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Looks like my macbook's harddrive just failed. Sucks. Some of my data is not backed up. What should I do before taking it to the apple store?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 4:57 PM on August 21, 2008
(12 comments)
2.5 days in Aegean Turkey, flying in/out of Izmir. Recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 12:57 PM on May 31, 2008
(4 comments)
Are there any handy utilities or iTunes plugins to help sync my mp3 player (which appears as simply a mass-storage drive) from my macbook? [Something like a mac version of
badapple.]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 11:42 AM on April 19, 2008
(2 comments)
As I finish up the first year of my graduate program at U. Chicago, I think I'd like to move north from Hyde Park to a more exciting neighborhood. But where?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 6:40 AM on April 7, 2008
(12 comments)
HydeParkHousing: I'll be an entering graduate student at UofC this fall. I've never rented an apartment before, nor do I know Hyde Park (or, for that matter, Chicagoland generally). Help me find a place to live!
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 8:39 AM on July 26, 2007
(29 comments)
A german friend of mine needs to send me ~US$300. What is a simple and inexpensive way for her to send me the money from Germany to the US? Speed is not important.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 8:28 PM on July 18, 2007
(15 comments)
I'm considering skipping out on the last leg of a domestic US trip (AA). If I do this, can I check luggage, and simply ask it not to be checked through to my final destination? Or am I stuck with carryons only?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 6:50 PM on February 17, 2007
(9 comments)
My sister is in Italy - and is trying to use an italian (Wind) SIM card in her American cingular GSM phone. It's asking her for a PAC and PIN number - which she doesn't know. What does she do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 9:08 AM on January 12, 2007
(6 comments)
I go to school in NYC, and, this next week, I get
free NJTransit! How can I take advantage of this? What (if anything) in New Jersey is worth seeing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 5:01 PM on September 17, 2006
(17 comments)
I just found out that I don't need to show up at work for almost all of next week - giving me a totally unexpected 6-day vacation. How should I best amuse myself? I'm in Berkeley, car-less, and am not very familiar with the area.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 5:42 PM on July 21, 2006
(22 comments)
I'm taking a week-long trip to Barcelona, and have a 10-hour layover in Geneva on the way there (during the day). Any recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 8:59 AM on March 11, 2006
(7 comments)
My laptop is getting lazy: it readily goes to sleep, but refuses to wake up again. Help!
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 8:50 AM on July 1, 2005
(7 comments)
My family wants to buy my grandfather a digicam (compact, zoom, 4-5 MP, US$250ish). Most of the reviews I've seen online are from a 'power use' perspective and focus on adjustability and features - but my grandfather's camera skills pretty much stop at 'point & shoot.' Any recommendations for cameras are genuinely easy to use, and take consistently good photos out of the box?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 9:55 AM on June 15, 2005
(10 comments)
What are some good undergraduate fine-arts programs in US universities? [MI]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 8:28 AM on August 26, 2004
(9 comments)
Why will Windows only let me format a hard drive to half its capacity? [MI]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 9:21 AM on August 25, 2004
(9 comments)
My parents were getting tired of the clutter on their computer, so I reformatted the hard drive for them and installed Windows XP and (among other things) Symantec AntiVirus 9. Seemingly randomly, and fairly often, they now get a yellow pop-up warning that "Symantec auto-protect is disabled" - even though auto-protect is enabled in preferences and shows up in the system tray. I have a laptop with SAV9 on WinXP, and it doesn't do this. What's going on?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 10:37 AM on June 18, 2004
(9 comments)
What banks offer credit cards that will automatically withdraw the balance monthly from an account at another bank - and let me configure that online? [More inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kickingtheground
at 9:51 PM on February 16, 2004
(8 comments)
