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This is Why Apple is Suing Samsung

Sep 30, 2011 - 62 Comments
Why Apple is Suing Samsung in an Image

If you want a simplified explanation of the ongoing Apple vs Samsung lawsuit, the giant image below sums it up fairly well. Basically, Apple feels that Samsung is infringing on a variety of iPhone and iPad patents, and Apple is fairly blunt in their accusations: “Instead of pursuing independent product development, Samsung has chosen to … Read More

Enable Remote Login to Start SSH Server in Mac OS X

Sep 30, 2011 - 18 Comments
Remote Login enables SSH and SFTP

Remote Login is a feature in Mac OS X’s Sharing preferences that allow remote users to connect to a Mac in a secure fashion by using the OpenSSH protocols. Essentially, Remote Login starts an SSH server on a Mac, which includes the ability to accept incoming SSH connections, and is the secure replacement for telnet. … Read More

Want a Free Minimalist & Distraction-Free Writing App? Get FocusWriter

Sep 30, 2011 - 6 Comments
FocusWriting minimalist distraction free writing app

Distraction-free writing apps are becoming increasingly popular and the appeal is easy to see, if you just want to write, why do you need to be surrounded by a gazillion buttons and toolbars? These apps are fairly simple and there’s a slew of choices, many charge unreasonably high prices on the app store, but that’s … Read More

Make an Invisible Folder and Hide Files in Plain Sight on Mac

Sep 30, 2011 - 29 Comments
Make an invisible folder in Mac OS X to hide files in plain sight

Want to hide some files in plain sight on a Mac? This walkthrough will detail how you can make an invisible folder on the Mac that features some unique properties; the invisible folder will be invisible to the eye when browsing in Finder, but the folder will not be invisible to the click. Instead, you’ll … Read More

Disable the “Backup of …” Pages & iWork Files from Showing in the Mac OS X Finder

Sep 29, 2011 - 6 Comments
Disable backup of Pages files in the Finder

The iWork suite under Mac OS X 10.7 includes a rather peculiar default option that backs up every files prior version that you are working on, as a separate file in the same folder. Instead of the backups only being accessible from Versions, this spills out into the Finder, where a file called “Document.pages” will … Read More

Start an FTP or SFTP Server in Mac OS X

Sep 29, 2011 - 30 Comments
FTP Server missing in OS X Lion, but you can enable it anyway

If you’ve visited the Sharing Preference panel in the newer versions of Mac OS X you may have noticed there is no longer the direct option to enable an FTP server to share files and folders. Well, at least there isn’t an obvious option, but the FTP and SFTP server function does still exist, the … Read More

iPhone 4S Package Label Discovered, No iPhone 5 Next Week?

Sep 29, 2011 - 8 Comments
iPhone 4S Label

An alleged iPhone 4S packaging label adds adds further confusion to the iPhone 5‘s existence and possible launch next week, and could indicate that Apple will only be releasing an incremental hardware update to the existing iPhone 4, rather than an all new redesign. The label, shown above, was discovered by 9to5mac after being posted … Read More

Learn How to Use VIM with an Interactive Tutorial

Sep 29, 2011 - 6 Comments
VIM tutorial

VIM is a powerful command line text editor that is wildly popular with developers and system administrators that is accessible by typing ‘vim’ in the terminal. For those that haven’t used it before, it has a relatively steep learning curve, and the interface can be confusing until you figure out how it works and start … Read More

Disable Time Machine Local Backups in Mac OS X Lion

Sep 28, 2011 - 38 Comments
Time Machine local backups

Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion initiates a sometimes useful, sometimes not feature: local backups. Called snapshots, this seems to be kicked off when your primary Mac is a laptop and the Time Machine backup is an external drive, so OS X Lion compensates for the potentially unavailable external disk by keeping an additional … Read More

Comparing the iPad 2 vs Kindle Fire vs Nook Color

Sep 28, 2011 - 41 Comments
Kindle Fire vs iPad 2 vs Nook

If you’re anxious to compare the new Kindle Fire tablet to the iPad 2, or even the Nook Color, than this handy chart from The Verge makes it nice and easy. What obviously stands out here is that the iPad 2 dominates every conceivable spec in the chart, minus the higher price point of course. … Read More

Amazon Kindle Fire Priced at $199, Release Date is November 15 – Tech Specs Revealed

Sep 28, 2011 - 12 Comments
Kindle Fire tablet

Amazon has announced the Kindle Fire, the companies first true entry into the tablet market, and what is seen by many as the first real iPad competitor. Backed by Amazon’s massive content library of movies, TV, songs, magazines, books, and apps, the Kindle fire is priced at $199 and is set to be released to … Read More

Check Download Speed from iTunes & the App Store

Sep 28, 2011 - 5 Comments
Check download speed from iTunes App Store

Want to check the download speed of something you’re getting from iTunes or the iOS App Store? No sweat, you can check not only the progress of the download, but also see the transfer speed of what is being downloaded from iTunes. From the sidebar of iTunes, click on Store, then go to “Downloads” This … Read More

Use Firefox? Download Firefox 7, it Reduces Memory Use & Increases Speed

Sep 27, 2011 - 21 Comments
Firefox 7

Firefox 7 is now available to download for all supported platforms, the new release has an emphasis on improved memory management and speed, and it does provide a noticeable difference in snappiness when loading pages or browsing the web. The benefits are best seen if you keep Firefox open for a long time (who ever … Read More

Official: iPhone Event on October 4th, Apple Confirms

Sep 27, 2011 - 6 Comments
official iPhone event invite for October 4th

Apple has confirmed the expected October 4th iPhone media event by sending out invites to a small group of press. The image above, sent to AllThingsD, ThisIsMyNext, SlashGear, and LoopInsight shows the invite to a 10:00AM PST event on their Cupertino campus, which only says “Let’s talk iPhone.” There is increasing evidence that the release … Read More

Control What Apps Restore Windows in OS X Lion with RestoreMeNot

Sep 27, 2011 - 7 Comments
RestoreMeNot controls specific apps to restore or not in OS X Lion

OS X Lion’s Restore function is what causes app windows to re-open after you’ve relaunched an app, and people seem to either love it or hate it. Sure you can turn it off completely, but that’s a bit overkill if you only don’t want certain apps to restore their windows, and still want resume to … Read More

What Will iPhone 5 Look Like? Contradictory Reports Show Nobody Knows

Sep 26, 2011 - 8 Comments
iPhone 5 said to look like iPhone 4

Two vastly different analyst reports do a great job of indicating the immense confusion surrounding the next-gen iPhone launch, which is due next week on October 4th. While some analysts are continuing to predict an all new redesigned iPhone 5 released alongside a low-end iPhone 4S, other reports suggest only one new iPhone is going … Read More

Reverse Horizontal Scrolling in Mac OS X

Sep 26, 2011 - 9 Comments
Reverse Horizontal Scrolling to be Natural in Mac OS X

Reverse scrolling, better known as ‘natural scrolling’ for OS X Lion users, is when the content on screen follows your finger movements, just like iOS. This is activated by default for vertical scrolling, but what about horizontal? Oddly enough, scrolling left and right maintains the old style scrolling behavior, moving the content away from your … Read More

“Show Package Contents” Unavailable? Extract .pkg Files Without Installing Them

Sep 26, 2011 - 6 Comments
Extract Package (.pkg) file contents without installing them in Mac OS X

Have you ever wanted to get a look at the contents of a package file on the Mac, but without installing it? You can do that with the help of an excellent command line. This continues on with our series of inspecting the contents of app installers, and in this case we’ll demonstrate how to … Read More

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