Posted 3 days, 20 hours ago at 4:42 pm. 0 comments
Did you know that if you hold down SHIFT-COMMAND-4 you can take a picture of any part of your screen? Press SHIFT-COMMAND-4 and your cursor will turn into a cross-hair. (Try it right now!) Click and drag over anything and you can take a picture. It’s how most of the small pictures on this website are made.
Useful for all kinds of things, for example:
Grab a screenshot of a keynote graph:
Grab a heading from pages:
Grab a receipt from a webpage:
Or any information you want to keep:
I use Shift-Apple-4 a few times every day!
Also, Shift-Apple-3 takes a shot of the entire screen – I use this much less.
Posted 5 days, 15 hours ago at 10:06 pm. 0 comments
Selling a 3G iphone here.
Posted 1 week ago at 3:27 pm. 0 comments
Connecting your laptop to the internet through your iPhone is called tethering. It’s useful if you are out with your macbook and you don’t have access to the web. You can surf the web on your laptop using your phone as a wireless modem. It was made possible with iPhone Software Version 3. Here’s how to turn it on.
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Posted 1 week, 3 days ago at 6:24 pm. 8 comments
You’ve made a webpage, but people are complaining that it’s too slow to load.
It may be that they have a slow computer, or it may be that your webpage has too many large files in it, and it should be made smaller. Safari can tell you how many files it needs to load, and how big they are. Here’s how. Continue Reading…
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 9:55 pm. 4 comments
There is a noticeable lack of any notetaking app for mac that will sync with an iphone. By notetaking application I mean an application that you can use like a notepad: Write down thoughts on a topic. Come back later and find them. Add a few more notes when you want to. A new application, Shovebox seems to be OK, although it’s still early days…
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Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 12:29 am. 0 comments
To watch digital TV on you mac you first need some hardware to get a signal into your computer, then you need software to display it and record programs etc. Continue Reading…
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 10:12 pm. 0 comments
1. To integrate things and ical, look here. This will put all your things next and today items into ical.
2. To integrate mail with things, use this script. Place it in your mail scripts folder (User/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail), or put it anywhere and use the free beta version of Mail Act on from here or you can download the latest full verion from here). It will take the current email and turn it into a things todo without you even leaving mail.
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 8:55 pm. 1 comment
Here is an iPhone ringtone I made based on the 1980’s Dr Who TV theme.
Right click here to download.
1. Double Click it to put it into itunes.
2. Sync your iphone
3. Select it from settings/sounds/ringtones.