhones, Androids, and other platforms. Photo Stream saves your Camera Roll from your iPhone and iPad and backs...
View ArticleDropbox Dropping Tiger and Leopard Support in May
I was disappointed to receive an email from Dropbox on Tuesday telling me that Dropbox will be dropping support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard on May 18, 2015. They recommend I upgrade to OS...
View ArticlePetition to Keep Dropbox on OS X Tiger and Leopard
The announcement that Dropbox will drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 clients in May has sent shockwaves through the low-end community. Many of us depend on Dropbox to sync files with our older...
View ArticleWhat We Want from Dropbox
I don’t know how I ever got along before Dropbox, which lets me sync files on any of my Macs running OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, and 10.9 Mavericks. Dropbox also lets me...
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