Tag: Tips
Lion DiskMaker is your one click solution to a bootable Lion install disk
With the introduction of Lion, Apple has shifted to a digital only distribution model. Lion DiskMaker helps you get back to your roots by helping you create...
Sick of Tumblr downtime? Backup your blog ASAP.
Tumblr is a great blogging service. It works well, and the UI is great, but they have been extremely unstable lately. For some people, twenty-three...
Awesome tip: Use Wingdings and Emoji in your iOS folder names
We can’t take any credit for this, but we thought the tip was so good that we’ve decided to pass it along. The tip comes...
How to Setup Gmail Over IMAP to Play Nice Within Mac OS X Mail
So, you want to use Mac OS X Mail with Gmail? While Snow Leopard makes the default setup very easy, there are some rough edges of...
Add Keyboard Shortcuts to your Apps
I’m in love with Safari. I’m inside of it more than any other application on my Mac. It works well, but I was starting to...
3 suggestions for iPhone and Touch game developers
A couple weeks back we wrote an article about the A.D.D levels that iPhone users have. It came on the back of some reports that...
Zune HD and iPod: an objective Comparison
Many news sites have been comparing the new Zune HD and the iPod lines. I will not argue that they have their own opinions, yet...
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server: Problematic Items and tips
I’ve been running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server for just over a week now and I have definitely found a few items that...
Snow Leopard’s Release is Just Around the Corner
Who’s ready to upgrade to Snow Leopard? With only days before it goes on sale, you might be asking yourself, will Snow Leopard work on...
Create iPhone Ringtones from your iTunes Library
Here’s how to create ringtones for your iPhone right from your iTunes library. This will only work with songs you ripped to iTunes, or the...
iPhone icons and what they mean
The iPhone has a ton of icons that change on occasion, and leave people extremely confused about what’s going on with their devices. These “iPhone...
Tip: Disable “Shake to Shuffle” in iPhone OS 3.0
After picking up my iPhone 3GS on Friday morning, I was listening to some music on the way home from work. I keep my iPhone...
Here’s a quick mail tip for you–replying text.
Some people find it necessary to reply to emails in their entirety. There’s some benefits to that, but for most occasions it would probably be...
Turn a video podcast into an audio only version right on your iPhone.
I don’t really have any scientific evidence to suggest that audio only podcasts don’t kill battery life as fast as video podcasts do, but common...
Tip: Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
I was advised today by Mr. Macgasm that native builds of Chrome were finally being released by the fine folks at Google. Naturally, being a...
Quick Tip – iPhoto Trash
So, after a terribly frustrating day trying to get a huge .pdf into something that might be acceptably viewable on my iPod Touch, I tried...
Tip and Trick Bonanza!
Hi Everyone! It seems like I’m the latest edition to Macgasm’s blogging team and I wanted to share something good with you, just to kick...
iPhone tips and tricks, and a little diatribe
This blog started off as a nice little way for me to remember things I’ve come across in my journey through the great switch. I...