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On my 15" G4 PB I've got the screen set to sleep after 15 minutes of non-use and the screensaver set to come on after 3 minutes, but the screen dims after approximately 1 minute of not touching the keyboard or mouse/trackpad - even if Quicktime is playing a movie. This means I always have to...

Hi, I don't really want to limit my RSS screensaver to just ONE website feed - is there a way to amalgamate my favourite feeds (Penny Arcade, BBC, Apple news, photoblogs etc) for it to pick from randomly or can it only take a feed from ONE website at a time? Cheers, Owen

The latest is that (having now actually bought the same machine as my girlfriend has) I've updated to Airport 4.2, updated the router firmware and moved its position (very slightly) in the house and reception has improved marginally in one of the other rooms and not so much in another so I...

Hi all, Just bought a second hand, 10 month old 15" PB with Tiger (and installation disks.). This PB seems to have come out just before the dual-finger scrolling on the trackpad came out, unfortunately. Never mind. Anyway, I need to transfer the contents of my iBook (G3, Panther) over. I...

Tiger installed a new element to the function - the room really HAS to be dark or the function (and the keys that control it) has no effect. Merely covering the sensors with your hands has no effect either. Go into a fully dark room and see what happens...

What I want to know is, will that graphics card and RAM run World of Warcraft with all the options turned down! ;)

I don't know this for sure as I don't have the system but I heard that SC3 and SC4 were both slow running and real resource hogs... Not that that helps much.

Thought so... Well I think they must have removed the slot on PBs that have the Airport card built in at purchase. Thing is, at my previous address (a houseshare) we had an identical router, which was on an entirely different floor of the house (top floor) and her Powerbook got a signal even...

I swear to God it's not there. I took the battery out. Looking at the resulting rectangular hole, there is the battery pins and battery release studs on the left hand side, the spring-loaded battery connector on the right hand side, a label bearing the serial number etc on the long edge nearest...

A thought I pursued this evening to great lengths... But this PB doesn't have that flap - I popped the battery out and it's not there. The PB came with it installed so maybe that's why?

Right, I've moved the Netgear into a more central position in our flat - the front hall, from which all rooms are one door away. Now the PB gets a very intermittent signal in all rooms (as much off as it is on) as opposed to a strong signal in the front room where the netgear was initially...

I'm not sure - will look it up when I get home. However, would that affect signal strength in different locations? It looks to me now that my iBook simply has better reception than the Powerbook, what with that daft metal casing on the PB... Seriously, one room away, just through a wall, even...

Okay, I've updated the Powerbook to Airport 4.2 and that seemed to coincide with the signal going up to 5 bars in the same room as the Netgear DG834G. However, in other rooms, that are about 3 or 4 paces outside the main room, the signal disappears almost completely with the Powerbook, while the...

Nice one. Only 83 MB to go. Won't be playing this game till 10pm, 3 hours after I started installing it...

Okey dokey... Right well the game is on her machine now. However, I have to wait until a 178 (yes, that's ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT!) megabyte download completes to play it... Next question: is it possible to just copy the WoW folder from her machine to my external hard drive and then...

Groovy... at the moment I'm about to buy it and install it on my girlfriend's 15" G4 Powerbook as my old G3 iBook won't cope... Question - do you HAVE to install to the built-in harddrive or can I install to my 160GB external Lacie firewire drive? (my gf has the space, but I din't think she'd...

SO what would players say are realistic specs for the game? My gf has the latest g4 15" powerbook. I only have a g3 iBook so that's that out of the question! I can't believe I'm considering whacking out for a new Mac just to play this. And also how long do you think the game will be...

Well it's not that plain. It's the last thing I'd have thought of. See my previous post on the ridiculousness of building a machine with materials that dampen the signal of the wireless card that it, proudly, ships built in. Stupid Apple.

I'd heard rumours about this - what a shocking oversight on Apple's part not to have done something about this? What's the point making a superfast Airport card if you house it in something that dampens the signal? That's like Superman making his windows out of lead!

I bet it's great fun when it runs well, but I heard that it was not a great port and takes a huge amount of grunt to guarantee it running smoothly once your city starts to get big. Unfortunately, much as I'm a HUGE fan of SimCity, I don't have a lot of grunt for the new version, see above! If...