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Also just tried this Option key trick for other icons. It works for the network icon, you get the band, for bluetooth, you get the Mac’s bluetooth name and software version. Software Updates Explain Dual-Band Networking – TheAppleBlog Hold down the option key when clicking on your airport icon in…

TG Daily – Apple’s new firmware enables remote disk sharing on wireless base stations Apple quietly revised the hardware of its Time Capsule wireless appliance and AirPort Extreme base station this past Tuesday. New models sport updated hardware that enables dual-band support which utilizes both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands simultaneously…

The stalwarts, like the Four Seasons, the Blue Bar at the Algonquin and Bemelman’s at the Carlyle, and (here’s hoping) the Oak Room, which is to reopen in the Plaza later this summer. For the early crowd that finds that description of the late-night scene nauseating, how about a calm…

Now the Kindle 2 just needs to arrive 🙂 Amazon Releases Free ‘Kindle for iPhone’ Application – Mac Rumors Kindle for iPhone allows Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners to read Kindle books using a simple, easy-to-use interface. You can shop for hundreds of thousands of books at www.amazon.com/kindlestore, and…

Their shares have been hammered, but Warren Buffet continues to be consistent http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html. I love his rules of building companies and investments: Take a look again at the 44-year table on page 2. In 75% of those years, the S&P stocks recorded a gain. I would guess that a roughly…

NYT: Blogs – DealBook – Harvard, Private Eq So, my numbers are rough, very rough estimates — but the problem is apparent. In the short term, unless it boosts its liquid returns, Harvard is going to have to raise a lot in donations or eat up its liquid assets to…

At a hotel which blocks port 25. Of course, there is no way to find their SMTP server to send email. The solution is that many mail servers also accept mail on port 26, so you either have to find the SMTP server that works on the network (good luck).…

The last missing piece for the iPod Touch is a microphone plus headphone and then use Truphone or Fring and then use the $15 microphone

Apple – Support – Discussions – suddenly can t load iPhoto 08 again … What happened with me is that I was running iPhoto ’09 on a Hard Disk that was going bad. I decide to migrate the OSX boot to another volume, and then did a ‘migration’ of all…

I have an old pair of K2 Axis XP Pros from 8 years ago now and I’m getting clobbered in the moguls. So what’s a person to do? Upgrade skis of course 🙂 The conventional wisdom is that a mogul specific ski is narrow and also very flexible at the…