Our Macintosh G4 Cube was among the most beloved, and longest-working of all our Macs. It came home in 2000, almost as soon as it hit the local Mac dealer, and sat in the family room in one role or another until this year’s major overhaul of gulker.com World HQ.

2 weeks ago, we started a second daily workout on a stationary bike. Riding a stationary bike is, um, well, very boring, so I try to take a newspaper or other material to read. As it happened Monday, everything I wanted to read was on CNET, so I printed a bunch of stuff out.

While that kept us busy on the bike, I realized that printing 20 sheets of online news a day was not a particularly ‘green’ practice. The Cube, since its retirement, has been sitting in the same spare bedroom as the bike, so, putting 1 and 1 together, it didn’t take long to pull together the pieces, plug them in and fire up the Cube. An old shoe rack holds the monitor in just the right place, and a fresh Firefox install takes care of a browser.

Firefox on the Cube has Google Sync installed, so we can pick articles we want to read while working at World HQ, and then just sync them over to the Cube’s browser for the workout. Mouse and keyboard are a bit tricky: I may need a trackball to make this all work a bit better.  Voila… a green solution that also recycles a computer…

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