ibook screen goes dark at extreme angle....

2004-11-24 Thread erikness
Greetings, I've got a dual USB iBook with about 3 weeks left on Applecare and just noticed something odd: If the screen is pushed back all the way, the screen light cuts out in the last few degrees. Is this the beginning of a failure? Should I get it fixed? Pity, it was only just at the shop

Re: New iBook and price protection?

2004-10-19 Thread erikness
I just wonder if I could use my regular Airport card instead of the AE? Nope. But you could probably sell it Cheers, Erik -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Blue screen

2004-09-30 Thread erikness
My dual-USB book (running 10.3.5; 600 MHz; 384 MB RAM) is starting to act a little strange. Twice now, when doing a restart, the screen has just gone to blue (and only blue) and stayed there. I've had to do a hard-restart (power button down for 5 seconds to turn off, power button to stop). Any

Automation... (Was: Another strange problem...)

2004-09-30 Thread erikness
Is there an utility that'd let me do the Windows trick on Mac OS? iKey can do a huge amount of automation. I used it for a little while, but in 10.3.x Applescript can emulate menu items; Applescripts can be launched from many venerable aps such as iKey or DragThing. (Latter is how I do