Apple Computer Recalls 1.8 Million Batteries

I’m sure that there are not too many of you that have missed the media coverage of the Dell battery recall in the last week or so, whether it be in the paper, on the news or the internet.

 Apple are following in there footsteps (the other way around for once), by recalling 1.8 Million Laptop batteries which were manufactured by the Sony corporation. 700,000 of these batteries have been sold outside the U.S….. Thats a hell of a lot of batteries!

These Batteries were sold between October of 2003 and August this year and were used in the 12inch ibook and Powerbook G4 aswel as the 15inch Powerbook G4. Two users have reported burns and/or property damage already.

 You can find more info about the recall on Apples battery recall page here.

Two Finger Scrolling Hack on my iBook G4

After a morning of relaxing and lazing around, I was checkin out a few Apple User sites and I remembered that two finger scrolling feature that was introduced on some of the later powerbooks. I googled it anyway and I found a hack to modify the trackpadon the G4 iBook and some older powerbooks so you can use two finger scrolling, have to say it works well and its handy if your on the net reading long pages of text or working in Appleworks etc. If you have a G4 iBook or a Powerbook without this function then this is definately worth trying out…

Anyway you can find the hack here!

iBook G4 – Logic Board and Battery?

After all of the frustration with my iBook G4 not booting up and producing various obstacles for my work and play, with the help of Apple over the phone and online, we seem to have isolated the problem to the Logic board… yes… a Fried Logic Board. Seemingly this is no suprise to some of my Mac friends on the net, aswel as this I’ve found countless articles