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Preliminary Thoughts on Mophie Juice Pack Air
Dec 25th
Evening readers,
I try to keep my thoughts on this blog positive logical, without rant. This post may be an exception: today is Christmas for most of the world, and as a gift I received a Mophie Juice Pack Air, an iPhone case that has a built-in battery. The retail is about $99 CAD from the Apple Online Store. This morning I received one, a white model. I’ve had it on my iPhone all day, however I haven’t been too attentive of it until later this afternoon I noticed that I couldn’t send text messages…. because I only have one bar?…. and when I sit here I usually get about 3 bars… so… what changed? Then it ocurred to me: the case! I then tried a few removing and replacing the case a few times (switching into air plane mode between trials) and it was clear. The Mophie Juice Pack Air kills signal. No other way to put it. I’ve read reviews on the Apple Store (which admittedly hadn’t before) and Amazon which also had similar realizations of it’s effects on their once great reception.
I imagine that this will be in the mail later this week, on it’s way back to Apple Warehouses, and yes, at a 10% restocking fee. Although, if by chance 3G signal isn’t affected by this case then it may be right for you, however I don’t have experience with that. Bottom line: don’t buy this. Period.
That is all.
My GMail Situation:
Mar 23rd
Since GMail came into invite-beta I’ve had an account, and last year, when I finally got BradArsenault.com, I added a Google Apps domain which is connected to it. So now I have two email accounts. Back in August of last year I connected the email accounts together by fetching my BradArsenault.com email through Google’s POP download function and can send via the other account with a similar tool built into GMail.
The problem is that when ever I send a message it says in the from address: “(my gmail account) on behalf of brad(at)bradarsenault.com”. This is a problem because I want people to see only my bradarsenault.com address, and to hide my GMail account with it. So I have an idea!
I’m going to move all of my mail from my GMail to BradArsenault.com mail, using another Google tool I’ve heard about (the name slips my mind for some reason). But that’s not going to be easy, because I have a dream, yeah, another dream, to get an email address crafted to be awesome for an email address (thanks to Mark Christian for this [shinyplasticbag.com] @shinyplasticbag) br@darsenault.com or brad@rsenault.com… see, awesome!
Moral of the story: I need a better client because I will have to log-in to all of these accounts separately and manage my email in different locations. Unless that is, I give up the freedom of GMail and move….ewww… to a mail client (such as Mail or Outlook). That seems to be my only good, viable solution.
Sorry if this seems like a rant, but if Google would only remove that “on behalf of” (what I call) bug, everything would be happier and sunnier.
**I apologize for that: but I’m just not agreeing with GMail today.
