(6 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ...Cool Tools For Fools is back with another review of a truly MARVELOUS “all you need” gadget! Our host shows how you can set up the Apple Airport Express to give you music, wifi and remote functionality for anything you plug into it! And she is so HAPPY while she does this! Well… wouldn’t YOU be a happy camper if you had something like this?!
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you can ONLY connect printers on the USB port
Used the device in the heydays of my mac which is now a stolen commodity but atleast can vouch for the usefulness of this! Would like to see more of such informative clips!
@Host,
Thanks. iPhone can’t even stream music through BT, therefore it makes sense that it won’t do any other way too.
However I have got my Sony home theater system connected to Apple TV through a optical cable and I use my iPhone/iPod Touch to play my music Library stored in Apple TV on the big speakers using Apple iPhone Remote App.
@Talha
Though the Apple website says it works with the iPhone/iPod Touch, it does not. You have third party applications that allow your iphone or ipod touch to be used as a “remote control” to control your music staight from your computer, over this wifi but directly from the ipod/iphone – no. Sorry!:-(
@Public IP – Believe Talha when he says all this – If it weren’t for the cloud, he would NEVER be able to catch a train on time!
@Public IP,
The term “Cloud” is a little vague here in context of Airport Express.
A single Airport Express device can create (or connect to) a single WiFi network, whereas a cloud is considered as a large number of WiFi networks at dispersed locations, where you can connect to the Internet with a single account from any of the available locations.
One of the strongest community based cloud is run by BT in the UK. The way it works is that the ADSL Modem + WiFi router in your home primarily serves you with wireless internet in your home. In addition to that, it has a small proportion of bandwidth available for roaming users who are near to your home. This way, you run your own internet as well as become a hotspot for the community who may want to use internet near your home. In return, you get a roaming account as well, which you can use to connect to any of the millions of homes running BT internet when you are moving around.
Other than community cloud, there are several public WiFi clouds that are mainly run by telecom and mobile phone operators. For instance, t-mobile in the UK has their cloud which you can use to connect to hot spots at locations like restaurants, shopping malls, airport and train stations etc. The same t-mobile cloud is working in several countries and you can roam around with a single login.
Many different clouds operators have agreements between them, through which they allow roaming users of other clouds to temporarily use their networks.
Technically, it would not require anything extraordinary to create a local cloud in Pakistan. Any company can get few ADSL internet connections at popular public locations, install WiFi base stations and tunnel them to a central location network with some sort of authentication server.
The Apple Airport Express retails at about Rs.8000 / Rs.9000
@Public IP Perhaps there is a misunderstanding here. This device is a Wifi device to give you wifi connectivity locally- in your house of office. It does not connect you to the Internet Cloud directly, you still need an ISP connection for that (thus the ethernet port).
The bottleneck regarding Internet connectivity will still be your ISP speeds.
The cloud it creates for you allows you to stream your own files to your own locally networked peripherals. So even if you cannot “download” fast enough due to ISP constraints, you can stream your own files to your peripherals at 802.11a//b/g/n speeds
Hmmmm… quite a bit of LOVE going on here! @host: seems the gadget is quite a hit! However my question to you is this – While the gadget is LOVELY and connects to the cloud, my question is a bit more ummm… generic. what do you think the future of this cloud is in Pakistan? Not to downplay the enthusiasm everyone has about internet connectivity, but a macro perspective of this gadget’s properties in the larger scheme of things – is it really worth for people making investments in putting things UP if there is a chance they won’t be able to get to it fast enough to download it again?
In short – does the cloud work in Pakistan?
@BudWiser,
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I love this device…Also, one more thing… if you all already have a Wifi cloud you need not worry about replacing the original Wifi with this new one, the Airport express will “join” that original wifi network quite seamlessly.
I LOVE THIS! This is so cool!!!! A couple of jumps in the video shoot but truely a COOL TOOL FOR A FOOL! I think the lady does a GREAT job getting the point across.. She seems to know what she is talkin about and it’s so funny!
Can we get an RSS feed of specific shows rather than all of them in one go? Thanks!! Keep it up!
love that cool device!
gamers, you can actually get hassle free networking?
@rabia … that should be no problem, but i think I should leave the stuff for fools to you guys
Btw, I got some excellent new apps and put them in upcoming episodes
@Talha – So are you going to get this to work with your iPhone? If so, you may want to add on a supplementary review!
@host,
This was a short, sweet and informative episode. It would be also useful to know the local price of the gadget as you did with that James Bond Pen.
I also discovered from Apples’ website that it can work with iPhone/iPod Touch too, which made me add this to my shopping list