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AirPlay by Apple enables iHome, others, to bring wireless audio home

By mtc | Published: September 1, 2010
I’ve written about AirTunes in the past. Since late 2004, I’ve played with Apple’s wireless audio technology as a feature of iTunes and the Airport Express. I never tried it in concert with Apple TV, but for a couple years, I enjoyed three separate zones of home audio using two AirPort Expresses and a Mac [...]
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iTunes Remote: a long time coming

By mtc | Published: July 10, 2008
While many early adopter types (like me) have been fiddling with Airtunes, and looking for ways to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a remote control for whole home audio, clearly the engineers at Apple have been doing the same, and building the native functionality into the iPhone OS 2.0 and the latest version [...]
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I’ve been tinkering… Apple Airtunes is pretty slick

By mtc | Published: June 10, 2008
Many folks are familiar with Apple Airport Express and Airtunes. It provides the ability to send iTunes audio from a PC/Mac to speakers that are connected to the Airport Express (which has both a Toslink and a line-level output). I’ve been playing with the latest variant. With Airport Express w/ wireless N, they’ve added the [...]
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Apple’s Trojan Horse… it may be only a sandbox

By mtc | Published: May 22, 2008
Over on Micro Everything, Mats picked up on an recent WSJ article about Apple’s wireless audio potentialities. I too have given this plenty of thought… no big surprise… but I just can’t keep quiet about my random toughts anymore… there are many things I find pretty intriguing about Apple’s approach to this wireless audio distribution, but the [...]
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