Category: hardware

How to control Christmas lights
Christmas lights – my mac is controlling them via virtual pc with lightorama.

How to use 2 monitors on your mac
How to hook up a second monitor on your macbook.

The best place to buy RAM for your macbook or imac.
You might have wondered how to get more RAM on your mac. Apple Memory is different to normal PC RAM, Â so if you go to a cheap PC shop or ebay and buy some memory it probably won’t work in your Apple computer.

How to fix a broken G4 iBook logic board problem
There is a problem with the logic board in the Macintosh G4 ibooks. It can appear after a year or more in some machines and the symptom is that after being on for a few minutes, the screen goes black (it looks blank, but the light has gone off) , the fan turns on, and…

G4 logic board fault – model numbers of affected iBooks
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.

How to get the most out of your ipod and laptop battery
With so many different battery types, how do you know whether to recharge them or flatten them every time you use them, and does it matter?
How to get your Optus D736 USB working in OSX
The Optus D736 I think is a Bird D736.

How to Fix an ipod
Last year I bought 5 non-working ipods from ebay and fixed up 4 of them. It was not to hard, but there was a couple of tricks. I’ve finally found some time to write up the hard bits, just in case anyone is interested, so here goes.
