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Pete the gadget freak
Jul. 22nd, 2008 10:45 amAfter a few hassles, the Apple Time Capsule has been installed and now works perfectly. I've moved the router upstairs (which seems to have resolved a lot of the internet outages, possibly due to the ratsnest of rat-chewed cables which ran under the house to the downstairs office) and the little white Apple box is now sitting under the phone, status light glowing green.
It's happily pumping out a wireless network, an upgraded standard from our regular network. Apparently this is running in tandem with the wireless router, don't ask me how, but it's working and we've got internet all through the house.
It's also hosting the printer via a USB connection, which means that we've finally got a printer everyone can use without the need to have a computer handling it. I can hit the print button and it wirelessly prints. Heheheheh.
And last, but not least, it's a 500 gig hard drive, which is transparently running Time Machine backups for both Macs. Wirelessly.
This is all a huge boonus because our MacBook Airs only have a single USB port apiece, and while Kerri isn't what you might call a power user, I am more along those lines, and I was getting fretful about having to shuffle devices around to do everything that needs to be done (sync the iPhone, download images from the camera, run backups, connect the external optical drive, print...)
Happy Peter.
Happier yet because a new shipment from Levenger arrived today. I now have some jumbo rings, enabling me to get back to work on the travel journal from last year's big trip. I'd gotten to Istanbul, I think, and it was getting to be a battle to squeeze new pages in, especially when I stuck tickets and photographs and blog printouts onto the already generously thick paper that Levenger uses.
So that's another use for my time and space to cut things out with scissors and glue all over the dining room table and write up events for the ages. But fun.
Included in the order was a letter-size project binder, and a starter kit. This is meant to inspire me to creativity and organisation in getting my thoughts about a FaceBook app into some sort of order. I've got a kind of rough notion of where I want to be, but my usual "suck-it-and-see" approach to project management probably won't be up to an application where dozens, hundreds, thousands of users could arrive overnight. I need a solid structure, and management tools in place before problems strike.
I can do stuff like mindmapping, goal-setting, list-creation, to-do lists and other projecty things in one place, in my cab during spare moments. And think about the next step while driving.
And then write up the code in my copious spare time.
What I'll probably do is to get a bare bones application in place. It will work, and there'll be "hooks" all over where I can hang other features into it, but I can get things running one step at a time. And, of course, once the thing is up, new directions will probably suggest themselves.
At the moment, I'm reading programming manuals in the cab between passengers. Oooops, almost time for my shift!
It's happily pumping out a wireless network, an upgraded standard from our regular network. Apparently this is running in tandem with the wireless router, don't ask me how, but it's working and we've got internet all through the house.
It's also hosting the printer via a USB connection, which means that we've finally got a printer everyone can use without the need to have a computer handling it. I can hit the print button and it wirelessly prints. Heheheheh.
And last, but not least, it's a 500 gig hard drive, which is transparently running Time Machine backups for both Macs. Wirelessly.
This is all a huge boonus because our MacBook Airs only have a single USB port apiece, and while Kerri isn't what you might call a power user, I am more along those lines, and I was getting fretful about having to shuffle devices around to do everything that needs to be done (sync the iPhone, download images from the camera, run backups, connect the external optical drive, print...)
Happy Peter.
Happier yet because a new shipment from Levenger arrived today. I now have some jumbo rings, enabling me to get back to work on the travel journal from last year's big trip. I'd gotten to Istanbul, I think, and it was getting to be a battle to squeeze new pages in, especially when I stuck tickets and photographs and blog printouts onto the already generously thick paper that Levenger uses.
So that's another use for my time and space to cut things out with scissors and glue all over the dining room table and write up events for the ages. But fun.
Included in the order was a letter-size project binder, and a starter kit. This is meant to inspire me to creativity and organisation in getting my thoughts about a FaceBook app into some sort of order. I've got a kind of rough notion of where I want to be, but my usual "suck-it-and-see" approach to project management probably won't be up to an application where dozens, hundreds, thousands of users could arrive overnight. I need a solid structure, and management tools in place before problems strike.
I can do stuff like mindmapping, goal-setting, list-creation, to-do lists and other projecty things in one place, in my cab during spare moments. And think about the next step while driving.
And then write up the code in my copious spare time.
What I'll probably do is to get a bare bones application in place. It will work, and there'll be "hooks" all over where I can hang other features into it, but I can get things running one step at a time. And, of course, once the thing is up, new directions will probably suggest themselves.
At the moment, I'm reading programming manuals in the cab between passengers. Oooops, almost time for my shift!
