{"id":145,"date":"2006-01-24T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:26:14","slug":"mactracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/mactracker","title":{"rendered":"Mactracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-images\/applelogofade.png\" \/>Occasionally I find myself working with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Mac<\/a> owner who is not near their computer, and can give me little more then a processor class and a physical description of the machine itself.  Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mactracker.ca\">Mactracker<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a nifty little tool with all sorts of information on every Apple,  Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac ever released, as well as iPods, scanners, printers and other Apple accessories.<\/p>\n<p>The information it provides includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Processor speed<\/li>\n<li>Memory<\/li>\n<li>Optical drives<\/li>\n<li>Graphics cards<\/li>\n<li>Ssupported Mac OS versions<\/li>\n<li>Expansion options<\/li>\n<li>Photographs<\/li>\n<li>Startup and shutdown sounds (not really useful, but fun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mactracker&#8217;s product database updates itself automatically, and the authors seem to be fairly active in terms of adding useful features to the software itself.  For instance, they recently added a timeline feature which shows all the products cataloged in the order they were released, broken down by year.  I consider it well worth the 18MB of hard drive space if you ever have to deal with older Macs.<\/p>\n<p><tags>Apple, Mac, Mactracker, tech support, UMAX, PowerComputing, iPod,  computers<\/tags><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I find myself working with a Mac owner who is not near their computer, and can give me little more then a processor class and a physical description of the machine itself. Enter Mactracker. It&#8217;s a nifty little tool with all sorts of information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac ever released, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}