- 1. Power suppy damage
- (Hardware hints)
- ... available. It is not advisable to buy the black power supply units from Apple with the model designation M4402 that are still on sale today, as there was a recall campaign due to the risk of fire. In ...
- 2. Welcome!
- (Welcome)
- ... the original iBooks has still a lot of aficionados around the world - i am one of them. I started this website in 2006 in german - my first language. When i noticed that a lot of people from anglophone ...
- 3. Play your favorite Youtube movies
- (Software hints)
- Unfortunately, the flash-based Youtube movies ask too much of the iBook hardware. My workaround: Save Youtube movies with a little help from keepvid.com in mp4 format. The video player VLC (OSX 10.3.9 ...
- 4. Running Windows 98
- (Software hints)
- ... allows you to allocate part of the RAM for you virtual Windows machine, starting with a minimum of 64MB. Some years ago Connectixx was bought by Microsoft. You can still find a good documentation and FAQ ...
- 5. VST Battery Charger
- (Accessories)
- The VST Dual battery charger/conditioner for the Apple Clamshell iBook is able to charge two batteries simultaneously. You have to connect your iBook power adapter to the unit. It is still available ...
- 6. Sales
- (Uncategorised)
- I'm selling some Dicota Winbag cases which are especially made for the iBook Clamshell Tangerine. They are new and still wrapped. Price is 19.90 Euro plus shipping 300 Mhz Logicboard (no ...
- 7. Unified Motherboard Architecture
- (Trivia)
- The clamshell iBook was the first Mac based on the new Unified Motherboard Architecture (UMA). The logicboard sported new Apple specific ASICs which supported the new standards (USB, FireWire, Ethernet ...
- 8. Sex and the City: Backup ?
- (Multimedia)
- ... It has a beautiful handle and looks like a purse ! Carrie is still irritated about the loss of her PowerBook and rejects his presents (later on he gives her back the keys to her appartment, they fall apart). ...
- 9. Goodbye, www.BlueberryiBook.com
- (Trivia)
- ... for years, it stayed online for historical and entertainment purposes, but now it is permanently unavailable. You can still recover some information using the Wayback machine archive.org Addendum: Good ...
- 10. New replacement battery
- (Accessories)
- ... internal PRAM capacitor of your iBook. The iBook has no internal backup battery which saves the contents of RAM when no power is available. If you still use Mac OS9 you will gain up to 2 hours additional ...
- 11. Macenstein: Mac Chick of the month with Clamshell iBook
- (Multimedia)
- ... of the month december 2011 Tara Babcock (Link: Wayback Machine) poses amongst other things with a Blueberry iBook - a proof that the Clamshell has still an appealing effect on girls. Please use the link ...
- 12. Joy of Tech: iBook Clamshell Comics
- (Multimedia)
- For serveral years we've enjoyed the Joy of Tech Comics by Snaggy (Bruce Evans) and Nitrozac (Liza Schmalcel). Nitrozac loves the Clamshell iBook , in her words: still the best design ...
- 13. Internet Browser for the Clamshell iBook
- (Software hints)
- ... and Opera are still useful with reservations. iCab Browser is Shareware, but there are only reminders which pop up from time to time. Mac OS 9.2 Classilla (fork of Wacom/Mozilla Browser) ...
- 14. iBook modification project
- (Hardware hints)
- ... how to connect a 1024x768 screen to your Clamshell. There are still some limitations concerning DVD playback. The discussion started at macnnforums in december 2006, but now the thread was closed because ...
- 15. Connecting to a TV set
- (Accessories)
- ... cable, which is still offered by Apple. You can run presentations or watch movies on the big screen, or use it the TV screen for games. If the TV only has only a SCART connector, you need an additional ...
- 16. How vintage are you ?
- (Trivia)
- ... Pinot and Dita from Indonesia uses that old fashioned Clamshell in everyday life in addition to the modern iPhone. Due to the long battery life and airport card it is still useful. In their Flickr account ...
- 17. External Video an a Clamshell
- (Accessories)
- ... video stream has been synchronized, still occasionally small dropouts are visible (test with a Blueberry iBook with 320MB RAM). Useful only for very patient Clamshell fans. A recording is not possible. ...
- 18. The breathing sleep light
- (Trivia)
- The love for the detail shows up with the Clamshell iBook even in small things. Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive (quotation) provided for example the small green light, which signals the current energy ...
- 19. Clamshell Unboxing Part 2: The contents
- (Trivia)
- ... will notice that the sides and the back of the first edition is grey with a bigger white apple. When you remove the box, the iBook which still rests in beautiful designed Styrofoam shows up. There ...
- 20. Is the iBook a Girlie-Computer ?
- (Trivia)
- As soon as the new iBook was released in 1999, the revolutionary design met with criticism. The columnist John C. Dvorak, (PC Magazine) wrote a pamphlet which contained well known sexist stereotypes: ...