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Apple Time Capsule blinking light

Apple Time Capsule blinking light

In my never ending quest to conquer Apples madness, I went downstairs and saw the yellow light on my airport flashing, it was still working as far as the wireless portion I was able to get on the internet and all, so after some searching I saw many things it could be. Some of the tips I read said it could be a bad hard drive..

Apple Time Capsule

Apple Time Capsule

After about a year of fighting and resetting my Linksys wireless N Router I found a great price on an Apple Time Capsule (500 gig version) I replaced my Linksys with the Apple Router/NAS. Its the normal Apple flawless design in Hardware, now when it comes to setup it seems that someone other than the normal Apple software engineers; having used many different routers in my day, this is the only one that doesn't use a Web interface to set it up...

MacBook Video Trouble

Recently my 15" Mac Book Pro had a little trouble... I flipped it open in the morning and heard the Optical drive do its normal buzzing (when there is a DVD in it) and what sounded like the hard drive spin up, but nothing on the screen; I have had these phantom not wake up things a few times in the past. I closed the notebook, opened it again and the same out come, nothing on the screen; so I held the power button and powered down, powered it back up, no chime nothing on the screen... ohh boy, I pulled the battery, disconnected the power, cycled it again, nothing..

Inverted Display Problem

Recently I received a call about a friends Macbook Pro having a Display problem that made the display look Broken or "inverted" so after a little searching I found that there is a key combination that will flip the screen from normal to inverted and back. Not sure of the purpose of the "Function" (you know Apple zealots call flaws functions) .

VMware and Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro

VMware and Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro

I have been using VWware Fusion for some time now with mixed results, I have Windows XP installed in BootCamp on my MacBook Pro and it runs like a champ; even running the engineering software I use for work (Pro/Engineer)in boot camp but not really the case running it in VM Ware. The speed of Windows on the mac using BootCamp is that of a fast Windows laptop being as it is simply all the same parts as any other laptop (Dell, HP, or who ever) with Apple Unreal Design, Fit and Finish and outright quality.

Google Mail Offline

Google Mail Offline

Recently Gmail updated my account to include offline email for my Google Mail. I logged in, hit the settings area and turned it on; on my windows machine it gets you to install an application and seems pretty cool, a nice way to type mails while off line (on a plane or where ever) and as soon as you get an internet connection it sends it and everything is sync'd with your WebMail on Google, throw it on multiple computers or what ever you like as long as its not an Apple.. It looks as though Apple is left behind once again.

AAC now supported in Windows 7

AAC now supported in Windows 7

I have a pretty extensive music collection all ripped directly from CD's I refuse to have downloaded stuff. I recently bought some MP3's from Amazon.com and they are DRM free MP3 files, perfect.. I can put them on any of my computers and ipods.. they play on ANYTHING...

Apple Invents The Wheel

Apple invents the Wheel... Reminds me of when the Apple Zealots were sure that Apple invented the Pentium Processor when they switched to intel processors. This video is well done, I wonder how much the Onion spends on these

Apple TV and Boxee

Apple TV and Boxee

We purchased an Apple TV sometime back as a decent way to control and stream my media library. The HP Media Smart Server is used to store and serve the music/video throughout the house, I will say both the Apple TV and the Media server have issues. The server comes with a iTunes server built in but doesn't seem to list all of the music library, so I hacked in and loaded iTunes on the server, it works okay besides it seems as though the server reboots about every two weeks or so and I have to log back in and get itunes running again.

Multizone Music with Airport Express

Multizone Music with Airport Express

Currently I am in process of setting up a home theater in the lower level of my house; well in the planning stages anyway. I have an idea about using multiple airport express units to be able to have music on the deck, by the hot tub and where ever I want, I currently use an AppleTV in my main room, I will have multiple itunes clients running so I can select different music for different zones; I used to own an Express but sold it, it has issues that it may play for 1 minute or an hour, but hooked up wireless you can count on it stopping at one point or another...

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