Without much fanfare, Apple quietly released its ‘Mac for the Rest of Us’ today, January 11, 2005, via the new Mac mini. January had been a favorite month of Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, to launch new products. Very memorable was the Jan. 24, 1984 unveiling of the very first Macintosh which was made even more…

Exactly two weeks ago, we went to the new Apple Store in Pleasanton, CA to take a glimpse of the remarkable G5 iMac which Apple released in mid-September. The new store – opened Sept 18 – was inside the Stoneridge Shopping Mall which, in turn, was conveniently situated at the junction of Interstates 580 and…

The iOpener hack parts arrived via UPS a week after I had ordered them from an East Coast computer parts company. I could have also bought the parts locally -and cheaper – but I don’t like to bother with the hassle of assembling them – specially the 44-pin IDE cable for the laptop HD that…

The thing had been sitting on a makeshift shelf on the garage – very close to the roof. I had only tested it briefly after I had acquired it from an estate auction in Dec. 2002 (too bad, I missed to get the compatible Canon printer in the same auction!!!  Grrr). Back then, it was…