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Improve Apple Services with AirPort Base Stations
You can make iChat file transfers, iDisk, and Back to My Mac work better by turning on a setting with Apple AirPort base stations released starting in 2003. Launch AirPort Utility, select your base station, click Manual Setup, choose the Internet view, and click the NAT tab. Check the Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) box, and click Update. NAT-PMP lets your Mac OS X computer give Apple information to connect back into a network that's otherwise unreachable from the rest of the Internet. This speeds updates and makes connections work better for services run by Apple.
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Question: Blast from the Past? Since we're on the subject of time on the Internet, we'd like to thank Sylvia Belgodere for subscribing to NetBITS... from 1956 (according to the date line of her email message). We had no idea that NetBITS was popular back in 1956! Is Sylvia a time traveller reading her email while on a trip to the past using a Time & Location Manager-equipped PowerBook? Or is there some other reason why her mail (and that of many others on the Internet) has a weird time?
Answer: Most, if not all email programs pick up the current date from the system clock of the computer they're on. Since it's all too easy to set a clock wrong, and since computer clocks also control the date setting, you should check the time and date setting to make sure it's correct. On a Macintosh, use the Date & Time control panel; in Windows, use the Date/Time control panel. While you're there, make sure your time zone and daylight savings time settings are correct for your location.
Although this may seem like a minor problem, remember that many email programs sort incoming messages by date. So, in my copy of Eudora Pro, for instance, if a message comes in with the year set to 1956, Eudora will sort it to the top of my In mailbox. However, since most incoming messages sort to the bottom of my In mailbox (and since I receive hundreds of messages each day), I may not even notice an incorrectly dated message for a while.
Perhaps in a future FAQtoids we'll report on how to have your computer set its clock automatically from an atomic clock when you connect to the Internet. [ACE]
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