Category: 827: Tech Tails Tidbits, Boosting Your Wireless Network Connection, Voice-Only FaceTime Calls

We have a handful of closeout AirPort Express Base Stations left and they’re $20 off original pricing! Perfect for a standalone Wi-Fi router or for use as a repeater, they can not only transmit your wireless internet, but broadcast your wireless tunes or print your wireless masterpieces.

For a limited time, we are offering Parallels for $9.99 with the purchase of any computer. Parallels Desktop for Mac is the most tested, trusted and talked-about solution for running Windows applications on your Mac. With Parallels Desktop for Mac, you can seamlessly run both Windows and Mac OS X applications side-by-side without rebooting. Drag…

My family lives in Arizona, and I use FaceTime fairly regularly to stay in touch with them. Occasionally though, I’ve run into issues either with their network or mine where we’d get erratic video and poor audio. In a moment of frustration during a recent call, we discovered that FaceTime will continue to function as…

With wireless networking technology advancing faster than we can read about it, it’s always good to know that your Mac is accessing and transmitting data with your wireless network as best as it possibly can. To obtain this requires a little maintenance work on your part. Firstly, open up System Preferences, and navigate to “Network.”…

*Bad Chrome Follow-up* A couple of weeks ago, I “*wrote an article about Chrome crashing*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails/tt825/ with kernel panics on machines with the Intel HD4000 graphics chip set (i.e. new MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros). “*Cnet verified this*”:http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57463603-263/google-yes-chrome-is-crashing-macbooks/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title soon afterward with an admission from Google, and hopefully this means that a true fix is in the works.…

Hello Readers, By popular demand (actually one email from a really nice guy), I will at some point talk about the weather each week. I can’t say for sure if it will be at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end, but it will be included. Mentioning the weather is a Tech Tails…