If jail-breaking is your thing, here’s your chance to crack the latest iOS released a few days ago. I must confess that i have a few reasons against it…. voids your warranty (if something goes wrong and you can’t restore, you’re screwed), certain things cause the iPhone to lag considerably, if you want to be able to upgrade [...]
Tethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
March 27, 2011
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MacBook Battery: how to improve its life
To keep the battery of your MacBook operating at maximum efficiency and to keep the onscreen battery time and percent displaying accurately, the application Watts can be handy. This neat little application contains some important suggestions on how to prolong your battery’s life. It will guide you through the process of calibration, and schedule your next calibration. [...]
March 26, 2011
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iPad 2: how to migrate from your previous iPad
You are one of the lucky ones who managed to snatch an iPad 2. Here’s how you can transfer all your preferences, applications, pictures etc from the old one to the new one. 1. Back up the old iPad Plug into your computer the old iPad. iTunes should launch automatically, if not launch iTunes and [...]
March 24, 2011
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OS X is 10 years old today: Happy Birthday
Today, 10 years ago the Cheetah was born. It was the beginning of OSX. Mac OS X is the tenth major version of Apple’s operating system for Macintosh computers. Previous Macintosh operating systems were named using Arabic numerals, e.g. Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. The letter X in Mac OS X’s name refers to the number 10, a Roman numeral. [...]
March 24, 2011
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VLC 1.1.8 just been released: Go get it!
VLC is one of the MUST applications that every Mac/Windows/Linux user should have on their computer. For those who are new to it, this is a very powerful media player capable of playing everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD), Devices and Streams. By far this is my favorite media player…i’ve never had an issue and it [...]
March 24, 2011
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OS X: Change booting drive during startup
In OS X startup drive can be changed during system boot by holding down the OPTION key, this will bring up the boot drive manager. Selecting a boot drive from this menu will not change your default drive, this is a one-time only choice of which drive to start from. This could be useful if you [...]
March 24, 2011
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It’s time to talk to your browser!
A new Beta version of the latest Google Chrome 11 is now available and it has an amazing voice to search extension as you might have seen already on the iOS version. You speak to the browser by way of HTML5 and it does the search for you! Speechify is an extension that Dugley Labs [...]
March 28, 2011
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