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Want to BBQ with the iPhone? You don't even need an app

by Mike Schramm (Jul 3rd, 2009)

Not really -- if you really are planning to grill up some meat (or mushrooms and pineapples, they're good too) today or this weekend, you'll need a little more heat than your iPhone will give. But it's true, Apple's little handheld can get nice and toasty when it's really working*, and illustrator ...

Apple pulls Software Update for AirPort Extreme

by Robert Palmer (Oct 21st, 2008)

Apple released AirPort Extreme Update 2008-003, but then pulled it several minutes later. The update now no longer shows up in Software Update, and the page it was on is missing from Apple's site. The update was originally recommended for all Intel-based Macs with Mac OS X 10.5.5. The update said ...

Community goes extremely overboard on iPhone Extreme

by Mike Schramm (Oct 2nd, 2007)

Tom from iPhonebuglist.com was poking around in Apple's online feedback form, and as you can see above, he found something interesting hidden in the HTML code. There was a product tag on the form not for the iPhone, but for the "iPhone Extreme." The page has since been fixed, and there's no trace ...

Airport Extreme Base Station Update

by Erica Sadun (Apr 11th, 2007)

Apple has just released a new update for AirPort Extreme base stations. The update includes general fixes, security improvements and addresses compatibility for the 802.11n base station. To install this update, you'll need AirPort Utility 5.1 for Mac or Windows. The first security concerns seem to ...

First Thoughts: AirPort Extreme Base Station

by David Chartier (Feb 24th, 2007)

I decided to jump on one of the new AirPort Extreme Base Stations primarily because both my wife and I now own MacBooks, and we both have varying levels of success at maintaining any kind of steady backup schedule. Now when I say 'varying level of success,' I mean: my wife pretty much doesn't, and ...

AirPort Extreme has AirPort Disk: USB hard drive sharing

by David Chartier (Jan 10th, 2007)

Our own former C.K. Sample III turned us on to some more sleeper features of Apple's quietly-introduced AirPort Extreme. Specifically, that new USB hard drive sharing feature is called AirPort Disk, and it has a few tricks up its sleeve. First, it can share a drive with both Macs and PCs, but its ...