Category: Mac (Page 2 of 2)

I got a phone call from the Mac shop this morning. My ibook is fixed. I’m so glad to get my old machine back. Next month this laptop will be three years old. When I bought it it had a one year warranty. I added another two years to the ibook with the apple care plan. It extends the warranty for another two years. Next month it would have been expired.
The Mac shop had to change the Logic board (mother board) which would have been an estimated 30,000 Thai Baht. (over 1,000 SFr.) So thanks to God that I had apple care. It would otherwise have been to expensive to get it fixed.

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My Mac gave up on me. Yesterday when I wanted to start it only the fan noise would come from the machine. Worse I couldn’t turn it off and had to take the battery out. I brought it to the mac shop. I still have warranty with the apple care plan. What really annoys me is that three weeks ago I already had problems and brought it to the shop twice. They said it was just a system failure. No it is probably the logic board that gave up on me. I wonder if it has to do with humidity and the heat in this country.

I took out my old ibook G3 my kids use. The thing is just to get all the programs and my "stuff" on the machine. This will take some time.

Since we got a 500 Gig. external hard drive from Switzerland (Thank you so much Viktor), we have been backing up everything. So I just lost a view days of data.
I also signed up for a .Mac account. This makes the switching between all the machines a lot easier. When Lillian doesn’t use her E-mac I have my account there as well with all the same data.

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I found this little application on the net. It gives you the choice to erase languages on your computer that you don’t need. These language files come with the operating system waiting for you to learn and use them. So in my old days I decided not to learn Azerbaijani and get rid of it. I took the languages I don’t use often, like Tagalog, Africans and many others off my hard disk. Perhaps another 200 MB more for music and photos.
The program was written by J. Schrier and I. Stein. Check it out at www.monolingual.sourceforge.net

Note: After you deleted the languages. They are gone. No more Chinese. Except if you reinstall OSX. Don’t forget to take the program off after you’re done. You won’t need it anymore. Extra, extra space.

I also took off MS office and only reinstalled Words and Excel. Because I use pages and keynotes (I like them much better) I just realize that my notebook is very limited in space, even though I put a 100 GB hard disc in. I guess I have to many photos.

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