I thought I’d give my iPhone battery a bit of a charge, so I plugged it into my PC (I’m at work) and saw the following…
“Great” I thought “it recognises it”. However, my world soon fell apart as this message appeared:
Although this has happened to me in the past with other devices, I’ve always been able to charge them, however, with the iPhone it won’t charge. So…out has come the MacBook…the most expensive iPhone charger ever!
Manchester may be the home of The Premiership and European Champions and also 2 Apple Stores, but today we travelled 35 miles down the M62 to be present at the opening of the Apple Store in Liverpool.
Liverpool may have won more European Cups than Man United but we have 2 Apples Stores…
Thanks to Elaine for mocking up this photo of my Liverpool One Apple Store T-shirt
Last week Elaine and I took the plunge and bought ourselves a 3G iPhone each (16GB white). You can read the full story of our 6 hour wait on Elaine’s blog.
So am I impressed? You bet I am! I’ve never been one for computer games but I’m addicted to Super Monkey Ball. I’ve also been scouring the Apps Store to see what else I can find (I can recommend Vicinity - it tells you what is available in your current location - bars, restaurants, supermarkets, etc (I’m sure they’ll add more categories in due course).
Suggested to a client that they buy a Mac. Well, he’d already decided that his next laptop will be a Mac, so I can’t really count that as a sale - but at least it confirmed it in his mind.
“Excel.exe has generated an error” was the cry from the desk behind me. “I can’t open the file and it’ll take 2 days to get a restore”
Enter a knight in shining armour (or a least a shiny-screened MacBook). And what could Neo-Office (a FREE Office Suite) do that Excel couldn’t? Yes - it opened the supposedly corrupt Excel file. All that was missing was a few graphs - and they were easily re-creatable.
I’m not sure whether the young damsel in distress was more speechless about the recovery of her precious data or the shiny white laptop on my desk! Anyway, fact remains - Mac 1 PC 0.