Sync Snow Leopard iCal Events with iCloud

iCloud has some exciting new features that will inevitably tempt you into upgrading. Perhaps you jumped out there and upgraded to iCloud without understanding what you were about to loose from Mobile Me. If you have upgraded to iCloud but still have a Snow Leopard system around you can still …

Steve Jobs 1955  2011

Rest in Peace Steve Jobs… ;’-( There will NEVER be another as passionate as you. No one will ever fill your shoes. Thank you for creating Apple and bringing it back to the masses. Thank you for fighting as long as you did. Rest well my Apple brother, safe passage. …

Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date?

Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date? Many people use Dropbox to share and synchronize files, but few people know when updates to the program are available. The application itself has no updater, and no notification when new versions are released. So, in order to find out if you need …

Sully’s Top 5 OS X 10.7 Lion Tweaks

Disable “Natural Scrolling” – Wow, this might be a good idea on the iPhone or iPad but seriously you expect me to use this on my 27″ iMac. Let’s turn this setting off first! 1) Open System Preferences and select the “Mouse or Trackpad” icon under the Hardware section 2) …

How to make a bootable Lion install Disc

Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, Lion (OS X 10.7) doesn’t ship on a bootable disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t require a bootable installation disc. Indeed, this lack of physical media is perhaps the biggest complaint about …

Shift It Gets Forked to ShiftIt

A while back I wrote about a nice little window management app called “Shift It“. Unfortunately Shift It has been abandoned by its developer. The good news is it has been forked by Filip Krikava to “ShiftIt”. ShiftIt has some exciting new enhancements. First and foremost the app finally has …

ShowPass | Safari Password Input Revealer

ShowPass is a simple extension that defeats Safari’s behavior to hide what you’re typing into password fields. Name: ShowPass Author: Canisbos Computing | Website | Download Description (from author):This trivial little Safari extension does one trivial little thing: When you move the mouse over a password input field (the kind that shows …

Dropbox Tips & Tricks – My Top 5

I love Dropbox; it’s simply amazing and über helpful. Appstorm has published several posts with some really useful Dropbox tips. Below are the five tips and ticks I can’t live without. Tips & Tricks If you’re not familiar with Dropbox, let me first start out by saying you’ve been missing …

Farmville Now On the iPhone

Those crops need harvesting! Social phenomenon Farmville is now available on the iPhone and iPod touch. A portable iteration of Zynga’s popular farming simulation game was originally announced for Apple’s portables at this year’s WWDC, and the application is now available in all iTunes stores. The farming game, which sees …

25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now

Apple’s new Safari 5 brings support for browser extensions. Until Apple showcases the extensions on its own gallery in a few months, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorites. To learn more about using Safari, check out our Safari 101 screencast on TechUniversity (subscription required). Web & Utilities …

iTunes – Finally DRM Free

Everyone stand-up and applaud… It’s about damn time! Apple announced that  starting today “iTunes Plus is the new standard”. Not only is the music DRM free it is 256-Kbps AAC encoded. Awesome! High-quality, DRM-free music. iTunes Plus is the new standard on iTunes. Now, you can choose from millions of …