UPDATE: Post pictures were lost in a crash, but the large flickr pics are still available. Just click on the broken pic link to see the large version. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Brent

I don’t know about you, but I have had my Airport Extreme and Express for a while now and never really took the time to get both of them working correctly. They worked for what I needed them to do, but it was never 100% successful. With my crazy schedule, I had just let myself be okay with the flashing yellow lights on the front of both units. Well, last night I decided to “conquer the beasts” and get all set up as well as I could. I didn’t realize how difficult it would be. What I found out was that I couldn’t just let it set things up automatically. Here’s what I ended up doing. Hopefully this will help those of you out there that were in my same boat. [Continued]

This morning I was sitting, enjoying my feeds with some music when I decided do something as simple switching to a different playlist in iTunes. Down goes the mouse to the bottom of my screen (where my dock is hidden) … Up a bit … Down again … Uhh … Dock? To my dismay, the minimized iTunes window was locked up in a completely non-functional dock. Not only was my iTunes locked down there, but so were several other programs I was working in. I began my quest and tried several things to get to my apps (and the dock): [Continued]

It’s been a while since I posted some keyboard shortcuts, so I thought my next set would be for an Apple application. iPhoto is one of the most popular apps in the OS X iLife suite of products. It provides easy to use management of photos and albums on your desktop. Of course in integrates extremely well with other applications and as usual, has a slew of keyboard shortcuts for you to use. Here’s the list (or at least it’s as exhaustive as I could make it): [Continued]

Guest Article By: Jon Deal

The Mac has always been known for it’s excellent typographical ability and agility. Macs have had proportional fonts since the beginning and having a large set of professionally designed fonts was one of the reasons Desktop Publishing took off back in the 1980s.

But beyond nice looking fonts, Macs had the ability to quickly access “foreign” characters, such as accented characters. Let’s say you want to type the word “cliché” and need to impress the French person you work with. You need to have that accented “e” in the worst way. On a Mac, hold down the Option key and hit the “e” key. Depending on the program you are in, it’ll look like you didn’t type anything. The cursor doesn’t move. It is waiting for you to type another letter, over which it will place an accent mark, in this case an “acute” mark. (A “grave” mark goes the other direction). Most word processing programs and apps that deal with a lot of text will give some kind of visual feedback. Not all letters can have an accent over them. [Continued]

I was using my spotlight search this morning looking for a file that started with the word “thumb” and to my dismay, I was presented with a huge list of remainder Windows files all over my Mac. This was easily remedied, however, with a simple altered search but it brought up a good point. Have you ever wanted to get rid of a bunch of unnecessary Windows files on your Mac? With spotlight, it’s a cinch! Here’s what you do: [Continued]