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Apple recently added a new section to their website called “Find Out How”. This section provides you with 33 short tutorial videos detailing how to use some of the great features packed into Leopard. You can watch the videos online or you can download them to iTunes. I assume you can put them on your [...]
January 31st, 2008 | Posted in OS X Tips | 3 Comments
Although OS X looks great, I’m not a fan of all of the default icons that comes with it. Changing the icon of applications in Windows is simple enough, but in OS X the process may not be as obvious to some. To start changing an icon: Locate the icon you want to use and [...]
January 27th, 2008 | Posted in OS X Tips | 1 Comment
I’ve written about the NES emulator for iPhone previously, and now the SNES version is in the works. The ZOTDD group is working on are behind the soon to come SNES4iPhone app that will let you play all of your favorite Super Nintendo games. The application is currently in Beta, and there is no available [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | Posted in OS X Software | 3 Comments
The folks at Makayama have created an application that adds voice activated dialing of contacts, as well as launching bookmarks in Safari or any other installed application. You must have a jailbroken iPhone in order to use VoiceDial because you must run the installer application to install it on your phone. From the developers: “Record [...]
January 22nd, 2008 | Posted in OS X Software | 1 Comment
Growl is an event notification application that tells provides a pop up window when certain things happen such as new IMs, iTunes track changes, etc. “This is a little app hidden in the extras folder of the growl disk image. It notifies you of any hardware events, like when you plug in your mouse. On [...]
January 22nd, 2008 | Posted in OS X Software | No Comments
So after MacWorlds release of the iPhone firmware update version 1.1.3 you rushed into iTunes and downloaded it only to find your custom ringtones were gone. You’re slightly annoyed that you have to load up iToner to put them back on. Everything sync’s fine and you select your custom ringtone and notice it doesnt play [...]
January 19th, 2008 | Posted in OS X Tips | 24 Comments
A little off topic from the typical postings, but I was playing Call of Duty on Xbox 360 the other night and received a strange error message. I did some looking around but havent seen anyone else reporting this message. Xbox live has been having all kinds of problems for past 2 weeks. Not sure [...]
January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Blog | 162 Comments
Sure sitting in the airport or riding along in your car and being able to access your email and the internet from your iPhone is great. But, sometimes its not always that convenient to have such a small screen. What if you could share your iPhones EDGE connection with your laptop so you could get [...]
December 9th, 2007 | Posted in OS X Tips | 3 Comments
Quick OS X Tip: Have you ever been using an application in OS X and it either stops responding or you get the never ending spinning beach ball of death? I get it pretty frequently from one application in particular (I’m looking at you FIREFOX!) and I regularly have to do the command option escape [...]
November 28th, 2007 | Posted in OS X Tips | 1 Comment
The site has been picking up a good number of new readers and visitors everyday recently and I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the All OS X Apps page on the site. This is a page that lists all of the applications I’ve posted about in a nice organized alphabetical list. It [...]
November 24th, 2007 | Posted in OS X Software | 1 Comment