McBookaire: Free iPod Touch

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

http://www.apple-touch.com/free-ipod-touch-with-purchase-of-a-mac-for-college-students-02661.php

Free iPod Touch with Purchase of a Mac for College Students?
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 in iPod Touch

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Every year Apple has made a special back to school program available for students heading back to school. Last year they made the offers only available to college students and this year rumors are circulating that they might include a free 8GB touch with a Mac purchase.

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Screwed again. Missed out on one of whatever it is.

Argh!

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TECH HARDWARE: Strange event

Friday, May 30, 2008

This morning luggable was rebooted.

No reason apparent to me.

Did Microsoft push one of their mandatory take fixes? Was it related to Comcast’s problems yesterday? Have I been hacked?

Who knows?

Argh!

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McBookaire: Field experiment with McBa

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

I ordered a ‘man bag’ for McBa. (Mac Book Air … I’m always accused of using acronyms) I took the 35$ one that looked like it would suffice. Some of them are price in the hundreds. Guess they think if you spring for a McBa, then you’ll spend any amount for anything. Maybe Martha; not me. The dumb thing didn’t come with a shoulder strap so I borrowed one. I’ll gripe about that vendor when I get around to it.

Any way I took McBa out in its ‘man bag’ and it worked perfectly. Fired up the vwubbie (Verizon Wireless Broad Band usb modem). And everything worked fine.

There was a wifi signal but I couldn’t connect. Argh!

McBa ran for more than 2 hours on the battery driving vwubbie.

I as careful to shut down; not just close the lid. Just closing the lid drains the battery in 12 hours.

So far, I’m pleased.

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WINXP: Lugable takes a holiday

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Thursday night, actually Friday wee hours, I couldn’t sleep; so I pounded out several reams of my best prose. It tired me out so I went back to bed. All happy and ready to sleep.

Friday 6AM, I close the lid and go to work. Like I’ve done for what feels like eons. I open up at work and screens black. No power. SO I power up and pouf the data fairy has taken that stuff and sent it to the bit bucket.

I wriggled on that hook for the day. Off and on. It was gone.

Mozy has been spinning cycles but it’s crap.

So I’m screwed … again. BY microsoft’s ‘productivity’ software.

If I ever buy another microdots product, kick me.

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McBookaire: Time Capsule now on the home network

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Brought the “time capsule” home. Took a few manual ‘press and hold for 10 seconds’ to finally convince it to connect to my home wireless network.

Yeah!

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McBookaire: First Time Warp (oh, Time Machine) Back Up took 4 hours

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The first backup, which I had read takes a while, did.

Four Hours?

What was it writing records with a quill pen?

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McBookaire: Time Machine fun

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Fired up the Time machine.

It REQUIRES an inet connection to configure. Or at least I couldn’t figure out how to make it work without one.

It’s backing up MBA as we speak. Feels like about four hours.

Haven’t figured out where to keep the Time Machine — home or at work?

Haven’t figured out how to eject the disk from the ‘MacBookAir Super Drive’ (an external cd drive with a twenty page limited warranty in five languages AND a four page ‘user manual’ with one page of pictures and two pages of ‘regulatory information’ and one sentence of documentation)

“Attach the MacBook Air SuperDrive directly to your MacBook Air.” in five languages of course.

No word how to eject the disk, the drive, or the usb cable. (I’ll wait till I power down.) No idea if you can put it on a usb hub between it and MBA!

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MCBookAire: Enterprise WEP Leap? Not easy

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Well after two days of playing with McBa at work, I haven’t been able to get it to connect to the corporate LAN. (It is permitted security policy wise!) But, if the McBookAir supports Enterprise WEP with LEAP, it’s not obvious to me.

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McBookaire: Having some trouble with wireless at work

Monday, April 7, 2008

Connects flawlessly to my home wireless network. At work, not so good. Does it support enterprise wep leap?

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McBookaire: Serial numbers

Sunday, April 6, 2008

So far, I’m pleased with ‘being Martha’ (i.e., maing an extragent purchase like the McBookAir. It’s totally quiet. No heat. And, appears to run for hours between charges. Although a recharge seem to take longer than I expected. Like sipping thru a narrow straw? Keyboard is excellent. Except it’s no WIndows or XPS lay out. I’ll have to get used to it. I’ve got mail and wp working, no sweat. But I have hit my first gripe.

Serial numbers!

Come on guys could you possibly make them longer or in a smaller font?

I’d have preferred that you allow them to be automagic.

The experiment continues!

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