Moving to Kuwait with my MacBook

To any expats living in Kuwait reading this string, I need your insight into your own experiences actually moving your iMac to Kuwait from a Kuwaiti Customs standpoint.
I will be coming over with a new MacBook about a month before my wife which will leave the iMac G5 still in the States for her to contend with. I do not necessarily want to put it in a shipping container with the rest of my stuff and do not want to task her with lugging our computer baby in the iLugger (which look pretty practical) along with our human baby on the plane so I though of shipping it to myself via UPS (expensive, but easy) and it seemed that route would be almost impossible between the restrictions on personal effects, the duties and the approval of software on the machine.
How did any of you get your iMacs over there from your home countries?
Am I better off just waiting until I get there and buying a new one?
Did you encounter any difficulty with your laptops as you entered the country? What were the duites, if any?
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Specifically I want to move:
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Ical
Mail
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Is there an easy way to move the associated files for Address Book, Ical &
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Advise??
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ok, if you do not need to access your mail, contacts, ical over the net and both your macs are on a local network at home, then you may want to look at:
http://www.address-o-matic.com/ for syncing your address book between both macs when at home on the same local network for example
http://www.busymac.com for the busysync product for syncing your ical between both macs at home on the same local network - although busymac has just released an upgrade which will allow you to sync over the web
as for your email, if your isp allows for an imap account, then you are set, just set up the imap account in mail on both macs and changes on one mac's mail will appear on the other.
the above is not an integrated solution you will note, and will not allow you to view your data online.
.mac will offer you an integrated solution and way much more than syncing of ical, contacts, and mail rules and signatures - note that there is no syncing of emails per se, a .mac account being imap, again changes on one mac's mail will show up on the other. you will also be able to sync bookmarks, access contacts, bookmarks and email online, publish photo albums and videos to the net and share them with friends, sync your entire preferences between both macs, using backups, and idisk. you may want to look at this link to review all the features for .mac: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/
then again .mac may not be what you are looking for, and you may want to focus on individual solutions as outlined above for contacts and calendars.... your choice.
hope this helps

Is there a phone number to call Adobe. I go around an endless loop pressing their contact info tabs? Maybe someone at this sight can help. I am new to digital photo - I have been a B&W film photographer for many years. I have a problem with a Macbook Ai

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First, I have to tell you that I'm as dense as granite when it comes to technology, so please talk to me in the simple terms you'd use with a dazed higher primate. Assume that I know nothing.
My story: I have the world's oldest MacBook Pro and am also using a new MacBook Air. I had a new Airport base station that was working fine with the MacBook Pro until I moved two years ago. I know nothing was dropped or mishandled, because I moved the electronics myself. But when I set up stuff in the new house, with Airport in a spare room and using the laptop in my bedroom where I have little room for anything but me, the MacBook would no longer recogize the Airport.
I tried moving Airport into the same room, thinking there might be something wierd with the walls of the house, but still no dice.
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Things are getting complicated now, because I've added a printer/scanner. Since I can't use it wirelessly and don't wish to trip over the cable every time I stand up, I hardly ever use the thing. Also, I'm shopping for a new TV and have dreams of being able to connect it with the Mac for watching movies, etc. The thought of using more cables makes me sad.
BTW, I'm currently using a borrowed MacBook Air, circa 6 months ago. It doesn't recognize Airport either. Airport is currently sitting in its box, bored and depressed.
Since nothing I own is under warranty any longer, I'm looking for free advice here instead of paying Apple by the hour.
Two questions:
(1) the ****? How do I get wireless again?
(2) Is Airport interchangeable with other wireless modems, like the one Comcast offers me?

When you connect your MacBook Pro to the Comcast modem using its Ethernet cable, you are establishing the same sort of connection with it that would be used by your AirPort sitting in the box. The modem does not care what is connected to it, but it can connect to only one device at a time. Most of them "remember" that device as long as it is powered up, and will refuse to communicate with anything else.
So the first thing to do is power down the modem. Unplug it. Then, connect your AirPort's WAN port to it (Extreme or Express, whichever one you have) and then power them both up. With any luck your MacBook Pro might just connect wirelessly like it used to in your last home.
If it does not, you probably need to reconfigure the AirPort Base Station again as if it were new. To do that, "hard reset" the AirPort Base Station by pressing its tiny reset button and holding it depressed long enough for its LED to flash rapidly. Then, the LED will glow solid amber for a moment or two, then it will begin to flash slowly. When that occurs select its network in your Mac's Wi-Fi menu. Its name will be "Apple Network nnnnnn" where nnnnnn = a code unique to your base station. Select it.
Then, launch AirPort Utility - it is in your Utilities folder - and it will detect that your AirPort base station has been reset. Click the Continue button, answer the questions, and it will reconfigure the AirPort to those settings. The questions should be self-explanatory. When you are finished you will be prompted to restart the AirPort.
The next step confuses people, because after restarting the AirPort Base Station the network name that you had been using to configure it immediately ceases to exist. AirPort Utility may as well just sit there forever so just quit AirPort Utility. You have to manually select the network you just created by selecting it in the Wi-Fi menu again.
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Most likely I will be moving to China at some point within the coming months.
I will obviously be taking my Macbook with me but have a few concerns:
1. I was in China this past summer and never at one point was I allowed to do Software Updates in China. Why is this so and what would be the way around this? I would assume to directly download what I need from the Apple site right? I might've answered my own question.
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I feel it's a must for me to take my Macbook out to China since i'll be living there anywhere between 3 months to well over a year. This past summer I was in China with my Macbook for 4 weeks and it was a lifesaver aside from not being able to do software updates (though I could see I needed them) and somehow being able to have Applecare cover me out there. Perhaps an authorized reseller?
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Hi Decemberist,
Here is link to apple china, I see a couple of phone and address:
http://www.apple.com.cn/store/
Unfortunately they written in chinese, so maybe a friend can translate that for you.
You can asked them if they have any new updater for your macbook or maybe you can do update using their wired or wireless network.
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Need help with original MacBook, Snow Leopard, iPod Touch and iPad

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