Jul 2005
A few thoughts on Action Tracker
July, 15 2005 09:37 PM Filed in: FileMaker
Pro
I released
Action Tracker 1.2 three weeks ago and I'm happy to
say that it has now been downloaded more than 500
times! I've not had many responses but to those of
you who have responded I want to say thank you!
In regards to future development I find myself at something of a crossroad. What next? I'm not sure. I'm happy with the functionality and simplicity of Action Tracker in its current version. One user has written to say that "to do lists are not enough and using small project managers overkills it" and quite honestly I agree. I designed Action Tracker to fill a particular gap and I think it does that fairly well.
So what next? My current plan is to release version 1.3 with a few minor tweaks, bug fixes and a clean-up of unused elements. After that I'll likely take a break from active development to allow for a period of use and reflection. I'd welcome your thoughts on the current iteration as well as any feature requests you may have.
Technorati Tags: Apple, OS X, Action Tracker, FileMaker Pro, GTD
In regards to future development I find myself at something of a crossroad. What next? I'm not sure. I'm happy with the functionality and simplicity of Action Tracker in its current version. One user has written to say that "to do lists are not enough and using small project managers overkills it" and quite honestly I agree. I designed Action Tracker to fill a particular gap and I think it does that fairly well.
So what next? My current plan is to release version 1.3 with a few minor tweaks, bug fixes and a clean-up of unused elements. After that I'll likely take a break from active development to allow for a period of use and reflection. I'd welcome your thoughts on the current iteration as well as any feature requests you may have.
Technorati Tags: Apple, OS X, Action Tracker, FileMaker Pro, GTD
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Use Airport Express to share a dial-up connection between two Macs
July, 11 2005 04:16 PM Filed in: How-to
This story
starts around five years ago on the day that I was
visited by the gods of broadband internet. The year
was 1999 and Time Warner's Road Runner service was
installed in my home. Three years later I purchased
my first Airport Card for my iBook as well as a
wireless router. This was the beginning of wireless
browsing and I would never go back... or so I
thought. Flash forward to February 15, 2004. I'm out
in the woods far away from the possibility of
affordable broadband and I'm now tethered to a phone
cord! A double whammy! Okay, fine, I can adapt. I
deal with the slowness of dial-up and the requirement
of a phone cord.
This past summer I purchased Apple's Airport Express and it has worked very well for streaming music and wireless printing. This was no cure for my internet problems but at least I had a use for my Airport Extreme card. In the fall Apple released the new G5 iMac and I now had a plan. I wanted an iMac to use for video editing projects and relieve the strain on my nearly full PowerBook drive. It also occurred to me that while I could not have highspeed I could use the iMac to dial up and share the connection to my PowerBook via the Airport Express. There was a problem though: it didn't work!
My mistake? I tried to share the modem connection via Airport. This method does not allow the iMac to share via Airport thru the Airport Express. Instead it requires that I bypass the Airport Express by joining a network created by the iMac. Well, the problem with that method is that neither computer has access to the Airport Express speakers or printer because they are connected together via there own self created peer-to-peer network.
How to do it properly? Connect the iMac to the Airport Express with an ethernet cable! Open the Sharing preference pane and turn on sharing, select Ethernet not Airport. Select the option to share the modem connection. Now the iMac shares the modem connection via ethernet to the Airport Express and then to my PowerBook. Works perfectly. I'm online and both computers continue to have full access to the Airport Express, printer, and speakers!
My only complaint with the Airport Express is the lack of documentation for this basic functionality. I spent hours searching through google and the Apple support forums for the answer.
Technorati Tags: Apple, OS X, Internet Sharing, Airport Express
This past summer I purchased Apple's Airport Express and it has worked very well for streaming music and wireless printing. This was no cure for my internet problems but at least I had a use for my Airport Extreme card. In the fall Apple released the new G5 iMac and I now had a plan. I wanted an iMac to use for video editing projects and relieve the strain on my nearly full PowerBook drive. It also occurred to me that while I could not have highspeed I could use the iMac to dial up and share the connection to my PowerBook via the Airport Express. There was a problem though: it didn't work!
My mistake? I tried to share the modem connection via Airport. This method does not allow the iMac to share via Airport thru the Airport Express. Instead it requires that I bypass the Airport Express by joining a network created by the iMac. Well, the problem with that method is that neither computer has access to the Airport Express speakers or printer because they are connected together via there own self created peer-to-peer network.
How to do it properly? Connect the iMac to the Airport Express with an ethernet cable! Open the Sharing preference pane and turn on sharing, select Ethernet not Airport. Select the option to share the modem connection. Now the iMac shares the modem connection via ethernet to the Airport Express and then to my PowerBook. Works perfectly. I'm online and both computers continue to have full access to the Airport Express, printer, and speakers!
My only complaint with the Airport Express is the lack of documentation for this basic functionality. I spent hours searching through google and the Apple support forums for the answer.
Technorati Tags: Apple, OS X, Internet Sharing, Airport Express
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