Articles posted on April 24th, 2005

Excessive brightness on PowerBook G4: The problem with obscure built-in keyboard shortcuts

Sunday, April 24th, 2005 • 11:48 pm

If you’ve read the comments on my earlier post about the unexplained brightness problem on my dad’s PowerBook G4, you know that the mystery has been solved. The problem was most definitely that, at some point during his first days of using his new PowerBook, my dad had probably repeatedly (and accidentally) hit the keyboard […]

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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger): 50 random observations

Sunday, April 24th, 2005 • 11:31 pm

Assorted Geekery’s Chris Biagini has a number of interesting observations about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), officially due on April 29th. His report includes several details that I hadn’t noticed myself, even though I was part of the (now closed) Apple Seed program for this system release and have spent the last few […]

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