In the next 10 days cruisers will spend clip hear how to better use their Macs thanks to sessions from Mac experts includingMacworldMac 911 editorialist Christopher Breen , New York Timestechnology columnist David Pogue , broadcast tech guru Leo LaPorte , and even this base blogger . Even more exciting , we ’ll be doing all our Mac stuff in the down meter between our ports of call , which include stop in Estonia , Russia , Finland , Sweden , Germany , and Denmark .
Tonight Geek Cruises “ skipper ” Neil Bauman , who plans and work MacMania , welcomed the Geek Cruisers onboard in a particular response on the ship ’s bow just as it take out up anchor and steamed out of Copenhagen ’s seaport and into the Baltic beyond .
All of us are excited about this little adventure of ours , but I ’ve get to take on that our ebullience is normalize a spot by the jet lag stimulate by jump ahead between seven and nine clip zone . add together to that Pisces - out - of - water touch sensation is the fact that this time of class , there only seem to be about four time of day of existent dark in Denmark . It for certain is exciting to find yourself admiring a sunset at 10 p.m. , though .
The ship ’s got satellite - ground Internet access , so none of us are truly reduce off from the outside world . As a collection of tech - savvy Mac fans , that ’s a good thing . At the welcoming reception tonight , Leo LaPorte let fly with the first hint of the sail : namely , that satellite Internet connections have some really bad latency problem thatsloooooweverything down . Leo ’s got a Terminal command ( embed in an easy - to - use AppleScript ) that improves how a Mac handle a low - latency net internet . Which is a must when you ’re float on the sea somewhere deep in the Eastern Hemisphere .
The sail ’s group discussion seance — which are obligate when the ship’snotin larboard , so cruisers can maximize their time off the ship as well as on — begin in businesslike tomorrow . On the agendum : an iTunes academic session from Mr. Breen , an iMovie academic term from Mr. Pogue , a GarageBand hole academic term with both BreenandPogue , a slew of picture taking sessions , and a “ Tiger Primer ” that I ’ll presumptively be present to the handful of people who are n’t being wow by the Breen / Pogue GarageBand jam .
Chris Breen , Macworldcontributor Ben Long , and myself will be posting blog entranceway from the cruise throughout its length at Macworld.com , as well as casual photo galleries . For more photos of the cruise as it find , you could also shoot the breeze theMacMania 3.5 picture group on Flickr.com . As the post card saying goes , we wish you were here — so we ’ll try out to make it seem as if you are !
