Back to the iBook

It has been quite a long time since I have contributed to the iPhoneJournal. Not that I have not done iPhone stuff. For example I bought a number of books on developing apps for the iPhone. Now I should read them and try to put some of the ideas into practice. Started to read "Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK" by Dave Mark and Jeff laMarche. Very straight forward and easy to follow so far (I got to page 19). That's my usual approach to technology is to buy some books and then fail to follow up on the reading and the implied action. I also listened to the first lecture of a course at Stanford on developing iPhone apps. It is available through iTunes (iPhone Application Programming). I have downloaded the video lessons to the iPhone so I can watch them from there. I can also watch them on the MacBook Pro.

Barbara and I took a number of computers and related stuff to an electronic recycling operation run by Goodwill Industries. One of the items Barbara was going to throw out was an old iBook (10 GB hard drive). I put AppleWorks on it and wrote a document that described what had transpired as follows:

Well here we are in AppleWorks 6.2.7 on the iMac. Before we go any further let’s see if we can print out this document. After adding the HP 2200 printer at 10.0.1.199, the page printed just fine. AppleWorks did not crash, so I now have a word processor working on this computer. I also saved this file in Documents as 4-29-09.cwk. So far, so good. I have the iBook connected to the network, I believe, with the Ethernet cable. However the wireless icon claims I am connected to Apple Network 2d6167, Airport Extreme, so let’s disconnect the Ethernet cable and the AC line and continue in the family room on battery and see if the wireless connection works.

For Family Room starters, let’s see if we can print from here. Chobe came to sit in my lap so I have the iBook perched on the left arm rest of the orange recliner. It fits there very nicely, bettter than the MacBook Pro. I think this document printed out OK, but will not know for certain until I go to the printer in the office. Let’s see if we can get on the internet from here. I could not, but them I switched to an alternate wireless station, WASSON, and was able to get to the internet where I placed on order to Practical Press, which seemed to be working fine. Let’s print again while we are connected to the WASSON wireless port.

The file printed out wirelessly, when connected to either 2d6167 or to WASSON, but would only access the internet with WASSON.

So there you have it, that's my iPhoneJournal for today.