Family Message Center.

The article presents information on Operating System X's built-in Stickies program to turn an old PowerPC Mac into an useful personal computer. Each family member can choose his or her own Stickies color to movie times or to a Web page. With Panic LLC's Desktastic or MacMax.org's Scriboard, one can use his/her mouse to scrawl numerous messages across the desktop. A Mac-based telephone system can give each family member his or her own mailbox. Apple Inc.'s Dashboard Weather widget can be used to display forecasts.