Comments on: Apple DIY Projects for the New Year

By: Supercharged

Supercharged — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:44:19 +0000

As everyone knows, white Macbooks are bad for poor plastic that brakes on sides. So I’m going to swap my cracked keyboard part of white Macbook for the black one. If I’ll manage to find black LCD bezel, I’ll swap that too. Would be nice black inside white Macbook, I think.

By: David Klein

David Klein — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:34:25 +0000

Thanks!

By: Twist

Twist — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:09:20 +0000

Might be cool to get one of the older Powerbooks with the IrDA port and try to turn it into a touchscreen tablet remote for a home theater.

By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:00:14 +0000

I have an old PowerBook G4, dug it out last Sunday (from a pile of old stuff on a shelf under the desk) to test the new Ubuntu on it. Booted into Tiger, and fell in love with it. Have spent the last few days trying to make the most out of the “oldie” hardware and OS. Looks like this is going to be my “netbook” – WiFi capable, runs latest Safari, not the best choice for other things (still Tiger). As this is the first Mac computer that only I use, I also set up iSync for my phone, Mail for mail (duh!), gonna work with iTunes and iCal later, too. Also, I really enjoy playing JewelBox and other Classic games. Don’t feel like mounting it to the wall right now, but I think that’s still a very good idea for people who have lots of older spare Apple hardware at home.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:54:01 +0000

MORE DIY, MORE DIY!!!!! WOOOOOO!

Best post you had in a while, but you can do better! The wall mounted mac was an amazing find but the silly blue light thing is kinda useless.

More function and less fluff with future DIY’s!

By: Samuel Sherman

Samuel Sherman — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:22:43 +0000

I just built a DIY projector using my old G4 powerbook and an overhead projector from craigslist. Just remove the case from around the lcd, and place it directly about the transparency bed. It works great, here’s a pic: http://bit.ly/50vxP6

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:21:47 +0000

I have 1,000 Christmas songs loaded onto an old iMac G3 400mhz. The tunes are played in random order and streamed wirelessly to an Airport Express hooked up to the living room audio system. The audio system itself is old school, circa 1977 Onkyo receiver and Advent loudspeakers. This setup works flawlessly…………until someone uses the microwave.

Old tech still rocks!

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:41:51 +0000

One of my personal favorites:

G4 Cube fish tank – http://www.flickr.com/photos/smalldog/404832763/

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:36:55 +0000

Cool projects!

I have an old Powerbook G4 I’d love to turn into a media center and hook up to my (non-flatscreen, non-HD) TV. I’ve done a bit of Googling on the subject, but haven’t found much. Does anyone know of any resources that could guide me in that effort? Thanks!