With Macworld Expo coming up, you may want to take a peek at Apple history.  John F. Braun checks out Mactracker, which has information about both old and new Mac hardware and software.

 

The most recent batch of portable Macs introduced a new feature called hibernate, a mode that saves the contents of RAM to your hard drive. If you totally lose power, you'll be able to restore the state of your machine by reading the contents of RAM from your hard drive. Today's Monday's Mac Gadget looks at SmartSleep, a utility that lets you fine-tune this behavior to your liking.

 

John F. Braun checks out KeyCue, a handy utility that help you learn about keyboard shortcuts.

John F. Braun checks out KeyCue, a handy utility that help you learn about keyboard shortcuts.

John F. Braun take a look at Macaroni, a utility that helps automate the maintenance of your Mac.

John F. Braun takes a look at Solve Elec, a program that lets you design and analyze both DC and AC circuits.

John F. Braun checks out Mira, a preference pane that allows you to take full advantage of your Apple Remote.

In this installment of Monday's Mac Gadget, John F. Braun checks out AirRadar, a wireless network scanner that will tell you everything you need to know about the base stations available to your Mac.

When Apple moved from PowerPC to Intel, many were concerned about how their existing PowerPC applications would run on the Intel processor. Fortunately, there are two compatability paths. One is to run an existing PowerPC application under Rosetta, which translates PowerPC code to Intel. The other option to use a Universal Binary, a Mac application that contains both PowerPC and Intel code. But do you really want to waste disk space by storing code for a processor you don't have? Enter Xslimmer.

Becoming a recent Twitter junkie, John F. Braun decides to check out twhirl, a client for the popular micro-blogging platform.