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April 2nd, 2010

AirPort Base Station Update 2010-001 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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December 10th, 2009

Airport Client Update 2009-002 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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July 2nd, 2009

Why I Can’t Just Enjoy My New 13" MacBook Pro

It really is a business expense.

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March 5th, 2009

AirPort Utility Software Update 5.4.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 5th, 2009

AirPort Client Update 2009-01 1.0 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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October 28th, 2008

AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004 1.0 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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April 11th, 2008

One Back to My Mac Solution

I finally get it to work.

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March 22nd, 2008

March 22 Links

Links worth following.

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March 20th, 2008

Time Machine and AirPort Update 1.0 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 15th, 2008

Airport Base Station Update 2008-001 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

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March 3rd, 2008

Response to a Reader Plea

Please don’t expect so much from me!

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February 17th, 2008

Leopard 10.5.2 Adds More Support for Routers

Makes Back to My Mac feature accessible to more Leopard users.

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February 16th, 2008

February 16 Links

Links worth following.

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January 17th, 2008

A Trip to Macworld Expo 2008

A few thoughts about this year’s trip.

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November 8th, 2007

Time Machine & AirPort Disk

Clarification for my Leopard book readers.

Early in Leopard development, Apple clearly indicated on its Web site that Time Machine would work with the AirPort Extreme’s AirPort Disk feature. To test this out, I obtained an AirPort Extreme and used it to set up an AirPort disk. And yes, with one of the pre-release

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October 20th, 2007

Day 5 on Google Earth

I really am a first order geek.

I recently wrote a lengthy account of my “Big September Gig,” in which I spent six days flying around northeastern Arizona with a team of 15 or so Russian photographers. You can read the first part of the story here.

On Day 5, I flew from Monument

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October 15th, 2007

A New Mac

I finally buy a new production Mac.

Back in September, about three weeks ago, faced with the prospect of having to burn a dual-layer DVD — which none of my current computers could do — I finally broke down and bought a new production Mac: a 24″ iMac.

I bought the computer at the

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April 20th, 2007

Security Update 2007-004 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

Security Update 2007-004 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:

AFP Client AirPort CarbonCore diskdev_cmds fetchmail ftpd gnutar Help Viewer HID Family Installer Kerberos Libinfo Login Window network_cmds SMB System Configuration URLMount Video Conference WebDAV

For detailed information on this update, visit

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February 9th, 2007

I Need a New Mac

But what I really need is some advice.

As my sick dual G5′s hard disk churns away for the seventh straight day of data recovery efforts using TechTool Pro and I start work on my Leopard book, I have come to realize that I’m going to need a new desktop Mac before year-end. Probably

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January 5th, 2007

Aviation Weather 1.2.5

A Dashboard widget for pilots.

I’ve used this widget in the past and really like it. It uses your Internet connection to retrieve official TAF and METAR information for airports you enter into its interface.

From Aviation Weather 1.2.5 on Dashboard widgets:

About Aviation Weather Get current weather conditions as well as weather

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November 29th, 2006

Security Update 2006-007 Now Available

Information from Software Update

Security Update 2006-007 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:

AirPort ATS CFNetwork Finder Font Book Font Importer Installer OpenSSL PHP PPP Samba Security Framework VPN WebKit gnuzip perl

For detailed information on this Update, please visit http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

September 22nd, 2006

Security Update 2006-005 Now Available

Information from Software Update

Security Update 2006-005 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components.

AirPort

For detailed information on this Update, please visit: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.

Technorati Tags: Macintosh, MacOS, security, update

January 27th, 2006

Extend Your Wireless Network and Play Tunes with AirPort Express

Informit.com Article

With my AirPort Express, I’ve figured out a way to get some phenomenal sound from some of that ancient Mac equipment collecting dust in my living room (along with the more modern stuff, of course).

Read all about it in “Extend Your Wireless Network and Play Tunes with AirPort

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