Disclaimer: There may be a better way to do this, but this is how I worked it out.

One of my recent frustrations with my MacBook is that I either have to leave my Wireless Mighty Mouse on all the time and just keep pumping batteries in there all the time or save my batteries and go through the Bluetooth connect process every time I open up the cover. Both are a bit of a hassle and somewhat annoying so I began hunting to figure out a reasonable alternate solution. From what I gather, there’s no real simple way to do it. But there’s a semi easy fix that has made my life easier. [Continued]

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]