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A Fleet of Power Mac G5s⇢

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Daniel Knight at LowEndMac has taken on quite the project:

A couple weeks ago I picked up 12 used Power Mac G5s for free, and I already had five at home, including one dual-core machine. One of these has no power supply (I bought a single CPU model for less than a used power supply for my dual processor G5 would have cost me). Some of the newly acquired ones have no RAM, no video cards, and/or no hard drives. But except for the three 1.6 GHz machines and the dual-core model, they all take the same memory. Further, I can readily swap drives and video cards, giving the fastest machines better configurations.

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Corel Buying Parallels⇢

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Corel — the makers of CorelDraw and WordPerfect, among other things — is purchasing Parallels, the virtualization company, according to Ingrid Lunden at TechCrunch:

Employees at Parallels were briefed on the acquisition Tuesday, one source said. Terms have not been disclosed, but we understand it is an all-cash deal.

The acquisition is expected to close in December, and the companies will make the news public then. From what we understand, Corel will keep Parallels as an independent product.

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Kbase Article of the Week: System 7: The Desktop Button Replaces the "Drive" Button⇢

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Apple Support:

The Drive button in the Open, Save, and Save As dialog boxes has been replaced by the “Desktop” button. When you click the Desktop button, you will see all of the hard disks, floppies, file servers, and folders that you have on your Macintosh desktop. To move to a specific disk, you can go directly to the disk you want, without having to move sequentially from one disk drive to the next.

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The One Where I Announce I’m Joining Mac Power Users

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When I first started listening to podcasts, one of the first shows I subscribed to was Mac Power Users. Over the years, I’ve learned a ton from David and Katie. There are many parts of my daily computing workflow that I first heard about on MPU.

In 2015, MPU joined Relay FM. In our announcement, I wrote:

I’ve listened to Apple podcasts for a long time, and with over 250 episodes published, Mac Power Users has been a constant listen of mine for years.

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Six Minutes of Terror⇢

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Tomorrow’s a big day for space nerds. NASA will be landing its newest remote robotic outpost on Mars, as William Hardwood writes:

After a six-month voyage from Earth, NASA’s InSight Mars lander, streaking through space at at some 12,300 mph, will slam into the thin martian atmosphere Monday afternoon to begin a nail-biting six-and-a-half-minute descent to the surface, kicking off a billion-dollar mission to probe the red planet’s hidden interior.

If it makes it to the surface safely, InSight will help us understand the internal structure of Mars, giving us new … insight … into how our own world was formed.

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Connected #219: Your Best Friend, Base64⇢

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This week on Connected:

Stephen formalizes a new show segment, Federico is making magic in Shortcuts and Myke has thoughts about picture frames.

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The 512 Pixels Holiday Gift Guide for People Like Me

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I’m happy to present the 2018 edition of the 512 Pixels Holiday Gift Guide for People Like Me:

  1. Maybe next year! ↩︎

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