Sunday 24 February 2013

MacBook Air setup

After giving some consideration I decided to get the MacBook Air 11 inch 64 GB laptop. The plan has been to use it as a cloud based device.

In order to utilise it as a cloud based laptop I have done the following;

  • Followed the welcome screens and setup a user account
  • Added in my iTunes Apple ID to get iCloud. I have two apple IDs one for iTunes and the one I had for mobile me. So I had to undo the iCloud service and put in my mobile me Apple Id - this didn't allow for notes and email - and it was asking me to create an iCloud email address - that is when I realised it was the wrong id. I then changed the ID and was then able to get all the iCloud services working.
  • Configured my iTunes Apple ID in iTunes, authorised the new computer and setup iTunes match on my other MacBook Pro. Now when I got to iTunes on my Air it allows me to either download my music or stream it - really good. Strangely nothing appears on the iTunes match tab - which was slightly confusing initially.
  • Installed software and software updates from the App Store, so this got me Pages, Numbers, Things, Xcode.
  • Installed Evernote, Spotify, Drop Box
  • I then moved my documents/projects folder to Drop Box on my MBP and moved my code to the DropBox
  • On the Air I then selectively chose the project and code folders I wanted, and selectively chose some of my photos to download
  • Setup photo stream in iPhoto, I'm not sure if I can get the DropBox photos to render within iPhoto so I am viewing them outside iPhoto.
  • Configured iPhoto and Facetime - and my Air got added, and all the other devices notified me of this.
  • Added my backdrops folder to drop box and setup a decent background to my desktop
  • Bought a cover off of Gelaskins
  • Now the policy is to do everything on this device in the cloud, and all setup.


Saturday 2 February 2013

Loss of page rank gone down to zero

Unfortunately my page rank of www.kevingordon.org.uk has gone down to zero (0), when it used to be 3 or 4, that might explain why the traffic to the site has also reduced.

It isn't clear why the page rank has gone down, but it may be related to the Twitter and Blogger plugins I've put on my home page. So I've taken the following actions;


  1. Removed the Blogger and Twitter plugins from my homepage
  2. Added a description meta tag to my home page
  3. Now hoping for the best :-(
I will review in a few weeks and see if it's made any difference to my page rank, but going down from a page rank of 3 or 4 to zero seems some what unfair.

Please let me know if you have any other ideas why the page rank would have gone down so much?