Short Takes, Sept. 23, 1999 Cinema Display DFP – DFI Confusion Correction Why Doesn’t iBook Have A Sound-In Port? CD-R/RW Expansion Bay Drive For Wall Street PowerBooks Lombard SCSI Disk Mode Problems Discussed How To Beat The High Price Of Wall Street Internal Modems Trackpad Clicking Not Default-Enabled On iBook Moore’s Mailbag
Category Archives: Miscellaneous Ramblings
1999: Last month, the PowerBook Guy was offering 292 MHz/1 MB cache daughter cards to upgrade Series I WallStreet 233 (no cache) PowerBooks. The bad news is that (a) the 292 MHz card wouldn’t work in my WallStreet Series II 233 MHz (512 KB cache), and (b) they sold out in a couple of days.
1999: While Apple’s new AirPort wireless LAN system is only directly supported so far by Apple on the iBook and G4 Power Macs, that doesn’t mean that owners of earlier Macs are shut out.
Short Takes, September 16, 1999 Jeremy’s CSM Bundle 2.0.1 Available No PRAM Backup Battery in iBook Apple Extends Repair Support for WallStreet 13.3″ Screens Beyond Warranty Period Another PowerBook USB PC Card Adapter Apple’s 22″ LCD Cinema Display Support not Limited to Sawtooth G4s 400 MHz Upgrade for PowerBook 2400? MacCave Journal On Line MR […]
Short Takes, September 13, 1999 USB CardBus Adapter for PowerBooks Gerry’s ICQ d32 Released Possible Data Corruption When Reading Audio CDs with PowerBook G3 Series Lombard “Help” Files Missing after OS 8.6 Clean Install Moore’s Mailbag
Appendix II: iCab 1.7 Anomalies Identified by Daniel Morris
New Features in iCab Preview 1.7
1999: Now that I’ve been using the latest v1.7 preview build of the German iCab browser for several days, I’m happy to report that it is definitely more stable on my computer than its predecessor, v1.6a, was – and I can’t overemphasize how much more convenient I’m finding the new Save As Text function, which […]
1999: Here it is – my first Miscellaneous Ramblings column for Low End Mac. Before I get down to the topic at hand, I would like to thank Low End Mac’s publisher, Dan Knight, for his support of MR, and I look forward to working with him and other Low End staff.
1999: I’m going to begin this week’s column with a couple of soapbox issues. First, the much-maligned passive-matrix (STN) dual-scan flat screen displays.