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<p><p>If you've been using the parental controls options in Mac OS X to lock your child out of using a particular computer late at night, but would like to employ a more clever technique to limit Internet access, turn to MAC address filtering on an Apple base station.</p><p>To do this, launch AirPort Utility, select your base station, and click Manual Setup. In the Access Control view, choose Time Access to turn on MAC filtering. You'll need to enter the MAC address of the particular computer, which (in 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard) you can find in the Network System Preferences pane: click AirPort in the adapter list, and click Advanced. The AirPort ID is the MAC address.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/7089"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7089', 'show')">Stuck on StickyBrain: Info-Clutter Organizer Extraordinaire</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7089" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7089">In 1999, when my son Tristan was born, I began having trouble with to-do lists. The problem was twofold: on one hand, there were so many things to remember to do, or that I might want to do someday; on the other hand, even though I often made to-do lists, I often lost them beneath piles of papers or - worse - forgot about them altogether.As the years went by, I tried to organize my piles of papers and to-do lists, but I was continually confounded by the many ways information arrives, both physical and virtual, and the necessity of sharing contact and calendar databases with Adam and our array of Macs (we use Now Software's Now Up-to-Date & Contact)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 24 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7065"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7065', 'show')">Adam Speaking at NY City Area User Groups This Week</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7065" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7065">Adam Speaking at NY City Area User Groups This Week -- On Thursday, 13-Feb-03 at 6:30 PM, I'll be speaking at the monthly MetroMac meeting at New York University, and on Friday, 14-Feb-03 at the Long Island Macintosh Users Group (LIMac) at the New York Institute of Technology</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/7060"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7060', 'show')">iPhoto 2 Steps into the Frame</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 03 Feb 2003</div></div>
<a href="/article/6886"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6886', 'show')">Macworld Expo New York 2002 Diary</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6886" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6886">My post-Macworld Expo coverage generally aims at analysis, noting significant trends or themes that help us understand the state of the Mac industry and where it's going</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Jul 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6847"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6847', 'show')">Cruising with Mac Folk</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6847" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6847">The first MacMania Geek Cruise has now sailed into the sunset, and I've had a few days to digest what was a truly fascinating experience. We sailed from Vancouver, British Columbia, on 27-May-02, headed out into the Pacific to zip up to Alaska, and then worked our way back down through the Inside Passage, stopping at Juneau, Skagway, and Ketchikan before arriving back in Vancouver seven days later</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Jun 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6755"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6755', 'show')">Zooming in on the ProScope</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6755" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6755">Perhaps it's related to my lousy vision, but I've never had much luck with telescopes or microscopes. Celestial objects look like little white dots to me, and I hate removing my glasses to use a microscope</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Mar 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6729"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6729', 'show')">Copyright: Who Should Benefit?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6729" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6729">Living with a three-year-old offers an odd perspective on the world. Whenever Tristan and other children his age play in each other's vicinity, an important parental task is to break up squabbles over who's playing with which toy for any given 30 seconds</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Feb 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6705"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6705', 'show')">Being a Mac Pack Rat</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6705" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6705">Although Macintosh hardware holds its utility far better than PC hardware, it's still difficult to justify keeping older Macs and accessories around through major architecture changes</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Jan 2002</div></div>
<a href="/article/6660"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6660', 'show')">2001 Gift Ideas for the Macintosh-minded</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6660" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6660">We're constantly struck by the intellectual breadth of the Macintosh community and the TidBITS readership in particular. It doesn't take much more than an offhand comment in TidBITS to spur a private discussion about the role of computers in schools, the relative merits of specific HEPA air filters, or the history of copyright law.That's why we're never surprised at the holiday gift suggestions we receive that aren't related to the Mac or even to computers, necessarily, but which seem to be the sorts of things that appeal to those of us who have chosen to use the Mac</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 13 Dec 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6528"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6528', 'show')">Rejiggering Personal Voice Communications</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6528" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6528">As most of you know, Tonya, Tristan, and I moved from Seattle to Ithaca, New York, at the beginning of July. We're slowly settling into our new home and working through all the logistics required by life in a new location</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Aug 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6493"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6493', 'show')">Where Webvan Went Wrong</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6493" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6493">Last week's demise of Webvan came as absolutely no surprise to Tonya and me, since we'd been Webvan customers - for a while - after their acquisition of HomeGrocer a year ago</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Jul 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6452"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6452', 'show')">TidBITS Returns to Ithaca</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6452" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6452">They say you can never go home again. That's true, after the fashion attributed to the paradoxical Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who quoted by Plato as saying that you could not step into the same river twice</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Jun 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6300"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6300', 'show')">Going to the AirPort</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6300" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6300">My brief story about setting up a wireless Ethernet network in our hotel room at Macworld Expo for the purposes of sharing a Ricochet-based Internet connection made some readers wish that they too could do such things (see "Macworld SF 2001: Go Wireless, Young Mac" in TidBITS-565)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2001</div></div>
<a href="/article/6211"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('6211', 'show')">Parenting with a Net</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_6211" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_6211">It's been about two and a half years since I've written for TidBITS, and that lapse corresponds to my pregnancy and then the birth of Tristan - Adam's and my first child</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Tonya%20Engst">Tonya Engst</a> | 20 Nov 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5780"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5780', 'show')">Doing the Numbers with Jobs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5780" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5780">At the beginning of his keynote address at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Steve Jobs spent about five minutes going over Apple's numbers, primarily those garnered from market research</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 24 Jan 2000</div></div>
<a href="/article/5487"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5487', 'show')">iBook: An iMac to Go</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5487" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5487">The most common question I was asked at last week's Macworld Expo in New York (apart from the much-appreciated "How's Tonya?" - she stayed home with Tristan) was the standard, "So what's the most interesting thing you've seen?" This year nothing could compare to the iBook, which made its debut during Steve Jobs's keynote.What Is the iBook? When Steve Jobs regained the reins at Apple, he outlined a four-square product matrix with desktop and portable products for both consumers and professionals</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 26 Jul 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5336" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5336">ISSAQUAH, WASH. (April 1, 1999) -- TidBITS Electronic Publishing, publishers of the highly regarded free TidBITS electronic newsletter focussing on the Macintosh and Internet communities, today announced that the majority of its business operations have been acquired by Bantling LLC, a <A HREF="http://www.tidbits.com/tristan/mac/hello.html" NAME="held" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Actually, holding in public is also allowed." onMouseOver="window.status='Actually, holding in public is also allowed.'; return true;"</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 01 Apr 1999</div></div>
<a href="/article/5303"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('5303', 'show')">Groceries in the Mist</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5303" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5303">Since Tristan was born in January, Tonya and I have been leaving the house less frequently. We can't escape midwife and pediatrician appointments, but we've cut down on shopping - or rather, shopping that we can't do via the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Mar 1999</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_5244" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_5244">A friend of ours at Apple once commented that what he liked the most about TidBITS was that it is so personal. In part, that's because we've grown up over the years</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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