Anticipating My Macbook
If all goes according to plan, I should be picking up my new Macbook Black tomorrow evening as a BIRTHDAY gift for myself from Dubai Apple specialists extraordinnaire PROtechnology. This switch to Mac has been a REALLY long time coming for me, considering that it is pretty much the most perfect machine I could possibly get.
I’m only vaguely familiar with MacOS and all of its various inner workings so I will try to take the day off tomorrow to study up and start figuring out how it’ll integrate into my internet and web development life.
Basically, I need some way to develop my website dabarkads! on the Macbook, then view the results on a PC, so that I can quickly test on Windows IE, Windows Firefox, Windows Opera and Mac Safari (I suppose you could say that the ideal setup would be to have 3 monitors hooked up in a line, but that’s ridiculously extravagant. It’d be pretty cool though).
Precisely how to do this is something I haven’t figured out yet though, because my work environments are kinda … non-standard, I guess you could say.
The question is, how do I move between the three places with both the PC and the Macbook, and maintain their exclusive peer-to-peer relationship over Wi-Fi? Off hand it doesn’t look like there’s a way I can easily do that AND have a working internet connection, since a peer-based, ad hoc wireless network would supersede the global one that serves as the Internet gateway. (Apologies if I’m mangling the terminology here… networking is unfortunately not my strong suit.)
Apart from that little hitch, everything should be smooth sailing though. I’ve been doing a lot of switching-from-Windows-type research so I should be armed with enough knowledge beforehand that I won’t just be lumbering about blindly.
Whew. Can’t wait till tomorrow 
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