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Solar-Powered Jacket Charges Your Mobile Gadgets

The Solar SCOTTEVEST (SeV) System is the ultimate geek jacket, packing 42 pockets, zippered sleeves and a solar panel to recharge your gadgets while you’re on the go.

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Hardware

2005 PowerBook Quality Issues

XLR8YourMac.com is covering quality issues with Apple’s 2005 PowerBook G4s including trackpad issues, hard drive noises, AC adapter and performance issues: The first of the new Powerbooks we had in our showroom was a 15″ which suffered from the trackpad issue mentioned on your page recently. We sent it back as DOA and when I […]

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Defective 2005 PowerBooks Being Replaced by Apple

PowerBookZone is reporting that Apple is replacing 2005 PowerBooks found to have defective trackpads. We’ve spent a significant amount of time today on the phone with Apple’s technical support, going through the motions to show that our new PowerBook is, in fact, among those afflicted with the now-infamous trackpad problems. For most of you out […]

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10.3.8 and Excessive Sensitivity in Automatic Screen Brightness

MacFixIt has been receiving reports about excessive sensitivity in automatic screen brightness feature of 2005 PowerBook G4s after installing Mac OS 10.3.8. Yesterday we noted a reader report of apparent increased sensitivity in OS X’s automatic screen brightness feature — enabled via the “Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes” option in newer PowerBooks’ Displays […]

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Software

Two-Finger Scrolling for Older PowerBooks

iScroll2 is a hack to activate two-finger scrolling on supported pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks (i.e. those with a “W-Enhanced” trackpad, including most AlBooks and recent iBooks) on OS X 10.3. It is based on Apple’s AppleADBMouse-209.0.10 driver from 10.3.7 that is available as part of the publicly released Darwin source code. As such, the driver […]