The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

Make your Mac into an internet router! Sometimes it’s convenient to use a friend’s internet connection for a moment, when visiting them at a hotel, or a Starbucks, for instance. You can share to and from many of your connections, including airport (wifi), ethernet and even firewire.

Visiting a friend at the Hyatt Regency yesterday to listen to his presentation at the InHowse Designer conference (brought to us by How Design ), I found myself in his room afterward. He could get internet access through an ethernet cable by his desk, or through WiFi, however, the connection is good for only one computer… unless, you use that one computer to provide access to other computers.

Where can you meet a professor who figured out how to use 2 Mac optical mice and a ping-pong ball to record and measure the direction and velocity of insects as they respond, and don’t respond, to sounds?

From Monday morning October 16 through Wednesday evening October 18, I attended Neuroscience 2006 at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta, GA. I stayed nights with my friend from college, a doctor living in Rome, GA, and his beautiful family, which was great, except for the traffic, blech!, which trapped me in the car for 4 hours each day.

Thanks to Steve and Johnnie and WGN for the media badge. Listen to our broadcast on Website Wednesday Night starting just after 11PM CST, broadcast across 38-states, old-school style radio on AM 720, or via the internet, new-school style. http://www.wgnradio.com

With a glance at my badge, the security guard dressed from Men in Black, directed me to a mob of journalists and other pretenders with media badges where we waited for 45 minutes prior to Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Listening to them speculate about Steve’s announcements, the mostly young and wrinkle-clothed crowd glanced excitedly around them, smiling nervously, some gathering around authoritative-sounding prognosticators, others quietly text-messaging or sitting on the floor typing into their laptops. http://www.moscone.com/