Aug 14
PhilQuicktips, Technology Airport, Apple, How-to, Leopard, Mac, OSX, Tips, Tutorials
I didn’t know about this tip, and as a Trainer I like to pass on the knowledge in the hope it will help someone, somewhere, have a better day.
So, the credit for this quicktip goes to Dave Hamilton from the excellent MacGeekGab in Epsiode 214:
I knew that on Mac OSX, if you click on the Airport icon in the menu bar, you would see the name of the wireless network you had connected to, and any others in range, plus a little padlock to the side to indicate if security was enabled on that base station. This is the standard view as illustrated on the right.
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Aug 09
PhilTechnology ExpressCard, Hard disk, HDD, Mac, MBP, SDD, Solid State
I am fine with USB sockets, I hook up a 7 port hub and hang disk drives, a printer, scanner, iPod, iPhone and digital camera off of it. I even have a use for the Firewire port on my MacBook Pro (hereafter, mostly, referred to as MBP), that’s where my video camera goes. But there is a little trapdoor on the left side of my Mac that has puzzled me for a while. I knew it replaced the PCMCIA card slot that my old PowerBook had, and I actually used that all the time as a Compact Flash card reader.
But this new little trapdoor on the MBPs apparently opens into what is known as an ExpressCard slot. No, I hadn’t heard of it either! And, it would appear, Apple have given up on it fairly quickly, with the current iteration of the MBP now having a more obviously useful SD card slot.
Actually, the SD card slot is not that useful to me personally. My DSLR (the Canon EOS 400D) uses CompactFlash cards, requiring a separate card reader, which is another thing I hang off that USB hub I mentioned earlier.
However, today I finally got around to listening to Episode 211 of the always informative and really great fun MacGeekGab (MGG). If you like to get at all Geeky about the Mac, and you do not listen to this show, you are missing out big time. Subscribe to it in iTunes NOW! I really, really enjoy listening to this podcast and it has saved my Mac bacon many times, I love it, thanks Dave and John.
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Aug 07
PhilTechnology DoS, Facebook, Internet, iPhone, Mac, social networking, tweeting, Twitter
I am sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of other bloggers have gone in to the merit of Twitter, and how it can be used in every day life, work, etc. So what I wanted to say, fairly quickly, is how much it means to me.
What has caused a lot of the twitterers, tweeps, tweeple or whatever we should respectfully call a collection of Twitter users, shudder and evaluate the importance of the service to them, is the Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, and which they continue to fight at this moment (some API features are still broken apparently).
My first thought “Twitter is down, I must tell people. Oh no, I can’t tweet, Twitter is down! Now what do I do?”. I felt a bit helpless so I Googled it, obviously, then blogged about it yesterday, even though this is a brand new blog, and I am the only one reading it…
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