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[Day Permalink] Friday, May 28, 2004

[Item Permalink] Some personally astonishing things: Minolta XG-1, Macintosh, Nokia 8110i -- Comment()
I thought a bit more on the first astonishing, now commonplace things. What were things that personally affected me a lot?
Minolta XG-1, a SLR camera
This was my first camera, which I bought when I was about 15. I used the camera a lot, and the aperture-based auto-exposure taught me a lot about photograpy. (Update: info about XG-1.)
Macintosh
I started to use a Mac at Helsinki University of Technology in 1986. Later, in 1987, I bought a Mac Plus. The first software which I bought was Turbo Pascal. The Mac and Turbo Pascal taught me much about using computers.
Nokia 8110i mobile phone
This was my first mobile phone. The banana-shape model is familiar from the first Matrix movie. I like this phone a lot, although the battery was problematic, especially the standard one which you had to charge rather often. But I still fondly remember this phone.


[Item Permalink] More on testing Office 2004 for Mac -- Comment()
I have continued testing Office 2004 for Mac. Yesterday evening I managed to get Entourage to crash when I tried to print a message. Perhaps this was an isolated case, but it was not too encouraging.

Entourage lacks badly in the spam filtering department compared to Mac OS X Mail for example. It classified at first some of the messages I sent to myself as spam. But I have to test this a bit more, because the spam filtering on Mail has been learning my preferences for a long time, and thus functions well.


[Item Permalink] Wireless printing at home -- Comment()
I have been happy user of WLAN and a bubble jet printer at home. My setup is as follows: an iBook with an AirPort card, an AirPort Extreme Base Station, and a Canon i455 printer connected to the AEBS. Thus I can print wirelessly from the iBook. Also, when I got a new battery for the aging (over 2.5 years old) iBook, the battery life increased dramatically from 1.5 hours to between 3 and 4 hours.