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#1 ·
Hello everyone! And welcome to ehMac.ca: Canada's Mac Community! We hope you will enjoy your stay and become an active, positive presence to this little corner of the web.

This thread is here for you to introduce yourself (Or re-introduce yourself) and to allow us to get to know you better! After-all, community is what ehMac.ca is all about!

Please feel free to be as brief or as detailed as you feel comfortable with. (Be careful about giving away too much private, personal information)

* Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)
* Brief summary of some of your other interests
* How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.
* How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?
* What are your favourite Mac programs?
* What general area of this great country are you from?

Let's continue to foster a sense of community here! ehMac.ca Newbies / Lurkers, press that New Reply button! :)
 
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Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)

I'm a male prof who teaches half-time and co-chairs my department the other half at a large university college (soon to be a regional university) <http://www.kwantlen.ca> in the suburbs of Vancouver. I'm getting close to 50 (47 right now ... sigh), and I've been playing around with computers since the Timex Sinclair 1000, which I bought in 1983.

I've owned many, many computers--the Timex Sinclair 1000, a C= 64, a C=128 (!), and a couple of Amigas--but have mostly used Windows in one form or another since 1991. I've always thought that Macs were cool, however, and I've finally made the plunge, taking advantage of the educational discount on the Apple Canada web site. By the way, my twin brother, a dyed-in-the-wool Windows guy (needs AutoCAD for his engineering business), thinks I'm nuts to buy a Mac, but ... whatever.

Brief summary of some of your other interests.

Uhhh, hockey, hockey, and hockey (Go Canucks!) ... ummmm, and my wife and kids. :) I also have a new Canon XTi, so I should include photography in there, too. Oh, and anything associated with flight--would love to learn to fly for real, but since she-who-must-be-obeyed has nixed that idea ("too dangerous"), I do a lot of flight simming on my desktop PC.

How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.

Mentioned above. I actually don't have my Macbook yet, but hopefully, it will arrive via Fedex today. About the Macbook, it's the white one, custom-configured with 2gb RAM and a 160gb HD.

What are your favourite Mac programs?

Dunno yet, but I'm looking forward to iPhoto for my hobby and iWork '08 (which I've bought) for work.
 
#185 · (Edited)
Introduction

My name is Ann, I am an English Teacher in Italy and my husband is a computer technician, specialized in Macintosh. I know this is a Mac Community in Canada, but my husband and I are hoping to move to Canada. My hubby is the one that "converted" me to Mac, after I made a few attempts to throw my PC out the living room window. I have a PowerBook G3, my husband upgraded the hard drive to a 40 GB from I think an original 12GBish. My favorite program, well that would be iCal.
Ann
 
#188 ·
* Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)
My name is Chantal, and it should be fairly obvious that I am female. I am a computer geek by profession. I am currently working on my Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Systems (CIS).

* Brief summary of some of your other interests
My main interests are: Anything MINI Cooper, online gaming.

* How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.
I saw a MacBook Pro and decided I wanted to buy it. (hee hee) The MBP is to replace an older laptop with a very small screen. It's too hard to see what I am doing when I'm coding. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

* How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?
I am currently a Mac virgin, but that will change when my MBP shows up today or tomorrow. I'm sure FedEx has my IP address flagged because I keep refreshing the tracking page. beejacon

* What are your favourite Mac programs?
Not sure yet.

* What general area of this great country are you from?
Ajax - a few minutes east of Toronto
 
#191 ·
Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)

A young-ish 38 yr old male senior programmer/analyst specializing in full life cycle devlepment of insurance software using COBOL as the main language on a variety of platforms (Solaris, AS/400, Windows, etc). Currently single, if you're interested ladies. :D

Brief summary of some of your other interests.

Brighton & Hove Albion football club, bowling, travelling, Japanese culture (lived and worked in Tokyo for four years), live music, comedy clubs, cycling, good food and alcohol.

How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.

Bought one three years ago for personal use and never looked back.

How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?

Three year old PowerBook G4 1.5 with a failed hard drive which will be replaced at the weekend.

What are your favourite Mac programs?

iTunes, Opera, NeoOffice, ThunderBird.

What general area of this great country are you from?

Currently living in downtown Toronto and have been here two years, but originally from England.
 
#193 ·
Is that within a 3 year AppleCare period? If not (i.e., if you're not just speaking about replacing a hard drive), and you're buying new, you might want to wait a few weeks (if you can) for the release of the Leopard operating system; or news about upgrades to the existing line.
Whoops..... perhaps I should have mentioned that i'm just replacing the hard drive, not the PowerBook. I'll only be buying a MacBook Pro when the following occur:

Leopard is released.
Updated MacBook Pro (possible at MWSF 2008)
Updated 30" ACD. (Not glossy)
 
#194 ·
Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)

I am a 23 yr old female nursing student who knows relatively little about computers in general (let alone Macs).

Brief summary of some of your other interests.

Anything that involves friends, going to the bar, and traveling... and nursing the ill I suppose. I also like to write elaborate posts to make myself seem more interesting than I actually am.

How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.

We used to use Macs in elementary school because our computer lab was filled with them. I usually would spend the time there drawing stupid pictures in claris works. I just bought my first Mac this summer after a disasterous turn of events with my archaic Dell laptop and my iPod that left me heartbroken enough to stir enough pity in my father for him to offer to help me buy a new computer.

How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?

MacBook Pro

What are your favourite Mac programs?

umm, Safari I guess... does that even count?

What general area of this great country are you from?

Ontario, the Kawartha Lakes region.
 
#197 ·
Hey everyone!

Hi, my name is Koreen, I'm 18 and I live in Southern Alberta. A few weeks ago I purchased my very first Apple computer (13" MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz laptop) and fell immediately in love with it. I joined ehMac because most people I know have PC's and I needed a little help getting used to everything.

I know a little about computers, but not much and I can see there are very knowledgeable people on this site which is awesome. Great for us noobs anyways. There is so much to know! I'm really excited to learn all kinds of stuff and everyone here seems so friendly and helpful.

This is a great site and I hope it lives a full life... see you around!
 
#200 ·
Introduction

I have been hiding in the corner around here for a while...

my name is robert, I currently live in Fort Mcmurray alberta, I currently have a pc setup however I have been dreaming of making the switch for 3 years... At the moment, I am working to save for a house and can not justify switching, and my acer laptop is holding out too darn well(Acers are crap but this one is on its 3rd year!! I don't understand).... I can't wait till it breaks then I can beg my girlfriend to let me buy a MBP :)D ) anyway! Nice to read all your posts Guys (and girls) you really have a great sometimes odd sense of humour! haha

Hope to see more great post and great stuff in the Classifieds!!!

have a good one!

Robert
 
#201 ·
May I please Introduce myself....:)

Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)

I am currently a student at the University of Toronto studying political science. Outside of school I work at the Citizen Lab that focuses on exposing and circumventing Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide.

Brief summary of some of your other interests.

I am interested in open source + politics. human rights, hacktivism, and electronic civil disobedience. I like to collect stickers, and books, and old computers.

How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.

I was really attracted to the whole "think different" philosophy. Plus I also loved using the Power Mac G5 at work with dual monitors.

How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?

Made the switch this year to an intel core 2 duo macbook white, 2.16 gHZ, 2GB ram, 160 GB hard drive, super drive. I would have loved the MBP because of its greener led screens but 3k on a notebook is out of reach for students like me. I say students like me because in class there are tons of people with MBP's. I run os x with ubuntu.

What are your favourite Mac programs?

I love everything, the whole OS.

What general area of this great country are you from?

Currently living in downtown Toronto. Originally lived in San Fran, CA, and Singapore.
 
#202 ·
Hi, I'm a 37 year old male. I am an automotive service manager who deals with the grudge purchase of car repairs all day.

I have always been interested in cars, home renovations/repairs and more recently, the inner workings of computers. I also love music - mainly listening.

I got involved in Mac's when in late 84 or 85 when I tagged along with my Dad ( a school principal) to his school in late August to get a few things ready for the new school year. In a box in his office was a fresh shipment of a "Fat Mac" - 512K Macintosh. Without really reading anything, I had it up and running Macpaint in about 30 minutes. We got to play with that unit many times on weekends and holidays. Later he bought an early 90's Performa. I have always been a Mac user and have always felt like I'm in a foreign land on a Windows PC.

My first personal purchase was a 1999 350Mhz iMac slot loader. I still have that one although it has been modified extensively. The power supply and/or flyback switch went on it this year. I then bought a new 20" iMac 2.16GHZ core2Duo (currently 1GB Ram - I want to upgrade soon) and then started reading articles about Macs on-line. I started to diagnose the problem with the old iMac through discussion articles on the Apple forum and determined the problem with my unit. Meanwhile, my mother-in-law gave us an old PC that was sorely lacking in power (PentiumIII) and with my general discomfort with Windows, I started to look and see if anyone had ever taken the good motherboard out of an iMac to install it in a PC tower. Sure enough, there are many such examples and with detailed wiring diagrams and a soldering iron, I was able to restore the old G3 to its former glory. It is slow as hell and the old hard drive from the PC whirrs and clicks, but it runs Panther alright and my daughter uses it for internet purposes.

My favourite program would have to be iTunes - my jukebox. I also enjoy iPhoto and of course Safari and Firefox.

I currently live in Guelph ON, but am originally from Burlington.
 
#204 · (Edited)
Hello!

My name is Edward, and my surname I'll keep it secret, 'cause it's almost unpronounceable.

I was born 70 years ago in Lithuania, in a Polish family. We went through the living HELL of the barbaric Soviet, and German, occupations, incl. atrocities of the II WW. Ironically, we were saved from a forced deportation, and almost certain death in Siberia, as millions of others, by... Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941.

46 years ago, I was very lucky to be able to leave the Evil Empire, and to start normal life in Denmark, then in our - best in the world - Canada. For 30 years I worked in Toronto, mostly, as a civil technologist in engineering design offices. Now, I'm enjoying retirement with my wife, traveling around Americas and Europe, writing to different (mostly European) political forums and media, studying languages and European history of the last few centuries, playing board and word games on Internet, doing some volunteer work, and taking brisk long walks.

I got involved with computers 6 years ago, in a RV park on Mexican border, 'cause Internet helped me then to improve my Spanish, and allowed me to play chess. :) Back in Toronto, I bought HP Pavilion 521n desktop, and after three years Dell Inspiron 1150 notebook. After taking some on-line computer courses, reading and experimenting, I think, I'm an average computer user.

APPLE computers caught my attention years ago, because of their good looks and technological superiority. My knowledge of the recently bought iMac (20" - 2.4GHZ - 1GB) is nothing to brag about, but wait... till I'll finish reading "Macs For Dummies". My late Polish professor is my role model. He, at his "youthful" age of 85, has learned his tenth language... Greek (!). Following his footsteps I'm determined to learn, soon, the difference between Bit, and Byte, and on ehMac.ca a little more. :D
 
#205 ·
Well it looks like no one is new here. Well I am. Just found the site and am enjoying it. My name is Tim. I am a cableguy, incase you couldn;t figre it out. I live in Edmonton Alberta. I am a PC guy that i slowing switching over to the Mac. I bought my wife a macbook when she was going to open a Yoga studio. That venture fel apart but the macbook didn't. My Dell laptop is on its last legs. The harddrive is dieing. As is XP. I am thinking about getting a macbook maybe pro for myself. My brother in law is picking me up an iPhone from Vegas. I should get it this weekend.

I enjoy the outdoors. We do a lot of backcountry camping and hiking. And of course technology. My wife thinks I spend more on tech than she does on all her crap. I think she is wrong but who knows. :)
 
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