iPhone OS 4.0

I’ve been using the iPhone OS 4.0 beta since last week, and so far I’m very impressed. There a few things that haven’t gotten a lot of attention elswhere and I I’ll point them out here. Cellular Data switch: This is great news for people outside of the US and UK who have limited data [...]

Sending and Receiving Texts on your Mac

If you despise the cramped keypad of your mobile phone, or just don’t like the interruption of reading and sending SMS mesages while working on your Mac, there is a better solution. Have you ever wished you could send and receive your text messages right on your computer screen? You can, using a little piece [...]

ZoomOut on OS X

UPDATE: I’m happy to report that the Zoom + Screen Sharing issue has been resolved in Snow Leopard. The remote Mac will now zoom out when using the normal keyboard commands. Using the built-in zoom and screen sharing capabilities (or any VNC) together on OS X can be a real pain in the posterior. If you [...]

One Boot Fits All

While people would rarely choose to share their boots, its perfectly acceptable to share ones boot disk. Amongst your computers that is. After a series of unfortunate events surrounding my Mac OS X Leopard disc, I found that there are many ways you can get a fresh copy of OS X running on your Mac. It started a [...]

MobileMe Without the MassiveFee

Want to sync to your address book, calendar, and bookmarks? Don’t want to pay $100 a year? Doh. That’s the answer of yesterday, because I’ve got some news for you. Now you can sync your stuff seamlessly and for FREE. That’s right, after waiting on a little or no cost solution for years; someone has finally stepped [...]