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iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:53:12 -0700

iScroll2 is a modified trackpad driver that adds two-finger scrolling capabilities to supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks on OS X 10.3 and up.

Deals on Apple laptops and desktops

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:05:10 -0700

Apple Hack - How to Replace the Cells in Your Apple Powerbook G3 Battery!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:55:15 -0700

Here’s a cool apple hack on how to replace the cells in your Apple Powerbook G3 if your batteries keep running out of time.

I decided to get new replacement cells from Battery Space instead of surplus cells at a slightly better price elsewhere. There are nine 18650 Li Ion cells in each battery, so I ordered 18 of them at a cost of about $100 with solder tabs. When they arrived, I carefully followed the instructions here to disassemble the first battery. It looked identical to the one in the photos there as you can see below.

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Apple Hack - How to Replace the Cells in Your Apple Powerbook G3 Battery!

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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:07 -0700

"Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?" from The Business Blog at Intuitive.com

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:43:06 -0700

POWER SUPPORT | Products | Docking Stand

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:03:12 -0700

The efficient and modern design of our aluminum docking stand vertically holds your laptop to organize your workspace. Our intelligent engineering not only offers optimal use of space but is an extension of the innovative Apple style

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Sat, 31 May 2008 19:44:53 -0700

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Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:52:00 -0800

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binaervarianz.de - Insomnia

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:09:01 -0700

t always has been a missing feature: disabling the sleep mode on a Apple Laptop. Who does not want to use it as a big juke-box or go warwalking. The best looking server ever, especially at about one inch height ;o).

abyssoft

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:46:08 -0700

Deep Sleep

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:44:58 -0700

Deep Sleep is a simple Dashboard widget and command line utility which allows users to put their computer into hibernation mode, also sometimes called software suspend mode

The Control Panel

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:30:05 -0700

iScroll

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Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:25:43 -0700

Tekuris

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:37:56 -0700

Viraj's Weblog - Ubuntu on my Powerbook

Sat, 19 May 2007 06:00:57 -0700

alcune dritte x sistemare ubuntu su un powerbook. keymap della tastiera, wireless, montare partizioni hfs+

iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:07:19 -0700

"Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?" from The Intuitive Life Business Blog

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:06:03 -0700

iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:02:13 -0700

iScroll2 is a modified trackpad driver that adds two-finger scrolling capabilities to supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks on OS X 10.3 and up. Supported models include most aluminum PowerBooks introduced from 2003 to 2004 as well as most G4 iBooks.

Hibernate on your non-brandnew Mac

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:18:48 -0700

bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by romanedirisinghe to code mac osx hack powerbook hardware sleep hibernate - more about this bookmark...

[from bushwald] MacJanitor

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:11:25 -0800

Another app to help clean up cruft in OS X.

[from bushwald] Titanium Software > OnyX

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:11:55 -0800

Hopefully this will help speed things up on the old PowerBook.

Finding the Love

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:17:41 -0800

In March of this year, having largely finished writing my first book on web application programming with PHP and MySQL, I realised it was time to find another contract. I hadn’t worked in nearly a year, and the reserves were getting a little bit lower than I would normally like.

Around then, I started getting a number of emails and phone calls from people interested in having me come work for them for a while. Most of the jobs were to write some .NET applications or tools, or otherwise C/C++ things related to OLE2/COM that I did all the time when I worked for Microsoft in the 1990s. The money for these contracts is usually good, and I was relieved to learn I wasn’t going to be smashing open the piggy bank for extra funds.

Cool Link #1: AdiumX, an excellent chat client for OS X.

www.adiumx.com

When I went to talk with the various people about the contracts, however, I suddenly found myself extremely unenthused about the work being offered. None of it sounded terribly difficult, but at the same time, none of it sounded in the least bit interesting. At all. Had I completely bottomed out on the whole computer thing? After six months of full-time writing a book and programming PHP and MySQL, was I so burned out that I needed a break from computing, or worse, a complete change of career? It certainly felt so. At the peak (trough?) of my self-doubt, taking a job for pennies above minimum wage at the local café where I get my daily fix sounded more interesting than taking any of the offered jobs.

I made a commitment to myself: no more jobs that sucked. While I can’t honestly say that any of the offered jobs were what anybody would call ‘terrible work’ – they pay well and treat me well – at the end of the day they just weren’t any fun, and I’ve long espoused that life is too short to do crappy stuff that makes you crabby. So, I turned all those jobs down and took a job doing some open source work with PHP and MySQL which payed reasonably well, and figured I’d be fine.

Cool Link #2: FireFox for OS X

www.mozilla.org

And then I lost my Dell laptop—it was taken to Europe by Samantha, who was doing a study abroad program in Rome. I still had some more work to do on my book, and since that absolutely had to be done at the caf√©, I needed a new laptop.

On a whim, I went down to the local Apple Store (Seattle is now swarming with them) and bought a 12” Powerbook. I took it home, spent a good half hour trying to get it to find my crappy 64-bit WEP encoded wireless router (which was so old it’s a miracle that anybody finds it) and started playing.

In the early 1990s, McGill University’s School of Computer Science (SOCS) purchased a number of NeXT computers for laboratory use. They were very cool, if somewhat ahead of their time, and I had heard that the new OS X was based on this, and thus wouldn’t suck as much as I’ve always perceived OS 9 and predecessors. I had also read that FreeBSD, an operating system of which I’ve long been a fan, would form a key part of the new operating system.

I had no idea how cool the new computer would be. Within the hour, I had the developer tools and compiler downloaded and was building and installing my favourite software. OS X appeared to be what I had long dreamed of: Unix with a non-sucky GUI on top of it. I was hooked.

Cool Link #3: Microsoft Resources for the Mac

www.microsoft.com

I finished my book on the new machine, and then the ladyfriend came back from Europe, at which point it was deemed that the Dell laptop was dead (or at least really sleepy). She became the new owner of the 12” Powerbook, and I ended up with a 15”. A horrific amount of money for the two new machines, but we both use them constantly. There was almost no learning curve for her with the new machine. A couple of questions about what programs mapped from Windows to the new system, but otherwise, none of the usual troubles. She now finds herself using the computer much more than she ever used the old Dell, and is turning into a computer nerd herself.

I am now in the final stretch of a reasonably long contract for PHP and MySQL, and my co-worker whom I sit beside every day is entirely sick of me asking him if I’ve ever told him how much fun my new computer is. At some point almost every day, I get this giddy feeling of happiness when using this machine. From multimedia to programming to writing to simple web surfing, this machine is a hoot. My co-worker’s wife, a computer professional herself, is already pestering him for one too.

Cool Link #4: The Apple Store

store.apple.com

Major concerns with moving to OS X for me had always been keyboard accelerators and internationalisation. I am very lazy and hate to reach for the mouse unless necessary. I also tend to write a lot of messages and such in many different languages, and if the new machine was not going to let me write in Japanese, Arabic, or Korean without hassle, it was going to be a non-starter. Fortunately, OS X has solved all of these problems, and a few others too. I find the way in which I used other operating systems has completely changed based on how I use this one now, and there are a few features (Exposé definitely) that I find annoying that other operating systems don’t have.

I, once again, find computers fun to use again. I’ve got a list swirling in my head of applications, utilities, and scripts that would be fun to write and I’ve already begun to tackle this list, even with other projects in the offing. For those claiming that my finding the love again is an isolated case, go sit in a café with Wi-Fi or attend a conference that’s not Microsoft XXX or some such thing—Apple is gaining mind-share rapidly. Here’s to hoping they don’t screw it up.

Cool Link #5: VLC, An Excellent Media Player

www.videolan.org

Taking the Fun out of Buying a new Computer

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:17:48 -0800

In normal times, buying a new computer is a rather fun experience. In addition to the endorphin rush caused by plonking down a huge wad of cash for such a small – but often 好看 (that’s Chinese for good looking) – piece of hardware, you get to take it home and play with it and discover all the new and fun things that are different about the new toy. Even if it’s still running Microsoft Windows, your new vendor has probably come up with some new set of stuff to include with the machine. Or, far more common with me, my last attempt to finally come up with the “ultimate organisation of my hard disk™” was a miserable failure, and I’m excited about trying out something new.

So, imagine my disappointment when I recently upgraded my 15” Powerbook G4 to a shiny new 15” Macbook Pro.

In short, my upgrade experience was:

Plug in new computer, run through annoying Apple registration sequence (Tip: If you indicate in one of the first steps that the computer will not be connected to the Internet, you can make it so that the registration will not be sent).
Run migration wizard from the old Powerbook to the new Macbook Pro (this involves clicking a few buttons and connecting the two machines by FireWire).

Yes, about an hour later (35GB of iTunes and image data takes a while to transfer from one 5400RPM laptop drive to another), my new machine, appeared exactly the same as the old one. My desktop, my language settings, all my files, SSH keys, svn and source enlistments, and more.

What’s worse, all of the software on the old machine was Universal Binaries, so I didn’t even need to install any new software. It if weren’t for the fact that JustLooking compiled in less than 30 seconds instead of well over 2 minutes, I might not have even noticed right away.

I did also notice after a bit of experimenting that I can finally watch HDTV movies (720p and 1080i) at more than 2 frames a second, and that instead of being completley unable to play Civ IV, I can now play it at 1900×1200 with all features and whizzy 3D goodies turned on. I’ve also noticed that the fabled heat problems of the MBP have not materialised on my machine. After a copule of hours of gaming, the machine is no warmer than the G4.

However, the upgrade itself was a complete and utter disappointment. No temporary disruption in productivity, nor any hours spent trying to figure out how to migrate all of my data over. In short, no excuse to do anything other than just go back to work.

Thanks Apple. Jerks.

Linux.com | Improved ways to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:12:21 -0800

Hibernate working on 12" PowerBook! - Ubuntu Forums

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:12:17 -0800

Index of /ubuntu

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:39:11 -0800

Anyone succeeded installing Beryl/XGL with direct rendering and ATI card? - Ubuntu Forums

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:37:51 -0800

Anyone succeeded installing Beryl/XGL with direct rendering and ATI card? - Ubuntu Forums

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:26:57 -0800

Inside Samba: Windows Sharing for the Mac

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:55:18 -0800

Samba provides disk and print shares, acts as a WINS server, and performs NT4 primary domain controller duties.

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