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Title: In defense of old Mac software Post by: HCK on June 30, 2016, 04:05:16 pm In defense of old Mac software
<article> <section class="page"> <p>In some ways, you wouldn’t suspect me of being out of date. I’ve got an iPhone 6s, a one-port MacBook, and an iPad Pro, and I spend my days typing at a walking desk—a standing desk with a treadmill underneath. (No man bun, though. Sorry.)</p><p>Scratch the surface, and I’m a man out of time. My email program doesn’t display HTML and doesn’t support IMAP. My personal finance program has “2007” in its name. When I need to muck about with CSS for a Web page, I fire up software left behind years ago by its developer. And my favorite new iOS app is the one-bit photography program BitCam (http://iconfactory.com/bc.html).</p><p>It’s not that I’m into artisanally handcrafted 1s and 0s, though—it’s that nothing has appeared that provides the specific functionality I want, much less paired with improvements. I’m not alone. When I consult other long-time Mac users, I get a list of software to which they cling, some of which continues to receive compatibility updates, but is otherwise frozen with features from several years to a decade ago.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3088327/macs/in-defense-of-old-mac-software.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: In defense of old Mac software (http://www.macworld.com/article/3088327/macs/in-defense-of-old-mac-software.html#tk.rss_all) |