That would be exciting, Gris, for someone like me who travels a lot, but I have yet to see any planes with WiFi on them!! Oh, the myth of them in the wild...I keep seeing planes that ADVERTISE them (so mean, to show a commercial for your wifi on my flight to/from Hawaii, that was six hours long, but not HAVE the wifi on it...)

I imagine it will be rolling out more often. Seems to work well, at least in the continental US. At least as far as I can tell now.

The iTunes Music Store isn't connecting, but SSH is working and AIM is running. Interesting.

ETA: Strike that, the iTMS is letting me search, but it's not letting me buy. Annoying.

ETA2: It worked when I tried again! Yay! It's downloading very slowly, but it's downloading. I may cancel the download, I mostly just wanted to test it.

Going way back to this: tommyrot "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Nov 28, 2009 9:44:48 am PST

I ended up buying the noise-canceling headphones that ND recommended, and they are awesome!

Audio-Technica ATHANC7 Noise-cancelling Headphones

ita, if buying headphones for an iPhone, it's more than headphones, as they have the mic with button for answering calls (and skipping songs). That would account for the extra expense. The ones I got with the phone lasted me about 18 months. I asked at the apple store about replacements, and the guy was like "eh, close enough to warranty, I'll give em to ya". If she just wants headphones, and will answer phone with out, then no worries. Just fyi.

That would be exciting, Gris, for someone like me who travels a lot, but I have yet to see any planes with WiFi on them!! Oh, the myth of them in the wild...I

Really? I was totally able to use my BB on the flight to Seattle. (AirTran, FTR.)

Which reminds me - I need to replace the headphones for my BB. They need to be the ones with a mic. Any recs? Last time they crapped out the girl at the TMO store took pity and gave me a new pair, but I don't think I'll get that lucky again.

I use them mostly for work conference calls, so clarity on the mic is a priority.

My aunt, uncle and I want to buy my mom a computer for Christmas. We basically, I think, want the cheapest computer ever. She would use it for going on line, and perhaps paying games, but her games are things like solitaire and mah jongg, so not memory intensive games. She also has vision problems, so we do want a desktop with a monitor (I would get a netbook otherwise). ANy advice or deals you have seen out there? Anything to really stay away from?

Huh. I wonder if there is a Buffista with a decent older computer they were thinking about replacing but could not quite justify. Because a good used computer at a fair price sounds like it would fit what you are thinking. But "good" and "fair price" are tough things to figure out, which is where buying from a Buffista might come in.

This is not any help to Sophia, because they don't make cheap computers, but the tech support from Falcon Northwest is the best customer support we've ever gotten from any company, ever. Our machine is out of warranty, but they still answer tech support calls, and they have helped us figure out so much arcane computer stuff, it's unbelievable.

On one of our calls recently, when they were walking us through video card problems, the rep intuited the existence of a spare cable in the box they sent us when we bought the computer, almost four years ago.

We ended up getting a desktop version of the eee pc that comes with a 22" monitor. It was so inexpensive, that we sort of figure that if it doesn't work, we'll just get another. I am very happy with my eee pc netbook for surfing the net (I am doing so now AIFG)