Wi-Fire is an affordable bus-powered USB alternative to Apple’s AirPort wireless technology. Install its software, restart, connect Wi-Fire to your computer’s USB port, launch its WLan application, choose SETUP -> OPEN SETUP WINDOW, wait a moment, and observe all wireless networks with Wi-Fire’s extensive range.
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Nemo Memo
Weekend Archive
Introduction to Wireless Networking
This weekend, we go back two years to David Cohen’s Introduction to Wireless Networking article. A must read if you are thinking of setting up a wireless network for the first time. Check it out here.
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WiebeTech’s 1.8 Inch Toshiba Hard Drive Combo Dock Adapters for Instant iPod Data Recovery
That 4th generation iPod uses a 1.8-inch Toshiba drive, so you’d want the ADAv4-18-TOSH. Some later iPods use a 1.8-inch Toshiba ZIF drive, which uses a different interface. In that case, you’d need ADAv4-18-TOSH-ZIF.
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The Best Fifty Dollar Software You Never Bought
DiskStudio by Micromat, Fission by Rogue Amoeba, and Glance by Glance Networks have all been updated and improved.
Numbers 08
Spreadsheets for the Rest of Us
Leave it to Apple, however, to create yet another useful production program for the rest of us. That is, a program which is intuitive, practical, and stylish. Numbers ’08 is another fine program that can help you transform the analog fashion of pen and paper calculations and create functions that can help you become more efficient with various projects involving money, data gathering and calculations.
iLife 08
Are you happy with iLife ’08? Robert is not so much. Read his post to find out why.
Think Different
An honorable discharge for the Apple icon on the Command key…
In a tragic turn of events and in an effort to reinvent the Mac bringing it into a vicious circle of conformity, the Apple logo has been relieved of duty as the once proud symbol that graced nearly every Mac keyboard for the better half of 20 years in the form of the Command key. At the Mac event last week where new keyboards were announced, the awful discovery became a reality. I’m mad to say the least…
Nemo’s Ten Point Tutorial 9
Unconventional Summer Vacation Photos
Be bold in your photographic experiments. When a subject grabs you, grab your camera, collect your thoughts, take a deep breath, look around for a moment, and make the photo.
Think Different
A Stay of Execution for the Mac mini
MacRelevant
iPhoto 08
This past weekend, Chad Perry (of MyMac.com Podcast fame) and I ventured up to the new Apple Store in Ann Arbor, Michigan to check out the iPhones, iMacs, the new keyboards, and pick up copies of iLife ’08.
Nemo’s Ten Point Tutorial 8
Improve Your Indoor Family Photos – Yes, It’s Possible!
Taking halfway decent pictures of family and friends is always tricky. Stick with it, use lots of vertical framing, throw out your worst images, and spend time with the ones that have potential. Learn how to use your different flash settings. Have your camera strap on at ALL times.
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Travels with Techie, v2007.2
Complete with links to our reviews for most of the products Nemo mentions. Why does he bring so much gear with him on vacation, anyway?
Read MoreThe Case for Cases
There are two markets for a phone case (the brand of phone is immaterial). There’s the holster; then there’s the purse model. If you’re like most men — and don’t carry a purse — you go for the holster type, which is further divided into the horizontal and vertical. As phones get bigger again thanks to increased screen size, the holster orientation becomes a factor. Read on…
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Travels with Techie, v2007.1
Here’s a rundown of what I’ve been using so far, with links (when available) to our MyMac.com reviews of the products, and an approximate 1 – 5 score of what I would rate it if doing a review today.
Read MoreVote for our video!
The publisher of MyMac.com, Tim Robertson, was recently hired to write, film, and produce a video for The Simpsons Movie Hometown Premiere Contest by Springfield, Michigan. While all the videos online are great, we hope everyone reading this will go to http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/simpsons-contest.htm and vote for Michigan!
Help MyMac’s own Tim Robertson, vote from every computer you can get your hands on, including your iPhone!
Read MoreWelcome to Apple World
The Business Week article starts off with, ” Steve Jobs had plenty of problems to contend with as he sauntered onstage for his first
Read MoreiPhone + AT&T: Secrets and Surprises
Here I sit, money in hand, ready to plunk down $499 x 2, plus buy my way out of SunCom for a hundred or two, plus sign up with AT&T for two years. I’m obligating myself for at least $2,200 EXTRA for a couple of cell phones.
Without knowing how much AT&T will charge?
Not bloody likely!
Read MoreThoughts on Safari 3 Beta
I’m going to stretch my prognosticatorial wings here and write about that of which I know very little. (Yeah! I do know the sentence sucks.)
Read MoreNo Mac Mini? Say It Isn’t So!
Could Apple be looking at retiring the Mac mini? New writer Dan Robinson hopes not. Read to find out why.
Read MoreAdobe – Crossing The Divide
Few, if any, companies can match the cross platform commitment that Adobe has demonstrated in its history. David Cohen writes about how Microsoft could learn a thing or two from Adobe. Read on…
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