Re: iBook 600MHz 12" - factory motherboard bug ???

[Miche Doherty]

On 8 Nov 2004, at 2:53 pm, Larry le Mac wrote:
I am looking at buying an iBook and found one with the above spec
but the guy says he has to send it back Apple as it suffers from a
motherboard bug where the screen stops working.
Has anyone heard of this ???
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
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Re: Safari question

[Miche Doherty]

On 24 Oct 2004, at 10:49 pm, Travis Martin wrote:
Is there a way to disable the @#$# live-motion ads that annoy me when 
I'm trying to read i.e. National Review Online? Is this Java? The 
pages have the option of selecting a printer version which drops the 
ads, but that's an extra step and while I'm not the laziest sob in the 
world, I'm in the top three. I don't mind the ads being there if I 
could disable the distracting motion.

I'm using a PB with 10.3.5 and Safari 1.2.3 if that helps...
There's no easy answer to this - at least, none that I can determine. 
Safari isn't very configurable, and I can find no way of disabling 
images and animation. Same goes for Camino. In Firefox, there's a 
global preference which stops images from loading, but I just tried it 
on http://news.bbc.co.uk and the result was a mess of overlapping text.

In iCab, you can press command-semicolon to stop all animations. I used 
iCab as my default browser for years, not least because of its image 
filtering options, but at present (a final release has been pending for 
a lng time) it can't handle CSS layout, so I can't 
wholeheartedly recommend it. Might be worth a look, though: it's a 
small download from http://www.icab.de .

BTW, some of these ads use Flash, but most are just animated GIFs.
I haven't tried Opera or Mozilla in OS X (oh, and I just remembered 
there's another browser called Internet Explorer - I'd forgotten it 
existed) so I can't comment on those.

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Re: Subject: Re: Danged picture on my email

[Miche Doherty]

On 22 Oct 2004, at 11:55 pm, Claire Hart wrote:
Unless you're using mac.com as your mail server, the only person 
seeing
your 'inner butterfly' is you.

To change the picture, go to System Preferences > Accounts > picture.
You can drag in any picture or choose from the pre-created ones.

Bruce Johnson
Actually, I do receive e-mails from time to time that have the picture 
in the upper right corner of their e-mail, and recognize them as one 
of the Apple photos.  I picked the cat when I did my set-up, and 
occasionally I'll see it also in an occasional e-mail from someone 
else.  I just called my friend whose computer is an eMac with Panther, 
and she does not see my cat photo on my e-mail.  So I don't know why 
some have it and some don't.  Maybe someone else might know that 
answer...
As Bruce says above, it's a mac.com thing. It doesn't happen with other 
email accounts.

You can also get Mail to display someone's picture with emails you 
receive from them, if you want: just paste the picture into their entry 
in your Address Book.

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Re: Checking the battery on a Lombard, and other questions

[Miche Doherty]

On 24 Sep 2004, at 2:47 pm, D. G. Bowie wrote:
 Is it a good idea to occasionally exhaust the battery, as I've 
sometimes heard with regard to portable phones and other household 
appliances?
Nickel-Cadmium batteries benefit from being fully discharged from time 
to time, but that doesn't apply to Lithium-ion batteries, like the one 
in your Powerbook, which prefer a partial discharge. See here for more 
detail:

http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
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Re: shutting down PBs at night

[Miche Doherty]

On 14 Sep 2004, at 7:34 am, Claire Hart wrote:
While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn 
off my Powerbook.  I guess it just seems more vulnerable left on all 
night, for some reason.  In fact, until recently, I'd carefully pack 
it and all of its "stuff" back in the softside briefcase I bought for 
it.  Now I often leave it, turned off and with lid closed, where I 
used it last (on the couch, on the footstool, on the bed, by the iMac, 
on the dining table...).  Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
I generally close my iBook and let it sleep. I only shut it down if I'm 
going away for a couple of days and not bringing it with me, in which 
case it gets hidden away (a determined burglar would probably find it, 
but why make it easy?).

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