June 4, 2008

June 4, 2008 Direct Post from MacBookPro
Greetings and salutations. I have a huge backlog of Notes files on the iPhone which I would normally send by email to the MacBookPro and paste into this blog, the iPhone Journal. However, the iPhone does not work at home. Apparently AT&T no longer services this area in the lee of Roxy Ann Peak in southern Oregon. Barbara is not able to use her AT&T mobile phone either. Chobe the cat does not mind as she refuses to use a cell phone.

I can not use Safari (which I have tuned into Twitter) either and can not, as I already mentioned, send email from the iPhone. I thought Safari and email on the iPhone used wifi so apparently my iPhone can no longer connect to my airport extreme network. I also have trouble connecting my Alienware laptop running vista to the wifi network, but can connect via ethernet. Same thing with my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop running the latest version of Ubuntu. I can get to the local area network with an ethernet cable, but not via wifi.

As long as I am discussing all my problems, I might as well mention AppleTV and its connection to the internet. The AppleTV is connected to the Sony Bravia via HDMI. It was not working a lot of the time so I drilled a hole in the wall to run an ethernet cable to the back of the cabinet in which the Sony Bravia and the AppleTV were housed. This worked quite well.

I am looking forward to the announcement of the new iPhone on June 9 and wonder if I can add that to my current AT&T account which has 12 months to run. At the end of the contract I will probably drop AT&T and replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch. I think the iPod Touch will do everything that I do on the iPhone except make cell phone calls, which I am not interested in anyway. In looking at the iPod Touch screen on apple.com/ipodtouch/ I do not see a mail icon. However, I assume I can do internet mail to my .mac or gmail accounts. I just want to get the new iPhone to run out the AT&T contract and see how it works. Then I will cancel my AT&T account and get an iPod Touch. June 2009, a year from now, sounds like a good time to make the switch.

The other day I spilled coffee on my trusty MacBook Pro. After drying out and letting it set for 24 hours, I found that it still functions reasonably well. What does not work are some keys on the lower left keyboard, the caps lock, shift, fn, ctrl, option, and command keys. The shift and command keys on the right side do work. I can also connect the keyboard and optical mouse from the defunct G4 computer to the MacBook Pro by USB and restore full keyboard functionality. Subsequently, the return key fell off the computer. Since the limping MacBookPro is the only Macintosh computer I currently have, I really do need another MacBook and fortunately Barbara says I should get a new MacBookPro for Father's Day.

Today I was looking at iPhone Aps and saw Readle.com an app that let's you read .doc, pdf, and txt files online with the iPhone. I signed up for an account and then pasted Learning Online Today 03 a pages file into Word and saved it as a .doc file. Then I, hopefully, uploaded the .doc file to my Readdle account and am hoping for the best. What I would really like is an app that would allow me to read the extensive list of eReader books I have (pdb files).