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iTunes purchasing and international fees

27. February 2010

Article By: Cesar Garcia As any other iPhone user, I need some apps. At first, I tried out a bunch of free apps, but after some time I gave in. I journeyed over to the for-pay side of the App Store. All that polish, all those big titles, all those non-fart apps. I have grown [...]

Traveling with Apple Gadgets

17. February 2010

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My girlfriend and I booked a trip to London for later in this summer. With us actually having booked the trip, I have begun thinking about what type of gadgets will be needed for the trip. Here is the list I have thus far: In lieu of bringing a laptop I am planning on bringing an iPad [...]

Shedding light on those hidden files that are lurking in the dark.

11. January 2010

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Nothing annoys me more than backing up files from the sites web server only to find out that my .htaccess file has gone missing. It’s a real pain. Sure having a file named as only an extension is part of the problem, and we’ve shown you how to view extensions in the Finder [...]

Killall is your Friend…if you need to fix a crash or two.

8. January 2010

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Killall is your Friend…if you need to fix a crash or two.

The terminal is a powerful tool. Getting yourself acclimatized to its inner workings is very valuable. If you mastered DOS at any point in your life, then the terminal shouldn’t be any more daunting. They’re different, but the principles remain the same. Sometimes the fastest way to unfreeze some system crashes is to [...]

Mac OS X Server: Remove an errant Zone from DNS.

25. November 2009

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Since moving, I’ve had to re-think my entire strategy for getting my Xbox online. I have a decent (but currently broken) 26″ Monitor that can display 1080p. While attempting to hook my Xbox up via my iMac’s ethernet port I ran into an issue. This was specifically related to DNS. I had [...]

Syncing your Home Folders with ChronoSync.

24. November 2009

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Syncing your Home Folders with ChronoSync.

First thing’s first, backup twice. Then check them thrice. There’s a number of options for syncing your home folders on the Mac, none of them are straight forward, and each offer up a different subset of challenges, but if you can wrap your head around the complexity, they can certainly help you get your computers [...]

Mac OS X 10.6.1 Server: Server Preferences broke and how to fix it.

4. November 2009

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Server Preferences: 10.6: An Issue With running a Mac OS X 10.6.1 server, there are many things that you should not change once you set them up. One of them is the Open Directory domain. Why would you not want to change this? Good question. Besides actually breaking items that are set up [...]

Getting HTML in your Mail Footers

14. August 2009

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Alright, this is a little bit of a pain, but it’s well worth the dividends. Purists will moan aloud about putting images and html into email, but for me, it’s 2009, time to get with it. Missing out on an advertising opportunity in your email footers is something that can’t go left being all vanilla [...]

iPhone OS 3.0 is Out. Here’s some features.

17. June 2009

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iPhone OS 3.0 is Out. Here’s some features.

Copy and Paste–Finally. Cut, copy and paste for the iPhone OS has been something that a plethora of users have been requesting since iPhone OS 1.0. It took two versions, but Apple has finally determined the best way to integrate Cut, Copy and Paste into the iPhone OS and still keep with their required look [...]

Upgrading your iPhone 3G to the iPhone 3GS

8. June 2009

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After the WWDC 2009 keynote I wanted to go and buy an iPhone 3GS. The first thing to note is that you can order a new iPhone directly from Apple. However, if you’ve purchased an iPhone 3G on release date, and you’re in the United States with AT&T, you’re likely going to have [...]