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In: IT| Tips and Tricks| iPhone| iPod| iPod Touch
7 Dec 2008Filed under: Tips and tricks , iPhone , iPod touch Some of you may have noticed that your iPhone or iPod touch is a bit prudish. Type a salty word and you’ll likely be presented with a benign and completely inappropriate alternative (see screenshot at right). The problem (if you want to call it that) isn’t that one can’t swear, but that quickly-written sentences often have their meaning completely changed. Here’s how you can knock your iPhone off of its moral high horse
In: Applications| IT| Software| Tips and Tricks
2 Dec 2008Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Tips and tricks , Security Update: The KB article referenced is now offline. You can see the archived version here .
Filed under: Hardware , Portables , Tips and tricks , Mac 101 There’s a good tip at CreativeBits today on prolonging your battery’s life. Specifically, it’s about letting it run through “cycles.” When your battery is fully charged, be it in your laptop, iPhone or iPod, and you let it run until the device dies, you’ve used up one cycle. Over time, it will lose its ability to retain a full charge.
In: How-To| IT| Software| Tips and Tricks| Tutorials| iPhone| iTunes
6 Oct 2008Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Software , How-tos , Tips and tricks , Odds and ends , Freeware , iTunes , iPhone Remember the days when getting a ringtone up on the iPhone was about as hard as, say, fixing the economy? There were all kinds of programs you had to mess around with, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t, and most of the time, it just wasn’t worth the trouble. Cut ahead a year from those days of yore to right now, and look at this — all you need to get a ringtone of almost any song you want is iTunes itself.
In: IT| Tips and Tricks| Tutorials| iPod| iTunes
11 Sep 2008Filed under: Tips and tricks , iTunes iPodHacks has a very easy way to display your iTunes visualizer across multiple monitors using Mac OS X’s built-in accessibility zoom feature. The instructions show you how to enable Zoom in the Universal Access system preference pane. When the visualizer is playing, you can zoom in on the iTunes window, and the image of the window is spread across all your screens
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.