Motorola Xoom

Motorolla Xoom as a super powerful dual-core processor and Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) - the Android platform designed specifically for tablets. With its 10. inch HD widescreen display, you'll enjoy HD video in a thin, light, and powerful tablet.
http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Tablets/ci.MOTOROLA-XOOM-US-EN.overview

Question:  what about software?
.... less than 100 native Android 3 tablet apps available...
http://www.padgadget.com/2011/03/30/considering-buying-an-android-tablet-for-all-the-great-native-apps-think-again/

Colored Ethernet Cables Vendor

They have basic colors... but also purple and orange

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10232

Laptop Battery

I always enjoy receiving recommendations from the list for exceptional vendors. So I wanted to return the favor and share a positive experience of my own.

A few days ago I ordered a replacement Macbook Pro battery from the Subject company. I'd had some bad luck with a couple of PC batteries from cheaper, Amazon, third-party resellers in the Fall quarter last year, so I decided to stay away from the $49.00 choices from Amazon.

As per usual, the vendor's application incorrectly charged 8.75% tax instead of the 8.25%. I normally don't bother messing with this because I figure it costs the University more than the $0.41 in my time/salary than the savings we get if I bother to call and get it worked out. But on this order they also charged tax on the shipping to the tune of $1.66. So, for $2.07 I figured it was at least worth asking about. Note too that the shipping would have been free if we could wait, but the faculty needed the battery before the coming weekend.

I had only a short wait on hold, the person who answered listened carefully, was sympathetic, and offered right away to put me through to her manager. When I suggested that their accounts receivable person would be sufficient, she offered that he would be one and the same and put me through.

Tyler picked right up and immediately took care of the tax difference. He then proceeded to offer me a blanket 5% off whenever I need to order in the future, 10% off if I ever needed to "bulk" order more than 10 batteries at once. I told him that was mighty unlikely, but when I mentioned the technology support list he very quickly extended the 5% and 10% offers to anyone on campus who wants to order through them. He said I could call him directly with any future orders to make sure I get the 5% and so the tax could/would get applied correctly.

True to my word, here is Tyler's contact information.

Tyler Benowitz
ALX Global LLC
DBA-Laptop Battery Depot and Camera Battery Depot Tyler@alxglobal.com
TEL: (858) 224-7423
FAX: (866) 209-1308 (Toll Free)

http://www.laptopbatterydepot.com/
http://www.camerabatterydepot.com/
http://www.alxglobal.com/

Coldfusion and ASP.NET MVC web hosting

DailyRazor
http://www.dailyrazor.com/cfmx/cfmx_plans_starter_order.php

Host Excellence
http://www.hostexcellence.com/index.php/v2/pages.packages

DreamHost
http://www.dreamhost.com/

On Mac OS 10.1 ... lost preview.html.
All downloaded files are coming in as Colorsync...

Instructions to restore Preview.app
download pacifist
http://pacifist.en.softonic.com/mac
Install pacifist
Drag pacifist to applications folder and open.
When you open it read the instructions,
insert Mac OS X Install CD 1
then click the button 'Open Apple Install Discs'
A list will pop up and if it shows your mac install disc in the list click 'Choose'
Then let it load, you may need to insert disc 2 as well, then disc 1 again.
When the next window opens follow these instructions

Click on 'Contents of OSInstall.mpkg'
Click on 'contents of essential system software'
Click on 'Contents of essential system software group'
Click on 'Contents of Essentials.pkg'
Click on 'Applications'
Click on 'Preview.app'
And finally click on the 'Install button on the top left of the window, big yellow arrow looking thing.

Downloading Movies

Download uTorrent from Softonic and install
http://utorrent.en.softonic.com/download

Go to Google search and search for movie... in this case...

Voyage of the Dawn Treader torrent

I usually select links that go to ISOHUNT.
Select one of the torrents on the list and download... only takes under 30 sec. for it to download.
Best to download on the desktop to make it easier to find.

Click on the torrent file. It should open up in uTorrent. It should start downloading almost immediately.

FTP service recommendation

Is there a FTP service or some other file transfer service which people could recommend?

http://www.dropbox.com/pricing

2GB free account
Free : 2GB
Pro 50 : $10 month : 50GB
Pro 100 : $20 month : 100GB

Dropbox is a wonderful utility for non-sensitive data. I'd not recommend it for sensitive data as it is 'in the cloud' - but I use the 2 gig to store stuff between home and work. Some of our faculty use it between home, work, and iphone.


It is especially great for those of us that lose the usb keys!