Three Months with the Amazon Kindle

With a remarkable amount of press, both good and bad, Amazon’s Kindle evokes a response one way or the other. That is, for people who have a clue as to what a “Kindle” is as a product. For the last three months I’ve used my Kindle almost daily, and overall it’s a welcome [...]

Setting Default View

I like Office 2008 for the Mac much better than 2004, but the idiosyncrasies still crop up. To change the default view from Page Layout to Normal, goto the menu Excel->Preferences… then under Authoring select View, Preferred new sheets, set to normal.

You can also change the default font and size here too. You [...]

New AirPort Firmware Adds Time Machine Support to Apple AirPort Extreme Basestation

Apple came out with a fireware update for the AirPort Extreme Basestation and Time Capsule. People have reported being able to use exernal USB drives on the AEBS as a Time Machine destination. Great, six days after I got a Time Capsule for backups!

I would still shy away from using the AEBS [...]

Time Capsule – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Apple announced Time Capsule, a combination wireless access point, network storage (500GB or 1TB), and remote print server at Mac World in January, 2008. It is positioned as an Apple AirPort Extreme Basestation (AEBS) extension for those that need the AEBS’s wireless capabilities, along with network attached storage that actually works.

In our [...]