Aug 02
There’s no doubt about it – Macs are great computers, but they re not cheap, and it’s hard to find them on special! What you may not know is that you can buy iMacs, Macbooks, Macbook Pros, Mac Minis – almost the entire Apple range, refurbished from Apple, often at reduced prices. I always buy my Macintoshs from the Apple refurbished store rather than new from a retail store. In my opinion the computers at the refurbished outlet are BETTER than a new one – as well as being cheaper! Here’s why, and here’s some tips on how to go about getting one.
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Tagged with: applecare • hardware • imac • purchasing
Jun 14
It’s slightly off topic but this is so well done I simply could not resist posting a link to it…
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/09/excellent-mac-classic-converted-to-ipad-stand/
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May 01
So your old laptop is running a bit slowly. It might be that the hard drive is too small and all your hard disk space is all used up. Here’s a few ways to recover some extra Hard Drive space. Basically there are lots of files you can probably get rid of, and here’s now to find them.
You don’t even need to be totally free of space to do this, did you know that you should never fill your hard drive to more than approx 80% capacity or it will slow down performance?
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Tagged with: disk • performance
Nov 02
Canon have finally released drives for Snow Leopard for their Image runner printers!!!
For some reason they are not available on the Australian Canon site, but you can download them from here. The file is called CanonPPD_v2.80.zip and it contains the drivers for all the Image Runner printers. Read on for how to install. Continue reading »
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Jan 14
All macs that have a built in display also have a ‘video out’ port. It will look like one of these:
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Apr 20
When your computer is running a little bit slowly, how can you tell if getting more memory will help you? Here is a simple way to check whether all the memory you have in your computer is being used. Continue reading »
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Tagged with: hardware • memory • performance
Mar 27
G4 ibook motherboard fault.
There is a design problem with some G4 ibooks. It can appear after a year or so in some machines. After being on for a few minutes, they get a blank black screen, the fan turns on, and the computer freezes. This article describes the problem and how to fix it.
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Tagged with: repair
Mar 26
This is the results of a survey I conducted over a year to see what different models of the G4 ibook are affected by the logicboard fault.
In this article I described the fix for the G4 motherboard fault, but it seems from the comments that more models are affected than what I described there.
SYMPTOMS:
- After being on for a few minutes, your ibook gets a blank black screen, the fan turns on, and the computer freezes.
- You can’t do anything at all except power down the computer by holding the power button.
- You restart and it doesn’t boot up.
- You squeeze the bottom of the computer tightly together just to the left of the trackpad, and it boots up.
- It tends to boot up when it is cold, but then stops working when it warms up.
Still unsure? Read more about the symptoms here and here.
Here are the results of a survey regarding the affected models:
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Tagged with: advanced • hardware • repair
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