TF + Wedding = family happiness - Eee Pad Transformer General

So, I'll be attending the wedding of my gf's sister this weekend. Unfortunately, their grandmother (close to 90 I think) lives on the other side of the states and can't come due to illness and immobility. So, we just came up with a plan. Google talk the wedding and let her watch on the other side.
I got front row seat because I've been put in charge of the video-ing.
This is an example of how technology has truly made life better for all of us.
Last xmas, I was able to instruct my relatives in Vietnam to hook up skype and for the first time ever all my family here and in Vietnam were able to celebrate the holidays together. My parents have a 70-some inch tv, so skyping with the family on the other side of the planet was awesome.

nice story, especially the xmas one

Are you Vietnamese?

fantasticlord said:
Are you Vietnamese?
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No I'm a meat popsicle.

My father did these kind of things 10 years ago already...
He managed to broadcast a (amateur) talent show over the internet to another crowd in another building a couple miles away....
But reading this story... doing this nowerdays is so much easier... every human who has a curtain level of logic will find out how to do these kind of things with modern technolegy...
I even broadcast via UStream over 3G (using my phone) to show some-one somethign real quick (when is skype support coming!:S) as if it's an everyday thing...

goodintentions said:
No I'm a meat popsicle.
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goodintentions said:
So, I'll be attending the wedding of my gf's sister this weekend. Unfortunately, their grandmother (close to 90 I think) lives on the other side of the states and can't come due to illness and immobility. So, we just came up with a plan. Google talk the wedding and let her watch on the other side.
I got front row seat because I've been put in charge of the video-ing.
This is an example of how technology has truly made life better for all of us.
Last xmas, I was able to instruct my relatives in Vietnam to hook up skype and for the first time ever all my family here and in Vietnam were able to celebrate the holidays together. My parents have a 70-some inch tv, so skyping with the family on the other side of the planet was awesome.
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Great idea Make sure you don't get to drunk and have the camera pointed at the conag all night.

What a great story!

i did something similar for my older sisters wedding. my grandmother was in the hospital at the time recovering from a bad fall. It is really nice when technology brings us together.

goodintentions said:
My parents have a 70-some inch tv, so skyping with the family on the other side of the planet was awesome.
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Wait wait wait!! A 70 inch TV?!

SwiftLegend said:
Wait wait wait!! A 70 inch TV?!
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Well, more like 68.
Added by edit.
Bad news, people. Just as the bride was walking in, the hotel's internet died.

Sue them
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goodintentions said:
Well, more like 68.
Added by edit.
Bad news, people. Just as the bride was walking in, the hotel's internet died.
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Holy #*^@!! I don't think I have a wall that big!

I went to a friends wedding and it was in their house and their parents were in Shanghai and Beijing and we were in a skype call with them during the ceremony here in "Vancouver it really has changed things

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Where is your Nexus One?

Mine is gonna be chillin' in Indianapolis for the weekend.
You already know where mine is...on the Strip!
On its way to Chicago right now... it'll be stuck in the Chicago warehouse unless it gets there while I'm still in town and I can go there and pick it up myself. Otherwise, it will be delivered to my sis on Monday, then mailed to me.
mine is laying next to me playing deadmau5 and some other electronic music through pandora on wifi, 2.5 straight hours of playing and batter is at 90% from a full charge
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mine is laying next to me playing deadmau5 and some other electronic music through pandora on wifi, 2.5 straight hours of playing and batter is at 90% from a full charge
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AAAAHHHHH! Deadmau5 just played Detroit and I missed him! Good taste in music bro.
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AAAAHHHHH! Deadmau5 just played Detroit and I missed him! Good taste in music bro.
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i was sposed to catch them in cbus awhile back but didnt get around to going down... i think DM5 played at DEMF too which is always a sick weekend of music, i was down in tempe at the time though
good stuff regardless
JHaste said:
i was sposed to catch them in cbus awhile back but didnt get around to going down... i think DM5 played at DEMF too which is always a sick weekend of music, i was down in tempe at the time though
good stuff regardless
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Right on man... I live in Toledo. Are you in Ohio?
uansari1 said:
Right on man... I live in Toledo. Are you in Ohio?
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grew up in sylvania and im home on holiday with my folks, but i go to arizona state... i cannot wait to get out of this cold, plus the phoenix metro area has a boss t-mobile network
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grew up in sylvania and im home on holiday with my folks, but i go to arizona state... i cannot wait to get out of this cold, plus the phoenix metro area has a boss t-mobile network
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**** man...my favorite sushi joint is in Sylvania on Central (Kyota Ka). I agree, Arizona would be tits right now. I'm in Chicago right now and it's about 10 degrees. Toledo is warm right now in comparison.
mine is at the manufacturer until i sell my iphone and xbox and soul for the $529
uansari1 said:
**** man...my favorite sushi joint is in Sylvania on Central (Kyota Ka). I agree, Arizona would be tits right now. I'm in Chicago right now and it's about 10 degrees. Toledo is warm right now in comparison.
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thats pretty good sushi there, my N1 says its a chilly 21 (wind chill of 14)... arizona in 5 days puts a smile on my face though
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mine is at the manufacturer until i sell my iphone and xbox and soul for the $529
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depending on which iphone, ebay that **** asap... keep the xbox (mw2 is 2 much fun to give up) and tell lucifer you wanna sell part of your soul to cover the rest... that bastard doesnt need the whole thing
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mine is at the manufacturer until i sell my iphone and xbox and soul for the $529
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iPhones sell quick on ebay or craigslist. Also don't forget about the tax.
Charging.
It is in some comtainer on a boat that runs the northern passage from America to Europe. are here in Norway in a week
in transit from indionapolis. hope they deliver on saturdays
On my nightstand next to my 3GS, bowl, & water bottle.
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On my nightstand next to my 3GS, bowl, & water bottle.
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3gs and N1 on att? you just got the best of both worlds dont you?
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3gs and N1 on att? you just got the best of both worlds dont you?
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What is 3GS??
Uuuh... the iPhone 3GS. You know, the bestest phone in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
Mine's in
Torrance, California @ shipito.com but next week it'll be arriving in New Zealand

Does tomorrow feel like CHRISTMAS?

I'm an adult, I know tomorrow is just another Friday. But, I feel like it's X-mas (you can add the 'Christ' if you want). I don't know if I'll be able to sleep. I've been counting off the days for weeks now. I plan on getting up extra early so I can be at the Sprint store promptly at 8 am. I plan to get to work a wee-bit late and showing off my new toy. I'm as happy as a little guuurrrrlll.
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I'm an adult, I know tomorrow is just another Friday. But, I feel like it's X-mas (you can add the 'Christ' if you want). I don't know if I'll be able to sleep. I've been counting off the days for weeks now. I plan on getting up extra early so I can be at the Sprint store promptly at 8 am. I plan to get to work a wee-bit late and showing off my new toy. I'm as happy as a little guuurrrrlll.
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Yeah, i don't feel like this since SOCOM 3 for PS2 back in October 11, 2005
That is EXACTLY what is feels like, and I just told one of my friends at lunch that I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning so I can unwrap my toy. I swear I'm obsessed with this phone... I check various blog sites and forums multiple times a day to see if there's any new news. I just hope not to feel let down after I've unwrapped my toy and the anticipation is over.
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I check various blog sites and forums multiple times a day to see if there's any new news. I just hope not to feel let down after I've unwrapped my toy and the anticipation is over.
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This is exactly what I do. I sort of feel like I've already seen enough trailers for the EVO movie, so when I do finally open it up I won't have as much anticipation or shock because I've already seen all the videos, reviews, photos, disassembled EVO, etc. I'm not going to have the shock values as "WTF! This thing is HUGE! What's this? What's that?"
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That is EXACTLY what is feels like, and I just told one of my friends at lunch that I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning so I can unwrap my toy. I swear I'm obsessed with this phone... I check various blog sites and forums multiple times a day to see if there's any new news. I just hope not to feel let down after I've unwrapped my toy and the anticipation is over.
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I couldn't have said it better myself!
I have to agree - it is kinda like Christmas -- and I'm picking up 2 EVO's around 11:00 am tomorrow.
The root is available, the phone is available - just gonna be a good day tomorrow.
I'm almost too tired from waiting - to go pick them up ..... almost
Mule
Same here except for the part about being happy like a little guuurrrrlll
Since some people (Google I/O attendees and Ebay buyers) had an early Christmas already, tomorrow seems more like "Festivus" for the rest of us.
I challenge you to the feats of strengths. After that, the airing of grievances.
I can't freaking wait! This is just so exciting, getting up early tomorrow to be at the store by 730
The reason it is like Christmas is because I will be up so freaking early to get to The Shack before 0600...
Is Radio Shack even open that early?
Just confirmed that my Radio Shack has received their shipment.
I have a 7:00AM appointment.
This is soooooooooooo thrillling!
I need to take a sleeping pill so I can make it through the night.
No.....
how do you guys feel about Sprint?
Antebios said:
I challenge you to the feats of strengths. After that, the airing of grievances.
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riverajuan said:
how do you guys feel about Sprint?
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I've been a customer for 11 years.
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how do you guys feel about Sprint?
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Ehh they $$ are sometime over limited. But in my area sprint works the best, Below that is ATT then T-Mobile. and VZW is last.
I called my Best Buy to see if they can get me an earlier slot, and they told me I can just activate over the phone at 10AM and then pay when I pick it up (any time after activation).
It definitely feels like Christmas tomorrow. I've been counting down the days since I put it on pre-order, and now I'm counting down the hours. 12 more hours to go! And since I'll be sleeping for 8 of them, that means only 4 more hours of actual awake time!

Join the US Army, get an Evo (or iPhone)

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/09/23/hey-soldier-youre-in-the-iphone-army-now/?hpt=T2
No thanks, I'll just pay the $200 if it's all the same
Same here
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Haha.....right.....
Lol. I remember back in 04 a recruiter came to my high school and was trinh to sign people up and baiting them with a free army of one video game.
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That army of one video game was the ****! Well, as far as learning how to shoot and maintain your rifle goes. LOL...I used to fail at shooting just so I could sit in a nice warm room playing video games while everyone else was freezing and laying in the mud.
When I joined...they offered me a backpack and a track suit. Both of which I never received.
Through in a free case for that iPhone and you got a deal! Ya know ill need reception to call for back up. I can't wait to have those touching moments with the front cam like they do in the commercials.
So yeah, they will give you a free phone, but they are going to charge you for all your clothes and gear. That stuff is way more expensive than a phone. Back in the day, the gear was all free.
When I was at Fort Lost in the Woods I didn't get jack crap. I had a good time granted the learning of US weapons and explosives, and night training, and MRE's, and well physical fitness. But not a damn phone cheap bastards. I guess before the Bush admin we got a half-million dollar life insurance policy upgrade. So I always have that....
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When I was at Fort Lost in the Woods I didn't get jack crap. I had a good time granted the learning of US weapons and explosives, and night training, and MRE's, and well physical fitness. But not a damn phone cheap bastards. I guess before the Bush admin we got a half-million dollar life insurance policy upgrade. So I always have that....
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me either. i just got boots and uniforms. and of course they smoked the hell out me
+1 for gay thread.
When I was in basic they gave us a notebook and told us to "fire up out recruit laptops" when they wanted us to pull them out and study our general orders or whatever. I got screwed.
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So yeah, they will give you a free phone, but they are going to charge you for all your clothes and gear. That stuff is way more expensive than a phone. Back in the day, the gear was all free.
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The don't charge you for gear or clothing. That would be a no pay due for years.
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Did anyone actually read the article? This is only for training, you have to give them back when basic is done lol that sucks
BRB joining army
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BRB joining army
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Wanna carpool?
Well look at it this way you won't get squat if either Iran, or N. Korea goes hot. I'll see you all at the local draft board(yes they still exist). When I enlisted we still ate c-rations, and Jimmy Carter was still in the White House.
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kf2mq said:
Well look at it this way you won't get squat if either Iran, or N. Korea goes hot. I'll see you all at the local draft board(yes they still exist). When I enlisted we still ate c-rations, and Jimmy Carter was still in the White House.
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I guess the "senior member" by your name has a dual meaning then lol....
Anyways, giving your life away saving someone elses country will never be worth an iphone, evo, or a million dollars in my opinion. Too much worrying about what goes on in the world and not enough fixing our own country talked me out of a 50 thousand dollar sign on bonus for a 6 year enlistment. It just isnt worth dying over religious belief conflicts.

Nexus S Lines at Best Buy...what are you seeing?

Title says it all. Keep people warm in bed until as late as possible. I am the sacrificial lamb at the Pembroke Pines location is S Florida.
6:30am 44 degrees and the concrete slab is cold under my buttocks.
Number of people in line: 1 dope (me) one smarter one in the car but who knows of he is here for a Nexus.
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Title says it all. Keep people warm in bed until as late as possible. I am the sacrificial lamb at the Pembroke Pines location is S Florida.
6:30am 44 degrees and the concrete slab is cold under my buttocks.
Number of people in line: 1 dope (me) one smarter one in the car but who knows of he is here for a Nexus.
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I dont really think that actually we're going to see a Nexus S line
Yeah i agree...
6:45 Another employee shows up i say good morning she looks at me with a cross eyed look more or less. Guess BB employee care less about fanatic customers who spend 500+ on a device helping BB stay in business (hey one customer IS important right?)
That or they think i am some homeless dude ...hmmm maybe I should have shaved...
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Yeah i agree...
6:45 Another employee shows up i say good morning she looks at me with a cross eyed look more or less. Guess BB employee care less about fanatic customers who spend 500+ on a device helping BB stay in business (hey one customer IS important right?)
That or they think i am some homeless dude ...hmmm maybe I should have shaved...
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I think it's time for you to get back in your car and stay there.
But that would kill my whole weirdo Best Buy stalker vibe!!!! :-/
I'm alone in PA, I can stay in my car. It's about 20 degrees out.
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lstrike said:
But that would kill my whole weirdo Best Buy stalker vibe!!!! :-/
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At least you guys currently have a modern phone you can get on XDA... I've got a phone that can only do WAP browsing... 4am now, still at home (west coast)
Wow 20 degrees you are hardcore. At 40 I am wondering why they dont have sidewalk warmers....
I wish it was 40 here.
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6:15 here, and also 20 degrees. Haven't left the house yet. I'm meeting a buddy up there at 7:00 and I'm layered properly to bare the cold. Girlfriend bailed cause she got drunk last night and hasn't been able to sleep due to all the throwing up.
11 degrees here. I decided to order online though
Still interesting to see what different people are seeing.
Im in my car I see 2 other people in their cars but they don't look like android fanatics lol
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I don't see anything, from Sweden...
At best buy in seekonk ma nobody here in the 23 degree weather
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lexington ky here 2 people in line sitting outside
been freezing rain all night
my ass is frozen to concrete literally
other person here in car
At bb in Salem nh 1 other person here for the last 10 min then all of. A sudden bam 5 more people its >20 degrees here we are all in our cars and who knows what everyone Is here for though. Also yes weird looks from bb employees
BB Nashua NH.
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0748 here at Bay Parkway store, and I am only one outside under 18F.
I'm the first in line... Only four of us. lol
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I'm the first in line... Only four of us. lol
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Where are you?

My poor transformer

So on Monday night I'm finishing up work at the office when my wife calls, all freaked out. Turns out someone broke into our house and made off with everything they could carry including her 2,000.00 camera and my transformer!
Needless to say, I am not happy, neither is she... and I was just getting ready to hack lookout onto the thing this weekend.
We are dealing with the insurance agency now (they are not making me happy either), and hopefully when the dust settles I'll have a new transformer, and an android compatible security system.
Untill then I'm stuck on an old desktop I built 5 years ago, and my wife's college desktop from 2000, sigh....
first things first though, turn the house into a fortress this weekend and install key logging and security software onto anything that boots.
I hope the thieves spontaneously combust.
Did you try downloading Plan B onto your tablet? You can do it remotely from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb
Sorry to hear that
sorry to hear that too, but i like the idea of turning house into a fortress i guess this is some kind of a wake up call for most of us.
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Sorry to hear the bad news!
It's too late for you now but I recently bought Seekdroid for my Android phone. It'll do what many other apps do i.e locate, lock, send an alarm signal but I especially like the apps ability to wipe the SD card and factory reset the device.
https://www.seekdroid.com/index.php
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Did you try downloading Plan B onto your tablet? You can do it remotely from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb
Sorry to hear that
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Thanks for posting that! Never knew about that one.
Hope you catch the thieves with this.
Ooh I really hope that works for you, it would be good to hear of a positive outcome. Keep us updated!
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And send your TF and wife's goodies back flying into your arms in perfect condition
Damn man, I feel for you. This is terrible.
zephiK said:
Did you try downloading Plan B onto your tablet? You can do it remotely from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb
Sorry to hear that
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I completely forgot about plan B, I know that lookout can be installed in a kind of experimental manner and that is what I was planning on.... I just sent this out, hopefully they are connected.
**** that blows. Sucks how people have plans to beef up security and dont actually do it till something happens (which is where I am now, been planning for over a year and have yet to install any cameras etc).
Also what's good and bad about devices with proprietary ports is that I'm pretty sure the thief is gonna try to either stick an iPhone charger in it (harder on the tf then the streak which is same size as apples charger) and bust it. Leading the device to go out of power and then you can't track it.
I'd recommend you start doing the rounds on all pawnshops in your area. Print out pictures of stolen review and have serial numbers ready. Also try local PC repair shops as they too sell used PC's and electronics (one down the street from my recently got busted for selling stolen property).
When I was in high-school our house got robbed while on vacation and they made away with almost everything. They had stayed the night or two in the house and used all my dads power tools to break into the safe, stole all of my moms jewelry and my dads very rare coin collection along with family heirlooms. My parents were planning to put everything in a safe deposit box before leaving but something came up and we left on Sunday so bank was closed. Long story short, my dad hired a couple of local college students and gave each of them a list of what was missing and a new subwoofer that I was planning to install in my car is what got them. Turns out one of the low life POS thieves was my best friends older brother and the guy that organized it all, well his dad was really high up there in the police department and owned a private security firm. His dad gave him all the moeny he wanted and always had the hottest cars, turns out he did it be "gangster"....
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Getting robbed blows, happened to us like in 2001 the day after Thanksgiving. We weren't out of town or anything, we had been over at my parents house for the normal Thanksgiving day festivities then went back home and later that evening we went out to eat pizza and came home to find the side door busted and tons of stuff gone. They made off with my Gameboy Advance and games, Dreamcast (but luckily none of my 200+ burned games ), Atari Jaguar + games, 3DO + Games, Playstation 2 + games, Xbox + games, wife's jewelry, mine and hers class rings, my deceased grandfather's watch I had just inherited a couple weeks before, my daughter's piggy bank. Needless to say we were devestated but the good news was I tracked down my Xbox via my brother in law's friend, some dude sold it to him and my bro in law was suspicous about the price paid so he called me and asked me for the serial # and they were a match! So he called the cops and they went and arrested the guy who sold it, and turned out he was wanted for robbery of over 20 homes in the city and I ended up going to court and watching him get sentenced to jail. We did get the Xbox back but nothing else, but at least we got the guy! I immediately had a security system installed and have had one ever since, but I still get weary everytime we leave the house for an extended amount of time.
Hope everything works out for you.
Just got my flat broken into last week, they took of with 2 macbooks, Htc Desire, external hdd and some jewelry. If insurance pays all i wont be too upset. But yes, everything portable is going to be properly passworded and backuped in the future...
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Please let us know if Plan B works and you're able to nab those evil humans. I'm very interested to see how effective it is and it will warm me up inside to know that our TF's have the ability to capture thieves.
Sorry to hear that, I hope everything works out soon! Things are pretty mellow here in our rural area, heck the neighbors (we only have neighbors on our north side) kids leave their bikes out all night, though I wouldn't recommend doing that There hasn't ever been a break-in out here, we'd notice strange people or cars pretty quickly. We keep our doors locked on the house at night as well as the cars, but nothing beyond that. We have a Mendocino County Sheriff's Officer and two CHP Officer's in the development too, can't beat that
So far no dice with plan b. I changed my password after the break-in so I might change it back so the tablet can properly log in to market. Just got a new steel door installed on the house today. Tomorrow will a security gate installed.... me and the wife are debating on a camera system too.
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\Turns out one of the low life POS thieves was my best friends older brother and the guy that organized it all, well his dad was really high up there in the police department and owned a private security firm. His dad gave him all the moeny he wanted and always had the hottest cars, turns out he did it be "gangster"....
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I had the same thing happen to a friend. He got robbed while on vacation and it turned out to be a bunch of his friends that went over and stole everything. He got most of his stuff back after they found out who it was but it still bothers me that a "friend" would steal everything from another person they know(or anyone else for that matter)
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So far no dice with plan b. I changed my password after the break-in so I might change it back so the tablet can properly log in to market. Just got a new steel door installed on the house today. Tomorrow will a security gate installed.... me and the wife are debating on a camera system too.
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Battery most likely died. That's the plus/down side of a proprietary port. Plus they can't use it. Down you can't track them.
Hope your insurance comes through with it.
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that freakin sucks! I wish you and your wife the best of luck on recovering your losts.
I'm sure its not the battery because they snatched the power cord and charger since they were all connected at the time. I think the likely cause is that they can't figure out how to connect to wifi.
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Sorry to hear that, I hope everything works out soon! Things are pretty mellow here in our rural area, heck the neighbors (we only have neighbors on our north side) kids leave their bikes out all night, though I wouldn't recommend doing that There hasn't ever been a break-in out here, we'd notice strange people or cars pretty quickly. We keep our doors locked on the house at night as well as the cars, but nothing beyond that. We have a Mendocino County Sheriff's Officer and two CHP Officer's in the development too, can't beat that
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1saleday.com, midnightbox.com and woot.com have camera security systems sometimes, hugely discounted, for cheap. Might be worthwhile to check those sights everyday.

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