I have updates the Airport differences page on my website.
It now includes the new 802.11n Airport Express and the two Time Capsule variants.
I now expect Apple to release new versions on Tuesday!
Dated AirPort base station differences
Looking through a few pages on my tech website when I realised that my Airport differences page is now well out of date.
The page is missing both the Time Capsule and the new Airport Express.
I have started to edit the page but with three extra new devices it’s looking like the table may be a little on the wide side.
Thinking I will probably break the table into two, one for 802.11b/g and one for 802.11n base stations.
Watch this space.
Are you selfish?
BBC reports on the annual report into web habits by Jakob Nielsen.
Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research.
The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online.
Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.
Most ignore efforts to make them linger and are suspicious of promotions designed to hold their attention.
So are you a “selfish” web user or are you just busy?
Can I use OEM versions of Windows on my Mac?
Can I use OEM versions of Windows on my Mac?
Generally the answer is yes. Though if you purchased a computer with an OEM version of Windows then the license only covers that hardware and according to the terms of use can not be transferred to another computer.
These OEM versions will work with Boot Camp and/or Parallels or VMFusion. Though as OEM versions you won’t get any support from Microsoft, for that you will need to purchase the full retail versions.
Note that Windows Vista Home can not be used with Parallels or VMFusion due it licensing restrictions.
Multiple Wireless Networks
When I first got a wireless router at home back in 2003 no one I knew locally had a wireless network. Partly as no one had DSL (our exchange hadn’t been upgraded) and cable wasn’t available either. I had got an Airport Extreme (802.11g) from Apple which came with a built in 56K modem.
Once DSL became available then wireless became more prevalent. My neighbour had a wireless network, but I could only pick up his and mine.
In the last year however the number of wireless networks has grown considerably. There are at least seven now which I can pick up from my house.
If I drive around the local area I can pick up many more. I am currently using an Acer Windows Mobile PDA as a Satnav as it comes with GPS and this picks up countless wireless networks as I drive round the local area; so much so that I have to turn the wireless off.
Most of these are Sky and BT supplied wireless networks (you can tell from the SSID) so they seem to be selling well.
Why is wireless doing well?
The fact that most laptops are wireless, the PS3 is wireless, the Nintendo Wii is wireless, the PSP is wireless means it can make sense to have wireless internet.
As households move from having a single computer to multiple computers, then wireless makes it much easier to connect them to the internet.
Of course the main issue with multiple wireless networks is interference so be aware of which channels your neighbours are on.
Evernote Invite
TUAW have arranged a special invite for Evernote.
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible searchable at anytime, from anywhere. and
Hurry over to this link:
http://www.evernote.com/Registration.action?code=tu4w7
before 2 PM ET (that’s 9am BST I believe) on May 20th to get your very own invitation!
Update: Now finished.
Google has eye on social web
The BBC reported on how Google is making it even easier for people to interact online.
Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to enable people to interact with their friends.
Of course this means that educational and learning sites can use the same tools making it easier for learners to interact and engage with each other.
This may mean of course that learners from other “places” and “institutions” will interact and engage with each other.
Some institutions will see this collaboration as a “danger” or “cheating” and therefore block the sites. Whilst others will engage with this process and look at how it could impact on learning and enhance it and the changes that may be needed to be made to assessment models.
OS X Desktop Video
I thought this fan made video using just the OS X desktop was really clever.
I also enjoyed the Windows version.
Enjoy.
Pleaaaasssee be a little faster!
I have no idea why, but my iMac can be so slow at times…
This is a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 2 GB of RAM, so I am guessing that this really should be a fast computer, certainly faster than my old G4 PowerBook!
However at times it slows down to a real crawl, so slow that all I get is the spinning beachball of death!
However all is not lost I know why.
I run too many applications at once and I run them hard.
For example I will usually have three browsers open all with multiple tags. I also visit sites which have lots of javascript and ajax in them (such as WordPress blogs and Jaiku).
I do run a few PowerPC legacy applications (namely Word and Firefox).
I will have iPhoto and iTunes running in the background as well.
I would suspect that running EyeTV and EyeHome in the background also adds to the load.
So it’s not really the iMac’s fault, I know it’s all mine!
In theory what I should do is run a single application only and then open the others as and when I need them.
In theory that is a good idea.
In reality I don’t work that way.
Maybe I need a stack of computers with multiple spaces on a single monitor that allow me to work the way I want to without loading the lot so much so slow it right down to a crawl.
PDFs (well Acrobat) crashing Safari
Having a few issues since I had my MacBook Pro upgraded to Leopard with the way in which Acrobat interacts with Safari.
Everytime I try and open a PDF from Safari, it crashes…
It appears to be related to Acrobat, specifically, the AdobeSelfHealing plug-in!
Solution delete the Adobe PDF plug-in hopefully. Though this does mean Safari will use Preview instead of Acrobat.