What do I need to set up a mac home network - complete Apple newbie

Okay. I've been using iPods and my iPhone for years, and I'm thinking about going full Mac. I plan to get a refurbished Macbook Pro from Amazon (haven't decided which one.) I currently have a Westell combo modem/router and am considering getting a wireless-capable external hard drive to hold more files. Ideally, then, my iTunes content would be available on any iDevice I may own. Can all these items connect or do i need more Apple-specific hardware?

I've seen, but never used, a combination modem/router - I've only ever used Cisco/Lynksys and Airport Extremes with separate 'stand-alone' cable/DSL modems. So I'm not sure that your setup will do what you're trying to do.
If you had an Airport Extreme, or another router with a USB plug, you could likely attach a drive to your router that could be shared by all users. Does your modem/router have a USB port?
Clinton

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It can be done with analog but not digital thanks to "good 'ol" HDCP copy protection which apple (and most other manufacturers) unfortunately respect.
So you can take the analog output from your cable box (component -- 5 cables -- if it has it but generally they all have composite -- 3 cables) and feed it into some kind of converter or into some appropriate pci card for your mac pro. But none of them are going to let you directly use the HDMI output from the box to your computer.
Bottom line, no single cord is going to work and it will never be the higher quality digital picture you get on your tv.
Some qualification: There are boxes that I think support hdmi input. Look at Blackmagic. But I still don't think you can get around the HDCP from the cable box (might depend on the kind of cable box).

What is the need for setting property data inside the JMSMesage

Hi
Could anybody please let me know
*What is the need for setting property data inside the JMSMesage??
For example i have a seen a similar example as shown ??
I have seen a
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and also please tell me how can the MDB recievies this property data ??
Thanks in advance .

raviprivate wrote:
Could anybody please let me know
*What is the need for setting property data inside the JMSMesage??
For example i have a seen a similar example as shown ??
I have seen a
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I added icloud to my ipad 2 what will i need to do with my mac in order to start seeing the video and pictures on my mac onceI take them on my ipad

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See Here
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My operating system is Mac OS X 10.6.8 and when I'm surfing the web, it tells me I need to update my browser however when I check for updates, nothing comes up. What do I need to do to get Mac OS X Lion v10.7?

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MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
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rant....
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For the O365-on-RDS aspect, bad news, it's not a valid installation scenario.
You would need a Volume License edition of Office2013 to install upon RDS, because O365 only offers the Click-to-Run installable, and that can't be installed upon RDS:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624360.aspx#Table
http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/156/t/138757.aspx
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Why set Xss and under what condition we need to set XSS

Hi guys,
In most of my java app, I will just set Xmx and Xmx. I would like to find out under what condition we need to specifically set Xss? Thanks in advance!
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What do I need to hook up to a wireless network?

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I bought a 6500A all in one with wireless capability to support three computers at my home. I have a desktop running Windows XP, a laptop running XP and a laptop running windows 7. My ISP is Verizon FIOS. I set up the 6500 with a wired connection to the desktop and that works fine. I sent a test print from the laptop running windows 7 and that worked fine. When I tried to see the printer from the laptop running XP, I can't see it. I have loaded the latest drivers from the HP website and there are no firewall issues preventing the laptop from seeing the printer.
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Say thanks by clicking "Kudos" "thumbs up" in the post that helped you.
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Setting up DHCP on home network

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HT4587 Hi, I want to set up a sound system in a new house using apple equipment. I have few sets of Bose speakers that I would like to utilise, my question is - what do I need to set it up and how do I do it with regards to AirPlay? Thanks

Hi, new to the forums and apple tbh.
Moving into a new house and want to set up a sound system, thought apple would be the way to go as I have iPads, iPhones, iPod touch and nanos. I also have a few sets of Bose speakers which I would like to incorporate. What I am wondering is, what else do I need to buy to do this? Do I need seperate devices to attach to each speaker? Do I need a new router? And how would I configure it?
Ideally I would like 4 rooms each with their own speakers that could play simultaneously.
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