Amazing! This week, I sat and watched my two grand-daughters look at each other on screen in a Skype video-phone call. What ever John had done to adjust the webcam on their end worked. The picture was bright and clear. Granted the girls at 5 & 7 months had no idea that they were over 900 miles apart. I am not sure they had any idea of what was happening. Arianna and I chatted for a few minutes before Sophie and Chris arrived. After he left for his end-of-the-semester decompression, we chatted for a while longer. Skpye is amazing.
Durable! This week Suzanne found my missing blue-tooth headset. She spent Wednesday morning in the flower beds and decided to move some errant monkey grass. Nestled in the grass, apparently safe from the 10 inches of rain we have had this year and who knows what else has happened in the months it has lain there, the device survived its exposure to the elements. By the time I got home, I saw the blue charging light when I plugged it in. After a full charge, it worked! Now I have a Borg-unit for the car and one for the house, until I misplace one or the other. Motorola makes durable equipment.
Frustrating! Recently, they sent us a link at work allowing us to buy the Microsoft Office Suite (the full version) for home use at a substantial discount. Suzanne has expressed the desire to be able to work on a few projects using Publisher. Yes, we could upgrade the iMac to Leopard from Tiger to be able to run Windows on the Mac. By the time we spend all the money on software costs, we could have purchased most of an inexpensive notebook. (Netbooks have tiny screens, so no go.) The mistake was buying an inexpensive Dell from Best Buy. I did have to spend an hour on the phone with Apple Care to walk me through the problems in the setup. Once I had to iMac talking to the Dell, I thought I was home free. Apparently, there is some "problem" with Vista that keeps it from recognizing other files systems. I talked to the Geek Squad, "Sorry, that will be a house call for $130." Dell wants your credit card number before you even can ask them the question and the web has all kinds of advice that has not worked yet. For now, all Suzanne can do if she wants to print a copy from the Dell is a) unhook the printer from the iMac and then hook it back up when she it done or b) print the file as a PDF to the public folder on the Dell and then print it from the iMac since Apple is smarter than Dell. Apple makes great products and has wonderful support. Dell, not so much.
Durable! This week Suzanne found my missing blue-tooth headset. She spent Wednesday morning in the flower beds and decided to move some errant monkey grass. Nestled in the grass, apparently safe from the 10 inches of rain we have had this year and who knows what else has happened in the months it has lain there, the device survived its exposure to the elements. By the time I got home, I saw the blue charging light when I plugged it in. After a full charge, it worked! Now I have a Borg-unit for the car and one for the house, until I misplace one or the other. Motorola makes durable equipment.
Frustrating! Recently, they sent us a link at work allowing us to buy the Microsoft Office Suite (the full version) for home use at a substantial discount. Suzanne has expressed the desire to be able to work on a few projects using Publisher. Yes, we could upgrade the iMac to Leopard from Tiger to be able to run Windows on the Mac. By the time we spend all the money on software costs, we could have purchased most of an inexpensive notebook. (Netbooks have tiny screens, so no go.) The mistake was buying an inexpensive Dell from Best Buy. I did have to spend an hour on the phone with Apple Care to walk me through the problems in the setup. Once I had to iMac talking to the Dell, I thought I was home free. Apparently, there is some "problem" with Vista that keeps it from recognizing other files systems. I talked to the Geek Squad, "Sorry, that will be a house call for $130." Dell wants your credit card number before you even can ask them the question and the web has all kinds of advice that has not worked yet. For now, all Suzanne can do if she wants to print a copy from the Dell is a) unhook the printer from the iMac and then hook it back up when she it done or b) print the file as a PDF to the public folder on the Dell and then print it from the iMac since Apple is smarter than Dell. Apple makes great products and has wonderful support. Dell, not so much.
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