Southwest Airlines Ding! for Dock

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Southwest Airlines Ding! for Dock

Has anyone had any experience running SouthWest Airlines Dock app, Ding!? Any problems?

I want to take advantage of the SWA offer to Rapid Rewards Members who download and install DING! from March 20 - April 3, 2006 and keep it installed for 30 days to receive 2 Rapid Rewards credits, but I don't want to be the first guinea pig with their long-awaited Mac version of the software.

FYI- http://www.southwest.com/ding/whatisding.html?src=rrpromotions

thanks.

G5iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1 GB ram

Posted on Mar 21, 2006 6:53 PM

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Peter dErrico Author

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Mar 29, 2006 7:34 PM in response to Peter dErrico

OK, I found my own answer at MacWorld: two items by editor Philip Michaels -

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2006/03/dingreax/index.php

and

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/03/20/ding/index.php

His report is all positive, no problems, easy to register, configure and use.

G5iMac Mac OS X (10.4.2) 1 GB ram

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Mar 29, 2006 9:45 PM in response to Peter dErrico

Hello Peter:

You answered your own question...however, I have the "ding" installed on my Mac without any problems.

Barry

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Peter dErrico Author

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Mar 30, 2006 11:16 AM in response to Barry Hemphill

Thanks, Barry. I waited a week for someone to say they had tried it, but then decided to look elsewhere and found the MacWorld stuff. Either you and I are the only people on the Apple boards who have it, or no one else wanted to save me from the terror of being an early adopter! 🙂 I've been running it since yesterday with no trouble.

peter

G5iMac Mac OS X (10.4.2) 1 GB ram

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Mar 30, 2006 1:16 PM in response to Peter dErrico

Hi Peter:

I tend to be a pioneer (with arrows sticking out of my back at times). It looked innocent enough. Besides, I installed it first on the Windows thing I am using at the moment. I figured that it would bring Windows down before an Apple.

Barry

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Peter dErrico Author

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Apr 3, 2006 1:06 PM in response to Barry Hemphill

One anomalous event this morning that may be related to Ding! A kernel panic moments after login. (I haven't done anything else with hard or software that would trigger a panic.) To put it in context, I have dialup and am used to the fact that the modem doesn't hold a connection for more than a couple minutes after a cold startup (have also read reports of this behavior in these discussions). It is possible that the machine didn't like the combination of Ding! trying to connect at login and the modem not responding. I restarted from Disk Warrior CD and ran a rebuild, finding no problems. Restarted again, removed Ding! from login items, third restart, opened Ding! manually, no trouble.

G5iMac Mac OS X (10.4.2) 1 GB ram, LaCie 120GB D2 FW, Epson Perfection 1260, Epson Stylus C86

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