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How to Jailbreak iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on iOS 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0

May 25, 2012 - 47 Comments
How to Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0

The newly released Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak app may be one of the easiest to use jailbreaking tools of all time. If you’re interested in exploring the jailbreak world or running third party tweaks on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, here is how to jailbreak any such device that is running iOS 5.1.1, yes that … Read More

Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 Released [Download Links]

May 25, 2012 - 57 Comments
Absinthe 2.0

The much anticipated Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak has been released by the JailbreakDreamTeam. The utility allows for an untethered jailbreak of iOS 5.1.1 on virtually all idevices, including iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th gen.

9 Rumors About iPhone 5 That Are Most Likely To Be True

May 24, 2012 - 33 Comments
The next iPhone (5?) mockup with a bigger display

iPhone rumor season is in full bloom and there’s a lot of crazy speculation going on out there. We’ve weeded through all the iPhone 5 rumors and picked nine that are most likely to be true, though it’s important to remember that until Apple officially announces something it’s all speculation: 4″ Display – A larger … Read More

Check Hard Drive Health of a Mac with Disk Utility

May 24, 2012 - 27 Comments
Check Hard Drive health of a Mac with OS X Disk Utility

It’s a good idea to check the hard drive health of a Mac as part of a periodic maintenance routine. Doing this is extremely easy with Disk Utility, and we’ll cover exactly how to verify hard disks, how to repair them, and what to do if you encounter any issues or errors in the process. … Read More

What Happens When Two Mac Fans Get Married?

May 24, 2012 - 27 Comments
Mac Wedding picture

What do you get when you combine two Apple fans on wedding day? A wedding picture featuring husband and wife using their MacBook Pro’s, of course. We typically post interesting Mac setups on Saturdays, but Gabor P sent in this cute picture of he and his wife using their Macs on that special day, and … Read More

Use Airplane Mode with Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Enabled on an iPhone or iPad

May 24, 2012 - 6 Comments
Airplane mode with Wi-Fi turned on

If you want to use an iPhone or iPad during a plane flight, you’re supposed to turn Airplane mode on to disable the built-in wireless communication aspects of the device. Airplane mode disables cellular and 3G/4g connectivity, GPS, wi-fi, and Bluetooth capabilities, but how are you supposed to use inflight wi-fi service if everything is … Read More

New iPhone 4S Commercials Feature Siri & John Malkovich

May 23, 2012 - 7 Comments
iPhone 4S commercials with John Malkovich

Apple has started to air two new iPhone 4S commercials, this time featuring actor John Malkovich speaking with Siri. The first ad, shown below, is titled “Life” and features Siri getting philosophical in response to a simple inquiry about life, replying with: “Try and be nice to people. Avoid eating fat. Read a good book … Read More

Instantly See All Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac Apps with CheatSheet

May 23, 2012 - 33 Comments
CheatSheet shows all keyboard shortcuts for an app in Mac OS X

There are so many keyboard shortcuts throughout Mac OS X and it’s myriad of third party apps that it’s easy to forget them or get lost trying to memorize the sea of keystrokes for each app. This is where CheatSheet will make your life easier, it’s a tiny free application that sits in the background … Read More

Figure Out Which Direction You Are Facing With iPhone & Maps

May 23, 2012 - 4 Comments
Find which way you are facing using the iPhone and Maps

The iPhone has the Compass app to help show you which direction you are facing, but if you’re in an area with cellular reception a much more practical and useful approach is to use the Maps app. This lets you see which direction you are facing on a map of the area, so you can … Read More

How to Create a Disk Image of an Entire Mac Hard Drive

May 23, 2012 - 10 Comments
Create a disk image of a Mac hard drive

You can create an image of a Mac hard drive with the help of a free third party utility called Carbon Copy Cloner. The resulting disk image will be saved as the familiar .dmg format, which has a number of potential uses ranging from creating a drive clone for backup purposes, restoring the image elsewhere … Read More

Bring Color Icons Back to the Mac OS X Finder Easily with SideEffects

May 22, 2012 - 25 Comments
Color Sidebar icons made easy with SideEffects

If you want color icons back in your OS X Finder window sidebar but don’t want to deal with the existing procedures of manually installing SIMBL and the other components, grab SideEffects instead. SideEffects is a simple package that includes the three necessary components to add color back to Finder sidebar icons; SIMBL, ColorfulSidebar, and … Read More

Install wget in Mac OS X Without Homebrew or MacPorts

May 22, 2012 - 89 Comments
Install wget in Mac OS X

Want to have wget on Mac without Homebrew or MacPorts for whatever reason? You can do that by building wget from source at the command line. The command line tool wget lets you retrieve a group of files from FTP and HTTP protocols, it’s a very useful utility for web developers and powerusers to have … Read More

Turn a Python, Perl, Ruby, or Shell Script Into a Self Contained Application for Mac OS X

May 22, 2012 - 3 Comments
Script turned into a self contained Mac OS X app

Platypus is an excellent utility that lets you turn virtually any script into a self-contained Mac OS X application. Free and remarkably simple to use, Platypus will support just about any shell script, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, AppleScript, Expect, and even other scripting languages.

Quickly Minimize Windows in Mac OS X with a Keyboard Shortcut or Double-Click

May 21, 2012 - 19 Comments
Double Click a Window Title Bar to Minimize it in Mac OS X

Virtually everyone knows you can click the yellow pill button in the upper left corner of a window to minimize a window in Mac OS X, but there are actually a few other ways minimize windows faster than that. The first is my preferred method which is a quick keystroke, and the other lets you … Read More

Not Enough Storage for iCloud Backup from iOS? Here Are 2 Solutions

May 21, 2012 - 17 Comments
Not Enough Storage message from iCloud backup

Running out of iCloud backup capacity happens quick whether you have a single iPhone or a handful of iOS devices. You’ll know this has happened because you get a friendly popup informing you of “Not Enough Storage” and that the automatic backup can not occur as a result. So what to do? There’s really two … Read More

Consultant’s Canary is the Ultimate Troubleshooting Aid for Mac OS X

May 21, 2012 - 5 Comments
Consultants Canary for Mac OS X

Troubleshooting computer problems is never particularly fun, and with so many potential third party add-ons, plugins, extensions, scripts, and whatever else is buried into OS X, how are you supposed to find everything to help determine what’s causing an issue? You need Consultant’s Canary, because whether you’re troubleshooting your own Mac or someone else’s, it’s … Read More

How to Set Manual DHCP and Static IP Address on iPad or iPhone

May 19, 2012 - 19 Comments
Speed up iPhone networking with new DNS

Certain Wi-Fi networks require clients to use static IP addresses or manual DHCP information in order for a device to connect properly to that network. Adjusting the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to use a static IP address or manual DHCP settings is easy in iOS, here’s how you can do it with any version … Read More

Mac Setups: Mac Music Studio & Development Workstation

May 19, 2012 - 16 Comments
Mac Music Studio & Development Workstation

This weeks Mac setup is brimming with hardware for both work and play. Coming to us from Terkel G, this awesome workstation features a couple of decked out Macs, iOS gear, and lots of other hardware for programming and making music. Hardware shown includes: iMac 27″ top line 2011 model Apple Cinema Display MacBook Pro … Read More

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