Lombard/Pismo Battery
From
Michael Bearpark
Hi,
You mentioned the Newer Tech replacement batteries for
Lombard/Pismo PowerBooks in a recent column...
I've used one of these batteries in a Lombard for a few months,
and my impression is that it lasts almost twice as long as the
stock battery ever did. Highly recommended. Worth buying one of
these older PowerBooks to install this battery if you need long
life between charges at times.
Best wishes,
Mike Bearpark
- Thanks for the report, Mike.
I need a new battery for my Pismo and you've helped shorten the
list of candidates.
Charles
Yahoo Mail, Hotmail Problems with OS X
From Steve Eberly
Hello Charles,
I have scoured the Net and gone thru all your Miscellaneous Ramblings in search of an answer
to my problem. Nothing seems to deal with my situation. I assume it
is so simple that I can't see it easily.
I have happily been running my [PowerBook] 3400 and [Power Mac] 7300 with OS 8.1 Last month,
my son gave me a tangerine
iMac/333 with OS X installed. I cannot open either my
Yahoo mail or my
Hotmail with it regardless
of what browser I use. I have tried IE 5, iCab 2.9.8, Mozilla,
and now I just downloaded Camino (which
is nice). I can always open to the log in page with no problems,
but once I try to log in I get a drop down message telling me the
document (my mailbox) has no data.
If I go over to the 3400, everything is fine. I have thought
that this iMac, which was from a corporate clearance sale, may have
some things blocked to prevent employees from doing personal
mail.
OS X is OK for me, although I like Classic lots more and don't
need OS X as such. Is it the system, the browser, or me?
Thanks so much for your thoughts. I truly enjoy your columns.
regards,
Steve
- Hi Steve,
It's not the browsers. It's not OS X per se. My son uses Hotmail
(with a hacked Umax SuperMac
S900 and OS X 10.3) and has mentioned no problems.
It may be the particular installation of OS X on your iMac.
The potential cure would be to do a clean system reinstall from a
regular install disk.
Either that or just use OS 9.x since you like it better
anyway.
Charles
iBook and OS X
From Jamie Saunders
I have an original iBook (no
FW) with 364 MB RAM. Will it run OS X at a decent speed? I
didn't know who else to ask and I did a search.
Jamie Saunders
- Hi Jamie,
It will run, but "decent speed" is a value judgment. It will be a
lot slower than OS 9 on that machine. My son ran
OS X on a 333 MHz Lombard
PowerBook for a couple of years, and the current owner of that
machine continues to do so.
My personal view is that I wouldn't want to use OS X on anything
less than a 500 MHz G3 or 400 MHz G4 with 640 MB of RAM, and
consequently I run OS 9 on my 233 MHz WallStreet. Many would
disagree with me.
Charles
Editor's note: I've used OS X on an overclocked beige G3, iMac 333, iBook 333, my 400 MHz PowerBook G4, and some faster
Macs. "Decent speed" is a personal call, but even with lots of
memory, the G3/333 machines feel slow. The 400 MHz G4 is
comfortably fast. dk
Adding FireWire to a G4?
From wen
Hello
My [Power Mac] G4/533 in
2001 and got the extra 1 gig of RAM, I had no idea that I would
need FireWire when I bought Final Cut Pro.
How do I get the FireWire now so I can use last years version on
F.C. Pro?
Thank You.
Wen
- Hi Wen,
What sort of G4 has no FireWire? [Editor's note: None.]
However, if you have PCI expansion slots, it's a simple matter to
add a FireWire upgrade card, and they're relatively cheap.
Charles
Re: Recalcitrant B&W
From Gahanna
Both hard disks I have are at least OS 9, although both are HFS
(not +).
Now, I'm not too sure about the memory speed. It's Kingston, so
I know it's good. Also, how would this Mac take to 133 memory? A
local store has 133 cheaper than 100. Any problems you know of?
Hi G.
- To the best of my knowledge (although I make no claim to being
an expert) it won't work.
Best to stick with PC100.
Charles
Rodney Lain
From Jason Walsh
Below is the link to my latest piece in the Guardian. It
mentions Rodney Lain, so I though it might interest you. The links
at the bottom weren't supplied by me (if they were, then LEM would
be among them).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1383609,00.html
All the best,
Jason Walsh
Freelance journalist
Email Hosting on a Classic II?
From Jeff Hewitt
Hi.
I recall reading an article on Low End Mac about a fellow who
ran an ISP with email off of Mac Classics. I was wondering if
anyone out there might know of the software he would have used to
do so? I have a mint condition Mac Classic II that I'm
interested in trying this on. Thanks in advance for any help.
-Jeff Hewitt
- Can anyone out there help Jeff out?
Charles
DigiTools 1.2
From Joshua Coventry
Charles,
Thank you for writing an
article about my program, DigiTools 1.2. Your article has
seemed to to get the word across to even more people.
I can verify your curiosity over why DigiTools doesn't have a
spell checker or a link to the Mac OS X spell checker.
DigiTools is written using REALbasic and is a Carbon application
(not Cocoa), therefore I do not have access to the Cocoa Mac
OS X spell checker seen in TextEdit. But after intense
research on the topic I may be able to get access to the Cocoa Mac
OS X spell checker and also the Font panel (cmd+T in
TextEdit).
In an upcoming release of yet another but this time completely
rewritten DigiTools you can look forward to hopefully seeing a
spell checker and a bug-free word processor, along with new
features such as line spacing, preset styles, and insert date/time
in the word processor.
Thanks again!
Joshua Coventry
Founder & Manager, MegaWorks
http://www.megaworks.co.uk
- Hi Joshua,
Thanks for your note.
I look forward to checking out the next DigiTools update.
Charles
Thanks for Differentiating 'News' from
'PR'
From Ed Hurtley
I just wanted to write to thank you for now differentiating what
is a straight reprint of a press release - and what isn't - in your
'Book Review column. Makes
it much easier to ignore self-promoting hype. :-)
Ed Hurtley
- Hi Ed,
We aim to please.
Charles
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