NorthGeek » Mac http://northgeek.com Canadians Talking Tech Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Blogging from 36,000 feet http://northgeek.com/2010/06/blogging-from-36000-feet/ http://northgeek.com/2010/06/blogging-from-36000-feet/#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:12:20 +0000 Daniel Wolfe http://northgeek.com/?p=965 This US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Orlando is on a brand spankin’ new (well, at least it looks that way) Airbus A321. The interior is beautiful – so 2010-esque, the lighting is targetted and pleasant, the seats comfortable, more legroom, and, best of all – WiFi baby, WiFi!!

The first week of GoGo In-Flight WiFi aboard US Air’s fleet of A321 jets is absolutely FREE to use – that is from June 1st – 8th 2010. After this, it will be about $10 to connect for your flight. Some notes:

- Web browsing speeds are satisfactory.
- Skype connected, but I’m not popular enough to have had any friends online to test with. The “test call” with the Skype system worked like a charm.
- My SIP phone (through Acanac, using X-Lite) disconnected after I heard “Hello?” on the other end of the line – I guess bandwidth isn’t high enough.
- I couldn’t get online in Mac OS X – thank the lord for Bootcamp (I run XP Pro, and it connected on my first attempt)
- For more info, check out US Airways’ WiFi page and GoGo (by Aircell).

Adios from somewhere 36,000 feet over the Carolinas!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0K1k54t6A

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Now I’m a Mac, and my mom is a PC, and I am the technical support for my mom’s PC… and this happens fairly often (bless her). So how does this fare that a 4 year old is so fluent with PC?

Go Microsoft. This ain’t no Jerry Seinfeld disaster.

Disclaimer: I’m a big Seinfeld fan and am on a mission to buy zero Microsoft products in 2009 after my recent move back to Apple!

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