There are a lot of times I find myself in the living room working on my laptop while either listening to music or watching Netflix on my AppleTV.  But one of the most annoying things I discovered is when I used my Apple Remote to control the AppleTV my laptop would start going crazy.

If I wanted to change songs or videos without starting iTunes or changing the volume on the laptop I would have to cover the Infrared (IR) sensor.  I have found myself actually putting a cover over the IR sensor before to make sure my remote doesn’t interfere with the laptop.

I went searching through my Mac OS X Lion (10.7) settings to find discover how to turn the IR port off and it wasn’t that hard once you know where to look.

-> Open up the System Preference Folder -> and select Security and Privacy.

**To make any changes in this box you might need to click the padlock in the bottom left corner and enter your admin password to enable changes to be made.

Once you have enabled changes to be made, simply but a check in the “Disable remote control infrared receiver” box and you will be good to go.

Once again I decided to carve an afternoon out of my schedule to stand in line outside the King Street (Charleston) Apple Store to wait for the launch of the latest iPad.

I have done this once before in May 2010 when waiting for the launch of the 3G iPad.  For those who don’t remember or didn’t care at the time, when Apple originally launched the iPad, they first launched the Wi-Fi only version then a month later launched the 3G version.

For the iPad 2 it was everyone on the same day, and this made the lines considerably longer.  I also think that a number of non early-adopters probably waited for the second generation to hop on the iPad bandwagon.