Horizontal Scroll Wheel on Might Mouse is just a bit too sensitive and binding it to forward and back will drive you batty in no time. To fix this,in Firefox type about:config in the address bar. Change the following settings:
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mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0
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mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines to 1
(determines horizontal scrolling speed; adjust to your preference.
Higher values mean faster; negative is possible to reverse direction).
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mousewheel.withnokey.numlines to 3
(determines scrolling speed, adjust to your preference)
mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to false
The quirky and somewhat cool looking Amadana.com web site sells a few unique products, including a wooden trim headphone set that is attracting attention. I’m not sure I’d like the headphones, having become somewhat attached to my Shure E2c set, but they certainly have the best warning labels around. I’m going to lobby our tech-pubs group to see if they would consider adding appropriate labels to our product manuals too.
For their portable DVD player:
Roughly I think these are Do not use as…
- …a catchers mitt at backstop;
- …a banana quisher, or;
- …a rain shelter if you are a Ninja
For their calculator:
Roughly translates to Do not use for:
- …a bikini top;
- …a playing card,
- …a sandwich spread,
- …a signals kite if you are a Ninja, or;
- …a family photo (Update: Family Emblem)
And finally, the wooden headphones:
Roughly translates to Do not use…
- …as a grappling hook if you are a Ninja,
- …as a stethoscope on women,
- …as a high-sensitivity microphone to crack safes as a Ninja,
- …as a dog toy, or;
- …as a fishing lure.
Those ninja’s aren’t getting any breaks with these products! I’ve only pulled three samples; there are many other and they will almost universally elicit a giggle or three. Go check them out at their products page.
Andrew Escobar writes about the new SafeSleep mode on the PowerBooks (and possibly the whole Mac line-up). Apple talks about SafeSleep in a docs article and shows a sample photo of a waking PB G4. 
To make a long story short, there is a software based SafeSleep mode, somewhat like hibernate on Windows that is now possible. Your PowerBook will (when enabled) write out it’s state to a swapfile, making battery changes possible without shutting down a 12″ G4 PB. Yippie!
So far I’ve tested this successfully on a:
- 17″ iMac (1GHz USB1.0)
- 12″ PowerBook G4 (1.5 GHz)
- Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (Q77)
I have access to an older 12″ PB G4 with the 867 MHz processor, but I haven’t had a chance to try it there yet.
NB: If you have the security features enabled that require you to unlock the screen when waking from sleep, you will not see the ‘greyscale blurred’ effect that the articles describe; your restoration will be on a black screen.
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