Year: 2009

Cheers 🙂

Definitely enjoying the improved sound from iTunes 🙂

congrats on the new lappy!

enjoy!

Friday I headed up to the Mall to do some checking out of the sales … and to acquire the replacement for my old laptop that’s done well but put up the “I retire” flag when it lost the ability to talk to the wifi router.

I didn’t actually buy anything on Friday – the main Mall shops didn’t have anything really interesting (although I get the feeling I’ll get a Goldfraap cd sometime soon) and the traffic was so bad that I aborted the run to the computer shops I was going to do. So the main target (new laptop) had to wait for today.

I have a couple of changes to make cos the new lappy is somewhat wider than the old one … So I’ll be heading off to the Mall again for a bigger bag. It’s also a Vista machine, which is an operating system I’ve never used before. Looks like it’s more user orientated but I’ll miss the special keys on my old laptop that I used to open Email, Firefox and Messenger. What I am noticing at the moment is that it is utterly silent, which won’t last long cos in 4 minutes my iTunes library will finish transferring from my old lappy 🙂

If an iTunes library takes over an hour to copy over, then you’ve probably got too much in it. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to preserve the old settings cos I don’t fancy rating over 2200 songs again.

The keyboard is taking some getting used to, as it’s a full size keyboard design. So my usual reference point on the right hand side of the case is being disrupted by there being a number pad there. Looks like I’m getting used to it cos I javem#t mistyped much in this post so far.

Right – 1 minute to go until I dig into iTunes, I’ve been watching old Star Trek Next Generation episodes while it’s been copying. Got a bit more setting up to do – email, Messenger, Firefox and some of the other regular apps I use are done. Others will wait (buying Kaspersky antivirus now would cost £30, waiting until it expires on my desktop will cost £40 for the pair, with AV for my dad’s machine coming free!).

And … a little bit later – I have my iTunes music playing over the wifi network to remote speakers – result :-). Current track – Some Journey off Suzanne Vega’s self titled album. Sounds good 🙂

(Techie bit to finish – iTunes 8 appears to have a critical bug re: Airtunes. There’s periodic breakup occurring every 30s-60s where the sound disappears. Going back to iTunes 7.6 is showing flawless playback so far – extensive research coming after I have some dinner 🙂

Yep – heard all sorts of good things about Inkheart 🙂 There’s about one film critic who seems to like the same films as me (Mark Kermode – Radio 5) and he liked it too.

PS I learned something new about New Years Day yesterday – PCWorld £10 vouchers that start on 1st Jan don’t necessarily mean that you can spend it on 1st Jan … 😉

Happy New Year Pete, to you and yours. All the best for 2009!

Happy New Year, my sweet boy, and all best wishes for 2009! 🙂

cq

Happy New Year! Unlike you I am not looking forward to going back to work! Glad you enjoyed Twilight. If you haven’t seen it I recommend Inkheart.CQ and I loved it 🙂