Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Wireless Music

Got a fantastic piece of kit for use with my Mac - AirPort Express. It enables me to stream my music wirelessly to my HiFi through iTunes, and have a wireless network as well. it never ceases to amaze me that the Mac can do so much, and much more elegantly that a PC. When I plugged in my AirPort express, and set it up with my broadband internet access, it was so easy to set it up on the Mac - All I had to do was turn on was the AirPort card and my Mac found the wireless network straight away!

I wish PC's were this simple, though I guess when Bill Gates was designing Windows he didn't think that it needed to be this simple. It's about time that a Windows machine was made easy - for example why do you have to use drive letters? I can't see the use of those, since it's easier to use names. On my Mac my internal hard drive is known as Macintosh HD and my external drive as USB Files. Simple and elegant. If I plug in my Disgo 256mb USB key it appears as Jon Disgo - very easy to remember.

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