One side benefit of getting a new iMac (for year end capital expenditure purposes only, natch) is that I finally got my
"AirPort Express with Air Tunes
device to work (knock on wood related objects.....). Previously, with my fairly wimpy TiBook, the stream would cut out too often to actually be tolerable. I was going to return the Airport Express, but didn't get around to it. Now, I'm glad I didn't.
If you don't know what the Airport Express is, simply put, it's a small power brick that acts as a wifi bridge, and that also comes with a stereo output. Thus you can stream music wirelessly from iTunes directly into your home entertainment system. Actually, I stream from my server upstairs, via existing ethernet cable, to the iMac, which then connects to the stereo. So I have my 200 gig library of tunes accessible to play downstairs, yielding months worth of unrepeated play. Party!
I just hope that 10 years from now there isn't cancer warnings from being too close to WiFi!
"AirPort Express with Air Tunes
device to work (knock on wood related objects.....). Previously, with my fairly wimpy TiBook, the stream would cut out too often to actually be tolerable. I was going to return the Airport Express, but didn't get around to it. Now, I'm glad I didn't.
If you don't know what the Airport Express is, simply put, it's a small power brick that acts as a wifi bridge, and that also comes with a stereo output. Thus you can stream music wirelessly from iTunes directly into your home entertainment system. Actually, I stream from my server upstairs, via existing ethernet cable, to the iMac, which then connects to the stereo. So I have my 200 gig library of tunes accessible to play downstairs, yielding months worth of unrepeated play. Party!
I just hope that 10 years from now there isn't cancer warnings from being too close to WiFi!
