I'm not sure where exactly to post this, but this seems to be the closest proper forum for it. (If I'm wrong, I'm sure a kind and understanding Permies staffer can relocate it?)
Anyway, this involves the Mother Earth News USB Archive, the version where the whole thing is searchable at once, not year-by-year. Recently MEN came out with a new 2020 edition that contains a built-in browser. This is nice, considering that on my 2013 MacBookAir (which I bought refurbished a few years ago) no current
major browser supports it anymore. Not Safari, not Firefox, nor any Chrome-based browser (the latter never supported reading and searching the archive; but Safari and Firefox had.) I have the 2014 edition of the MEN USB, and the only browser that currently can open, read and search the contents is
iCab, a venerable Mac-only browser in continuous development since the mid '90s. However, the iCab developer recently released a new version, completely overhauling the code and features. ”Oh, no!” I lament, ”this is it! I may not be able to use the archive anymore! What am I going to do?” This completely ignores the fact that if needed, I can still download older versions of iCab to use to access the archive, or buy a new USB. But then I wouldn't be able to be dramatic in my lament.
So with all that in mind, I downloaded the new iCab, popped the USB in... and MUCH YAYNESS! It's still searchable and readable!
(I just posted this in case anyone else around here with Macs and older MEN USBs were worried that they'd have to get a new USB archive, the one with that built-in browser. If anyone needs to know where they can download iCab, it's here:
iCab.de) It's ’nagware,’ meaning you have to put up with an occasional floating window that asks you to register it (I think it costs USD$10, and paying for it eliminates the nagging. However, the floating window pops up only occasionally and isn't annoying. At least, not to me.)
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