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Airport Extreme + Time Machine gets official

Airport Extreme + Time Machine gets official

With the latest firmware update for the Airport Extreme, airdisks (USB Hard disks attached to the Airport Extreme) now magically appear in the Time Machine Preferences. No hacks, no problems, no sweat. Time Machine it appears is now officially supported on the Airport Extreme. All you need to do is update your Base Station to 7.3.1 through the Airport Utility. [Mar 25]

Blog now iPhone compatible

Blog now iPhone compatible

The blog on JD Pictures is now compatible with the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Simply visit the site on your Apple device and you will be greeted with the blog in an iPhone / iPod optimised theme. Although the blog is now fully iPhone / iPod compatible, both the photo gallery and films are not. This is something that I will be looking into in a few weeks! Look out for the full JD Pictures experience on your iPhone or iPod after Easter... [Feb 09]

DIY .mac web gallery

DIY .mac web gallery

The Apple .Mac web gallery is one of the coolest javascript based image and video galleries out there, but there are a few problems with it; the biggest two being the fact that the videos are slow-to-load quicktime files, not flash and you have pay a ridiculous £60 per year. This is a project I have begun to make my own version of the .mac web gallery to run on nearly any website... If you haven't seen it already, the .Mac web gallery is a thing of beauty, check it out here: .mac web gallery. It uses a variety of javascript effects to load the images in a pretty cool way. I have been... [Feb 01]

Use your Airport Extreme as a Time Capsule

Use your Airport Extreme as a Time Capsule

UPDATE! Time machine is now officially supported on the Airport Extreme. OK so, a little background... I bought my Airport Extreme base-station last year, shortly after jobs announced in the WWDC conference that Leopard's Time Machine feature could be used with a hard disk mounted on an Airport Extreme. However, upon upgrading to Leopard, I discovered that this was simply not the case. A few months of confusion passed until the MacWorld Conference last month where Jobs announced a new product, the Time Capsule... This to me is exactly what I have already got, surely the Time Capsule is just... [Feb 01]

Apple Macbook

Apple Macbook

The Macbook is one of the fastest laptop computers on the market for its size. It boasts a 2Ghz Intel Core Duo processor, making it a speedy beast for video editing. The new mackbook features a glossy screen which is very easy to clean. It also features Apple's mag safe power connector, which is a power cable held in by magnets so your laptop won't go flying of your desk if you trip over the power cable. Also it features a magnet in the place of the traditional latch to hold the laptop closed. To top this all off it features a built in isight webcam. The Macbooks main atraction is its... [May 25]