TiBook queries

[paul watkins]

Thanks to the groups for help with my earlier mails about problems with 
a tibook which woundnt work out of the box.

I took my old buggy tibook back to John Lewis ( a shop in London) who 
gave me a refund. The reason I didn’t do that straight away was that I 
needed a computer urgently- I put an order in for the new one at the 
same time as sending the other one back to apple, and was delivered the 
replacement 4 weeks later, just as I was billed for the earlier one, 
which the shop very kindly put on suspense, before giving me a refund 
when they got the first one shipped by apple.

I had very serious problems with apple support- over 30 incidents were 
logged in their db about the repair and return of the tibook. However 
it was all nicely resolved when they offered me a free full applecare 
plan- so I’m happy now.

I asked the list hether I should get the 12 inch book – and had a 
response (thanks, Mark Booth) that it doesn’t have the PCMCIA card 
slot. Very important for me, as I use a digital camera, so I stuck with 
the Tibook. Because I got the 2nd tibook after macworld, I saved £300, 
so was able to get the extra memory as suggested by Yuta (Thankyou). 
the machine is great- better than I had hoped, and I'm loving Itunes 
and Imovie.

One OT query, and I can’t find an answer via any usual means – and I’m 
using OSX
My word docs – office for X are sent to my work’s windows address – 
when they arrive, outlook says that no application will open .doc.bin 
docs. This happens when I use apple Mail. If I send the same doc via 
entourage, the document gets compressed and then it is readable at the 
other end.

Now I switched to mac because I don’t like to use MS products, so don’t 
want to use entourage- is there any way mail can do the compression 
that entourage performs?

If not, I can stick with entourage but just for sending myself docs for 
further editing/distribution via windows – can I get word to associate 
the “send to” command with entourage rather than mail? If I can- then I 
can use entourage just for my WP mails to my office, and stick with 
Mail for all other correspondence.

Another thing …. Pdf downloads via safari always get opened in preview, 
even tho I told acrobat I wanted it to be my default pdf viewer – any 
way to fix that?

The only thing I’m not happy with is isync with the T68 phone – 
calendars only sync 8 weeks ahead (full calendar on an IR PC link), and 
you can’t put street addresses on the phone – hopefully apple will fix 
that soon. (and also the phone is not much good, but that’s not apple’s 
fault.)

Finally – I think it would be good to have one of those Dummies/Wizard 
books on OSX – is there any one which stands out- esp for a powerbook 
user- they all look much the same from a casual browse?

Thanks in advance for any pointers

Paul Watkins