Freelance 2011

[faraway]

...Little more than one week left until my active office season starts again....

Well that week is over but it did not run like planned. My wife's Windows PC was dead last Sunday morning. I could only remove the harddisk, attach it temporary to my PC and copy the content to my PC. The first plan was to buy a new one and it would take me one or two days to get it setup again.
Because my wife did learn so fast the new Apple iPad and here new iPhone I got the idea she might be more happy with a iMac. We went to the next Apple retailer on Monday morning and she got a presentation. She agreed to get one but asked me about my PC. If she needs to learn everything new how about me? Ok, I got another iMac. She demanded also a professional data backup solution to ensure her next dead PC can be handled more elegant. So we ordered a Time Capsule online (a backup hard disk, WiFi router and print server nicely integrated into the iMac software to tae an incremental backup hourly).
The Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday went by setting up both iMac. That is a very slow process if you sit the first time in your life in front of a iMac... The Time Capsule arrived on Thursday and the Thursday and Friday were busy with setting up the new network. The IBM Thinkpad gave me a hard time until it was integrated into the Apple WiFi network. The authorization did not match for some time. In parallel did Apple release the IOS Version 5 and a OS X Update on late Wednesday and I had to update the iPod, iPad and two iPhone and both new installed iMac.
Results:
1. All home and mobile computers back to normal work but the layout is totally untouched since one week and I return to work on Monday.
2. Model railroad will progress very slowly over the new six month parallel to my work. But in general that's it for freelance 2011. Let's see how freelance 2012 will be
3. I became an Apple fan. It is a beautiful system (hard and software) with a lot of elegant solutions.



ps. I did not find a way to scale down the photo with the tools supplied with the iMac. Another apple topic I have to look into....
pps. Thanks to Andy. He pointed me to Picasa and I could scale the photo down to 1024*768 pixel. Looks like Photobucket has that feature online too.