Many people have claimed that the only thing keeping them attached to Windows is iTunes, so this is for all those people. While researching the steps for jail-breaking an iOS device I stumbled upon what is the equivalent to iTunes for a Linux system. The software seems pretty solid and it runs well from my own trials, [...]
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Apple OS X Lion bug that exposes passwords
A security blunder in the most recent version of Mac OS X – 10.7.3 – apparently turns on a system-wide debut log file that contains the login passwords of every user who has logged in since the update was applied. According to Sophos’ Naked Security blog it appears that a debug option was accidentally left enabled in [...]
Converting Books for the Kindle in Mac & Apple
Amazon doesn’t go out of there way to make it clear how to use non-Amazon sources (we wouldn’t expect any less really, they have a business model to support and encourage). It’s really easy with the use of a free and open-source application called Calibre. Calibre can easily convert many, many, document formats into Kindle [...]
One of the new features of Mac OS X Lion is Lion Recovery
Which includes all the tools you need to reinstall, restore or repair your Lion installation on your Mac. Check this page: Apple’s support page for Lion Recovery One item of note is how to reinstall your iLife applications after a restore of Lion. You can just download them from the Mac App Store if Lion [...]
Untethered Jailbreak official iOS4.3.1 available for iPhone and iPad
Finally available the famous Jailbreak iOS4.3.1 expected by all, the Dev-team is not ruling the Jailbreak appeared a little less than 4 hours, at the moment is a safe Untethered Jailbreak, and everything working smoothly, the only warning follow is. If you’re using legal Iphone 4 operator can use the device without problems and use [...]
Fixed bugs in iTunes on the MacBook Air with Snow Leopard 10.6.7
Users, friends, the MacBook Air 13 “(late 2010) were reporting problems with iTunes, which completely froze the computer. Because of this, Apple today released Mac OS X 10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13 “MacBook Air (Late 2010). It is a small software update less than 500kb, which specifically corrects the error that had the MacBook Air [...]
MKVtools, free video converter for Mac OS X
The need for an application for converting video files is increasing due to the possibilities and convenience that devices like iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad offer. MKVtools is a free utility to convert a variety of popular formats like mkv or other like avi, mp4, ogm, … Operation, as in most of these applications is [...]
How to Clear DNS Cache in Mac
DNS request are usually cache, that’s good as it speeds up the lookups within the same host but sometimes we will want to clear the cache so it don’t hold the values that are no longer valid. To do that in Mac (OS Tiger and below) we used the following command: lookupd -flushcache However a [...]
New version of Safari with Extensions Gallery
After updating its computers yesterday, Apple took the next logical step today releasing the new Safari 5.0.1 with a great new twist. Apple has also formally launched the Safari extensions Gallery, a directory of extensions and browser ad-ons now available from Amazon, eBay, Bing, MLB.com, the New York Times, and Twitter. Apple introduced extension support in Safari 5 [...]
iPad Steering Wheel Mount Product Demonstration
File this under bad ideas. “I think this is a great enhancement to safety so that you don’t have to text with something down in your console”
About Net Neutrality
I never thought I would need to write about this, because I kind of assumed that in general, people know what net neutrality means. Of course, if everybody knew everything, then I wouldn’t be teaching in a university now, would I? (I’m still shocked when I watch my students write down everything I say. “Wow,” [...]
How to Uninstall Apps in OS X?
Most of the time, you can simply drag the App to the trash. That’s it. The secret is the app you just trashed is not one file but actually a special kind of folder[1] with a collection of files inside. This collection of files make up an application. Almost all apps keep track of your [...]
