How to create your own blog ?

1. Make sure you have a gmail account i.e. xxxx@gmail.com. If you haven't got one, go to www.gmail.com to create one.

2. Browse to www.blogger.com

sign in with your gmail account ie. xxxxx@gmail.com

3. Click Create a Blog.

Input the name of your blog, and the url of your blog, e.g. myspecialblog.blogspot.com

4. Choose how your blog will look like by selecting one of the templates. and click Continue.

5. Your blog is created!!!

6. Click "customize how your blog looks" to adjust the template, background and layout.

7. Click on Design to design your blog.

8. You can click "Add a Gadget" to add tools available from google blogger. Including "Search Box", "Picture", "Video Bar" - Youbue, "Poll" to take votes.

Also, click "More Gadgets" to display more tools, like "MP3", "Share it","Fish" - can feed the fish.

9. Once you are satisfied, click "Preview"  or "View Blog" to see how it looks.

10. You can click "Posting" to start posting to your blog.

11. If you want to add another author who can post, you can click "Settings", then click on "Permissions" to add the email address of other persons as Blog Authors.

Tips on how to switch from PC to Mac

If you are a PC user and want to start using MAC, you will find some frequently asked questions from this link
http://store.apple.com/hk-zh/browse/campaigns/new_to_mac?mco=MTY3MjM0MzI

Video tutorials on what's the differences between PC and Mac.
http://www.apple.com/hk/findouthow/mac/#switcher

Prices of different MacBooks

Here are the prices of the different type of Mac notebook computer you can order from HK

The prices are based on normal order. If you happen to be studying or have someone in the family who's studying, you can go to the Educational Purchase link to place your order.

You'll then get some discount HKD 500-1500 depending on what options you pick for each purchase under this educational discount. I bought mine through this scheme as my wife is studying. I didn't have to show any proof of any kind before I can get the discount to place order. So, you can try too.

MacBook Air is very thin and light and suitable for mobile work, authoring, medium size movie editing, photo editing, music editing of medium size.

MacBook Pro is bigger, and heavier, but also heavy duty , suitable for serious design work, movie editing, etc.

Prices of MacBook Air's

11" MacBook Air 2.3lb 1.4Ghz Dual CPU 2G Ram 64G SSD Flash Storage 5 hours- $7,588

11" MacBook Air 2.3lb 1.4Ghz Dual CPU 2G Ram 128G SSD Flash Storage 5 hours - $9,088

13" MacBook Air 2.9lb 1.8Ghz Dual CPU 2G Ram 128G SSD Flash Storage 7 hours - $9,888

13" MacBook Air 2.9lb 1.8Ghz Dual CPU 2G Ram 256G SSD Flash Storage 7 hours - $12,488

Prices of MacBookPro

13" MacBook 2.3Ghz Dual CPU 4G Ram 320G Hard Disk 7 hours - $9,088

13" MacBook 2.7Ghz Dual CPU 4G Ram 500G Hard Disk 7 hours - $11,388

15" MacBook 2.0Ghz Quad CPU 4G Ram 500G Hard Disk 7 hours - $13,788

15" MacBook 2.2Ghz Quad CPU 4G Ram 750G Hard Disk 7 hours - $16,788

17" MacBook 2.2Ghz Quad CPU 4G Ram 750G Hard Disk 7 hours - $19,288

You can refer to this link for the more detail comparison

http://www.apple.com/hk/en/why-mac/compare/notebooks.html

To Mac or not to Mac?

I need to buy a new notebook computer for work recently and was fascinated by the new version of MacBook Air that is thin, light, fast to start up, long battery life and can go in sleep mode and wake up instantly.

http://www.apple.com/hk/macbookair/

I've been a Windows and PC person for the most of my past 25 year of IT life, except that back in the 80's, I've hand assembled and soldered my own apple II-compatible computer.

To be frank, I knew not much about Mac. I just think its cool to be grabbing a Mac and spending some time of Hi-Tech life in a starbuck cafe.

After a few days research on the Mac, I still couldn't made up my mind whether to buy the MacBook Air 11" (lighter, smaller, less expensive, with a smaller screen, and half the capacity of hard disks) or the MacBook Air 13" which has completely opposite features, but with more capacity for expansion.

So, like most people who have doubt about their future, I consulted the person I trusted most, my daughter. In the end, I bought the MacBook Air 13" and I am very happy with it.

If you are interested to buy a new computer, and you want to know more about the key decision factors in choosing which one to buy , do come to our Dynamic Toastmasters Club's meeting on the coming Thursday 7-Apr, 7:00-9:00pm at TinHau Room, 6/F, L'Hotel, exit A1, Tin Hau MTR station. For details please see this site:

http://dynamic.freetoasthost.info/

Please help to give me some comment or questions on this topic:

To Mac or not to Mac.

Let me know what type of computer you are using today and whether you'll switch to Mac by taking the survey on the top right of this Blog.

You can also leave me any questions or comments by clicking on the button immediately below this paragraph.

Thanks.