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June 22, 2005

Solving Powerbook Trackpad Dead Zones

[Garrick Van Buren .com] I was using SideTrack to add trackpad scrolling and had grown accustomed to placing my finger on the far left border (I’m left-handed) of the trackpad to scroll. These dead zones rendered that action completely useless.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

http://blog.atariboy.com [Blog.atariboy.com] atariboy blog: no such thing as no such thing: Tactile Trackpad: I had zones marked out for the top corners for back and forward in web browsers and the scroll zone. I tried setting the bottom area for other actions but they where always getting in the way.

Pbzone.com[Pbzone.com] The PowerBook Zone--Your Mobile Technology News Source: Of course, if you asked someone in the know at Apple a couple years ago if they expected today's PowerBooks to still be stuck at 1.67 GHz with a G4, they might be somewhat surprised, but it's not as if the PowerBook is alone in feeling a little long in the tooth. Apple knows that only a couple of its current offerings have nearly the muscle to view this kind of content, and will not foist something on its customers that makes its products look bad.

[Terrychay.com] The Woodwork » Blog Archive » Giving my Powerbook the middle finger: When my Powerbook G4/800 was stolen last year at Amsterdam, I gambled that Apple would have an interim release in January 2005 and announce a Powerbook G5 as early as June 2005, so I purchased my Powerbook hoping to tide me over for a revision B Powerbook G5 in 2006 at the earliest.

Intuitive.comhttp://www.intuitive.com [Intuitive.com] "Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook ...: The only hiccup encountered was that Ubuntu didn’t automatically see the wireless Airport card built-in to my PowerBook. To solve this problem, I posted a message to the Ubuntu user forums (www.ubuntuforums.com) and within about 12 hours had a response: the Airport and Airport Extreme wireless cards aren’t supported by Linux because Broadcom hasn’t released those specs to the open source community.

Sauria.com[Sauria.com] Ted's Macintosh Tips and Tricks: I'm not really interested in setting up NFS (although maybe I should -- but then I'd probably want AFS or CODA), so I just want a way for those shares to get mounted when I log in or when the powerbook wakes up. It turns out that this is harder than it ought to be.

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Posted at June 22, 2005 11:38 AM

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