Airport Utility 6.0 WDS broken?

My WDS setup (a wireless daisy-chain to extend the range of my WiFi network) stopped working with the Airport Utility 6.0 update. Airport Utility 6.0 only has options to "Create a Wireless Network" and "Extend a Wireless Network", and my 3-node daisy chain was no longer working, however many times I tried resetting and restarting.

Finally, I found that Airport Utility 5.6 still has the manual WDS option, hidden from view. To configure an Airport for your WDS network in Airport Utility 5.6, open (double-click) the base station(s) you want to configure, select the Airport icon (top left) and click on the "wireless" tab. Now, while holding down the option key, select "Participate in a WDS network" Wireless Mode (this option only appears when you hold down the option key).

A "WDS" tab now appears, and you can follow Apple's instructions for setting up a WDS (if you haven't done this before, read these first).

iPhone 3.0

released at 17:25 GMT 230.1MB

17:28 GMT still downloading ...

17:45 GMT up and running—it feels faster

Apple don't make it easy to find the instructions for using new features.

You can test MMS by sending a picture to yourself (the interface in messages, which was SMS, lets you take and send a picture, or send one from your photo album). If MMS doesn't work, prompt O2 to direct your MMS messages to your phone (instead of to a web page as before) by texting the message "MMS" to 1010.

To see Google StreetView on maps, drop a pin on the street you want to view. The StreetView icon appears on the pin label; click it. (This isn't new to 3.0, but it's new to me.)

iPhone Google Voice Search Arrives!

Google Mobile App

Out with the old; in with the new.

It doesn't appear as an update, in the iTunes store, the post date and version number appear unchanged (see the image) — ignore that! Just delete the old one then get the Google Mobile App again from the AppStore. Apple will tell you the update is free since you already bought this App. The packaging is still old, but Now the update appears and the packaging is updated too the app inside is new (version 0.3.142.951) and it does do voice search.

Extreme 7.3.1 firmware update

All went smoothly, but now my remote base stations (I have a WDS daisy chain 4 links long - see earlier post) don't show in Airport Utility. Still connected - I can ping them just fine, and the remote airTunes express shows up in iTunes.

Update this seems to have been a temporary problem. Everything is now visible again.

All my airports (7 at last count) are configured in bridge mode - my speedtouch adsl modem router provides a DHCP server. On the bright side, this update seems to have helped with one issue: the 802.11n extremes now seem to pick up an IP address from my router using DHCP (previously I found this didn't work and had set manual IP addresses as a work-around).

Microsoft Office 2004 broken: dead as a parrot

Quicktime 7.2 update breaks Office 2004 on Intel Powerbook

For solution, see below

If you haven't yet installed QT7.2, my advice is to wait!

Here's what happened to me:

• Office Update 11.3.6 refuses to launch.
• MS Word refuses to launch!
• MS Powerpoint refuses to launch.
• MS Excel refuses to launch.
• decide to remove Office, and reinstall!
• MS Office refuses to install—the installer won't run.
• Remove all traces of Office in preferences etc.!
• MS office installer won't run.
• !

macfixit has some suggestions these didn't work for me.

It seems that the prebinding of the java libraries is at fault!

Steps to Fix:

Remove Java 6

> su Administrator
> cd /Library/Receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg/Contents
> lsbom -s -f Archive.bom > /tmp/file-list

Edit /tmp/file-list to replace all " " with "\ " and all "./" with "rm /" (I use emacs for this.)

> sudo bash /tmp/file-list
> rm -r /Library/receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg
> sudo update_prebinding

I removed the following

sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg

and installed it again. (From http://developer.apple.com/java/download/)

802.11n

The following Macs have the 802.11n hardware built-in:

• * MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
• * MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo
• * Mac Pro with AirPort Extreme option
• * iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo (except the 17-inch, 1.83GHz iMac)

However, you will have to upgrade the firmware.

The CD that comes with your new airport extreme base station contains the AirPort Extreme 802.11n enabler, which updates the firmware on your airport card to enable 802.11n high-speed WiFi:

• 74 - 248 Mbit/s
• 70 - 160 metres range

If you buy a third-party 802.11n base station, you can get the enabler from the Apple store for $1.99