I hope this story has a happy ending.
This morning, he saw someone applying for a job online using the stolen laptop, and Jim now has the Social Security number, address and phone number used on the job application. Jim speculates it is possible the machine has been sold to someone and that is who was applying for the job. Or it could still be with the crooks.
Over a year ago Roger Ebert lost his voice in the battle for his health. I find this story interesting for a lot of reasons, not only because it’s a Mac friendly piece.
Then I upgraded to the Leopard Mac OX operating system, and found a new Mac voice named Alex. I am using it now. Amazingly Alex, is the first voice I have yet heard that understands and reflects question marks and exclamation points!?! This prevents every sentence from being spoken in a monotone.
sweet. They may even make it an online course next year.
via Earn a certificate in iPhone and Cocoa Development from the University of Washington.
So last night over at Barb’s we find that four of us have out laptops opened. Including my niece Nat. I notice then that Nat’s hard drive on her Macbook Pro is fully shared and unprotected. Seems this was done by her BF in order to share some files. So I goto System Preferences to try and change things back to normal. The preference pane for file sharing would not let me do anything. So while I was looking up online why this would be on my laptop, Nat tried to fix it and somehow made the entire system read only.
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