Ok, so walk with me here. Most of the cool parts of the iPhone have nothing to do with telephony. Between the phone, the ipod and internet communicator functionality, it’s really only the voice calls that require the GSM “phone” part (and even that is redundant where you’re in wi-fi coverage, assuming you can use […]

So you know what kinda sucks? Tape. Doesn’t matter if you’re writing digital to it, the fact that it spools, it tears, the tension varies… need I go on? Now, the even worse part is, when you’re writing HDV to it, when the tape gets messed up you end up with zero picture. That’s right: […]

The secret to using the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station seems to be choosing a good channel.
I’ve got 3 802.11n machines on my local network, unfortunately one of them is a US-chipset, which only works on channels 1-11. The ‘n’ draft spec goes up to channel 15(?) so if I set the network to […]