Cannot connect to the iTunes Store

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Mike Nencetti

Friday January 20th, I tried to add a few apps to my iPhone, both timed out with the message “Cannot connect to the iTunes Store”. I tried WIFI and 3G. At home I tried adding apps to my WIFI iPad 2 and received the same message. I connected each device to my laptop with iTunes running and the apps loaded. I did not sync anything. I use iCloud for that. So the quick response to “Cannot connect to the iTunes Store” is to connect the device to a PC or Mac running iTunes. Do not sync, just try to install the app.

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Good use for an old smartphone

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Mike Nencetti

I use my deactivated Droid Incredible as a music player. I use the home WIFI to play Pandora, and plug the phone into the AUX port on the radio.

old phone use

Deactivated Droid using WIFI playing Pandora into the AUX port on the radio.

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Comments Moderated – for now

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Mike Nencetti

I will leave comments moderated for now. I have yet to activate the Akismet spam blocker add-on. When I get time I may try un-moderating comments. I may actually upload content. Busy lately.

Most comments to this site are spam. I allowed 1 most-likely-spam comment through out of curiosity.

Mike

 

 

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Social Share – Social Login Plugin for WordPress

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Mike Nencetti

I added the Social Login plugin to the site.  Time will tell if this just generates spam. Basically use your Google, Facebook or Twitter account to comment here. For more explanation -

http://www.oneall.com/services/social-share/

-mike

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Give your WIFI router a unique name

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Mike Nencetti

Give your WIFI a unique name.

Can you guess which network is mine?

Simple advice – Give your WIFI router a unique name.

Why?

Over the holidays I ran into a unique situation. My parents router has the same name as my router. Their WIFI has no security, my router has WPA2. Each device had some difficulty with the duplicate name.

My wife’s Vista laptop gave us the most trouble, with difficulty connecting at my parents and connecting after we got back home. (Hopefully we will upgrade this laptop to Win7 in 2012)

My Mac Air decided that my home network was no longer a preferred network, so I had to go into Network Preferences and delete and re-create the WIFI connection.

My iPhone and iPad did not automatically re-connect to our home WIFI when we returned. Once again I had to go clean up my WIFI settings.

I can’t remember if my Dell laptop running Win7-64 gave me any trouble, but I did remove my parents WIFI network from the list when I returned. In the list it just added a 2 to the end.

One thing about cleaning up WIFI settings, it makes you realize how much you have travelled over the years.

- mike

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2011 was the year of Apple, for me.

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Mike Nencetti

The Air and Ipad

Mac Air 11" and iPad 2 with Bluetooth keyboard/case

Prior to February of 2011, I had not owned 1 product from Apple, not even an iPod. This year I have purchased the following:

February – Mac Air 11″ 64g
May – iPhone 4 (Verizon) 16g
December – iPad 2 – 16g WIFI only

All 3 products have been superb. The Air had a shaky start, but with Lion and a few patches it runs great. Basically it took forever to wake from sleep, and made the loud power-on chime even when it was supposed to be disabled. The iPad and iPhone both have excellent batteries. They do their job. They work.

Why all the Apple? I felt the need to learn all I could about their products. I am glad I did.

Mike

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Test Post

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Mike Nencetti

Testing a post with an updated user ID.

-mike

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Hello world!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Mike Nencetti

Updating my site with a new WordPress blog.  Staty tuned.

 - Mike

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