My recent acquisition of an iPhone has simplified my digital world tremendously. I found myself using my laptop less as the iPhone has most of the capabilities I need – email, surfing, Facebook, IM, etc.
The only missing capability or app was an easy way to post to my blog, which I haven’t posted to in a very long time. Well, the search is over. The WordPress folks built an iPhone-specific tool. Check it out at:
http://iphone.wordpress.com
Enjoy and happy blogging! Oh, and Happy New Year!
I’ve been encountering continious wifi connection issues for a while now (6 months at least), specifically, my MacBook Pro would lose connection but when I turn the Airport off then on it would be OK. So many, many months ago I did some research and found it to be due to the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-001, which I rolled back to AirPort Extreme Update 2007-004. It fixed the connectivity issues for a couple of months, but recently I’ve been experiencing it again.
Looking through the logs again, I found this blog post: Macbook Pro: Network connectivity just disappears. He was getting the exact mDNSResponder errors, such as:
mDNSResponder: SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0
mDNSResponder: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for fw0(7) Flags 8863 Family 2 169.254.59.71 has different family: 0
The culprit: Apple’s Bonjour service. To disable it, here’s the complete how-to article, but the command you need to run is:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
Hope this helps someone who’s experiencing the same issue. Ciao!
If you’re a Mac user that uses MacFreePOPs for your e-mail, you should download and install the latest update. It’s here. Enjoy!
Apple officially updated its iMac consumer desktop computer today, adding faster processors and a more powerful graphics option for the 24-inch model.
For the processor, you can now choose between: 2.4GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz, or 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (special order). And the 24-inch model can now include either an ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory.
Too bad the memory options are still the same (i.e., 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB). In any case, I still love ’em iMacs!
Interesting news from Apple (read: Steve Jobs): the iPhone now supports Microsoft Exchange.
Pretty cool. Too bad I’m stuck in a 2-year contract. But it’s okay, as I’d rather wait for the nth generation of the iPhone that I know will have more features and will have been tried-and-tested.
Let’s see how this pans out with the BlackBerry fans (I’m one of them). =0)