I had thought my TunnelBear VPN allowed up to 5 devices to be connected. Not quite correct, I have it set up on six devices at present. The five device limit is five devices connected simultaneously.
Used the AeroPress last night, but had to scratch around to find ground coffee, could only see a bag of beans. Then I remembered the Porlex Mini grinder holds enough for a really strong AP brew. Sure enough, there was more than enough for a small cup of bliss.
But today I needed more. The Bodum electric conical burr grinder made short work of ½ the supply of beans so i’m OK for a few weeks.
Thickened cream with 7% baileys Irish Cram flavouring goes quite well in coffee. Just saying.
The man at the Apple-authorised repair shop said the new screen may be installed by tomorrow or Thursday. Not bad service, there weren't even any appointments available at the local Apple Store until Saturday.
Wasn’t going to be cheap to fix the MBA screen, I knew that. $860, $750 for the screen & $110 labour, etc.
Still, it’s $350 cheaper than another used Mac of the same kind.
Nasty sharp pain in the side of my right wrist at the base of the thumb. No logical reason for it, no obvious swelling or trauma. Ice packs help it, as do painkillers. I’ll be wearing a support brace for a few days, I reckon.
It took the almost 10-year old MBP just over an hour to compile & burn a standard 4.7 GB DVD. Not bad for the age of the machine.
The DVD produced by the MyDVD app on the 2008 MBP is a bit more user-friendly than the one done on the iMac two days ago. Both used the same original source material, the latest one needs no urging to play on a Mac , the older one was a tad cranky starting. Both play OK on stand-alone DVD jiggers, though. The newer disc has less free space than the older one despite having the same content.
I’ll be using the MyDVD app instead of Toast in future.
Giving the 2008 MacBook Pro a DVD-burning task. No idea how long it'll take, this is the first time I've used the MyDVD app that's part of the Toast 16 package. The DVD I recently burned on the iMac was done using Toast Titanium instead, I'd forgotten about the other apps in the bundle.
Those others are: DiscCataIogMaker RE; Live Screen Capture; Multicam Capture; MyDVD; Roxio Secure Burn; Toast Audio Assistant & Toast SIice.
I'm not totally sure what those others do.
I'm using the HD that originally shipped inside the 2011 MacBook Pro as a combined Time Machine/Clone external drive with the 2008 MacBook Pro.