I’ve had terrible problems with both iCal and Entourage. With iCal, I first tried to use Google Calendar and then started deleting excessive calendars. Then, when I rebooted, I discovered that I couldn’t see any calendars and also that when I tried to add another calendar with New calendar, iCal just hung.
First thing to [...]
Reset iCal and Entourage
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
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Airport Firmware 7.3.2 Problems
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Apple just release 7.3.2 which is an update for the firmware and the airport utility running on Macs and Windows. Not clear what it has besides bug fixes.
As with most Airport Extreme and Time Capsule fixes, it isn’t seemless. Pokrface has problems with it hanging the access points. Going back to 7.3.1 fixed that problem, [...]
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MacBook Air SuperDrive jammed and will not eject so shake it!
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Hat tip to TUAW apparently, Tnkgrl has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The photos are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes [...]
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Apple Airport Utility 5.3.2
June 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Good news is that the 5.3.2 update looks like it is OK to take for the Airport Utility. Also I’m now using Entourage 2008 and Excel 2008 and that looks like most problems are fixed as well
Apple – Support – Discussions – Any problem with Airport Utility 5.3.2 …
Airport Utility 5.3.2 is quite harmless. More [...]
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Apple Airport Client Performance
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Airport Utility
Apple – Support – Downloads – AirPort Utility 5.3.1 for Leopard. Wow, incredibly hard to find, but the Airport Utility let’s you look at individual client performance. Very cool, but impossible to find but it shows you the nominal bit rate of the link I think that is active and changes over time.
here is the [...]
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