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goldmac2006 said:
Same here. Have you tried out Hide my Email on iCloud +? I use it when I sign up for community events, promotions, and anything I don’t want to use my real email address for. For instance, if you’re concerned about sharing your information online but still need to share an email address, it redirects to an email of your choice associated with your Apple ID. It’ll create funny email addresses with Apple.com addresses on it.

Additionally, you should consider giving private cloud relay a try. It provides better protection for your browsing on Safari and hides your IP address from the dark web and hackers.

On a personal note, y’all, I have some exciting news! I received an acceptance letter for my dream university, and I’m thrilled to be transferring there. It made my day!
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Congrats.

Re email addresses. I have 3.

@me.com is the only one that I get alerts to on my iPhone. It's just for important stuff. Had it years. Get zero junk.

@gmail.com just use webmail when I need to access it. Used for shopping etc.

@yahoo.com used when you have to give an email address but I really don't want to or trust you. I check in about once every 6 months. Gets more spam than the other two but not that much.
 
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One from earlier today to cheer you up @Scepticalscribe after a disappointing day (for you!) in North London.
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Congrats.

Re email addresses. I have 3.

@me.com is the only one that I get alerts to on my iPhone. It's just for important stuff. Had it years. Get zero junk.

@gmail.com just use webmail when I need to access it. Used for shopping etc.

@yahoo.com used when you have to give an email address but I really don't want to or trust you. I check in about once every 6 months. Gets more spam than the other two but not that much.
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Hey there! Do you still have a MobileMe email address? You had your Apple account for ages, mate! .mac.com email addresses are for Apple IDs from over two decades ago.

I use my iCloud.com email for iPhone updates, just like you. This one rarely gets spam. My Gmail is for applying for internships, jobs, online shopping, uni applications, and email forwarding. It gets spam sometimes, so I just empty it in the trash. All the rest, like filling out QR codes for community events, doing fundraisers, and other everyday stuff I don’t want to show my real email, I use the Hide my Email feature. That creates an automatic email forwarding from an email address that iOS generates for you. It forwards any email confirmation you used in the form or account to your email under your Apple account.
 
As far as tattoos are concerned: no thanks! I've had enough medical/surgical procedures done in my life to not want to deliberately ask for more.

Email accounts: as AFB has mentioned, I have several, and one of them, yes, is actually an original Mac dot com address, which I have cherished and appreciated in the many years I've had it.

Daffodils: ah, fabulous, wonderful heralds of Spring!!!! Bring 'em on.....I'm waiting!
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Same here. Have you tried out Hide my Email on iCloud +? I use it when I sign up for community events, promotions, and anything I don’t want to use my real email address for. For instance, if you’re concerned about sharing your information online but still need to share an email address, it redirects to an email of your choice associated with your Apple ID. It’ll create funny email addresses with Apple.com addresses on it.

Additionally, you should consider giving private cloud relay a try. It provides better protection for your browsing on Safari and hides your IP address from the dark web and hackers.

On a personal note, y’all, I have some exciting news! I received an acceptance letter for my dream university, and I’m thrilled to be transferring there. It made my day!
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Congratulations on the acceptance! I felt the same when I got accepted at the Graduate Institute of International Relations here in Geneva many years ago. 😀
 
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decafjava said:
Congratulations on the acceptance! I felt the same when I got accepted at the Graduate Institute of International Relations here in Geneva many years ago. 😀
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Bro you got a masters degree 📜 already?! I am almost done with getting my associates in computer engineering + math and science.

Next one up is an undergraduate degree in computer engineering y’all.
Clix Pix said:
As far as tattoos are concerned: no thanks! I've had enough medical/surgical procedures done in my life to not want to deliberately ask for more.

Email accounts: as AFB has mentioned, I have several, and one of them, yes, is actually an original Mac dot com address, which I have cherished and appreciated in the many years I've had it.

Daffodils: ah, fabulous, wonderful heralds of Spring!!!! Bring 'em on.....I'm waiting!
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Yep, you managed to keep your Apple Account for two decades, my friend! .mac addresses are the oldest of all Apple ID accounts. I’ve already noticed leaves regrowing on trees in my area, and even butterflies 🦋 flying around.
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Bro you got a masters degree 📜 already?! I am almost done with getting my associates in computer engineering + math and science.

Next one up is an undergraduate degree in computer engineering y’all.

Yep, you managed to keep your Apple Account for two decades, my friend! .mac addresses are the oldest of all Apple ID accounts. I’ve already noticed leaves regrowing on trees in my area, and even butterflies 🦋 flying around.
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Congratulations on your acceptance to the university you most wanted to attend! Hard work pays off, eh? I can think of a couple of schools which would be "dream schools" for computer engineering...... Happy and challenging times are ahead for you!

Yes, I bought my first Mac in 2005. When the change was made to Apple's email addresses I was happy that I could still retain and use my dot mac address and plan to keep right on doing so as long as Apple lets me.
 
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Did I make a dumb decision or not...

Context: I'm getting Monday my 17th tattoo, I know it's going to be white tiger, but I'm not going to see the design until the tattoo is done.
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Love tattoos but not reviewing the design until the work is done seems like a recipe for a disaster.
 
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Clix Pix said:
Congratulations on your acceptance to the university you most wanted to attend! Hard work pays off, eh? I can think of a couple of schools which would be "dream schools" for computer engineering...... Happy and challenging times are ahead for you!

Yes, I bought my first Mac in 2005. When the change was made to Apple's email addresses I was happy that I could still retain and use my dot mac address and plan to keep right on doing so as long as Apple lets me.
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Was it the original MacBook or MacBook Air? my Apple-loving friend, whom I’ve known since high school, had as his first Mac. It was one of those plastic MacBooks before he transitioned to iPad Pros.

By the way, thank you so much for the compliment, mate. I genuinely appreciate it. Out of the four or five universities I applied to, I was accepted into my first choice one, which is fantastic! 👏 I’ve already sent my transcripts. Now, it’s time to focus on rejecting all the backup or alternative options and finishing my last semester in my 2 year.
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Bro you got a masters degree 📜 already?! I am almost done with getting my associates in computer engineering + math and science.

Next one up is an undergraduate degree in computer engineering y’all.

Yep, you managed to keep your Apple Account for two decades, my friend! .mac addresses are the oldest of all Apple ID accounts. I’ve already noticed leaves regrowing on trees in my area, and even butterflies 🦋 flying around.
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Already? It's my second and I came here a long time ago - I am a lot older than you but thanks for the slight boost. Anyway, good luck with your studies sound fun!!
 
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goldmac2006 said:
Was it the original MacBook or MacBook Air that my Apple-loving friend, whom I’ve known since high school, had as his first Mac? It was one of those plastic MacBooks before he transitioned to iPad Pros.

By the way, thank you so much for the compliment, mate. I genuinely appreciate it. Out of the four or five universities I applied to, I was accepted into my first choice one, which is fantastic! 👏 I’ve already sent my transcripts. Now, it’s time to focus on rejecting all the backup or alternative options and finishing my last semester in my 2 year.
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I can only imagine how excited you are about having gotten acceptance to your first-choice university. That doesn't always happen so you are very fortunate.

I never had one of the plastic MacBooks. Actually, it was the iMac G5 Rev B (yes, prior to the Intel switch) which got me hooked into the whole Apple world.... I very quickly fell in love with Apple and Macs, and so a short time later it was a no-brainer to purchase an Apple Powerbook as well, since I was about to go on a long-distance trip out of town. I figured that, hey, if I already had discarded Windows for use at home, why the heck would I want to take a Windows laptop machine with me on a trip?

Bottom line: neither of my old Windows machines were useful to me any more once I had discovered the world of Apple. That 15" PowerBook was the answer and happily traveled with me to California and, yes, my destination was the 2006 Macworld...... 🙂

A few months passed. I kept my beloved PPC-based iMac but unable to resist temptation to check out the whole new Intel-based platform on a Mac, I jumped into that new world, selling my very gently-used PowerBook to a colleague at work and buying myself my first 15" MacBook Pro.....

A while later, my next new Mac was the wonderful, amazing 12" MacBook, a delightfully small, thin and lightweight machine to which I immediately was drawn, and yes, purchased about a month after it was released in 2008. I loved that machine and later on as time went on I purchased the two updated models which followed. Sadly, these are now no longer available, but happily, my last one is still thriving here in this household. She's doing fine. I'll never let her leave! I really wish that Apple would give us a new 12" MacBook.....

Of course in the meantime and through the years the MacBook (Air) line did go on, in a slightly larger form (13") and is very popular today. For me, though, overall the MacBook Pro series offers more of what I want and need in general day-to-day life on a computer. Along the way, I've also picked up and enjoyed a few iPad Pros, too, but spend most of my time on an actual computer. At this point in time, I'm using an M1 MBP for my adventures online and especially for working with photographic images.
 
decafjava said:
Already? It's my second and I came here a long time ago - I am a lot older than you but thanks for the slight boost. Anyway, good luck with your studies sound fun!!
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🤩 Thanks! You have dual master’s degrees, right? I befriended a new mentor who is an iOS developer and holds dual graduate degrees in data science and software engineering. He’s also a professor of computer science at my school and a huge Apple fan, owning an Apple Watch Ultra, MacBook Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. He was also my supervisor during my business trip in my NASA internship. I rarely encounter individuals who possess multiple master’s or undergraduate degrees unless they’ve gone above and beyond or enrolled in courses that align with both degrees. However, at my college, it’s common for students to earn multiple associate degrees because many programs offer classes that can be applied to multiple degrees. For instance, STEM majors who complete their general education requirements and major preparation simultaneously can earn both their main degree and a math and science degree, which can be applied to various science or engineering-related fields.
Clix Pix said:
I can only imagine how excited you are about having gotten acceptance to your first-choice university. That doesn't always happen so you are very fortunate.

I never had one of the plastic MacBooks. Actually, it was the iMac G5 Rev B (yes, prior to the Intel switch) which got me hooked into the whole Apple world.... I very quickly fell in love with Apple and Macs, and so a short time later it was a no-brainer to purchase an Apple Powerbook as well, since I was about to go on a long-distance trip out of town. I figured that, hey, if I already had discarded Windows for use at home, why the heck would I want to take a Windows laptop machine with me on a trip?

Bottom line: neither of my old Windows machines were useful to me any more once I had discovered the world of Apple. That 15" PowerBook was the answer and happily traveled with me to California and, yes, my destination was the 2006 Macworld...... 🙂

A few months passed. I kept my beloved PPC-based iMac but unable to resist temptation to check out the whole new Intel-based platform on a Mac, I jumped into that new world, selling my very gently-used PowerBook to a colleague at work and buying myself my first 15" MacBook Pro.....

A while later, my next new Mac was the wonderful, amazing 12" MacBook, a delightfully small, thin and lightweight machine to which I immediately was drawn, and yes, purchased about a month after it was released in 2008. I loved that machine and later on as time went on I purchased the two updated models which followed. Sadly, these are now no longer available, but happily, my last one is still thriving here in this household. She's doing fine. I'll never let her leave! I really wish that Apple would give us a new 12" MacBook.....

Of course in the meantime and through the years the MacBook (Air) line did go on, in a slightly larger form (13") and is very popular today. For me, though, overall the MacBook Pro series offers more of what I want and need in general day-to-day life on a computer. Along the way, I've also picked up and enjoyed a few iPad Pros, too, but spend most of my time on an actual computer. At this point in time, I'm using an M1 MBP for my adventures online and especially for working with photographic images.
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Of course! I’m thrilled about it because I’m starting at my new school this fall. You mentioned you have the iMac G5, the first flat-panel, pre-unibody iMac, right? I recall reading a children’s book a while back that featured an iMac G4 on an alphabet book. I didn’t realize it until I became an Apple fan in elementary school and revisited my childhood memories. It was printed around 2003, so it featured an iMac G4, and they still even include the Apple logo. I knew you’ve been an Apple fan since the early 2000s! PowerBooks and iBooks were the predecessors of MacBooks, right? Once you got one, you stopped using Windows, right? I wasn’t wealthy enough for Macs back then, so I started being an Apple fan instead. My first Apple product was the original iPad mini. Thirty years of Mac history drew me deeper into Apple and the Macintosh’s past. I read the historical account on the Apple website on my iPad, and I’ve also read many user manuals from the late 90s Macintosh, iPods, iPhones, and iPads on the Apple support website to gain knowledge about how Apple products work. These were my initial days using Apple products. A year after getting my first iPhone, the iPhone 5s, it lasted me for about five great years until it was time to upgrade to the iPhone 7 when iOS 13 no longer supported it. I was mostly a laptop user like you, but I still have a ThinkPad from school. Once I stopped using my iPad due to incompatibility with iOS 10, I switched to Windows laptops and Chromebooks, which I own one Chromebook for personal use. Planning to get a MacBook Pro btw.

I made my first trip to the Apple Store the same year I got my first iPhone, at the local one near me in 2015. I also visited the Apple Park visitor center shortly after it opened in summer 2018. Every time I visit Cupertino for my family up north, I make sure to visit Apple Park. I’ve never been to an Apple event in person or WWDC before. I’d love to attend an actual Apple launch event so I can explore Apple Park’s Steve Jobs theater area. It’s great that you attended a Macworld event before! Those were the keynote speeches of Steve Jobs’ era. Did Apple invite you to join them for the event?
 
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goldmac2006 said:
🤩 Thanks! You have dual master’s degrees, right? I befriended a new mentor who is an iOS developer and holds dual graduate degrees in data science and software engineering. He’s also a professor of computer science at my school and a huge Apple fan, owning an Apple Watch Ultra, MacBook Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. He was also my supervisor during my business trip in my NASA internship. I rarely encounter individuals who possess multiple master’s or undergraduate degrees unless they’ve gone above and beyond or enrolled in courses that align with both degrees. However, at my college, it’s common for students to earn multiple associate degrees because many programs offer classes that can be applied to multiple degrees. For instance, STEM majors who complete their general education requirements and major preparation simultaneously can earn both their main degree and a math and science degree, which can be applied to various science or engineering-related fields.

Of course! I’m thrilled about it because I’m starting at my new school this fall. You mentioned you have the iMac G5, the first flat-panel, pre-unibody iMac, right? I recall reading a children’s book a while back that featured an iMac G4 on an alphabet book. I didn’t realize it until I became an Apple fan in elementary school and revisited my childhood memories. It was printed around 2003, so it featured an iMac G4, and they still even include the Apple logo. I knew you’ve been an Apple fan since the early 2000s! PowerBooks and iBooks were the predecessors of MacBooks, right? Once you got one, you stopped using Windows, right? I wasn’t wealthy enough for Macs back then, so I started being an Apple fan instead. My first Apple product was the original iPad mini. Thirty years of Mac history drew me deeper into Apple and the Macintosh’s past. I read the historical account on the Apple website on my iPad, and I’ve also read many user manuals from the late 90s Macintosh, iPods, iPhones, and iPads on the Apple support website to gain knowledge about how Apple products work. These were my initial days using Apple products. A year after getting my first iPhone, the iPhone 5s, it lasted me for about five great years until it was time to upgrade to the iPhone 7 when iOS 13 no longer supported it. I was mostly a laptop user like you, but I still have a ThinkPad from school. Once I stopped using my iPad due to incompatibility with iOS 10, I switched to Windows laptops and Chromebooks, which I own one Chromebook for personal use. Planning to get a MacBook Pro btw.

I made my first trip to the Apple Store the same year I got my first iPhone, at the local one near me in 2015. I also visited the Apple Park visitor center shortly after it opened in summer 2018. Every time I visit Cupertino for my family up north, I make sure to visit Apple Park. I’ve never been to an Apple event in person or WWDC before. I’d love to attend an actual Apple launch event so I can explore Apple Park’s Steve Jobs theater area. It’s great that you attended a Macworld event before! Those were the keynote speeches of Steve Jobs’ era. Did Apple invite you to join them for the event?
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Some of us -- many of us? -- on MR have been Apple fans since before you and other members of this forum were even born! 🙂 We're the ones who eagerly and happily bought the first of many exciting new Apple products as they initially arrived on the scene and we're the ones who also experienced either online or in person the incredible and fascinating charisma of Steve Jobs. Those years were really exciting in a way which, alas, is now for many reasons just not the same.

Steve Jobs' keynote presentations were something else, weren't they? I'm glad we have so many of them available for still viewing and appreciating today. I am so, so happy that I made the decision to register for and attend MacWorld in January of 2006, as that was certainly a memorable event for many reasons. It was the one and only time I saw Steve Jobs in person -- at a distance, of course, from my seat way back in the auditorium.

I haven't been to the (in my mind still new) Apple Park campus and the store there, and much as I'd love to get back out there to CA to see it, that probably won't happen. From all the photos and comments I've read about the place, it's wonderful for Apple fans to experience!

Another special time I remember from my trip in 2006 when I was in CA for MacWorld, is that I did spend a day doing an excursion from San Francisco (where MacWorld was held) out to Cupertino and One Infinite Loop to visit the original campus, "the Mothership," so to speak (even have a t-shirt with just that name on the front!), and had a delightful time in what was then called "the Company Store." I am still using some of the goodies which I brought home from there.

Also, while I was out there, a friend took me to spend some time at the fascinating Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA -- a really neat place! Both of us geeked out on all the neat stuff we saw and learned about.

Wow, that was a long time ago now.....
 
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Clix Pix said:
Some of us -- many of us? -- on MR have been Apple fans since before you and other members of this forum were even born! 🙂 We're the ones who eagerly and happily bought the first of many exciting new Apple products as they initially arrived on the scene and we're the ones who also experienced either online or in person the incredible and fascinating charisma of Steve Jobs. Those years were really exciting in a way which, alas, is now for many reasons just not the same.

Steve Jobs' keynote presentations were something else, weren't they? I'm glad we have so many of them available for still viewing and appreciating today. I am so, so happy that I made the decision to register for and attend MacWorld in January of 2006, as that was certainly a memorable event for many reasons. It was the one and only time I saw Steve Jobs in person -- at a distance, of course, from my seat way back in the auditorium.

I haven't been to the (in my mind still new) Apple Park campus and the store there, and much as I'd love to get back out there to CA to see it, that probably won't happen. From all the photos and comments I've read about the place, it's wonderful for Apple fans to experience!

Another special time I remember from my trip in 2006 when I was in CA for MacWorld, is that I did spend a day doing an excursion from San Francisco (where MacWorld was held) out to Cupertino and One Infinite Loop to visit the original campus, "the Mothership," so to speak (even have a t-shirt with just that name on the front!), and had a delightful time in what was then called "the Company Store." I am still using some of the goodies which I brought home from there.

Also, while I was out there, a friend took me to spend some time at the fascinating Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA -- a really neat place! Both of us geeked out on all the neat stuff we saw and learned about.

Wow, that was a long time ago now.....
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Glad you visited the San Fran Bay Area back then. Things are so different now.

I missed the transition since we went to the other coast.
 
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Some of us -- many of us? -- on MR have been Apple fans since before you and other members of this forum were even born! 🙂 We're the ones who eagerly and happily bought the first of many exciting new Apple products as they initially arrived on the scene and we're the ones who also experienced either online or in person the incredible and fascinating charisma of Steve Jobs. Those years were really exciting in a way which, alas, is now for many reasons just not the same.

Steve Jobs' keynote presentations were something else, weren't they? I'm glad we have so many of them available for still viewing and appreciating today. I am so, so happy that I made the decision to register for and attend MacWorld in January of 2006, as that was certainly a memorable event for many reasons. It was the one and only time I saw Steve Jobs in person -- at a distance, of course, from my seat way back in the auditorium.

I haven't been to the (in my mind still new) Apple Park campus and the store there, and much as I'd love to get back out there to CA to see it, that probably won't happen. From all the photos and comments I've read about the place, it's wonderful for Apple fans to experience!

Another special time I remember from my trip in 2006 when I was in CA for MacWorld, is that I did spend a day doing an excursion from San Francisco (where MacWorld was held) out to Cupertino and One Infinite Loop to visit the original campus, "the Mothership," so to speak (even have a t-shirt with just that name on the front!), and had a delightful time in what was then called "the Company Store." I am still using some of the goodies which I brought home from there.

Also, while I was out there, a friend took me to spend some time at the fascinating Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA -- a really neat place! Both of us geeked out on all the neat stuff we saw and learned about.

Wow, that was a long time ago now.....
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I lived in San Diego for a year in 1980. We loved it but I recognized congestion as compared to South Texas yet it was manageable. 🙂 Then about 7 years later we went back to visit and it was even more developed near the neighborhood we lived in, Rancho Penasquitas, close to Rancho Bernardo. I've always said, California must of been a wonder place to live in the 1950s... 🤔

My first Apple, Apple IIe, 1983. Add the color monitor (was it color?), dual disk drives, and a printer, boy was it expensive. 🤔
 
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A question for any German folks out there. I just saw a news report about yesterday's election. At the celebration for the new Chancellor one or more dancing party members were holding signs with the slogan "Rambo Zambo". I believe it is a song. What is the connection or the reason the CDU party is highlighting it?

Note .... please keep politics out of your responses. Thanks.
 
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