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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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The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski
Rumours are actually defined as a thing that is true or maybe untrue with a piece of truth. However, it means an unknown fact that we try to push into the truth. In this case I read a lot of the real release date for Apple’s new operating system named Leopard. Speculations flying around with every day that gets closer to the spring time, once called as the release day for Leopard. Those speculations are: it is difficult to believe that Leopard will be released this month because it needs time to manufacturing and delivery the new system to customers. Other speculations who support the rumours can find for example on www.itwire.com*.

So, what we have seen of the coming operating system makes me very keen to get it! The highlights are Time Machine, Spaces, Safari with the ability to get live information from any website to turn it into a desktop widget, iChat, Mail, Boot Camp, Core Animation, Dashboard and few screenshots namely from Automator, Spotlight and Screensaver. That is quite a lot but not the ending! But what comes else? That is the big question.

Windows Vista got a big attention on his release day. Everything was focused on it. It seems that this was a good start for Microsoft in 2007. It might be that Apple could loose the opportunity to win dozens of new customers. Unfortunately for Microsoft, fortunately for Apple needs Vista an unbelievable system upgrade in comparison with Leopard. Unfortunately for Apple, Vista comes with every new computer system now. That means, people who desire a new computer have the opportunity to get the newest Windows operating system combined with a brand new computer, unfortunately for Apple, which misses the chance to get a big crowd of switchers. Anyway, it’s good for Apple to have Boot Camp.

But what shall I do? Waiting until the final day or shall I get all the little and smart applications which can be added to Tiger to get a “fake” Leopard now? Yeah maybe, it might be a good compromise and my suggestion is, it must something bigger coming with Leopard than the known applications. We have seen the magnificent iPhone and it was amazing. I want the same big WOW for Leopard and I guess I will not be disappointed. So let us wait until the final day!
* (I am not responsible for the www.itwire.com contents.)

Safari is my favorite browser for many reasons, it’ll also be my browser when I get my iPhone, the only time I have to switch from Safari is to use gmail’s built in IM client (which Safari doesn’t support) and also to get the WYSIWYG toolbar in the wordpress editor. Both of these issues are resolved with Camino, which provides similar usability to safari (great) and similar functionality to Firefox (great).
There’s discussion of which Mac browsers support the Wordpress Editor WYSIWYG editor here.

Macbreak did a great episode of their podcast where they showed how to clear all distractions from your Mac OS X Tiger desktop, the post is here.

“Windows Vista Premium upgrade: $160.

New graphics card: $60.

New hard drive: $130.

1 gigabyte RAM: $100.

Microsoft XP ain’t broke, so I don’t need this stuff: priceless.”

An excerpt from this article by the Kansas City Star.

Wow, I found this on Digg, We all knew that our Macs would run Vista really well, but seeing these presenters running Vista on an iMac really makes you feel like you’ve got the best of both worlds. As stated by Kevin Rose and illustrated in this cartoon:

OS X is a superior system to Vista, but if we need to try it out we can, can PC’s try out OS X? No.

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Switching from Linux meant I left behind lots of free open source software, here’s the silver lining:
The best Linux open source packages make it to OS X, its easy to port, as Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, and my top pics from Linux, The GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, LinCity, Mplayer, Netpanzer and Armegatron

Those applications were literally my top ten used applications when I used debian, and they’re all on OS X too. Did I know that before switching to Mac? No! I switched with faith that things would be easier and better on the Mac, they sure are!

For more great Open Source software, visit Open Source Mac