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Email Photos from iPhoto Using Mail Rather Than Built-in Emailer

Feb 28, 2013 - 4 Comments
iPhoto built-in email

iPhoto in OS X works pretty well as a photo manager, photo stream recipient, and for making minor adjustments to images, but it’s not a mail client. That’s pretty obvious right? But iPhoto 11 thinks otherwise, at least in regards to sharing pictures from iPhoto using the “Email” option, which (slowly) launches a very stylish … Read More

Set Relationships to Contacts with Siri to Improve Natural Language Commands

Feb 28, 2013 - 4 Comments
Use Relationship commands with Siri

Defining important relationships to some of your contacts is a great way to improve Siri’s comprehension, and also to expand the personal assistants general usefulness. Take the time to set some relationships, because other than making things more practical, it allows you to greatly simplify many commands by letting you skip names entirely and just … Read More

View Browsing History on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch from Safari

Feb 27, 2013 - 30 Comments
Access Browser history on iPhone

Unlike the desktop browsers, there are no obvious “History” menus in Safari on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to help you navigate through webpages you visited earlier that you may want to access again. But that doesn’t mean there is no browsing history feature, instead it’s just slightly hidden, and accessing the browsing history … Read More

Set Up an Instant Standing Desk with iPad & Wireless Keyboard

Feb 27, 2013 - 1 Comment
Standing desk ergonomics

If you have an iPad and a wireless keyboard, you can instantly create yourself a simple standing desk setup! Standing desks are becoming more and more popular as people realize just how detrimental it is to sit all day, but anyone who has looked into the significant expenses associated with buying a standing desk knows … Read More

Get More Specific iOS Device Storage Info from iTunes

Feb 26, 2013 - 6 Comments
Audio and song info

Did you know you can get detailed information about what is stored on your iOS devices right from iTunes? The little colorful bar shown at the bottom of iTunes can reveal more specific info about storage capacity, including count totals for each respective category. This can be useful info to know if you’re looking to … Read More

5 Improvements & Features the iOS App Store Badly Needs

Feb 26, 2013 - 40 Comments
The App Store is slow

The App Store is great and all, but it could certainly use a nice tune-up and some common sense feature additions. With iOS 7 in the pipeline we’re hoping to see just that (and we’re not the only ones), so here are five things the App Store in iOS badly needs sooner than later. Whether … Read More

Perform Network Scanning & Analysis from iOS with Fing

Feb 26, 2013 - 5 Comments
Network scan from iOS with Fing

If you’ve ever wished there was a good network scanning utility for iOS you’ll be glad to find Fing. Fing is a free and powerful app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that provides detailed network discovery and analysis tools right on your iDevice.

Record System Audio Output in Mac OS X with Soundflower

Feb 25, 2013 - 19 Comments
Change Audio Input and Output from the Volume menu in Mac OS X

Capturing system audio on a Mac is not something that OS X has the native ability to be able to perform, but with the help of a great third party utility you can easily add that functionality to Mac OS X and any accompanying applications. This means you can capture and record audio output directly … Read More

iOS 6.1.3 Likely to Patch Evasi0n Jailbreak

Feb 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Evasi0n

iOS 6.1.3 is likely to patch the current Evasi0n jailbreak, one that has quickly become the most popular jailbreaking effort to reach Apple’s mobile iDevices, having run on over 7 million iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch. With information derived from the recently released developer build of iOS 6.1.3 beta 2, a member of the Evasi0n … Read More

Apple Airs New “Hollywood” iPad TV Commercial

Feb 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iPad "Hollywood" tv ad

Apple started running a new TV commercial for the iPad during the Oscars. The spot is titled “Hollywood” and demonstrates both the iPad and iPad mini running various video applications aimed at videographers and producers. The new TV ad is embedded below: Apps shown in the advertisement include iMovie, the iTunes Store, MovieSlate, 8mm, Action … Read More

Leave Your Gloves On & Keep Hands Warm by Shooting iPhone Photos with Siri

Feb 24, 2013 - 8 Comments
Take a photo with the iPhone volume button

For anyone who has taken an iPhone photo out in cold weather before, you know how chilly and uncomfortable it is to pull a warm glove off of your hands just so you can snap a quick picture of a nice snowy scene. That is usually necessary because the iPhone requires using the touch screen … Read More

Improve Apple TV 2 (5.2) with a Jailbreak & XBMC

Feb 24, 2013 - 6 Comments
XBMC can run on Apple TV 2

The Apple TV is a great living room accessory, but many with media center and home theater PC experience prefer more powerful apps like Plex and XBMC for their additional features and broader video codec support. With XBMC you can play almost any video or audio format, access shared network drives for network playback, accept … Read More

Mac Setups: Workstation of a Professional Videographer & Photographer

Feb 24, 2013 - 8 Comments
Videographer's Mac workstation

This weeks great Mac workstation comes to us from Corey S., a professional videographer and photographer based out of Dallas, TX who uses a bunch of great Apple gear to get the job done. Studio hardware shown in this setup picture includes the following gear: iMac 27″ – 3.4GHz Core i7 CPU, 12GB RAM, 1TB … Read More

Block Ads on the iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch with a Simple Trick

Feb 22, 2013 - 9 Comments
Block ads on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Have you ever wanted to block ads from showing up in apps on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch like you can for web browsers on the desktop? Of course you have, and though you can block ads in Safari in iOS, you also can block ads from many apps by using a neat little … Read More

Use Lynx Browser with Image Support in X11 for Fast Low Bandwidth Web Browsing

Feb 22, 2013 - 16 Comments
Lynx browser in X11 with image support

Longtime command line users are probably familiar with the text based web browser lynx, which strips down the web to text-only format and allows for super-fast web browsing. But lynx (links, technically) can be compiled to support graphics and run within x11, which creates a highly effective web browser for low-bandwidth situations because it strips … Read More

iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Released for Developers

Feb 21, 2013 - 2 Comments
iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2

Apple has released the second developer beta of iOS 6.1.3, a minor point release to the mobile software suite that is said to include several bug fixes. According to 9to5mac, the update features improvements to Apple Maps in Japan, and also addresses the lock screen bypass issue that was not resolved in the recently available … Read More

Adjust the Size of the Mouse Pointer in Mac OS

Feb 21, 2013 - 10 Comments
Larger cursor size in Mac OS X

Adjusting the mouse pointer sizes on a Mac is a simple way to greatly improve accessibility for individuals with visual impairments. But it’s not the only reason to increase the size of the mouse pointer on the Mac screen, and there are other uses though, for example having a less dramatic difference with just a … Read More

Automatically Stream Photos from iPhone to a Mac Screen Saver with Photo Stream

Feb 20, 2013 - 3 Comments
Stream photos from iPhone to a Mac screen saver automatically

The latest versions of iPhoto (11+) and OS X (Mountain Lion+) support Photo Stream screen savers, this means you can have your Mac display a screen saver show that automatically updates the stream of photos based on pictures that are taken on the go with an iPhone, without ever having to manually copy pictures over … Read More

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