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fixing AirPort Extreme performance woes

Jon — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:38 +0000

PROTIP if your AirPort Extreme has abysmal performance regardless of position or settings try giving it a factory default reset.

I have one that has gone through probably 4-5 in-place firmware upgrades over the last few years and somewhere along the way started to provide horrible downstream throughput to clients. No amount of troubleshooting on my part could get it to work correctly. After giving it a reset its back to working as expected – yay for WiFi faster than dial-up.

Macintosh fail

Jon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:16:58 +0000

Even OS X craps itself once in a while.

the iPad

Jon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:03:29 +0000

I don’t grok all the aversion in the techie/gadget press in regards to the iPad.

Do I want one (yet)? No; however, it seems like a pretty ideal device for someone like my wife or father-in-law. They both have pretty typical computing needs – a browser, email, iTunes for media consumption, the occasional word processing. The iPad nails all of these functions out of the box plus has the added bonus of the App Store ecosystem so there are plenty of niche specific apps and casual games to enjoy as well. It seems like a step closer to that task-centric “toaster” computing model which I think aligns well to the expectations of a large part of the population. Panic’s Steven Frank describes this personal computing evolution much more eloquently.

Right now I just want to finally ditch my current Moto dumbphone and get an iPhone. I’m not ready to make the leap to AT&T yet so I was disappointed that the end of their exclusivity for it in the US wasn’t announced this week. Oh well maybe in time for my birthday

FlipShare and Snow Leopard

Jon — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:55:07 +0000

Pure Digital has an updated release of their FlipShare application that is Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) compatible. The Mac download link at the Pure Digital site still offers the old version; however, support was nice enough to provide me a download link for version 4.5.1 when I asked for it.

You can grab a copy of the .dmg here.

CrackBook

Jon — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:51:35 +0000

Sadly my MacBook decided to exhibit a structural integrity snafu recently and began to crack along the right palm rest. Since I have AppleCare I dragged it over to the Washington Square Apple store and was pleasantly surprised to find the Genius could replace the case assembly same-day in only 20 minutes. The whole process was painless – thanks Apple

iSync 3 and the Moto RIZR Z3

Jon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:09:19 +0000

I just came across this post over at the Apple forums and now have my RIZR Z3 working correctly with iSync! It now will sync wirelessly via Bluetooth fixing my biggest gripe with using the Z3 with my Mac.

The Z3 plugin can be downloaded here.

SiriusMac 2.0.2

Jon — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:39:17 +0000

I’ve been so busy with the kids I forgot to post that SiriusMac 2.0.2 was released last Monday. It features premium audio stream support and includes a number of bug fixes and usability enhancements. Enjoy!

SiriusMac 2.0.1

Jon — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:27:42 +0000

SiriusMac 2.0.1 was released this afternoon. It addresses all of the major bugs and usability issues that the initial 2.0 release suffered from. You can find more details about it here.

SiriusMac 2.0 Release

Jon — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:30:42 +0000

Version 2 of SiriusMac – the best damn Sirius satellite radio player for the Mac – was released to the public tonight. You can go fetch a copy here. It fixes all of the shortcomings of version 1.x and includes an all new UI and a “mac-like” drag and drop install. I’ve been beta testing it for several weeks and it faithfully mimics all of the features you would expect from an actual Sirius tuner. It also fixes my biggest annoyance from version 1.x – it now has volume control within the application using code I contributed

Congratulations to VizualMenace on the release!

StarPlayr

Jon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:31:08 +0000

Goodtime recently posted a UI preview of his StarPlayr (formerly SOX) Sirius radio player application for the Mac. It is planned for release in 2008 – I’m looking forward to running it through its paces and seeing how it compares … Continue reading →