Robert Vrabel

I bought one of the most amazing products yesterday.  The Apple Airport Express.  I am specifically using it for Air tunes which allows you to wirelessly play music to any device that you hook into it.  I connected it to my wireless network and plugged in a audio cord into my receiver.  Next all I had to do was open iTunes from ANY computer on my network and select “Play over Airport Express”.  Next thing you know my iTunes is playing wirelessly to my main set of speakers!

To top it off, the iPhone 2.0 firmware came out recently which allows for applications to be installed on the iPhone.  Apple has put out a FREE “iTunes Remote Application” which connects to your computers iTunes which you can control volume, playlists… anything you could as if you where sitting on your computer using iTunes. This basically turns you into a MOBILE DJ!  I can now stream music from my laptop to my main set of speakers, and then control it from ANYWHERE in range of my wireless network.

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen, this will come in handy so much when throwing a party and a song comes on that you want to change or if someone requests a song. All you have to do is pull your iPhone out and control everything! How great is that!

Apple just released a 2GB shuffle for $79.00 and slashed the 1GB from $79.00 down to $49.00. What a steal of a price! I never paid attention to the shuffles before, but i would consider purchasing one of these now when i start working out again. Having something so small with just workout music on it is a lot more practical than working out with my iPhone. Especially while running. You could also just leave it in your gym bag so its always there for you. I never understood the purpose of having two devices with two separate libraries in the past, but it makes sense in a situation like working out - the smaller the better.

I installed the newest 10.5.2 update to my MacBook Pro two days ago and ran into a problem. My computer installed it and restarted but it hung on getting to the log-in screen. I posted my problem in the apple discussion board for help and received some information from people. I decided to do an Achieve and install which moves all your existing stuff to a “Previous Systems” folder and does a re-install of Leopard. I then updated it after that and it seemed to be working properly.

Today, one day after my post, i received a a phone call from Scott Player from Apple Care Engineering Software notifying me that he read my post and wanted to call to make sure everything is working properly since he wants to make sure i am not without a computer. I called him back and explained the problem and he sent me an E-mail to send log information from the pervious system so there software engineers can take a look at the problem to see what happen.

This level of support is unbelievable. I have never been treated so well from a company in all my life. This one phone call totally makes up for the inconvenience this caused me. Cheers to Apple for always going the extra mile!