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At home I use the small Airport Express Base Station and so far without any problems. It worked perfect and I enjoyed my browsing wirelessly. And then, a couple of weeks ago my Intel iMac could not find my network or my Base Station anymore. I thought that’s odd. I have also a Macbook in use at home and it had no problems to go online via the same network. Both machines run Leopard and the software package is similar too and so the up-dates.

First, the network disappeared on the iMac randomly, came back and went again somewhere and so on. To keep the connection I left the iMac running days and nights. But finally came the day where I had to shut down the machine and to restart it. The wireless connection was gone. The iMac could not find the Base Station again and my search for proper solutions started. Either restarts of the Base Station or resetting were helpful. It did not work and the strangest thing for me was, the Macbook was still online, with the same set up and so on. I was looking on thousands of forum sites and as I was close to give up I found the solution.

The Base Station was running with the 6.3.3 update and that caused the problems with my Airport. With a re-update to 6.1.1 came the connection and everything back! So if you have any problems with your wireless connection and your Airport does not find the Base Station or your network I really recommend the step above. Good luck and all the best!
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Google is known as the world biggest and most used Internet search machine. But somewhere are some things different, so in Russia. The Russians using Yandex, which reaches 44 percent of the Russian search market. Do you thing that is nothing? Well, Yandex is with those 10 points ahead of Goggle, according to comScore. And just to mention it, that user frequency puts Yandex into the second most popular search engine place in Europe. And it is suggested that the Russian search market can expect to deliver some truly serious growth.

So far Yandex gets more then 5 millions unique visitors daily and not less then 40 millions search requests per day. In fact it is Russians most visited website! And last but not least it has one very big advantage compare to his competitors: it handles the complex Russian grammar and spelling.

After all, the online business is still in his baby steps, but grows daily. Further, Yandex is expected to list its shares on Nasdaq this fall and will reach a wider audience definitely. So, keep your eyes open when you read the next time about Yandex, the next seriously Google competitor.

The boys are back in town! Do you remember me? Well, I used to write a comment here and have not been around for a while. Things were very busy the last months. I was working on several projects and study things as well as I was very busy with writing. But I am back with regular posts now. So, I look forward to discover new things and let you know what apple.nuget thinks about. All the best, Denny!

As I was searching for User Groups today on Apple.com, I noticed Apple has overlooked this part of their website which is sorely in need of redesign. Check out the OS X 10.3 style of the page: 

Great opening episode with Brendan and Denny.

 

 Apple User Podcast Episode 1 [25:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski

Android, it’s not a code name or a phrase from Star Wars or other Science Fiction movies. Android means Google, exactly Google’s march into the cell phone market.

Steve Horowitz, Technology President, shows in a youtube clip the possibilities the new phone is already able of. His model and all the coming future phones are based on an open source software operating system and software platform for mobile phones. The first pictures have been very impressive, the look is nice and up to date. The display looks like Apple’s iPhone and a shown touch display reminds on it as well. Google’s own web browser shows Internet pages like Safari and of course they are moveable with the finger. Another feature is a so called history function that shows the visited pages in cover flow style. In one point is the Google device one step ahead. Google wants already developers for 3rd party applications and goes in a totally different direction as Apple and that could be the big advantage for Google because in the 1980’s Apple restricted system access made Microsoft to a giant on the market. Could history repeat itself? I hope not.

But if the Android based platform gets all the application that Apple’s iPhone does not have, history could happen again. But fortunately Apple is always good for a big surprise and in next year’s middle we can expect new applications and functions for the iPhone. But the best thing for us end users is: competition keeps the market alive and pushes the development so far forward. I’m for my self very curious what the next months will be like!

Good Article Here by Bloomberg.

With Quotes like this: “People are having trouble getting their arms around it because they think it’s too good to be true.”

and “EPS significantly understates the value of the company”

The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski

In the beginning was a promise, a man and a crowd of fans. The man gave the promise that the year 2007 is going to be great and the crowd was waiting and thinking.

Now, 2007 is almost over, it is time to look back. I am sitting in my time machine and travel trough these Apple year. My first stop brings my to the iPhone, that device what brought the touch screen to us and let us thinking about future iPods. The iPhone was a hammer, it came like a hurricane and rocks still. The sky was open and deep blue. A couple of days later got the iPhone 3rd party applications which unlocked the iPhone and darkened the iPhone partner AT&T and the Apple sky. With the next upgrade was that issue fixed and left angry iPhone user topped by a price policy that made the iPhone so cheap that early iPhone buyers were upset about Jobs and his strategy to open a market for more user. But with an open letter to those early buyers and a refund was that issue fixed and the Apple community nearly satisfied. Why only nearly? Because with the updated iPhone, self written iPhone application became impossible. But like in a chess game Jobs placed another clever move. He saw the potential and the creativity of added iPhone application and set up the SDK, the software developer’s kit that will allows developers to write native application for the iPhone and for the magic iPod Touch. With that move Jobs opens not only great possibilities, he opens also a brand new market for application writers as well as a new income source.

The year continued with a new iMac range. Surprisingly all the iMacs have got a glossy screen and the Apple community was divided once again. For sure, the glossy screen makes colours deeper and looks great compare with the rest of the PC’s, but a choice between glossy and not glossy would be the better solution. Parallel with the new iMac came the new iWork and iLife with very nice features like Numbers. But that’s not all, my journey continue.

With the latest keynote, Apple delivered a completed revised iPod generation and shows for everybody where the entertainment industry is going. Listen to music is not the only thing anymore to make customer happy. Jobs presented what everybody is dreaming of, a small device that plays music and allows to watch movies and photos for a small price. The new iPod Nano became such a great tool and lets think about the needlessness of the new iPod Classic beside his big brother - the iPod Touch. Apple developed consistent the idea of useable touch screens and delivers with the iPod Touch a very desirable device that everybody wants to call his own especially with the coming SDK possibilities.

And just a couple of hours ago, Apple released finally that so long expected Operating System called Leopard, actually expected for spring. With more than 300 new features and miles ahead of Vista is Leopard my last journey’s station and even for an Apple user like me was my trip trough 2007 a long trip and after so many new developed things comes the time to lay back and to enjoy everything.

In 2007, Apple shows a very impressive and strong year, Apple is even on the right track with the coming SDK and is so good placed on the marked like never before. Apple delivers everything what a modern customer is looking for, computers with own hardware and software, own operating system, own music players included a music market called iTunes - also with big potential! And last but not least, Apple’s stock price shows the incredible performance of 2007. So if you have anything amazing to tell about your Apple year, fell free to post your comment on our page right behind that comment. I really would like to know how do you think about Apple’s strategy, performance and what do you maybe miss or missed.