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Continue reading →: Canon 5D II
OMG, hat tip to “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com, there is hope for humanity, on April 22nd, “dpreview.com”:http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1032&message=27125455&changemode=1 and some “additional specs”:http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/03/12/canon-5d-mark-ii-rumors-are-swirling-swirling/ reports that there will be a new Canon 5D, the specs are amazing. Drool, drool for those of us with Canons who are feeling bad with the incredible D300 that they have…
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Continue reading →: Airport Express as travel hub
Hey, I never thought of that. I’ve used a travel version of the Linksys, but “PC World”:http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143515/article.html points out the AirPort Express makes a nice travel router since it is just essentially a wall wart. Also you can use it as a cheap way to get a 2.4GHz 802.11b/g network…
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Continue reading →: Rockin’ Fast Network
Normally at work, we have two networks, an unprotected and a protected wifi network, here’s a cool way to implement this. We are going to try this at our Seattle office. h2. Internally If you are lucky, you have all new machines from Apple (yeah!) that are 802.11n. These are…
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Continue reading →: Time Capsule Quirks
“John”:http://www.theludwigs.com has been having some trouble with his Time Capsule. The two I have have been working great with the exception that backups don’t seem to start properly (may be related to passwords), but there is lots of “folklore”:http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/timecapsule/ about how to deal with Time Machine and also a very…
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Continue reading →: Amazing statistic about Apple’s gain
Well it share in the overall market including corporate is miniscule, but interesting to see what is happening at retail (which is really about consumers and small business). AppleInsider | Apple snags 14 percent of US-based PC retail sales in February Growth in Apple’s personal computer business continued to outpace…
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Continue reading →: Airport Extreme + USB Drive = Time Machine (again!)
Time Machine Now Works with Airport Extreme USB Drives – Mac Rumors Several readers report that Time Machine now supports backups to USB drives connected to your Airport Extreme basestation. This configuration essentially reproduces the functionality of Apple’s Time Capsule product.
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Continue reading →: IM on the Mac
Now that things are reasonably stable, time to get IM working again. It is super useful to have IM. Need to get all our Macs connected to it. With Bonjour, it is easy to do local IM, so just need the folks to start using iChat. Also iChat allows you…
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Continue reading →: WordPress rewrites broken
Arrgh. Something is broken in my WordPress installation. I can’t see any .php files that were created previously with MovableType. I can’t figure out what is wrong, so I’m deinstalling all the plugins. Interesting, I can’t even use “Internal Rewrite Viewer”:http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/wordpress-internal-rewrite-viewer-plugin/ which is itself does a rewrite I get 404…
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Continue reading →: Arrgh Sync problems from Address Book to iPhone
So at least I got Entourage to suck down vCards. When you have 7,000 of them, you take address Book, highlight all the cards and then choose File/Export/vCards. This creates a massive 2MB vCard file. Open Entourage and drag and drop it into the contacts window. Be careful though, Entourage…
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