Apple Macintosh

After installing and test­ing many, many wire­less routers, I’ve decided that the best all-around solu­tion, if you want a wide range, N-speed, giga­bit eth­er­net, print serv­ing and NAS (Net­work Attached Stor­age) capa­ble wire­less router is to use the Air­port Extreme from Apple.

There are cer­tainly some other great wire­less routers out there that I use and even rec­om­mend, but they need some extra atten­tion and most don’t have both the NAS and the print-serving options com­bined. I will even­tu­ally do a tuto­r­ial on Tomato and dd-wrt for those of you who want to go über-geek on your router.

Just search for Air­Port Extreme Base Sta­tion at the Apple Online Store to get more information.

If you haven’t tried out the lat­est ver­sion of iWork (ver­sion 09), which includes the new Pages, Num­bers, and Keynote, the equiv­a­lents of Microsoft’s Word, Excel and Pow­er­point, you will be pleased with the improvements.

The one key ele­ment many of us have been wait­ing for is the true mail merge fea­ture between Pages and Num­bers, same as you’re used to with Word and Excel. In iWork 09, this has finally been addressed.

If you’re look­ing for the lat­est note­books from Apple (also called lap­tops by some) there’s more infor­ma­tion and pric­ing here:

I just recently got the new 24″ iMac and I’m com­pletely thrilled with it! I can’t wait to tell you more about it, why it’s the best choice you could make (espe­cially for get­ting into high-end video edit­ing on the cheap) and so much more. I’ll be post­ing about that and lots of other great news very soon.