Tag Archives: networking

AirDrop Primer Tutorial

We’ve attempted to write about AirDrop as a networking and sharing tool (by Apple) between two Mac OS X (in our case) MacBook Pros, for some time now, as we’ve not had a lot of success. Today, we had some … Continue reading

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MAC and IP Address Primer Tutorial

In your travels in Information Technology, especially if you have been involved in monitoring the tasks running on a laptop or personal computer, you are likely to have come across the term MAC (Media Access Control) Address. Let’s look at … Continue reading

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Android Bluetooth Keyboard Primer Tutorial

Welcome to this blog posting being typed into an email on a Samsung Android phone and typed on a Logitech Bluetooth connected external keyboard. Sounds convoluted, doesn’t it? But this “odd couple” situation where the child is physically bigger than … Continue reading

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Mac OS X and iOS Messages Primer Tutorial

You have some photos taken with your Camera app on your iPad. You like to save such photos on your MacBook Pro. That is the setting for today’s thoughts in the series of “Mac OS X and iOS Communication” themed … Continue reading

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Mac OS X and iOS FaceTime Primer Tutorial

We happen to own a MacBook Pro laptop (circa 2011 … which pans out to be significantly “old” for a later blog post) and an iPad. As you’d expect, there are benefits to having two Apple products like this, and … Continue reading

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Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial

A firewall is a security device, or network security system, designed to protect a secure internal network from other networks, by the means to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic, via a rule set (in a similar way to … Continue reading

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Geolocation ISP IP Follow Up Tutorial

We discovered yesterday this great resource for data feeds (thanks to great link for the great lead) at JSON IP and GeoIP REST API (IP Geolocation) by Telize. In the course of discovering its usefulness we saw that it returned … Continue reading

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Geolocation ISP IP Primer Tutorial

It’s good every now and then to see what is new in the world of data feeds on the internet, so that is how, via this great link, we got onto the wonderful Acronym lookup resource at NaCTeM (The National … Continue reading

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