My brain hurts and it's technology's fault.
Pam's netbook is acting up. Or Yahoo is. I can't tell. On that device alone she is unable to access her email account. Mine doesn't work there either. So, the problem is with that device, right? So I ran a virus scan and it came up clean. Next step: take it into the Geeks at Best Buy, and that guy says it's probably because her netbook is running Windows XP which is way outdated and probably messing up the new, upgraded version of Yahoo mail.
I spent over two hours last night - oh, and $119 - downloading and installing Windows 7. I have one question: How does Microsoft stay in business??? What a joke! It required downloading three files but included no instructions. The first two files wouldn't open ("unrecognizable") so I moved on to #3. "Some files downloaded from the internet can contain viruses. Are you sure...?" Ah, come on. I got it from you guys.
The whole procedure was agonizing in the time it took and the complexity of the process. This was the more burdensome because last week I upgraded my Mac's OS from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It took an hour, needed no supervision or action on my part, and when it was done I was ready to go.
She still can't access her email account so I contacted Yahoo support and am awaiting their reply.
"Due to the unusually high volume of inquiries it may take longer than the usual 24 hours for us to respond."
Ya think that might be telling?
But wait! There's more!
During the worship service each Sunday at Pathway we play music files, record the message and project the song slides using iTunes, an app I can't remember and Keynote respectively. Beginning this Sunday we also want to record the adult class and project lesson slides. To put all of these functions into a single device we just got an iPad.
But I can't figure it out!!
I got it this afternoon and I have until Sunday morning to learn how it all works.
How do I get a Keynote presentation I created on my MacBook onto the iPad? How do I play it?
I feel so old.
Fifteen miles today, 24 tomorrow. If I have time I'll work on Ilsa. Then again, I might be busy trying to figure out this iPad.
4 comments:
Obtain the IP address of the iPad while it is connected to your wireless network. Go on your MacBook and with the finder selected, select "go" from the menu bar and then "Connect to server" from the list of selections. From here you type in the IP address of the iPad and it should mount a virtual disk on your desktop or along the left side of a new finder window. Lastly, just drag and drop the file from MacBook into the iPad's disk and it will copy it across your network. Oh, I'm not familiar with an iPad, but I assume you need to set it up so that it can be seen by your macbook and that it is authorized to share files.
Mike H.
You gave in to the IPad temptation mentioned to some youth two weeks ago!!
No, I didn't give in. The church bought it b/c we'll use it to play our music, show our slides and record our messages & lessons.
Yes, it has to be stored somewhere during the week and I'm the logical person b/c I create the playlist and slides. So, see? God is good!!
Had to give you a hard time, Craig! You have to do what you have to do!!
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