Still going after all these years.
When I read that Steve Jobs announced Apple’s support of 802.11g (WiFi on steroids), I was thrilled. Thrill gave way to dismay pretty quickly as I remembered I had already bought a new 802.11b access point. My dismay may be both short-lived and prolonged, however. First, short-lived: the new AirPort Extreme card does not fit … Continue reading “No 802.11g for you…maybe”
I got a nice gadget under the Christmas tree this year: a second generation AppleTV. Short take: I am way more impressed than I thought I would be. This fall we experimented with hooking an old MacBook Pro up to the TV in the living room and using the FrontRow UI to watch movies, but … Continue reading “AppleTV second gen: initial usage notes”
I hesitate to write this post, but since I found very few reliable aids for surviving this error, I’m writing it up in the hope that it will help someone else. My MacBook Pro (first generation, dented side resulting in unreliable power cord connection, weak battery) shut off sometime overnight. Unfortunately, when I booted it … Continue reading “Recovering from an iTunes 13001 error”
As I mentioned yesterday, there were a few unfinished items left after the FiOS installation yesterday. I got two of the items taken care of this morning, but I was a little disturbed at what I had to do to make things work. After the installation was complete on Sunday, I connected to the administrative … Continue reading “Using an AirPort Express with FiOS”
For those that have not been following my structured wiring project (and hard to blame you: it’s been going on since late 2004), here are the highlights to date: Moved into a 1941 house with no inside telephone wiring and put a temporary fix in place. Installed a Leviton structured wiring box in our basement … Continue reading “Media wiring project: data cabling”
Three last notes about the final (?) stages of the Great CD Project, which started with over 1000 CDs plus about 30 GB of digital music across two computers, and ended up with about 400GB of digitized music—over 23000 tracks worth—on a networked hard drive: iPod syncing One of three scenarios I was concerned about … Continue reading “Wireless jukebox follow-up”
After last week’s post about the difficulties working with the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station, I decided to pick up the pieces and put some things together. I ended up going down a path that led to some success: Borrow a 500 GB drive from work Set my library location for iTunes to the … Continue reading “Airport Extreme update – some successes”
My new Airport Extreme (the 802.11n model) is set up and humming, and everything looks good—better range, easier setup, better form factor. So why am I extremely disappointed? Because it won’t share my RAID disk, and Apple won’t help me figure out how to make it happen. In fact, I had to go to their … Continue reading “Airport Extreme Disappointment”
I have found the first product I’ll buy from Apple after this week’s keynote—and it wasn’t even mentioned in the keynote. At MacWorld, Apple quietly announced a next-generation AirPort Extreme base station that supports a draft of the 802.11n protocol, meaning that it’s up to five times as fast and up to twice the range … Continue reading “Finishing the Project–with an AirPort Extreme”
It seems that every time we move I spend a few hours reconfiguring our network so that we can print over WiFi to our LaserJet 2100M. This time, as I mentioned last week, the issue was physical; I couldn’t physically connect the printer to the wireless access point as I did before, so I ordered … Continue reading “Once more: wireless printing”
Now that all the major appliances are in and working (we had a plumber out on Monday setting up new pipes for the washing machine and cutting a vent for the dryer), we’re turning our attention to finer points. Like printing. In the Seattle house, we had cable running to our bedroom, and had a … Continue reading “Rewiring the wireless network”
MacSlash has a thread on the new PowerBooks announced this morning in Paris. It looks like the long awaited aluminum revision of the 15″ PowerBook model has arrived, with a new top end speed of 1.25GHz, ports on the side including an 800 MHz FireWire port, built in BlueTooth, AirPort Extreme (802.11g) ready, 80GB hard … Continue reading “New PowerBooks, and I’m obsolete again”
Continuing with the live blog of the live bloggers: Eric says Steve is talking hardware, including laptops: 17 inch Powerbooks, only 1 inch thick: 1440×900 resolution, 16:10 ratio. Fiber-optic backlit keyboard. 6.8 pounds. Aircraft-grade aluminum. 1 GHz G4 and FireWire 800. Will all bloggers lust after the new AlBook like they did the TiBook? Have … Continue reading “MacWorld bloggers talk hardware”
Rumor has it that Apple will be opening a store in Bellevue, a few miles south of me–and a few miles west of Microsoft. That should be interesting–if it comes through. As the source article says, there’s a sense that Apple will be doing the area a huge favor by opening a fairly high profile … Continue reading “Apple Store coming to Seattle area??”
Apple hasn’t adjusted its price points downwards on its wireless networking gear to compensate for the general industry trend. This is ironic, because Apple was a prime mover in making WiFi more popular and therefore driving prices down. The net effect is that I&8217;m wondering whether I should look elsewhere for a replacement wireless router. … Continue reading “Wireless gateway resources”