I had that too - neat little phone that flipped on the long side and had a full qwerty keyboard. I miss that phone. (It did not survive being dropped in a rushing water during a big storm.)
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Conan O'Brien gets Ajay Bhatt to talk trash about Firewire. Okay, not really. But Conan interviews the *real* co-creator of the USB port, not the actor from the Intel ads. Apparently their rock-stars aren't like their rock-stars either.
I thought it was the actual guy until I saw the actor in another commercial for subway or something.
I hear that on some phones, you can get internet and share it to your computer using bluetooth.
OTOH? A number of the restaurants we serve in out-of-the-way areas with no DSL are using Cellular stick modems hooked onto a router that handles USB input.
That, too is cool.
I'm trying to backup my iTunes files so I can move them to my new laptop. It keeps saying that my brand new DVD-R's are locked and unwritable. I have no clue what to do from here. I have about 28GB of data to move.
Bonnie, I've purchased Toshiba in the past and had good luck, but it's been a few years since I purchased my last PC. For the last 3 or 4 years I've been buying Macs even when I want to run Windows, I just run windows using Boot Camp. I'm much happier with the Apple hardware no matter what OS is running on top of it.
SuziQ, 500GB backup drives are approaching cheapness these days -- certainly not all that much more expensive than a bunch of DVDs and the time needed to burn 'em. I keep mine in the car in the the car on the theory that if something takes out the house, the car will survive (or vice versa).
I'm with Theo. You can get a great external drive pretty inexpensively. Good, reliable, external drives.
That said, are you sure your computer can read/write DVD-R and not DVD+R?
I purchased a spindle of blank DVDs from Amazon, and only about 50% seem okay to burn.
What is the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R?
Even if I had an external drive, the back-up process doesn't let me pick where to put the files, it automatically picks my DVD drive.
Suzi,
You should just copy the files (from the Itunes directory on your computer) and not use the Itunes process. That's what I did when I moved computers.