Macintosh

Am I the only one who doesn’t like Bluetooth remote control software like Salling Clicker or Romeo? I’ve tried both but aside from the initial novelty value I find them useless. It’s easier to just go to my mac than dig through several levels of menus on my Sony Ericsson T610 to access its controls. If it was a single keystroke on the phone, they would be great, but not when I have to click and select several menu items just for one simple function.

I don’t remember any mention of this feature.

It looks like the 80G drive in my server died. I’m still trying to repair it. I’ve installed a minimal bootable system on the secondary (30G) drive. DiskWarrior wasn’t able to repair it & I’m about to try Norton Utilities. If that doesn’t work, I’ll pick up TechTool Pro or Drive10 tomorrow.

I moved my AirPort Express into the office to use as a print server and also to share my external Labtec speakers. I may buy another one for my living room stereo, where I originally had this one.

My Blue & White G3, which runs OSX Server, is dead. I’ve been trying to get it to boot, but so far no luck. I use this machine as my file & print server, IMAP server for archiving email, and test server for web development.

NSLog(); asks: do you have an Airport Express?

Before I bought my Airport Express earlier this week, I was considering the best way to play music from my Mac through my stereo. When I was at a hotel with only wired Ethernet, I decided to buy one so I could work wirelessly. I’m now using it with my stereo for AirTunes, since I have a Netgear wireless router which doesn’t support WDS. It works great even with the Netgear router and I’m very happy with it. The next time I travel someplace with wired Ethernet, I plan to bring it with me.

Here is another serial number decoder which works for old Macs.

This tool lets you enter a Mac’s serial number and it will tell you where and when it was manufactured. Here’s what it says about my 15″ PowerBook:

serienummer: W84177AWQHY
Code: QHY
Model: Mxxxx PowerBook G4 1.5GHz 15 inch Drive=SuperDrive
Factory: W8 (China)
Production year: 2004
Production week: 17 (1083193200)
Production number: 9501 (within this week)

I found that the Wave Radio in my hotel room has an AUX input, so I connected the Airport Express to it. When I select it from iTunes, all of my music plays through the Wave Radio while other sounds play through the built-in speaker.