Using GarageBand, MacBook users can record and edit music and sound files directly on their laptops. If you don’t care too much about the sound quality, you can use the built-in microphone or the one that comes with the headphones of your iPhone if you have one Move in a quiet, sound-proof area to minimize [...]
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PlayStation Network: hackers claim to have 2.2m credit cards!
April 30, 2011
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Between April 17th and 19th hackers attacked the Sony PlayStation network. Right after the attack Sony shut down the Network for over a week. In an underground forum, there’s an online discussion centered around a haul of 2.2m Sony customer credit card numbers that are claimed to have been copied during the attack At the [...]
Amazon $0.69 MP3 Store: let the music war begin!
April 30, 2011
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Amazon just launched a new $0.69 section on its website, which offers best-selling tracks for 69 cents apiece. That’s down from $0.89 before, which already had iTunes handily beat in terms of pricing — Apple is still asking $1.29 for many of the same songs. The good thing for us consumers, is that Apple will [...]
Unpleasant Horse: Free app of the day for iOS, limited time!
April 30, 2011
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Unpleasant Horse was rejected for “mature content,” but after tweaking a few things they’ve made it into the App Store. Unpleasant Horse is now available for free for a limited amount of time. The game’s concept is easy: jump the little winged pony from cloud to cloud and on to the backs of other, cuter flying [...]
Icy: an alternative to Cydia for jailbroken devices. How to install
April 30, 2011
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We saw yesterday Lima (HERE) which is a new web-based application with the same functionalities as Cydia. Today we have a look at Icy. Icy as well is software program just like Cydia. It enables you to browse as well as download applications, tweaks, and so on. As of now, Icy has been completely updated to work [...]
Best free maintenance tool for OSX: MainMenu
April 30, 2011
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MainMenu installs a menu item in the menu bar that gives you swift access to many of your Mac’s hidden capabilities, such as running maintenance scripts, rebuilding the Spotlight index, and clearing out user and system caches, as well as your browser’s cache. Many of the functions that MainMenu provides access to are run automatically [...]
Moving from Win to Mac: Activity Monitor
April 30, 2011
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Within the Utilities folder (Applications>Utilities) you can find the very useful but scarcely used Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor is akin to Window’s Task Manager. It displays a list of every running application and background process. Alongside that, it will also display their CPU and RAM usages. Using this utility, you can easily identify applications that [...]
April 30, 2011
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