Airport Express & LAN

Today I wanna share with you a tip on how to configure the Airport Express to create a NATted network and share the same public IP through all the computers connected to the LAN.

In this way you can have a bit of more security toward the outside computers on the internet.

The creation of a local area network is really easy using the Airport Express, and if you want to use it to connect just a computer to internet through a modem it is straight forward:

• connect the modem to the rear WAN port of the Airport
• connect your RJ45 cable to the Airport switch or go wireless
• turn on the Airport and it will perform all the adjustment to find the internet connection and configure it as a bridge for connecting the computer to the internet.

In this way each computer (configured in DHCP) will have an IP assigned by the router.

To create the NATted network with the Airport Extreme and hide your computers from the outside internet network open the Utility Airport on your Mac or Windows Machine and go to the Internet tab and select “Share a public IP address” from the “Connection sharing” combo like in figure below.

In this way the Airport Express will assign the IPs to the connected computers and outside the network will be seen as a single connected computer, hiding the others.

HTH

iPhone/iPod Tips & Tricks (...continue...)

Today I want to give you another Tips & Tricks for iPhone/iPod; this time regarding screen snapshots and a fast way to go at the top of a list.

Capture the screen
You can take a screenshot of any application you are using, simply pressing the Home button together to the Sleep/Wake button.
This snapshot will be saved into the 'Camera roll' of the iPhone or in 'Saved Images' for iPod.

Go to the Top
When you are reading a web page, an e-mail or a SMS, you can go to the beginning of the page simply tapping onto the status bar.

This is useful specially if you are navigating a web page and want to reach the head of the page in one tap or you are in the SMS application and want to call the sender of the message where the button to call is at the top of the page.

See the previous post on iPhone/iPod Tips & Tricks.

Thanks for reading :)

iPhone/iPod Tips & Tricks

Today I wanna start the first episode of a long series of Tips & Tricks for iPhone/iPod so to make better your iPhone/iPod life :)

In this first episode we will see how to make accented characters with the iPhone keyboard:

1. Open whatever app that show the keyboard like the Note app and start writing your text.
2. Now for writing the accented character (for example à) tap the 'a' character on the keyboard and take for one second your finger over the character. Will appear all the combination of accents available for that character.
3. Without releasing your finger from the screen simply go over the accented character you want to insert, then release the finger from the screen; the accented character will be inserted.

Thanks for reading and see you on next episode :-)