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Yes- you are doing it WRONG!!! I beg you to please turn your smartphone horizontally while recording video. I know it looks normal when you watch it back on your phone but I assume you plan on sharing with others not looking at your phone (like Facebook, YouTube, Etc). The …
After having to manually fix the A12E1 Adobe Cloud Update issue for the umpteenth time I figured I would put together a little Automator Workflow to do the magic for me automatically. If you are a Mac user and you randomly get hit with the “We’ve encountered the following issues: …
We all love making our iPhones unique to our individual tastes. From custom cases to steampunk backgrounds there is something out there for all of us. When a friend of mine showed me that he had found a way to change his AT&T iPhone carrier logo to an Apple logo …
As of Apple TV update 5.1 you can rearrange the App Icons on your Apple TV home screen (excluding top row). Simply press and hold the “Select” button on your remote until the icons jiggle. Move them as you see fit and click the Select button again to complete the …
I often find myself wanting to delete files on my Mac without needing to empty the Trash after. This is particularly useful when deleting large files and/or files on mounted (external) drives. The following is a super-simple way to add a service to your Finder menu allowing you to skip …
I periodically check my User Login Items to see if any recently installed applications have added themselves to my system startup. Login Items can greatly increase the amount of time it takes to boot your Mac. We all have applications we want to open every time we boot. The problem …
I used to love using Dashboard in OS X. I occasionally use it on my work system but on my home iMac the Dashboard is just sitting idol wasting CPUs. It never bothered me until I installed Mountain Lion. I occasionally use the side-swipe on my mouse and hated ending …
Apple isn’t currently offering a USB or optical disc installer for Mountain Lion. The super simple “Lion Diskmaker” app has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media. The following steps will help you create your own Mountain …
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iTunes Match gives subscribers access to 256kbps AAC versions of their audio files, even if they are at lower bitrates and regardless of – ahem – origin. To replace all of your lower-bitrate songs in your library with higher-quality files from iTunes Match, use a Smart Playlist to replaces only …
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 …
One of the coolest features of iOS 5 is the ability to snap a picture directly from the lock screen. I’m sure you were a little bewildered (like myself) when you unlocked your phone and the camera icon wasn’t showing… WTF? No, its not in the Settings panel. From your …
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. …
Apple has confirmed the expected October 4th iPhone media event by sending out invites to a small group of press. Get your credit card ready!
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 …
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) …
It is ridiculously difficult to export contacts from Microsoft Outlook to Apple Address Book. Hopefully this quick how-to will help you out. There might be some automated programs out there doing this but this FREE process isn’t that painful. Note/Warning: I would recommend backing up your current Mac Address Book …
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 …
To get started, Log Out of your current session. Then select your username and choose Ubuntu Classic from the list shown below. Done! Via: http://www.liberiangeek.net
Malware-fearing Mac users have been able to breathe easier since Apple released Security Update 2011-003 earlier this week. The key elements of the Security Update were that it successfully detected and removed a couple variants of the Mac Defender Trojan horse, and also added a daily check for new malware …
Move over Mac Defender—there’s a new malware variant in town, and it doesn’t require the administrator password for installation. Security research firm Intego issued a new warning to Mac users on Wednesday, heavily cautioning users that a new variant on Mac Defender, called Mac Guard, is making the rounds via …
How to fix any computer – The Oatmeal.
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 …
Ten years ago Apple launched a revolutionary new operating system called “OS X”. OS 10.0 Cheetah was released on March 24th, 2001. Happy Birthday – Keep on rockin you awesome little kitty!
Ladies and gentlemen, start your mass speculometers: Apple has announced a special event to be held next week in San Francisco. The event, which is scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific on March 2 will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a venue Apple has used for …
