John Ballinger

Getting your iPad on 3G.

Get the XT Prepaid Mobile Broadband 500MB - you don’t have to pay monthly - Confirmed By Telecom ^JL.

If you use your iPad now and again outside of your wifi zone. You could get 500MB of data from Vodafone or 2º but it’s going to cost you $20/month. You must also pay every month. On XT Prepaid Mobile Broadband 500MB, you pay for what you use and have 6 months to top up.

You need to tell them at the Telecom Store that you want the 500MB Mobile Broadband prepaid rate on the sim when you buy it. (they will probably look at you confused).

The cheapest is $29.95 (it says per month, but it should say, “500MB of data capped at 29.95”).

http://www.telecom.co.nz/mobile/mobilebroadband/plansandpricing/prepaid

This 500MB prepaid rate basically means you pay 10c/Mb up to $29.95 which is 300MB. Then you get a free 200MB if use that in a single calendar month. 

At the bottom of this table is says.

“If you use less than your data allowance you’ll only be charged for what you use, and your credit balance will roll over to the next calendar month.”

Which means if you use only 100MB in a month, you only pay $10. If you use 300MB in one month you are billed $30 and if you use 500MB of data in 1 month you will be still be billed $30. You can add another 500MB though by topping and getting 1GB for $60 (I am rounding my values up to make my example clearer).

You must top up every 6 months.

“Any top-up credit needs to be used within six months otherwise it will expire and you need to make sure you top up at least once every six months to avoid your Prepaid account being deactivated.”

http://www.telecom.co.nz/mobile/yourmobile/topup (Heading - By the way, just so you know…) 

This means if you use you iPad now and again on 3G it’s pretty good, if you need heaps of data, eg 500MB to 1GB this plan is good.

You can see lots more options here if you have more data requirements.

http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/2010/07/ipad-data-plans-comparision-xt-vodafone-and-2-degrees/

Thanks to Matthew Buchanan for his assistance with pulling the correct data together for this post. 

OSX SVN remove pesky svn files from a folder

In Terminal navigate to the correct folder first.
To see what this command is going to remove run

find . -name .svn

Then when you want to remove these files. Note the traling slash semi colon.

find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;