Tomasz Korwel
programmer, administrator, engineer – my everyday fights with reality

Living in WiFi crowded environment (more than 10 stations in 2.4GHZ band) forced us to move to 5GHz band. For many months now we have an Apple Extreme base station installed at home. It performed almost flawlessly with one exception – the airport failed to recognize more than one hard drive connected to it’s USB port. After almost giving up on it I have finally found a solution. Connecting the drive directly to my mac and running on it Repair Disk function from Disk Utility solved the problem. Now our airport sees both disks and I’m a happy camper again :-)

Many of you probably saw my previous post about cleaning up Mighty Mouse here

After using my mouse for another 2 years I have found out that using this method may in fact become less and less effective (meaning I have to do it much more often that I used to). So I had to come up with something to solve this problem too. Now I’m using a modified method which is much more material involved :-)

I bought small bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and I put one or two drops on the ball when mouse is still in upright position. then I use ‘Apple method’ of pushing down on the ball and turning it around to loosen up the dirt.

Then I continue with the above method using either white sheet of paper as before, or even better – clean microfiber cloth I got with my new pair of glasses recently. All that helps greatly to get the dirt off of the sensors.

After such treatment my mouse is working flawlessly for over a month now.