Re: Applecare on Powerbooks ?

2006-01-11 Thread rob
I don't know what is wrong with your keyboard, but when two of our keys were malfunctioning, I made an appointment at the genuis bar, I took it in to the apple store, the genius took the keyboard out, removed six component pieces of the keyboard and replaced them. He never even me if I

Re: The incompatible Mac

2005-10-17 Thread Rob
Now that is classic! On 10/17/05 9:39 AM, Stuart Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Went to a meeting yesterday. Got there late, delayed by other business. Grabbed a coffee as I went in, then started listening and watching. Soon became apparent that all was not well - main speaker getting

Re: Tiger Scrolling options?

2005-05-05 Thread Rob Carruthers
and the two finger click option makes it easier to use expose. Note: you have to uninstall your other scrolling utils before installing iScroll2. 17 Al PowerBook 1GHz Rob http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Tiger Scrolling options?

2005-05-04 Thread Rob Carruthers
Just installed Tiger and found uControl (scrolling util for PBs) is no long installed and not supported. Can anyone recommend another suitable app. that will work in Tiger, preferably Open Source. Rob -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: losing internet connection

2005-03-01 Thread rob
I had the same problem when using Airport Extreme as part of my home network. The airport boards on the apple tech support page is full of similar problems which point to the base station as the most likely culprit. After several attempts with Applecare to solve the problem, they finally

Re: third-party power adaptor

2005-01-20 Thread rob
When I bought my newest powerbook, the Genius at the Apple Store told me that I could use any of the adaptors interchangeably with any of my currently in use 'books (a wallstreet 300, TiBook 667, AlBook 12 1.33, AlBook 15 1.5) (as long as the connection fits) except for the 15 which needs a

DU. Restore problem

2004-12-14 Thread Rob Carruthers
After reading about the Disk Utility Restore feature, I tried to Restore to a Firewire Drive and got this error: Restore Failure - Lost connection to helper tool Can anyone help? PowerBook Al, 1GHz, 1G RAM, OSX.3.6 Cheers Rob -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

recommended partition size

2004-11-18 Thread rob
Picking up a new pbook today. Since getting OSX I have partitioned the HD of the old Powerbook. What partition sizes are recommended for the current version of osx and the current powerbooks? Rob -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Cloning to a new computer

2003-07-20 Thread Rob LeFebvre
only when you need them. Rob On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 12:12 PM, Meg St. Clair wrote: On 7/20/03 12:24 PM, Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 08:16 AM, Meg St. Clair wrote: I admit that I didn't pay attention to this discussion the last time