Sharing between 2 Macbooks

I have a MacBook Pro and ordered a MacBook Air last Friday. The Air is on the way ...
I wonder if I can share some free bulit-in apps (Page, Numbers and Keynote) in the Air to the Pro. How?

When you get the pro, open the Mac App Store, go to the Purchases pane and accept all the pre-installed apps into your Mac App Store account. Then sign into the Mac App Store on the older Mac and download your content from the Purchases pane.

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Hey harold WD!
You will want to consolidate your entire library onto one computer using Home Sharing in order to sync all of these items onto your iPod. Use the following article to help you accomplish this:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12286
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You can't use AirDrop on iOS to share with OS X users, and OS X users can't use AirDrop to share with iOS devices.
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I wonder if you can use the imac and macbook pro like as one computer. Sharing everything. And how to do it through wifi. Thank you.

Unfortunately they do not work like that. However you could use a programme such a ChronoSync if you want to synchronise certain files. I have this setup between an iMac and MBA over ethernet and it works well.

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Here's what I did. I booted in safe mode. That enabled me to mount the disk image for the combo update, but didn't fix the other problems.
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my host name changes every few days, since Xmas adding a macbook its changed 6 times. Do I need to stop this? Does it cause problems with sharing between the iMac and macbook?

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3. A Mac wakes from sleep due to network traffic. This is due to a bug in OS X that may only affect some models.
4. A device that gets its network address from the router wakes from sleep, and the address it was using before has been assigned to another device.
5. A third-party wireless router has incompatible settings or firmware. In that case, refer to the manufacturer or ISP for support. Restarting the router may help, temporarily.
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Wireless file sharing between two MacBooks

I feel like this is kind of a silly question, but here goes:
Is it possible to set up wireless file sharing between two macs when there is no wireless network available.
For example, if I am on a plane (with no wi-fi) and wan to wirelessely connect to my partners macbook to browse his hard drive, can I do it? Right now, I use a firewire cable when flying, but would love to not have to.
Thanks for the help.
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Yes, it's possible to do.
You setup one of the Macs to act as a base station of sorts. If you've got the AirPort Status menu shown you can just use the 'Create Network…' option in that menu to create a new wireless network hosted on this Mac. Just tell the other Mac to connect to that network using the name and security credentials you specified when you created the network, and you're done.

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