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Ask TUAW Video Edition: Extending your AirPort wireless

by Justin Esgar (May 31st, 2011)

Ahhh ... Tuesday -- what a glorious day, and a perfect day to talk about AirPort wireless setups. For this week's Ask TUAW video, here's a short piece on how to extend your wireless network. We're using an AirPort Extreme, but the steps are the same for the Express. The video is in the second ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: AirPort 101

by Justin Esgar (May 17th, 2011)

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I'm doing a beginners 101 class on how to set up your AirPort base station. My example shows an AirPort Extreme, but the basics can be used for both AirPort Express and a Time Capsule. We show you how to lock down your wireless and how to allow access from outside. ...

Testing the Sonos-AirPlay solution

by Mel Martin (Apr 25th, 2011)

AirPlay is a very cool technology, but it's limited to the second generation Apple TV and a few receivers. Sonos, as I reported last week, has come up with its own way to integrate AirPlay into a multi-room music system, and the company was nice enough to lend me an Apple AirPort Express to try ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Airport Breakdown!

by Justin Esgar (Apr 19th, 2011)

Happy Tuesday!!! Dave is a nice boyfriend who purchaed an AirPort Extreme for his girlfriend's birthday in order to help her. While the Extreme solved her printing/backup issues, he wanted to know about playing music through it. Today we discuss the different AirPort base stations and show Dave ...

Apple AirPlay private key exposed, released

by Dave Caolo (Apr 11th, 2011)

Enterprising software developer James Laird was looking to stream music without AirPlay. Since an appropriate AirPort Express emulator did not exist, Laird reverse-engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator called ShairPort as a result. What ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Time Machine over a network

by Justin Esgar (Feb 22nd, 2011)

This week, Jude writes in and asks about using a home theater Mac mini as a Time Machine location for his MacBook Pro. We show him how to do this with some tweaking to his MacBook Pro. In the video, we used this code to put into Terminal.app: sudo defaults write ...

Apple updates AirPort Utility 5.5.2 for Mac and Windows

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 16th, 2010)

Following the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update released earlier today, Apple has just released a software update for AirPort Utility. The 5.5.2 update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following: Resolves an issue that caused the DHCP settings tab to display incorrectly ...

Apple releases Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station firmware update to fix AirPlay issues

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 16th, 2010)

We've heard several reports of people having various problems trying to stream movies and music to their AppleTV via AirPlay using Time Capsules and AirPort Base Stations. Hopefully for those experiencing problems, your solution is just a download away. Apple has just released AirPort Base Station ...

Delta Airlines to install gate-area charging stations in 19 U.S. airports

by Sam Abuelsamid (Dec 11th, 2010)

Delta Airlines is helping to make life a bit easier for travelers that hope to top off their batteries before getting onto a plane. Until now, fliers often had to scour the corners of gate areas to find an available outlet to scrounge some spare electrons. Last week, the world's largest airline ...

Delta's JFK terminal goes iPad crazy

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 23rd, 2010)

Back in the day, it was not uncommon to sit down in a booth at a diner and find a box with lists of songs that you could browse and play back through the jukebox. Fast forward to 2010, and the Delta Airlines terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport. With most people carrying a jukebox ...

TUAW's Daily App: FlightBoard

by Mike Schramm (Oct 18th, 2010)

I can't say I'm a huge traveler -- even though I've hit up quite a few conventions this year for work, I haven't been flying so much that I need to keep tabs on what's going on at the airport. But I like the idea of FlightBoard anyway. It's an app that will automatically create a departing flights ...

Use networksetup to change AirPort networks from the command line

by TJ Luoma (May 6th, 2010)

The other night I needed to change Wi-Fi networks on a computer that I was connected to via ssh. Just about every page that I found via Google led me to try the exact same thing (type "airport -A") with one minor problem: it didn't work. Let's back up a little bit. You may know that there is a ...

TSA: Keep your iPad in the bag, please

by Dave Caolo (Apr 7th, 2010)

The pleasure in visiting a US airport can be found in drinking pricey stale coffee and navigating the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) security checkpoint. Typically, electronics must be pulled from bags and placed on a conveyor belt for scanning. Fortunately, iPads are an exception. ...

Apple releases software updates for Time Capsule, Airport

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 1st, 2010)

Apple has released a few updates for its Time Capsule and Airport products. AirPort Utility 5.5.1 for Mac includes general bug fixes and addresses the following issues: Not importing all settings when importing a configuration and not propagating MAC address control lists when using an extended ...

Apple releases updates for AirPort software, MacBook and MacBook Pro EFI

by Joachim Bean (Dec 8th, 2009)

Apple today released several updates today including AirPort client software, and EFI firmware revisions for some MacBook and MacBook Pro models. First, the AirPort Client Update 2009-002 update fixes the following issues: An Inability to turn AirPort on or off in some cases after ...