Month: December 2011

The Apple ][ command shell, Davex is now available for download.  The shell written by famed Apple programmer Dave Lyons, is a pure command line shell for ProDOS 8. According to David Schmidt’s post in CSA2, “The current (preliminary) version is 1.30p, and includes executables on disk images for both ProDOS and SOS computers and emulators.  The ProDOS version currently lacks some of the external commands (but you can watch the Sourceforge project for more), and the SOS version is…

This morning, Google announced the availability of Currents, their Flipboard like application for the iPhone, iPad and Android.  The App system itself produces very nice clean type and has a number of popular magazines already in the system, including out Call-A.P.P.L.E. News.  You can download the Google Currents version of Call-A.P.P.L.E. News at: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowyI4W/call_apple_news You can download the Google Currents App from the following location: http://www.google.com/producer/currents?referrer=utm_source%3Dlinkshare%26utm_medium%3Dweb%26utm_campaign%3DCAow6LoV

This article is presented for those with Intel Macs (and PCs) who choose to have an alternative operating system available. It is possible to install it as a Dual-Boot system, Virtual Machine, or just run it from the live DVD. Late last month (November) Mint 12 was released to the public (free). Mint is a full multi-media distribution of Linux. There has been a lot of extremely positive press about this version. It’s almost as if someone hired the PR…