Hey shadawyn! Quick question...

[jon_chaisson]

Apparently your having a laptop doowacky like this one inspired my wife emmalyon to buy me one for Christmas! Glee!

So now I have one quick question...I know you probably have a different one than I do, but I seem to be having a hell of a time trying to figure out how the hell to get the wireless part to actually work. For the life of me I have no idea why it's just not picking it up. It can read it, it just won't connect.

I've already emailed AlphaSmart support about it, but I'm just wondering if you had the same problem (or have any suggestions), since I hear you have one like this. If not, just ignore the post! Thanks! :p

Comments

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

That's a *great* gift for a writer! :D

Unfortunately, I don't have that model. I have the Neo, which doesn't have wireless at all, which makes me more or less useless for this question.:/ The only think I can think of is--does your home network have encryption? It may need the key or to be approved by the network or be set up to connect to the network.

But why worry about wireless? It's for writing, not email :D

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

But why worry about wireless? It's for writing, not email :D


PWND!!!

You got me there...but yeah, I was quite happy that she got me that...and I just found out that the flash cards that I bought for my digital camera fit quite nicely in the flash drive here...so I have extra space! w000t!

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get me wrong.

The Dana is definitely a step up (I've heard it's very popular with the journalist sorts). I just preferred the utter lack of distractions and the 700 battery life. But keep in mind I actually do have a laptop for portable computing. I don't think you do, so the deluxe AlphaSmart works better for your needs than it would mine. LoL

The flash is cool. Mine doesn't have that

Sorry to be useless for the Dana. I can't even get the infrared on mine to work (I just sync it with the cable, so I'm doubley clueless :D

Enjoy! Having my AlphaSmart has done amazing things to productivity. Not that I couldn't do it another way... but it's the right tool to harness that "power". :)

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm quite certain that I'll be playing with this a lot more than I really should...I do like laptops (we have 2 in the house--three, if you count Emm's work laptop), but this is perfect for me, as there will be that distinct lack of trying to balance an expensive laptop on my lap without having it fall over!

I haven't tried the infrared yet, but then again I don't have a Palm anyway...but syncing it with the main 'puter here was insanely easy.

But yeah, I know I'm going to use this quite a bit once I get used to it. I'm probably not going to be doing any heavy-duty writing until I'm finished with the current novel (only 1.5 chapters to go, then the rewrite), but I'm sure I could at least play around with it to get used to it. :)