I love my iPhone. I love my macbook. I love my (brand spanking new) 24 inch iMac. And I love my shuffle. As you can tell I’m a bit of a mac geek. But in all seriousness I do love my iPhone, it has everything you need – phone, internet, email, facebook, twitter, calendar, photos, music, videos and lots more. And it’s great when your with your mates trying to figure out who that tv star is… You know, that guy… He was in that show back in the days when Felicity and Jack and Jill was on… He had a little sister and his parents were divorced… You know the guy.

Okay starting to lose the plot.

As much as I love my iphone, it’s seriously starting to give me the s%#ts! The first time it stopped working I took it to the “Genius” at the apple store Genius Bar – I’m not just calling him a genius because he fixed my iphone, that’s his actual job title. It was pretty cool at the apple store, the Genius said if he couldn’t fix it he’d give me a brand new one – right there and then. He even had the box ready to hand over. But he did fixed it so I just kept my 2-week old iphone.

For the past couple of days it keeps saying “No service”. It did it for a few hours the other night while I was waiting for someone to call, I was at a friends place and I know her place has perfectly fine reception. Unbeknown to me no one could call because I had “No service”. My phone was just sitting on the couch all night without reception, then hours later it decided to work. Now it’s fair enough when you’re go through a tunnel or you’re in the elevator, but we were on the top floor of a 3-story apartment. Very annoying.

As much as I’d like to, I don’t think I can blame apple or vodafone for this problem. A few days prior I was playing around with the setting on my phone and accidentally switched the carrier from “vodafone” to “automatic” – big mistake! I think what I did was tell the phone to look for any available network and connect to that instead of only looking for vodafone. There were a few times I looked at my phone and it said Telstra. Eek.

Looks like I have a date with my iphone manual tonight. Otherwise hopefully a “restore to factory settings” will fix it.

I love it when parcels and packages get delivered to the office. Mostly because I like to play with the bubble wrap, but also because sometimes you never quite know what’s in the box. Most of the time it’s just stationary or books or other boring stuff, but there are days like today when it’s something much more exciting.

Today I got a brand new 24-inch apple iMac for my desk at the office and it’s huge. I was previously working on a 20-inch iMac and while 4 inches doesn’t sound like a huge difference – it is. It’s going to take a bit of getting use to. Though it’s only 4 inches bigger than my old iMac you really do feel the difference in your eyes and your posture – even after 1 day. I had to make my seat higher so my eye level matched the screen and I had to push it way back because the brightness was starting to make me
dizzy.

All in all, I’m one happy camper. I can’t wait to play around with the new toy tomorrow, not only is it a bigger screen but its got double the ram and a newer, more advanced graphics card. Looks like I’ll be doing a lot more editing on this new baby – which, I think, is why I got the new iMac and my boss got my hand-me-down 20-inch iMac. Well I’m not complaining.

At the office, our computers rely on our apple server for everything – emails, files and documents, the internet, everything. So you can imagine the level of panic and stress when the server decides to stop working. Our server issue was a bit of a strange one too, none of us could access files, only some of us could get the internet and we could send emails internally but not externally. Bizarre!

Now being on an apple server is kinda tricky because they are quite rare. So when an apple server crashes, help is hard to find. Thankfully, my new hero David Moore from ihatemypc came to the rescue.

I’m totally in awe of the magic David spun. David came to our office and had a daunting task at hand. He had to learn how the office was set up (multiple companies sharing the main server, then our office sharing a sub-server), the functions and configuration of the server and then he had to work out why certain things were working for some users and others weren’t working. After hours of checking and tweaking different computer settings and routers and cables and boxes he some how managed to work out the problem. The server was unable to recognise DNS. How he worked that out – I have no idea! It’s such an odd thing that you don’t think would break.