I panicked the other day when I woke up to rush to my Macbook to work and discovered it failed to charge overnight.  I was surprised to see the battery life at 22%.  I tried wiggling the adapter and noticed that the green indicator was off.  I went to Mac website to search “battery” at support and went nowhere.  To make it worse, one of my clients went online and asked me to help with the research for an article he was doing an I almost died…

This was perhaps the worst day of my life as a webworker.  I panicked and turn off the dying Macbook and rushed to my daughter’s PC and when I go there, I realized that all my important data were in the Macbook…  In short, I did my work in the PC and proceeded with the search for answer.  I dreaded that something worse must have happened to my Macbook.  Dang, how much would a new battery cost?  A quick check at the Philippines Apple Store gave me the figure of P6,990 for the battery…

What???  I almost cried…

I checked philmug.ph for help and I got immediate response and the advise that I got was that the problem was probably the adapter or the battery.  Since my children and I were scheduled to head for town the next day, I used their PC for my webwork and I was simply lost.  The bookmarks in the other PC was not updated, not to mention that my passwords were all in my Macbook.

I was lost… and to make it worse, my children kept hounding me if I was done with work because my daughters wanted to use the computer and play online games at y8.com.  Ayay!!!  My head started to beat and I felt like dying, so I decided to…

Finally!  I snagged lifediscourse.com and got my friend Emily to install this cool theme for me.  I am so happy with the entire look and look forward to tweaking the theme and installing my own plugins.

I am currently very busy with my freelance work and I am currently adjusting to my work load.  My children are also adjusting with my work as I am up late at night since I work during EST and GMTimes.  It was pretty confusing and my body clock went haywire for awhile.

I have also installed several widgets in my Macbook so I can track time and my to-do list.  At any rate, I am happy that I am earning some cash myself and I did not have to worry about our finances now.  I have been praying hard for this and I am happy that I am able to earn additional income for my children and myself and I didn’t even have to leave the house!

I am just in cloud nine!

Thank you to Emily again and to my friends Karen and Cherryl who are with me all the way.  I love you guys!

Nifty and convenient way to fix your broadband connection

Earlier today my daughter suddenly screamed that the internet was no longer working.  I asked her to make sure that the Airport Switch in the Macbook is “ON.”  She said the “rainbow” was missing.  After her loud scream, Freida who was using the other PC in the other room screamed and she said there was something wrong with her PC too.  I looked at the PC and saw that there indeed was no connection.  I reseted the modem and unplugged the cable from the wireless router and directed the cable into the main router and reloaded the browser.  Nothing.

Good thing I still have the Bayantel Wireless Dial-up and I connected to Globelines stylish and rad website and downloaded Click Fix. Click Fix is an easy to use tool that subscribers can use to troubleshoot their connections without having to call for assistance.  Using my Bayantel connection, I downloaded and run the program and in minutes I was asked to unplug and replug the cables, turned off the Windows firewall, etc.  A small pop-up window conveniently instructs me what to do.  I followed the instructions explicitly and after 5 or so minutes we were all back online!

Thanks to the convenient program from Globelines.  If you are a Globe Broadband subscribers, I strongly suggest you use the program while your connection is STILL working.  In case you lose your connection, there is a more economical and convenient alternative other than calling technical support… who liked being put on hold, anyway?

One of my valuable material possessions that I simply cannot live without is my MacBook. My Macbook is almost 2 years old now, and I am stil proud to own such wonderful machine. I love my MacBook and I am very much concern abut it that any tiny scratch and nick causes me to panic. I like to rub and smell my MacBook…(insane) But anyway, it stilll got that I-am-new-smell and I marvel every program in my powerful Mac. Don’t get me wrong, but I also have a Windows Desktop which my children and I share, but the Mac is simply just for me.

Lately, I noticed a few smudges on my screen that I started to panic. I researched before touching the smudge. The Help Section said I could use paper to clean it. Well it did not work, and my heart sunk. Damn!

One of the main problem of these all-white MacBook is the maintenance of its pristine color. Now, I actually wished I got a Black MacBook, but anyway, the white was so pure and so tempting, I snatched it at the Mac Store in Megamall not minding the price until it created a huge hole into my bank account. At any rate, my MacBook has never crashed on me to date… Well, who can blame me? I still love my MacBook…