Tag: Wireless

Crystal Surround Air Track = Cool Beans

I’ve spent the past week-and-a-half putting together a little condo in Decatur. Pictures are coming soon, but not too soon so as not to spoil the reveal! (I feel like a renno TV program or something.) One of the purchases: a Samsung Series 7 7100 LED TV. I love Samsung’s SmartTVs! They are so thin (less than an inch deep),… Continue reading

Awesomely Helpful

I know little of nothing about network setup and configuration:  NAT, DHCP, Bridge, DNS, Proxies, Subnet Masks, etc.  What little I do know is from my own exploration and experimentation. The home network was becoming a huge pain in the rear.  It was divided up into 3 wireless networks and 1 wired network.  The connectivity issues with the AppleTV were… Continue reading

Too Big To Be Anything But Evil

The banks were too big to fail.  Google is too big to be anything but evil. I’m sure everyone has heard by now that the little Google street car that has mapping our world (while very cool, it takes away our privacy) was also snooping around everyone’s wireless networks.  If your network was unprotected when the Google street car came… Continue reading

How Do I Love Thee–NOT!

Just spreading the AT&T love… AT&T promised to spend $2 billion upgrading its wireless network this year. Whatever it has spent on the upgrades so far isn’t helping. A new report from ChangeWave Research (via Philip Elmer DeWitt) shows consumer dissatisfaction growing with AT&T, while it’s decreasing with Verizon. ChangeWave surveyed 4,040 smartphone owners about dropped calls over the last… Continue reading

Magic Mouse

I’m back home after traveling all week. When I got home, the mail was way beyond out of control. But I was most excited about the arrival of the Magic Mice I had ordered. Installation was a nightmare on two machines of the three machines because I had installed USB Overdrive. The second AppleCare representative identified the issue. We removed… Continue reading

Goodbye wires… – MIT News Office

Yilkes! Another way to get cancer? Who is studying the health implications for all of this? Now granted, wireless electricity would be immensely convenient! Is it more efficient? Is it a health risk? These are significant issues. (to me anyway…) Wireless power transfer over two-meter distance, from the coil on the left to the coil on the right, where it… Continue reading

Great Little Commercial

I must admit to wondering if people think I’m a crazy man talking to myself (like the guy I blogged about nearly two years ago in this post) when I’m talking on my bluetooth headset. This little movie file of a commercial is a good laugh about this very issue. Click to watch.… Continue reading

Yesterday White Wires, Today We Celebrate No Wires

Technology is all so strange.  Here I sit typing on my wireless computer keyboard (bluetooth) into my computer that is connected wirelessly to a server down in Texas someplace that you are connected to (wirelessly perhaps?) and reading what leaped invisibly through the air at least twice to get to you.  So anyone anywhere in the world can read what… Continue reading

Airport Express Is Out There Cool!

Today I took my stereo system from upstairs and placed downstairs in the new den. I connected the TV, DVD, and stereo system. Nothing out of the ordinary. However, I purchased an Airport Express for downstairs. I connected it as well. The wireless signal from my network was just too weak and unreliable for use downstairs. The Airport Express has… Continue reading