As is true on all of Apple’s Wireless Basestation products, the blinking yellow light means “trouble! everything broken!” Usually. I just found out today, that if there is a new software update for the base station, it will blink yellow. I fixed this by opening the Air Port utility and flashing the firmware with the [...]

It’s comforting to know that when Apple screws up, they do it but good. Not since the days of Tiger has a dot release from Apple done so much damage. On the surface, 10.5.7 is a very important update. A lists of fixes includes the usual round of security fixes, fixes for network performance, updates [...]

Apple released Safari 4.0 beta recently. So far I mostly like what I see. My issue with Facebook Chat and Adium seems to be fixed. The new default “home” page called Top Sites, which is a cross between Cover Flow and the bookmarks/history page is a bit annoying because it’s not as customizable as I [...]

A recent problem has cropped up with the latest version of Safari, 3.2.1 and Leopard 10.5.6. When using Facebook (and possibly other websites such as Last.fm, Gmail, and Twitter, that require authentication to login,) users are finding that they constantly have to re-login again. Of course this gets annoying, and makes accessing those sites nearly [...]