IT IS ALIVE!!
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Ben came home with his 17″ monitor and so I decided to see if I could bring the Powerbook back to life. Popped the bottom off and disconnected the display. I plugged in the external monitor, mouse and keyboard and fired it. Yes! The Powerbook lives. So now I need to figure out what kind [...]
New Life for the Powerbook?
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008I came across this case mod. I’m not usually into case mods, seems like too much work. But my Powerbook died the same death as this guy’s and he brought it back. I might need a second desktop in the future so this is sounding like a real option to me. I think I would [...]
Leopardized!
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007Ah! I am Leopardized. If you don’t know what that means, it means that I upgraded the iMac to Mac OS 10.5. The upgrade was smooth as silk. No problems, no hiccups. No rebooting 18 times. The only application that stopped working (that I know of so far) was Photoshop Elements 2.0. Time to upgrade [...]
iMac Black Screen
Monday, August 20th, 2007The iMac’s screen went black today. I’m really, really hoping that it is just the inverter card in the display unit. That’s about $70 and pretty easy to replace. Otherwise it might be the motherboard and for the price of one of those, I might as well just get a new computer. I really love [...]
Making the Best Better
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007I downloaded and installed Quicksilver last night on my PowerBook. Oh. My. Word. I pointed Benjamin to it and he said that he now lacks a head because Quicksilver blew it off. :) I’ve heard people ranting but never paid much attention till I saw a write up on Lifehacker. I’m addicted after about 5 [...]
Repaired
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007See the photo? Sad isn’t it. The hinge on my Powerbook jammed and when my daughter tried to close it, it snapped. My options? Well, I checked with the company that repaired it when I dropped it and broke the hinge last time. Turns out it was three weeks out of warranty. They said they [...]
Comment $p@m
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007Oh yes, I got a lot of it. But Spam Karma, a WordPress plug in, catches it and makes it go to a bad place. I check Spam Karma quite often to make sure it didn’t flag any friends. So today there are a ton and one of them says “Actually i am not an [...]
Excellent Mac Screensaver
Monday, January 8th, 2007If you have a Mac, check out this screensaver. The concept is simple and the execution elegant. And its free. If you don’t have a Mac, consider buying one. You can find refurbished ones at reasonable prices.
Warning Sign Fun
Sunday, November 26th, 2006You can’t upload your own images, but you can have a good time with warning signs. Warning label generator. Have some fun.
Gettin’ My Geek On!!1!!
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Okay, so now I have a 20″ iMac G4 1.25GHz, Airport Extreme, 80GB hard drive, SuperDrive (CD-R/W, DVD-R/W). It is simply beautiful. The screen is large and clear and beautiful. One bad pixel out of nearly 2 million. Not bad. You can only see it when the screen is black. It isn’t noticable when there [...]
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