To remove applications that start automatically when you boot up is a simple process on the Mac, however still one that I get asked by friends and family regularly how to control. To manage the applications that launch when you first boot up, follow these steps: Click the Apple Icon in the top left corner [...]
So you’ve been using iCal for a while, and suddenly it starts working very slowly… One solution I found was to remove your calendar from your computer and let iCal download it from your server (ONLY use this if you use server based calendars): Open terminal and type: rm -r ~/Library/Calendars/ Various solutions are discussed here.
Fairfax today released a very handy iPhone App that provides you with the latest radio news on your iPhone. Fairfax Radio News provides access to the most recently aired news broadcast from the Fairfax Radio network (which consists of 2UE, 3AW, 4PC, 6PR) direct to your iPhone. It turns out to be an amazingly useful [...]
I have had huge problems trying to provide my iPhone Applications to friends using the Adhoc Distribution method. I thought I was following Apple’s instructions down to the letter: Obtain an Adhoc Distribution Provisioning Profile Install provisioning profile in XCode For my project, create a new build profile called “Adhoc Distribution” copied from the “Release” build [...]
We had a nice big set of pages in a PDF which we wanted to convert into a KeyNote presentation. Thankfully, this process is really easy due to Melissa O’Neill’s PDF to Keynote application. Simply load it up, give it the PDF, tell it where to save the KeyNote file – and you’re done! Thanks [...]
I’ve come across a problem – my main computer (a MacBook Pro) has all my music on it, and is hooked up to my iPhone. But I’ve just got a nice big flat screen TV and its connected to my stereo. So I want to be able to play music/movies I buy on iTunes through [...]
Apple has just released iPhone firmware version 2.0.2 via iTunes. Simply plug your iPhone into your computer and you will be prompted to update. As usual, all we know at this stage is that it contains bug fixes however hopefully we’ll find out more as time goes on… Update: it’s rumoured that this update will [...]