Category Archives: General

I use an external hard drive attached via USB to an Airport Extreme N for my Time Machine backups. This effectively works for the four household computers. Occasionally though, things go wrong – very wrong. You will be stuck with … Continue reading →

I recently received a Visa Gift Card, which is a very nice thing to get, but unfortunately has a couple issues when used online. Namely, there is no ‘Billing Address’ associated with the card, so trying to use the Visa … Continue reading →

Nobody seems to know. I’ve asked three people at the local store. They didn’t know. I sent a note to QFC via their online contact form about a week ago – no response yet. So today I called their customer … Continue reading →

Update: June 8 – Guess not! OS 3 drops June 17. Just some Tuesday morning conjecture. After I updated the our Macs to iTunes 8.2 last night and synced the iPhones, I noticed that the ‘next check’ for iphone software … Continue reading →

Just posted the following on the dslreports forum detailing success using an Airport Extreme in front of the supplied Actiontec and getting Remote DVR working. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22395674- Maybe it helps someone else.

I sent this to Apple today to let them know of yet another lost revenue opportunity. Not expecting a response – but they really need get out of ‘hobby’ mode and improve this. —- I thought it would be great … Continue reading →

14″ of snow around Xmas.

Use the Force … cool

2008 has been good to the Internet. Amazon has reported higher sales orders over last year and electronic mediums continue their march to overtake print sources. NY Times: Year of the eBook Pew Study: Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source

TooneTown Blog: 10 steps to a multi-protocol iChat.. This is a pretty cool way to add more services to iChat and enable Video Chatting most of the time. Still need Adium for some things – but OpenFire and Chax are … Continue reading →