So I ordered a Magic Jack the other day. It cost me $50. Their web site says that for $50 I get calls within the US for free, for a year. Yes…for a year. Then after the first year, each year after it is like $20 or $30. Hmmm…I pay $30 a month, not including taxes. That is $360 a year, again, not including taxes. So I decided to get this little gadget and see for myself if it works. I actually installed it today. It took less than 5 minutes, oh, and I did it on my Mac. I called Melanie at the church and it was more clear than my Time Warner Cable phone. I had a friend of mine call me at the new number and he was really impressed. I will play around with it for the next month. If all is good, I am probably going to cancel my TWC phone service. With gas prices going up, we need to save every penny we got. I will post up later my pro/cons of the Magic Jack.
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Need Help Finding…
In the past week there have been numerous emails about the computer network infrastructure at the seminary in DR Congo. I have been banging it around in my head about taking my Apple MacBook Pro. The only problem with this is it cost me a lot of money and it would be horrible if anything happened to it, like it getting taken away from me by the border patrol in DR Congo…YIKES!!! So what I am looking for is an older Apple laptop. My budget is $300 – $400. I need a laptop so I can do my mission work. So I am asking that if anyone has an old Apple laptop or know of someone that has one, please let me know. I am also thinking about just leaving the laptop there so they can get the full experience of how AWESOME Apple is, or I just might keep it for future mission trips. Not sure yet, still praying for the whole thing.
God Bless Your Day
Twitter and iPhones go hand-in-hand!!!
2 things I am getting really excited about, but are more than a month away.
1. Africa Mission Trip
2. The release of the new iPhone
Melanie left to go to her parent’s house last night so when I went to bed, it took me a very long time to fall asleep. So, I decided to play around with my wonderful iPhone. Where ever I did messed up the camera feature and the Photos that are on the phone. Don’t know what I did, but I did something. So I had to restore my iPhone and used the backed up information when it restored. Things looked like they were going good…at first…then I tried to check my email…..no luck! It took me about 3 restores to get things correct. Still don’t know what I did wrong. I’m going to blame it on Melanie because if she would not have left, I would not have played with the phone therefore it would not have messed up. Just don’t tell her that the blame is being put on her.
Oh, it is up and working great now…like brand new!!!
You want Vista? Which One?
My Vista instructor emailed this one to me the other day. I thought it was awesome….of course!!!!
My Back and Apple
So I am working on developing two computer courses. One is for the new Microsoft MCTS and MCITP. The other is for the new Apple Mac OS X 10.5, by the way I love Apple!!!! Just sitting and working on these courses makes my body hurt from sitting so much, and my eyes hurt from looking at my laptop for so long. On top of that I went to see the doctor the other day because my my upper back, neck, and shoulder have been hurting me really bad. Those of you that don’t know, I am a disabled vetran because of my lower back. So, I went to the doctor and he took some x-rays and the news was not too good. I have two discs that are going bad on me, I no longer have a natural curve in my neck, the spinal bones are not straight, and I have mild scoliosis. We are working on getting me all fixed up, but it is a pain…you get it…I’m in pain and it’s a pain (It is really late right now.) So the doctor and I are getting to know each other and he knows that I teach computer class and develops the courseware. He tells me that he bets that I use a laptop and I tell him yes, an Apple of course. He said that if he could write me a prescription to get a Mac Pro that he would, but he can’t of course. He said that I needed to get away from using my laptop as my everyday computer, because of the way it sits on my desk and the way I sit and all sorts of stuff…that does make a lot of since.
Getting a new Mac Pro, by the way I really love Apple, would be awesome, but man this is really bad timing. 1. I have the Africa Mission Trip that needs to get paid for (I still need help with this if you are interested….read the Mission Trip posts.) 2. We are trying to get our last credit card paid of. 3. I just cannot afford a new computer right now. So I am improvising. I have re-arranged things on my desk. I got a wireless keyboard and a monitor. Not exactly what the doctor ordered, but it will have to due for now. As we say in the Marine Corps, adapt and over come.
So I am now asking your guys for two things.
1. Pray for me and my back. Having to deal with my lower back is one thing….now it is the upper and lower. Wonder when the mid is going to give me fits?
2. I really need help with the Africa Mission Trip. If you feel like you could help me out, please read the Mission Trip category and it will explain things. So far we have had $590 in donations and that is from 4 families (Randy and Carol Barnes, David and Jana Cotton, Tom and Angie Cross, and Mike and Bridget Wildschuetz. Thank you guys….your are AWESOME!!!!
God Bless Your Day…..well Night!!!
Got to play with the iPhone over the weekend….IT ROCKS!!!! That pretty much sums it up. Everyone needs one of these!
iPhone
Well…I finally did it. I took the plunge and got an iPhone. A very good friend of mine works for AT&T Wireless and we were talking about my existing plan. By switching to the iPhone and getting on an iPhone plan, I am saving around $60 plus dollars a month on my cell phone bill. AMAZING!!!! Now, you might be thinking, aren’t those expensive…yes, but the phone I already have, AT&T 8525, cost as much as the 8Gb iPhone I bought. I plan on selling the 8525 on eBay, they are going for around $200 plus dollars. So within a couple of months I will be saving money.
My biggest concern was being able to use this with my Exchange server for work. No big deal because it supports Exchange via IMAP. As far as my contacts and calendar, I use Entourage and in the preferences there is a sync setting so Entourage syncs my contacts with Address Book and my calendar with iCal. When I sync my iPhone with iTunes….I get all my stuff!!!! It is great! So I am off to play with the new phone and will post comments about it in a couple of days. So far…I love it!
I’m in Certification Magazine and Information Week Magazine!!!
I did an interview with Certification Magazine a while back about the Apple course that Training Camp offers. Here is what the published magazine looks like and the online article.
I am currently working on the new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard course for work (Training Camp). I was looking for a graphic in Google Images and came across this. This is the funniest thing I have seen all week. Enjoy!!!
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