Then the best route to take would probably be the following: - Take advantage of the resources already available online. Perhaps create a "links" page organized by Mac OS X topics…

Quote: Originally Posted by ThePhoenix Thank you for your attempt to help. However the Help menu is not going to be nearly enough. For an end user it is one thing to tell them…

Quote: Originally Posted by genevish Sounds like you need to have a basic tutorial of how to navigate various parts of the Mac OS ("Click the Apple menu. Select System Preferen…

You could use the new Flash platform and build your own interface like those found in Dashboard but they have that aqua feel.

I'm having trouble connecting to the internet using an Airport Extreme base station and a Powerbook G4 with Tiger. I'm able to connect wireless to other wireless connections, but …

When you're connecting to a home or office network using your AirPort card, your computer is not "connecting to the Internet." It's connecting to a LAN. You apparently have your …

My computer is configured to connect to the airport base, i've spoken to apple support and they checked all of the settings which appear to be ok, they used the same settings to su…

Have you considered reworking the base station's setup? If you're getting any sort of PPPoE message, (and you have the base station log you into your DSL connection) your base sta…

While I was playing around with some sound files in AmadeusII today, I must have messed up my SoundSticks driver. They now sound strangely compressed; DVD sound sometimes does not …

Can someone give me some simple directions for adding perl modules to OS X 10.4.1? I have done this on Red Hat, but am just starting to do perl coding on OS X. Thanks in adva…

CPAN is your friend. You can either use the cpan script or the CPAN Perl module. Information about the cpan script is available in the man page (man cpan). To use the module (my pr…

I just turned on my PB, and there's no sound at all coming out of it. Yes, the volume is not in mute, and iTunes isn't on mute either. I tried connecting my external speakers and…

Meh, nevermind. FIxed with a restart.

I know there are older threads if I search, but capacities increase and I just wanted to check the current situation. I've got a 10GB HD in an iBook G3 500. Can anyone tell me the…

You can get a 100GB HD for laptops now. It shouldn't be hard to find a decent hard drive for under $100. Try TigerDirect or Newegg for some of the better prices around the net.

Any regular ATA laptop drive on the market today will work. tooki

i put a 60gig drive in my rev A ibook, was a majour pain getting that thing apart but its worked fine ever since. i need to take it out and replace the stock hd in my 12" g4 ibook,…

I have the same iBook (500Mhz) and last year I replaced the 10GB hardrive with a Toshiba MK4025GAS which is a 40GB drive running (i think) at 5400 rpm. For how to do it look at th…

Quote: Originally Posted by willed I know there are older threads if I search, but capacities increase and I just wanted to check the current situation. I've got a 10GB HD in a…

Use an emply ice tray to organize the screws in the order you take them out. It makes it much easier to put them back in and hopefully not forget any. I've replaced iBook hard dri…

I also found this helpful guide: http://www.pbfixit.com/Guide/50.12.0.html

Great, thanks very much guys, very helpful. One more thing - can anyone recommend an equivalent to NewEgg.com that operates in the UK? [I'm sure I posted this before but it's di…

Finished my hard disk drive upgrade on my iBook! It now sports an 80 GB HDD, and is running smoothly! Next is the eMac... I will post some details of my iBook upgrading later on my…

Quote: Originally Posted by willed Great, thanks very much guys, very helpful. One more thing - can anyone recommend an equivalent to NewEgg.com that operates in the UK? [I'm…

Here's the iBook Hard Drive Upgrade article I promised.