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Shopping list:
If I get the money, I intend to buy
one of Apple Computer's
new
Powerbooks, probably the 17" for my middle-aged eyes,
a
Power Mac G5,
maybe a
22" or
23 " HD Cinema Display,
and an
iPod.
I also need these sites:
Made4Mac,
Apple's
guide
to products made for the Macintosh;
The Apple Store
Mac Warehouse
Mac Connection
CompUSA,
and
MicroMaster Software
I intend to take courses and work toward a
degree
at
Regent's/Excelsior College,
so I intend to buy much of the software I intend to get from
MicroMaster,
JourneyEd, or
Academic Superstore,
who sell software at a discount to students, teachers, and educational institutions.
I would need a laser printer, maybe an
HP
LaserJet 1012,
and a Xerox
Phaser 7750GX for experimenting with Books-on-Demand.
so I could play around with Print-on-Demand while I learn about it; I'd also need a good scanner, and I'd like to get a
drawing tablet,
too: probably a
Wacom
Intuos
tablet. They are bundled with Painter
"Classic" (the original version of
Painter),
and were being bundled with
Adobe
Photoshop Elements until recently, but it is pretty easy to get that with a reasonably-priced scanner, and it only costs $99.00 tops. I recently saw it on sale for $59.99.
September 8, 2004:
I will definitely get Boswell, probably get ActionItems,
and for now intend to get Fast Track Schedule
Boswell, by Copernican Software
Sail Along ActionItems
AECSoft Fast Track Schedule,
and GarageBand!!
and the
See-Through Scanner, the HP Scanjet 4670 see-thru vertical scanner (Q3122A), which is so neat. It is about as light-weight as the Canon one I had meant to take to libraries (almost? 3.04 lbs w/o holder; CanoScan LiDE scanners, which are also
neat, range from 3.3 lbs to 4 lbs).
I guess it is obvious that this is primarily a place for me to keep URLs for if I do get that money to use them!
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I thought I would get an initial group of software to use until I can get some as a student
(student or JourneyEd.com
),
at great reductions in price. If I can get it, too, at a savings, so much the better. I intend to get
AppleWorks,
and/or
MS Office X
if I can get it at a substantial savings (right now and during Christmas, I could get it for $189 when I buy my computer, if I had the money to do either one);
Photoshop Elements 2.0
to use for a little graphics capability "now", and I'd like to get FileMaker Pro & or Developer 7
, although I may not need it for the uses I have in mind for the immediate future if I have Excel. I'd get some beautiful fonts, and
Virtual PC for Mac.
And I would definitely get broadband Internet service in my new apartment!
Comcast
RoadRunner, in Florida
But first, I want to get a car! Right now, I'm torn between the
Honda
CR-V
and the new
Element.
Trickett Honda
has a black
Element in front of their lot (1-27-03), since the Auto Show.
I'm also interested in the
Toyota
Prius
hybrid gas/electric car.
Rivergate Toyota
has a lt-teal blue used one right now! Probably not for long.
Prius View newsletter
See also:
"Honda Introduces New Fuel Cell-Powered Vehicle, FCX-V4 at the 2002Greater Los Angeles Auto Show," Torrance,CA, January 3, 2003
Honda Civic Hybrid
If I get the money, I will go ahead and get phone service for my apartment at Hadley, and keep that apt. as long as legally allowed. I will get another, and move into it slowly. But first my plans for a cell phone!
I really want to get
T-Mobile
service, but it is a little too limited in
coverage
right now. The Zip code in Melbourne Beach, Florida where I've been thinking about living, does not even have reliable coverage there, yet, although Melbourne does.
The great advantage (among quite a few) of
T-Mobile
service is that their phones are GSM-band phones. You can take your T-Mobile phone over much of the
world
and use it in
many countries
,
although it is expensive (I've heard it might be less expensive to buy phone cards in Europe than to use an American company account, but that was before . It is a long way off, either way). I might just get an inexpensive GSM phone and their
$19.95 Basic plan, or the prepaid (card) account I saw at Electronic Express, but which I can't find online right now.
World-Class Service
Sprint PCS service
is already pretty extensive, and I already owe them money! I imagine that if I paid them off, then prepaid for a year or two of service, they'd welcome me back.
Verizon Wireless
Now, for the phone/s:
I want a
Treo
phone (I think). They are available for both
Sprint
and
T-Mobile,
but they are expensive. But it would be great to have a cell phone and PDA combined: I could work anywhere, and I wouldn't have to carry two devices around when one would do.
These would not be the only things I would buy, of course. And shopping plans are not the only plans, or the only things under consideration.
www.apartmentguide.com
rent.com
Rent.net is now www.springstreet.com
www.apartmentratings.com
Oakwell Farms @
www.apartmentguide.com
...on the State of TN Caveat Emptor list...
The Real Estate Book
Middle TN MLS: realtracs.com - To look for a farm
www.unitedcountry.com
United Country Host Realty, of Melbourne Beach
www.brevardmls.com
http://www.melbournebeach-properties.com
http://www.beach-realty.com/
http://www.southislandrealestate.com
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Bank Street College: Infancy Institute, etc.
RVSearch.com
Palm, for the Tungsten T3 PDA
JourneyEd.com
The University of Iowa Guided Independent Study courses
University of Missouri-Columbia Center for Distance and Independent Study Courses
University of Minnesota Independent and Distance Learning
University of Wisconsin Learning Innovations Courses
University of Kansas Distance Learning
University of California Extension
sessions.edu
RVSearch.com
For now, I intend to get an RV (which I will be personalizing and fixing up, so a used one is really better than a new one) and travel and camp out for awhile. I have been researching this so long I am really tired of thinking about it, but I want to save more personal interests for when I have more privacy.
RVSearch.com
www.fleet.ford.com
Fleetwood
The plan has changed to a truck RV, so I can haul its heavy self with biodiesel/"greasel":
Lance Truck Camper
www.biodiesel.org
www.veggievan.org
greasecar.com
Greasel.com
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