{"id":135,"date":"2011-01-27T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/01\/27\/oldappscom-is-lifesaver-for-old\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:05","slug":"oldappscom-is-lifesaver-for-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/01\/27\/oldappscom-is-lifesaver-for-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldapps.com is a lifesaver for old hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post might not mean much to those of you that have nice, new hardware. But for anyone who is making do with an older computer, be it a Mac, Windows or Linux machine, I just came across a great resource called <a href=\"http:\/\/oldapps.com\">Oldapps.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a very dumb thing and tried to upgrade the version of Skype on my laptop. But the new Skype v5.0 for Mac requires an Intel chip and won&#8217;t run on my old PowerBook. I didn&#8217;t notice that before I pressed the button. Big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>No problem, I thought. I&#8217;ll just download a copy of the old version. But when I went looking for an older version to download and revert back, I couldn&#8217;t find it anywhere on the Skype website! I needed to have Skype working and I started to panic, because my backup disk is at my house and I&#8217;m not there.<\/p>\n<p>However, a quick Google search turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/oldapps.com\">Oldapps.com<\/a>, or more specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.oldapps.com\">mac.oldapps.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s a great resource that seems to have a whole lot of software which has been updated. There are lots of programs for Mac, Windows and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re not running the latest and greatest hardware, you may find something that you need there.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to download the latest version of Skype 2.8 for Mac and its working just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post might not mean much to those of you that have nice, new hardware. But for anyone who is making do with an older computer, be it a Mac, Windows or Linux machine, I just came across a great resource called Oldapps.com I did a very dumb thing and tried to upgrade the version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}