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Steps to Success with Photoshop 1.x 1. Launch the app. 2. CMD-N 3. Set your screen's native resolution (640x400) and click Gray Scale and then OK 4. Choose the Paint Bucket Tool and fill the window with Black. 5. Look at the very bottom of the toolbar at left, and click the rightmost icon of...

Thank you for replying, but I need to clarify when you mean in your second post. What is "575"? You measured 19.5cm diagonally with a ruler or measuring tape, using an all-black screen, from the very bottom left corner to the top right corner? I'm rather confused by what 24.4cm means because...

I finished stripping off the chrome paint by hand using mostly a box cutter. I did the sides of the ribs too. My plan was to use DCM to solvent-weld the transparent polycarbonate piece to the back of the ribs and then after that stuff JB weld (original 24-hour cure) down in between the...

Well, folks. I decided to do the DCM weld this afternoon, and here's how it turned out...

I wasn’t aware of any cloned messages at all. Interesting. What I can say is that whenever I use my iPhone to write a reply here on TinkerDifferent (within mobile Safari), when I click the “Post reply“ button, sometimes nothing happens. I don’t see my reply posted. So I reload the page and then...

@Kai Robinson Thank you so much for your reply! In answer to your question, I’ve been desperate over the past month to get in touch with @techknight because he has the most experience repairing these machines and he also decided NOT to use a replacement CCFL tube or even LEDs, and he instead...

If you are talking about why I linked to that discussion in the other forum, the answer is because if we don’t say anything here, I think some people might Google that other forum, and be a bit confused about whether they need to encode or not. But as we discussed here, it seems to be pretty...

It took two hours, but I was finally able to open the plastic LCD housing, and in this video I show the CFL tube. EDIT: I later found that the piece of tape does not secure the paper wrapped around the tube. The tape seems to be there to better ensure the paper rolled around the tube won't...

How to open Mac Portable’s LCD Housing?

Problem now is that I cannot for the life of me get the LCD housing open. SOMEHOW I was able to do it in the past because I recapped the INVERTER board. But no matter what I try now, it simply will not come open. WHAT I'VE TRIED (AFTER REMOVING THE 2 SCREWS): 1. SERVICE SOURCE says to insert...

@Mk.558 It isn't clear from your post if your photo is the 5120 or 5126. It seems like it might be the 5120?

I found a YouTube video from a fellow opening his 5126 LCD housing, and took the following still images from it... As you can see from the above, two wires lead from the INVERTER UNIT to each end of what should be a single CCFL tube inside that metal shield. The metal shield appears to be...

Very sorry to hear that. I do hope your RAM card is OK. I've heard that CCFL backlight tubes can flicker when dying, so hopefully it's nothing more than that. But as to why your RAM card doesn't work, well, can you run the Portable without the card installed at all, just using the onboard...

I would appreciate feedback from 5120 Mac Portable owners who have a machine that works and who have experiencing adjusting the contrast of their LCD. I have a 5126 Backlit Portable, but when I turn off the Backlight, the LCD is really hard to see even under good lighting conditions, as shown...

Wow! Fantastic! Tiny but so useful. This is great. I should mention one usage caveat that will affect some SE/30 motherboard owners out there. Phil Greenland created an RTC replacement with memory that stores PRAM and basically everything but the Date and Time when the machine is power off...

Giving people power and options is always nice, but after reading your recent replies, would that “encoding” feature only confuse users into thinking they somehow need that encoding? Because you made it pretty clear that no encoding is necessary for SIT files.

Giving people power and options is always nice, but after reading your recent replies, would that feature only confuse people into thinking they somehow need that encoding? Because you made it pretty clear that no encoding is necessary for SIT files.

Hi, folks. I know the Portable's backlight is rated at a meager 53 nits, but if any of you own a 5126 Backlit Portable, could you please tell me if your backlight is as dim as mine? I filmed the short video below under standard room lighting with a rather strong LED room light, and then an...

There was some debate here about the need to encode Stuffit 1.5.1 *.sit files (for uploading to Macintosh Garden, etc.) using BinHex or MacBinary. The thinking was initially that the older v1.5.1 lacked Resource Forks, but then the dialog got kind of convoluted and nothing specific was...