Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Default Password for Motorola Netopia 3000 DSL modem/ wireless router

A recent frustration involved a DSL/wireless installation for a non-profit. I was running out of battery on my laptop trying to configure the wireless router settings for their new Motorola 3000/ Netopia 3347 ASDL modem and wireless router.

Every document I read said that the default username and password were "admin" and the serial ID of the device.

Actually, the default password is the Security ID of the device, printed on a separate yellow sticker on the bottom of the device.

Friday, April 23, 2010

iDVD 16:9 Aspect Ratio Not Working

I just created a DVD with iDVD for a neighbor who already had the movie in AVI format, but needed a menu maker and a DVD drive.

We had the hardest time getting the 16:9 aspect ratio to work. iMovie recognized it fine, but iDVD kept playing back the video at 4:3 instead.

I found this neat little "droplet". I was able to drag the AVI file onto it, and it created an amamorphic video link file for the original file. Drag into iDVD and boom! The alternative was to purchase QuickTime to be able to access the Window -> Movie Properties menu.

http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html

Thank you, whoever authored this piece of code!