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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Siivel Youtube Channel - 500 Subscribers Reached

We are so happy that our channel at Youtube, now have 500 people subscribing. That is really out of our initial expectation.

Originally, we were just to share our iMac G3 i7 Modification Project. Subsequently, watchers keep giving their comments and we modified a Clamshell, an Airport Harddisk, and a iMac G3 Version 2.

In fact, we are still working on our list of different projects. Which includes:

(a) upgrading the screen resolution of iMac G3 and Clamshell;

(b) modifying a Studio CRT Display;

(d) modifying an iBook G4.

Our workshop is in a total mess...-_-;

I understand that I have severe sound crack and my English is not good. I will try my best to improve. We might add sub titles in the videos； or even fire Erik out as a reporter. Anyway, thank you so much for your patient watching.

Thank you so much for your support, we will keep working on those work and bring to you more surprising mods soon!

Erik Siivel (@siivel.com)

Modder | Producer | Blogger | Youtuber

Email: siiveldotcom@gmail.com

Friday, November 6, 2015

Installing Mac OSX El Capitan on iMac G3 i7

The Mac OSX El Capitan was issued on 30 Sept 2015. I upgraded this new OS from Yosemite yesterday, however. It is because I have almost 50,000 pictures in my Mac. I need plenty of time to back them up securely before making big changes.

Before the upgrade, I backed up the data on my iMac once in Airport Time Capsule. And then I dragged the iPhoto Library into 2 respective external hard-diskes. I have some problem with my Apple ID, otherwise I would have backed-up those photos on iCloud, indeed. But at this stage, those measures were already secure enough.

The upgrade of the new OS is easy. Just entered into the Mac App Store and download the new OS (for about 20 minutes). After that, double-clicked the downloaded OS and the Mac will do it without any hassle.

Mac OSX El Capitan was being downloaded from Mac App Store.

Choose the hard-disk for the installation.

The installation took an hour.

The installion took about an hour. After that, the system will restart and the new OS will be ready.

Now the new OS is ready.

In fact my iMac G3 i7 is still equipped with a 2.5" SATA2 hard-disk. The start-up speed is very very very slow. Sooner-or-later I will replace it with a SSD.

Written by: Erik Siivel (@siivel.com)