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Use your iPhone as a USB flash drive

Feb 28, 2010 - 4 Comments

You can use your iPhone as an external USB flash drive using this (currently) free software from myPodApps. Called iPhone Explorer, it’s a simple and lightweight program that lets you browse through your iPhone through it’s interface which works pretty well as a file manager. You can rename, create, delete, drag and drop, both files … Read More

The iPad evolves… into the iBoard and the iMat

Feb 28, 2010 - 23 Comments

How about a little light-hearted Apple fun? Have you ever thought about what would happen if Apple kept up on the trajectory of making device screen sizes bigger and bigger? What if evolution takes over and each additional device has a bigger screen? First came the iPhone. Then came the iPad…. what would be next? … Read More

Mac Setups: iMac Music Studio

Feb 27, 2010 - 1 Comment

This is one awesome music studio based on an iMac. I wouldn’t know how to use half of the equipment here, but it sure looks fun. [ via Flickr ]

iTunes could not connect to this iPhone because an unknown error occurred (0xE8000065)

Feb 27, 2010 - 86 Comments

“iTunes could not connect to this iPhone because an unknown error occurred (0xE8000065)” Ahhh! That’s the message I got earlier when trying to connect my iPhone to my iMac, something I haven’t seen before. I searched around a bit online and found out that this is not a Mac OS X specific problem, many people … Read More

Use the Tab Key to Switch Between Dialog Buttons in Mac OS X

Feb 26, 2010 - 28 Comments

Would you prefer to use the keyboard to speed up navigation around your Mac? That’s what the Full Keyboard Access setting allows for. Using a Keyboard option, you can have the Tab Key able to switch between dialog buttons, fields, screen items, controls, and anything else in a dialog box within Mac OS X. This … Read More

Get Hulu content on your iPhone / iPod Touch by using screen recording

Feb 26, 2010 - 3 Comments

While everyone continues to wait for an official Hulu app for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad/whatever, you can beat them to the punch and get Hulu content on your iPhone now for free, using Snow Leopard! This is a pretty crafty approach and it requires several things: * Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed * Latest … Read More

Free MacWorld 2011 Expo Pass

Feb 25, 2010 - Leave a Comment

Want to go to MacWorld Expo 2011 for free? Me too! The expo is from January 27th to the 29th of 2011 in San Francisco, California. You can sign up online for a free expo pass to the MacWorld exhibit until March 8th of this year, so if you think you can make it, register … Read More

Time Machine Backup Delayed? Here’s Why & How to Fix on Mac

Feb 25, 2010 - 2 Comments
Time Machine in Mac OS X

If you haven’t backed up with Time Machine in a while, the latest backup status will change to ‘Delayed’ and the menubar icon will have an exclamation mark in it reminding you to backup soon. There can be a variety of reasons the backups become delayed, and if you’re curious why this happens we’ll go … Read More

Force Preview to Open an Image File on Mac

Feb 24, 2010 - 1 Comment

Preview is one of my favorite Mac apps, but recently Preview.app was refusing to open some image files for what seemed like no reason. I wasn’t even able to drag the image file onto the Preview icon to open it, which is usually something that works if the Open menu doesn’t. I know the images … Read More

Find a Fast DNS Server with NameBench

Feb 23, 2010 - 26 Comments

There’s no shortage of DNS Server options out there, with Google DNS, OpenDNS, your own ISP’s, and the gazillion of others available to use. The question remains though, which of these DNS servers is going to be fastest for you? And how do you know which is fastest? That’s where NameBench comes in. NameBench is … Read More

Find out how much you’ve spent at the iPhone App Store

Feb 22, 2010 - Leave a Comment

Appropriately named App Store Expense Monitor does exactly what it’s name implies, it tallies up your App Store spending on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch apps and gives you a grand total.

Reset a Lost Password in Mac OS X with a Boot Disk

Feb 21, 2010 - 21 Comments

If you have forgotten or lost your password in Mac OS X, you can reset a password by booting from a Mac OS X install disk. This works with any version of Mac OS X where you have a Mac OS X Installer CD or DVD.

iPad Screen Resolution

Feb 20, 2010 - 6 Comments

The iPad sure is getting a lot of attention. If you’re pondering developing for the device, or you’re just curious in general, here are some specs on the iPad’s display: * the 9.7″ iPad display has a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels * the display’s pixel density is 132 pixels per inch (ppi), slightly less … Read More

Mac Setups: MacBook Pro with Dual Cinema Displays

Feb 20, 2010 - 25 Comments

Talk about screen real estate, wow. This MacBook Pro is setup to use dual 24″ Apple Cinema Displays. Awesome. [ via TnPham ] Here’s another sweet dual monitor setup with a MacBook Pro, this time with 22″ displays (and lacking the super cool city view in the background of the previous one). [ via Flickr … Read More

Disable Dock Bouncing in Mac OS X

Feb 19, 2010 - 8 Comments

The bouncing Dock icons are a nice GUI feature that let you know an app is launching on the Mac, but for some people those little bouncing icons are just really annoying. Additionally, Dock icons will bounce to notify you that an alert is active in the app, or the app needs your attention. If … Read More

Change Font Smoothing Settings in Mac OS X

Feb 18, 2010 - 6 Comments

Mac OS X simplified the font smoothing settings (anti-aliasing) for Mac OS and all apps running within it, but for some the change is unwelcome. If you feel like your screen looks different, or that fonts look a little unusual and text looks different too, it probably does, and the change can be very profound … Read More

Track Down All Startup & Login Script and App Launches in Mac OS X

Feb 17, 2010 - 7 Comments
Finder icon on the Mac

Want to find out how to see all startup and login app launches and scripts on a Mac? This article will walk through that process. Gone are the days of Mac OS System 9 where all startup items were sitting nicely in a system folder labeled ‘Startup’, now with the Unix undercore of Mac OS … Read More

TTYtter, the command line Twitter client

Feb 17, 2010 - Leave a Comment

TTYtter is a rather fun command line based Twitter client. Written in Perl, it’s got all the essential ingredients needed for basic Twitter needs without ever leaving a Terminal window. Running TTYtter is easy enough, it just needs your login information and off it goes. You can either run it through perl with: perl /path/to/ttytter.pl … Read More

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