iTunes is working, photo browsing is on manual

Right now I'm using Mac OS 8.6 on the machine, so I needed a hack to get iTunes 1.1 working.

The hack is here:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5401

Unfortunately it is a little time consuming - you have to load the iTunes image, drag the installer to your hard drive, then run the patcher.

Then Run the newley patched installer.

Then run the patch again to patch the application and the extension.

But once everything is done it works like a charm and I am grateful to the person who figured out the work arounds.

Of course, plenty of other options for playing MP3s and CDs exist for Mac OS 8.6 - Audion in particular. But iTunes and the brushed metal interface are pretty recognizable and work well.

Photo browsing is on manual for right now - GraphicConverter wants ColorSync 2.0 which I must have deleted at some point in trying to pair down the system.

That should be a quick fix and then on to web browsing. Internet Explorer 5.1.7 is currently installed - I want to add Cyberdog (talk about old school!), Netscape, iCab, Wamcom, etc. Browsing in the classic Mac environment is becoming a little more frustrating - if only for the fact that you can usually get one of the above browsers to display the page properly - you just need to test them out.

So while Explorer works great for eBay, it might choke on Dealmac. And while iCab might display Dealmac correctly, it won't display wikipedia correctly. And while Wamcom might display the Wikipedia correctly, it will choke on something else - and almost all of them can't display youtube.