Category Archives: Apple

iPod Nano – 4th Generation

Posted on October 23, 2008 by blogmywiki

It’s like a piece of time travel… my first generation 5GB iPod is getting hard to charge and put new music on, as its Firewire connector is dodgy – and the Firewire port on my PowerBook is broken which doesn’t … Continue reading →

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WiFi forgetfulness solved

Posted on September 24, 2008 by blogmywiki

Following a security update, my PowerBook kept losing its wireless connection when waking from sleep or starting up. This was a pain as my WiFi base station doesn’t transmit its SSID and I had to enter its name and long … Continue reading →

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Super-connected

Posted on September 23, 2008 by blogmywiki

Did a security update on my PowerBook today; now it keeps forgetting my wireless network’s name and password. So it really is very bloody secure as it’s now mostly not connected to the internet at all any more. I forgave … Continue reading →

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Big fat hard drive in a 700 MHz G4 iMac

Posted on February 18, 2008 by blogmywiki

Conventional wisdom says that any G4 iMac slower than 1 GHz cannot work with a hard drive bigger than 120 GB. But they were selling 320GB IDE drives in Maplin for only £59.99 and it seemed silly to pay ten … Continue reading →

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Repairing a G4 ‘Anglepoise’ iMac

Posted on February 17, 2008 by blogmywiki

My son’s school was chucking out a faulty 700 MHz G4 Anglepoise iMac – apprently it had an intermittant fault where the hard drive clicked and it wouldn’t boot. Of course I couldn’t bear to see this become land-fill so … Continue reading →

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