#Dragthing mac for mac os#
Thanks to the abandonware movement,* most of that software for Mac OS 9 is free and available for everyone today. Every now and then I bump into one formerly unknown to me. There are many more small utilities that I use to increase my productivity. It’s also available for OS X and makes you wonder why Apple sticks to its limited dock.
Basically, it gives you the functionality of a dock, but with enhancements such as tabs and free positioning on the screen. Next, I added DragThing 2.9, an incredibly powerful shareware utility I’ve become very accustomed to. I didn’t even bother with Kaleidoscope yet. I downloaded an Aqua Theme for the Appearance Manager ( which you can download from Low End Mac’s Dropbox account), added a nice wallpaper, and voilá – it lost its 90’s smell. Luckily that is no problem, thanks to the easy customization of OS 9. OS X spoiled us all in terms of GUI appearance. With 1 GB of RAM, it just flies.Īdmittedly, OS 9 is quite an ugly duckling by default. Going with OS 9.2.2 for the TiBookĮncouraged by the performance of Classilla, I installed OS 9.2.2 on my TiBook. Demoralized by the disappointing results of iCab 3.05 and Internet Explorer 5.17, I turned to Classilla and was greatly impressed.
For OS 9, it is the Mozilla-based Classilla that gets the job done. Thanks to the efforts of tireless Cameron Kaiser and others, both operating systems still have functional browser software. The most important software today is arguably your browser. There are thousands of programs out there for each OS, and I only use a handful of them. Most developers have dropped support for 10.4 and/or the PowerPC architecture – not that it is much of a hassle to me.
#Dragthing mac mac os x#
With Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger becoming increasingly left behind, the choice between using OS X 10.4 and OS 9.2.2 on the TiBook is the choice between two obsolete operating systems. This TiBook won’t win a prize at a beauty contest, but otherwise it is fully operational. It looks like children with dirty little fingers just touched the screen. The TiBook’s color is chipped off around the edges and the polarizer, the protective film on top of the screen, is damaged. It was one of the last Power Macs able to boot natively into Mac OS 9.Īs for my computing needs on the road, I recently got a used and abused 800 MHz Titanium PowerBook (TiBook) G4 DVI that I rescued from a trashy home. Wonderful memories. That left me with my old configuration, a dual 1 GHz Power Mac G4 MDD maxed out with 2 GB of RAM. I took the money and spent it on a very nice trip with my girlfriend. I’ve sold both my Intel iMac and my MacBook Pro (Late 2008).
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