That’s easy: From the Apple menu choose “System Preferences…” and find the Bluetooth icon:Ĭlick on it to open up the preference pane: To get started, you’ll want to ensure that you have enabled Bluetooth on your computer. You’ve heard of it with cellphones and headsets and if you have hands-free calling in your car like I do, that’s also through Bluetooth.īluetooth is pretty neat stuff, and it also has the advantage of lower power consumption so a Bluetooth enabled device (like the Trackpad) shouldn’t need new batteries for a long, long time. That trick’s done through a short-range proximity wireless connectivity protocol called Bluetooth. In the Apple world, the wi-fi networking software is known as “Airport”, so Apple sells Airport Extreme devices, Time Capsules (network backup systems) with Airport support, and when you want to configure or tweak your wireless Internet access, it’s through enabling Airport and configuring it in the “Airport” area of the networking system preference.īut Wi-Fi isn’t how your new Magic Trackpad is going to communicate with your computer, any more than it would be how Apple’s wireless keyboard could also work with your iMac, MacBook Pro, or even an older iBook if you had one.
Whether you’re at a local Starbucks or in your home, wifi is your Internet connection. Wi-Fi is how your computer talks with your cable modem and, perhaps, your printer. That’s a very interesting question because it suggests that you aren’t aware that there are two flavors of wireless communication going on with your computer.
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