Preview: iPhone Remote App Gets Apple TV Gesture Goodness

Preview: iPhone Remote App Gets Apple TV Gesture Goodness

June 24, 2009 in Reviews by Mark

Today Apple quietly released an update to their Apple TV, version 2.4. Adding support for iPhone gestures via the Apple Remote App version 1.3. Here is a preview of the new functionality in the Apple Remote App update.

How-To: Email Important Event Reminders to Your Cellphone

How-To: Email Important Event Reminders to Your Cellphone

in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you sometimes need a reminder for an important event or meeting? If you leave your home or office computer on at all times, it’s easy with a few steps to setup your Address Book and iCal to send you an email.

Review: Push Notification is Live with Beejive IM 3.0

Review: Push Notification is Live with Beejive IM 3.0

June 22, 2009 in Reviews by Mark

Here it is, Beejive 3.0 with Push Notification for the iPhone! We discuss some of its basic changes and give you the pros and cons of their latest release.

Disk Utility: Trouble Formatting or Erasing that Windows PC Hard Drive?

Disk Utility: Trouble Formatting or Erasing that Windows PC Hard Drive?

in Tips & Tricks by Mark

So you are trying to format a drive you know is setup for PC or Windows. You keep getting an error stating Disk Erase failed, or /dev/rdisk1s1: partition size not a multiple of 4K. Its not so much an error, but rather a common oversight.

Review: TweetDeck for iPhone

Review: TweetDeck for iPhone

June 18, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

After many months of waiting TweetDeck is finally available on the iPhone. It is available for free and is available in the App Store.

Like its big brother on the desktop, TweetDeck for iPhone also makes use of customizable columns for tweets, replies, direct messages and searches. To move between columns, just swipe between them and tap to make any column active.

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Clicking on a specific tweet brings up the details pane, which allows you to reply, retweet, send DMs, email tweets and even mark as a favorite. An additional benefit of TweetDeck is the ability to use multiple Twitter accounts, with each one in its own dedicated column.

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TweetDeck also allows the setup and creation of groups, where you can group related friends together and even setup custom searches. The application also allows you to tweet photos using Twitpic or YFrog and even provides URL shortening.

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If you are already a user of their desktop application, the iPhone application will sync with the desktop version allowing you to stay up-to-date both with the desktop version and on the road using the iPhone app.

How To: Enable Tethering On Your iPhone with OS 3.0

How To: Enable Tethering On Your iPhone with OS 3.0

June 17, 2009 in How-To by Josh

Heres a quick guide on how to enable tethering on any iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0-without jailbreaking-on your Mac.

Tips & Tricks: Customize the Dock

Tips & Tricks: Customize the Dock

in Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Just like everything else on the Mac, the Dock can be customized to suit your specific tastes. Would you like the Dock to disappear and only appear when needed, or would the Dock along the side of your screen work better, or are the icons too big or small?

There are several ways to customize the Dock; either using System Preferences, Dock Options in the Apple menu, or a “secret” pop-up menu in the Dock itself.

Photoshop CS4 Disable Canvas Rotation (Zoom & Rotate) via Trackpad Plug-in for Mac

Photoshop CS4 Disable Canvas Rotation (Zoom & Rotate) via Trackpad Plug-in for Mac

June 16, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Mark

Apple worked closely with Adobe during the development of Photoshop CS4 in order to take advantage of the new multitouch gestures supported by the new Macbook Pro and Air systems. Anyone who has editing in Photoshop with their trackpad will soon notice how easy it is to accidentally activate the Canvas Rotation and begin rotating and zooming your image.

Security: Delete Files and Erase Disks Securely

Security: Delete Files and Erase Disks Securely

June 15, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

So, what happens when you move a file to the Trash and empty the Trash, it’s gone, right? Well not exactly.

In reality OS X is just marking the disk sectors as available to store new data. Until a new file overwites that location just about any hard drive recovery or forensic tool could recover that data.

How to Setup Remote Access via VNC - Mac Based Remote Desktop for Mac PC Linux iPhone

How to Setup Remote Access via VNC ? Mac Based Remote Desktop for Mac PC Linux iPhone

June 12, 2009 in How-To by Mark

How to configure your Macintosh for Remote Access with VNC in order to allow Remote Desktop access from your Mac, PC, Linux Distro, or even iPhone. Additionally we cover Dynamic DNS setup, and DHCP reservations to use in conjunction with your Remote Desktop setup.

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