Just had a pair of these delivered from Amazon. No-tool USB 3 cases to convert bare HDs into proper external HDs. http://d.pr/i/4dCT
Ordered an iPad Smart Cover with the iOS Apple Store app. Bank declined the transaction according to email from Apple. I found out why: I had used the app to check the specifications of a MacBook Pro and had accidentally hit the "Buy" button. When I added the Smart Cover, the purchase process was finalised. Repeated attempts to reauthorise the credit card failed, this was when I spotted the MBP on the transaction list. I removed the offending item as its price exceeded my daily credit limit by over 50%.
Apple has confirmed the update of the order.
#Phew.
Took tablets for my pain. I'm in bed with a hot water bottle on the lumbar region of my sore back. I have had a nice bowl of spaghetti & meatballs. The bedroom heater is on its lowest setting. Now I need time for things to work.
Cold & windy outside, just after 3 pm. I am stiff, sore & tired & there's no logical reason for any of that. Verrryyy tiiiiired.
Tried to buy a Smart Cover for the iPad today. Not in stock yet, they said in the nearest Apple Store. Yet if I order online by 2pm I can pick it up at the same store. Today. Go figure.
The family's Easter plans have been thrown into disarray. We had planned on celebrating at my brother's new home in the western suburbs but Mum had another fall last week and damaged her repaired shoulder. She's visiting the surgeon today, so another operation may be needed.
I suspect my G5 PowerMac wot won't start up and has weird-coloured squiggly lines on the monitor has a dodgy or poorly-seated video card.
While it won't start by itself, it does appear on another Mac as an ext HD when booted into Target Disk mode.
I rebooted the second Mac and chose the G5 as the startup drive. Everything proceeded nicely, just at the speed of a G4 PowerBook with 1.25 GB of RAM rather than of a G5 tower with 13 GB of RAM.
Later today I'll have a play around with the video card.
@matigo Alas, no. When I bought it three years ago, most of its purchase price came from trading in an iPad 3 & an iPad Mini. They still had their original boxes, chargers & cables. The iPad 3 had the SIM removal tool as well.
The Mac retailer/reseller thanked me for going to all that trouble but said it counted for nothing in the value of the used units.