I went to school today to gather up the reins from my wonderful long term reliever and think about what I want to do as next term starts in two weeks. While there I was able to take charge of my new TELA laptop- I took it home then and started customising it and I thought I would list here the things I do so that I can refer to it and not have to think too hard when I buy my new personal laptop with the next version of Apple’s operating system when it comes out in the near future (hopefully). While I was at school I saw them digging the trench to put the Loop cable in- maybe a welcome back present- due 12 weeks ago!

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1. Try to plug in my wireless mouse but get too scared- last time I tried a little too vigorously with a new laptop it could have cost me $1000+ as a little wire thingee got bent and it was attached to the innards!
2. Chuck out stuff I don’t want in the dock and add stuff I want to be there. Enjoy watching things fthwat into a puff a smoke!
3. Let it access my home wireless access. Note that there are now two other wireless networks within cooee!
4. Do the updates- restart.
5. Install Firefox2. Increase the font size so I can see text better and set the home page.
6. Deactivate CAPS LOCK.
7. Add Delicious Plug-in for Firefox.
8. Add some often used links to the toolbar- class blog, edublog, bling, podcast, Twitter, Bloglines, Blogmeister, gmail, hotmail, mySkitch
9. Download and play with video Skype- ring some people and tell them I can see them and they can see me. Think that maybe a video image is maybe not quite such a good idea after all!
10. Download Skitch- find login and password on iPod and bookmark mySkitch.
11. Subscribe to our own podcast in iTunes- make a mental note to go to Brightwater School and download the rest of the episodes!
12. Watch a widescreen DVD-I always enjoy Finding Nemo! Note that Skitch lets you take screen grabs of DVDs.

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