Resources
Assorted resources that I regularly use. You might find them useful too.
• Mac OS X
Lion and Mountain Lion Application Compatibility Info
Mountain Lion’s Minimum Requirements also this.
Snow Leopard Application Compatibility Info and here also
Printer and Scanner Compatibility for Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion.
Apple still sells Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and Lion (OS X 10.7) for $19.99 each. Buy Snow Leopard from Apple’s web site. To purchase Lion call AppleCare at 1-800-275-2273. They’ll reportedly issue you a code that can be redeemed at the Mac App Store.
• Technical Details about Macs and other Apple Products
MacTracker, EveryMac and Low End Mac
Identify your iPhone model and your iPad model
Lookup your Mac’s Serial at AppleSerialNumber or PowerBook Medic or Chipmunk
• Repairing Macs and other Apple Products
Do It Yourself Mac Repair and Take-A-Part Guides - iFixIt and PowerBook Medic
Repairing iPhones, iPads and iPod Touchs
Mac Parts – caveat emptor, read the detail and check the return policy: MacPro, UsedMac, MacPartsOnline and MacPalace
• Buying and Selling Macs, iPhones and iPads
New - Mac Prices and Mac Rumors Buyer’s Guide
Used or Refurbished – LowEndMac Best Deals, PowerMax or UsedMac and RSS Feed for Apple refurbished Macs or accessories
Pricing Your Used Mac - LowEndMac Deals and Seattle CraigsList
Selling iPhones and Other Electronic Gadgets
• Hardware and Peripherals
Finding Best Prices - Google Shopping and DealMac
Frequent Vendors - Provantage and Other World Computing
Cable, Adapters, Face Plates and More - Monoprice, Vetco Electronics, DeepSurplus, Geeks.com and CableJive
Cable Management, Organizing and Labeling
Custom Cables - DataPro in Ballard or Redmond Cable
Hardware Stores - Aubuchon and Home Fix It Parts
• Networking
Check to see if an IP number is blacklisted at MXToolbox or SenderScore
PFSense - Open Source Firewall
Configure wireless router as an access point
• Training, Learning and Education Resources
Lynda.com - hundreds of topics. Some freebies. Subscribe for about $25/month.
NoteBook Productions - General Mac Training
CommonCraft - -blog, twitter, hardware, software, web browsers, QR codes and others
• Software
Pure Mac, Old Mac Applications, Open Source Software for Macs,
Software Discounts - Academic Superstore or Royal
TechSoup - Technology and Software for Non-Profits
Microsoft Office - Office for Mac Help and Cortig. Also: Word, Excel, Entourage and PowerPoint. Download Office 2011 demo version.
Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe CS 6 Macintosh System Requirements and here also
- Adobe CS 6 Product Matrix
- Adobe CS 5 Macintosh System Requirements and here also
- Lion – known issues with Adobe products
- Mountain Lion compatibility with Adobe Creative Suite
Mac OS X Server - AFP548 and Hoffman Labs
Flash-emulator of versions of Windows so you can send instructions to clients using Windows.
