Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?)

2004-05-18 Thread csean
on 17/05/2004 23:55, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what CD/DVD-RW is possible and preferred to replace the one in the early Powerbook G4's (400/500 and so on)? There aren't very many slot-loading slim drives out there. MacResQ has them for about $149. That gets you a Matshita

Re: What is a Lombard DVD card?

2004-05-18 Thread Eugene Lee
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Ted Mann wrote: : : I have a 333 Mhz Lombard and when I recently upgraded : the CD-ROM drive to a DVD drive, I found that it : actually played DVD movies. Cool! Subsequently, I : noticed that in the Apple System Profiler, it states : that there is a DVD

Re: Pismo Battery

2004-05-18 Thread K
Directly from Apple support site: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this capability. I have been using

Re: Pismo Battery

2004-05-18 Thread malcolm cornelius
The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this capability. I have been using my Pismo

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?)

2004-05-18 Thread Jeff Greffe
You wrote about sites that describe how to make your own bracket and I have spent 45 min trying to find one ... no luck ! Any idea where I could find this info ? Thanks , Jeff Actually there are lots of slot loading slim drives (Combos and DVD-R/Ws), but as JSH points out, the problem is the

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?)

2004-05-18 Thread Dan K
Jeff Hubatka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There aren't very many slot-loading slim drives out there. MacResQ has them for about $149. That gets you a Matshita CW-8121, which is a 8x4x32x8 combo drive. snip This eBay vendor has a bunch of NIB CW-8121 drives for $85 apiece:

Mac Mail

2004-05-18 Thread Stuart Saunders
Apple appear to have updated .Mac this morning. (Taipei time). There does not appear to be any way now to check the size of your mail boxes; before when you clicked on preferences with Mail open in a browser, you got a fuel gauge telling you how much of your 15 mb you were using. Its gone.

Re: Mac Mail

2004-05-18 Thread Stuart Saunders
Oops. Found it. Look under show folders. Please just go back to ignoring me. Ta, Stuart. Begin forwarded message: From: Stuart Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19 May 2004 12:59:51 AM To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mac Mail Apple appear to have updated .Mac this morning. (Taipei time).

No Batteries Available - PB G4 17

2004-05-18 Thread Anne Judge
My 17 powerbook has just started claiming it has no battery installed, though it does. It can even run off the battery while claiming it has no battery!! (But it shuts down very ungracefully when - I presume - the battery runs down.) Does anyone know what can cause this in this model? The

Re: No Batteries Available - PB G4 17

2004-05-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 18/05/04 14:10, Anne Judge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 17 powerbook has just started claiming it has no battery installed, though it does. It can even run off the battery while claiming it has no battery!! (But it shuts down very ungracefully when - I presume - the battery runs down.)

Re: ...WiFi why?....

2004-05-18 Thread James Rohde
On 5/18/04, im Eddy wrote: On May 17, 2004, at 8:09 AM, James Rohde wrote: Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and Actually, that's not my post... Jim Rohde -- G-Books is sponsored by

Compact Flash reader for PC Card Slot

2004-05-18 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
Has anyone used a Compact Flash card reader that fits in the PC Card Slot of a Powerbook? Can anyone recommend one to use (or avoid, for that matter)? TjL -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check

Re: Compact Flash reader for PC Card Slot

2004-05-18 Thread Thomas Ethen
I have two, a Lexar and a Sandisk and I can't see the difference between them. Tom on 5/18/04 17:48, Timothy J. Luoma at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used a Compact Flash card reader that fits in the PC Card Slot of a Powerbook? Can anyone recommend one to use (or avoid, for that

Re: Compact Flash reader for PC Card Slot

2004-05-18 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Tue, 18 May 2004 18:50:57 -0500, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two, a Lexar and a Sandisk and I can't see the difference between them. Is it faster than a USB reader? TjL -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Compact Flash reader for PC Card Slot

2004-05-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 18/05/04 19:50, Timothy J. Luoma at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004 18:50:57 -0500, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two, a Lexar and a Sandisk and I can't see the difference between them. Is it faster than a USB reader? It should be faster. -Laurent. --

new PowerMac G5 list

2004-05-18 Thread Christoph Hammann
Hello fellow Macintosh enthusiasts! Sorry for cross-posting this to the Apple mailinglists I subscribe to, but I thought some of you might be interested: I noticed a lack of conventional mailing lists about PowerMac G5 computers, so I made one available. Information about how to subscribe is in

Re: Pismo Battery

2004-05-18 Thread Hoju Dingo
Hi Folks On 18/05/2004, at 10:41 PM, malcolm cornelius wrote: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this

Re: Numeric keypad drivers for my Pismo's Calculator (Mac OS X)

2004-05-18 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 10:52 PM -0500 5/17/04, James Rohde wrote: On 5/17/04, Bob wrote: Jim, You might try an app called USB Overdrive (independent USB Drivers): http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4701db=mac It seems to be primarily aimed at smaller USB devices

Re: Compact Flash reader for PC Card Slot

2004-05-18 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:48 pm, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: Has anyone used a Compact Flash card reader that fits in the PC Card Slot of a Powerbook? Can anyone recommend one to use (or avoid, for that matter)? Well, my Kodak CF/PC Card adapter is literally and figuratively golden for me. Not a

Re: Compact Flash reader for PC Card Slot

2004-05-18 Thread Thomas Ethen
About twice as fast, but not near as fast am my Firewire reader. Tom on 5/18/04 18:50, Timothy J. Luoma at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004 18:50:57 -0500, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two, a Lexar and a Sandisk and I can't see the difference between them.