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Super Mario Brothers Clone Appears on iOS App Store

Apr 28, 2011 - 1 Comment
Super Mario Brothers rip-off

This won’t last long. A blatant rip-off of Super Mario Brothers has appeared for sale on the iOS App Store. Other than having slightly renamed characters, the game (called 莫尼诺拯救总动员 which translates roughly to “The Save Monino Story”), is practically identical to Super Mario Brothers. Here’s the ridiculous description: The protagonist of this game named … Read More

Show Only Currently Active Apps in the Mac OS X Dock

Apr 28, 2011 - 13 Comments
Finder icon on the Mac

You can set the Mac Dock to only show actively running apps, making it perform a bit like a task manager rather than an application launcher. This is a great trick if you prefer a minimalist Mac OS X desktop and Dock. In order to set the Dock to only display currently active apps, you’ll … Read More

Make Safari on iPhone Launch Faster with a Blank Page

Apr 27, 2011 - 3 Comments
Speed up Safari on iPhone

Have you ever noticed that when you launch Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, before you can really use the app it often has to refresh the last active web page? This slows down your browsing, and while on newer hardware it doesn’t happen too often and it’s not a terribly long delay, … Read More

Bypass the New York Times Paywall with Safari Reader

Apr 27, 2011 - 5 Comments
Read NYT Paywall Article with Safari Reader

We showed you how to read NYT articles for free using Google but if you have Safari there’s an even easier method: Safari Reader.

White iPhone 4 Release Date is Officially Tomorrow, April 28

Apr 27, 2011 - 2 Comments
white iPhone 4 release date finally

The white iPhone 4 is finally being released tomorrow, April 28, in both a GSM and CDMA variety. This is about 10 months later than expected, but hey, better late than never right? Phil Schiller says this about the fashionably late white iPhone finally arriving: “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful… … Read More

iPhone Location Tracking is a “Bug” and a Software Fix is Coming, says Apple

Apr 27, 2011 - 3 Comments

Apple has released a statement on the whole iPhone location tracking data hooplah, and in short, Apple is not tracking your location and has no plans to do so, the file you’re seeing is the result of a bug. These responses come from the press release, which is a 10 question long Q&A post, and … Read More

Easily Estimate App Sales & Downloads of any iOS & iTunes Store App

Apr 27, 2011 - 6 Comments

Getting specific information about iTunes & iOS App Store downloads is notoriously difficult, very few developers are candid enough to share download counts and the majority of developers guard download data for competitive reasons. If you’re curious how well a specific app in the iOS iTunes Store is selling, try using this quick and dirty … Read More

iPad Lego Hockey

Apr 26, 2011 - Leave a Comment
lego iPad hockey

I like legos, I like Air Hockey, and I like iPads. It had to be posted. This reminds me a bit of the Steve Jobs & Storm Troopers shot, but I’m not sure if there’s any relation. I also don’t know if that’s a real Air Hockey app for iPad, but it would be fun … Read More

Disable Wake From Sleep When Opening the Lid of a MacBook Pro

Apr 26, 2011 - 7 Comments

If you don’t want your MacBook Pro to wake from sleep when you open the lid of the machine, all you need to do is launch the Terminal and type the following command:

Partition a Hard Drive in Mac OS X

Apr 26, 2011 - 37 Comments
Partition a Mac Hard Drive

If you want to create a new partition, modify a partition table, or remove an existing partition from any hard disk drive in Mac OS X, you won’t need to use anything fancy other than the bundled Disk Utility app that comes with all versions of Mac OS X. Disk Utility has all the tools … Read More

Watch the Royal Wedding Live Online from your iPhone or iPad

Apr 26, 2011 - Leave a Comment
watch Royal Wedding online from iPhone

Apparently the Royal Wedding is a big deal, with an expected viewing audience of up to 2.4 billion people (yes, billion) watching the ceremony. If you’re one of these 2.4 billion people, you’ll be happy to find out you can watch the whole thing live directly from your iPhone or iPad thanks to YouTube streaming … Read More

Change the Admin Password with Mac OS X Single User Mode

Apr 25, 2011 - 65 Comments
Change Unknown Admin Password in Mac OS X

If you’re in IT, or just fixing Grandmas Mac, it’s not too uncommon to get a machine where you don’t have the admin users password. If you find yourself in this situation, you can easily change the Admin password, or any other users, simply by booting into Mac OS X‘s command line Single User Mode. … Read More

Is this iPhone 5? Pictures of alleged iPhone with larger screen leak out of China

Apr 25, 2011 - 4 Comments
iPhone 5 display possibly leaked

Are these pictures of the next-gen iPhone 5? Images have surfaced on Chinese website MIC Gadget that show what appears to be a white iPhone with a larger screen. The side-by-side image above shows a traditional iPhone 4 display on the left, and on the right is a mystery iPhone display piece with a larger … Read More

Mac OS X Lion to be available on DVD?

Apr 25, 2011 - 3 Comments
Mac OS X Lion Installer DVD maybe

The DVD may not be dead yet after all. It looks like Mac OS X 10.7 Lion may be offered on traditional DVD installation disks in addition to the more modern and fancy App Store download distribution and USB installer keys. The possible leak comes from a German Amazon page for the upcoming release of … Read More

Mac OS X Lion Theme for Windows 7

Apr 25, 2011 - 41 Comments
Mac OS X Lion Theme for Windows

Are you stuck with a Windows PC at work? Maybe you just prefer the look of Mac OS X to Windows? If you’re bored of the Mac OS X 10.6 theme for Windows, spice things up with an all new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion theme for Windows 7! The theme pack is pretty detailed … Read More

Get a Macs Serial Number from the Command Line

Apr 25, 2011 - 11 Comments
Get a Mac Serial Number the easy way from About This Mac overview

You can quickly retrieve any Macs serial number via the command line by using the ioreg or system_profiler command and grep for the serial string. Getting the serial number from the command line like this can be helpful for troubleshooting, Single User Mode, remote management with SSH, or for many other reasons, though most users … Read More

iPad vs iPad 2 Speed Comparison Video

Apr 24, 2011 - 5 Comments

Wondering how fast the iPad 2 is compared to an iPad in real world tests? This video of side-by-side speed tests shows typical iPad usage, things like booting, launching various apps, and shutting down. You’ll see the iPad 2 excels in most areas but lags, oddly, in shutting down. If you don’t want to watch … Read More

High Resolution Icons in Mac OS X Lion Further Hint at Mac Retina Displays?

Apr 24, 2011 - 4 Comments
high resolution icons in Mac OS X Lion

Several applications in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion include unusually high resolution icons, providing another hint that Apple may be laying the groundwork to support retina displays on the Mac platform. The icons measure in at 1024×1024, which are double the current maximum Mac OS X icon resolution of 512×512. The doubling of pixels and … Read More

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