#macuser — Public Fediverse posts

@SimonCHulse So, I have a very old Macbook that has a fully loaded version of PowerPoint installed (that still works). I keep that Macbook offline, and use USBs or external harddrives to transfer files. As to whether that technique will work on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 is unknown. I would suggest that folks turn back the clock and keep those old Macs offline if possible...

#SolarPunkSunday #MacUser #RetroComputing #MicrosoftSucks

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pikapods/116668660522587387

Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday ! Another reason for Mac users to switch to #OpenOffice or #LibreOffice software!

#OpenSource #MicrosoftSucks #Office2019 #Office2021 #MacUser #MacNews

🐑 Oh, look! Another Mac user shaking the heavens with their latest epiphany: AI automation! 🙄 Apparently, "Sky" is doing something so groundbreaking that the author needed days to process its... *breathtaking* impact. Spoiler: It's as revolutionary as an extra icon in the dock. 🚀💤
https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/06/03/2155 #AIautomation #MacUser #Sky #innovation #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Homebrew auf dem Mac installieren – Schritt für Schritt

https://techupdate.io/apple/homebrew-auf-dem-mac-installieren-schritt-fuer-schritt/50222/

#apple #macos #macbook #automation #homebrew #tutorial #macsetup #devtools #macuser #forbeginners

@stbc Nicht zu 100%, aber die 60% sind mir lieber als die 0%, die ich ohne hätte. ;-) #MacUser

Here is a vintage #TTRPG tip, use archive.org Magazine rack to view old gaming mags.
Lots of #TSR #Dragon magazines are available.
https://archive.org/details/magazine_rack?query=dragon

I had success finding issues of #Dungeon, #Polyhedron, Pegasus, and Fantasy Modeling

#SciFi and #Traveller related, I found #Ares, High Passage, Far Traveller, and The Space Gamer.

Other titles of interest...
#SciFi Mags like Galaxy
#Apple Computer mags like #MacUser, #MacWorld

Could be my new way to pass time while waiting at the DMV.

#MacUser June #1997

#retroapple #retro

https://www.themacattic.com/magazines/macuser/1997/june/page/99/0

Almost nobody knows that I was an editor at MacUser magazine. That's because I got hired just about 4 months before the merger between Ziff-Davis' #MacUser and IDG's #MacWorld.

I ended up bouncing to PC World, where I stayed for a decade.

I was hired because I was an inveterate Mac tinkerer, while just a novice editor. So imagine my surprise as I literally just discovered a feature I've never seen before in a Mac system.

I knew the (OS 8.1) system's text editor, SimpleText, had text-to-speech tools built right into the front end. What I didn't know is that, among the range of voices you can choose to read aloud whatever is in the text editor, is a voice called Pipe Organ that literally sings whatever text is in the document in a style I can only describe as 60s-robotic-Gregorian Chant.

And the best part? The tune the voice kind of sings along with is March of the Marionette, otherwise known as the theme song from the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

You have *not* experienced "new features" documentation about software until you've had it sung to you by a mournful robot with a Hitchcock fetish.

#retromac #retrocomputing #sheepshaver #macos

Ho Ho Ho! Forget that bottle of scotch, I want Maccessories!

#MacUser - 1987 - December

#VintageApple #VintageComputing

#MacUser - 1985 - December 😍