e37 – The Control Strip

This episode is all about the Control Strip and its many uses on the classic Mac, from early PowerBook power management to silly games. We also discuss its successors and how they got from the bottom left corner of System 7 to the top right of OS X today.

This episode is all about the Control Strip and its many uses on the classic Mac, from early PowerBook power management to silly games. We also discuss its successors and how they got from the bottom left corner of System 7 to the top right of OS X today.

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We're going to Release Notes in September!

Control Strip
Wikipedia
Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual chapter
512 Pixels post
PowerBook 500 series
manual [PDF; see chapter 5]

PowerBook Duo 280
swapping the battery out of a sleeping Mac [WayBack]
third party modules
Control Strip Menu
Control Strip Outlet [WayBack]
Quit CSM
FavorStrip
Strip Bandit

Successors
Dock Extras / Docklings / Docklets [10.0]
Displays [image]
Airport Signal Strength [image]

menu extras [10.1+]
Bartender