Terminal Tips: Make your Screensaver a desktop background (16)
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Filed under: Terminal Tips Have you ever wanted your screen saver to appear as a background image? Probably not. But if you like to show off to your Windows-using friends, then this tip can definitely help you out. By typing the following command into Terminal (Applications > Utilities), all on one line, and hitting enter, you will instantly see your screen saver displayed as a desktop background:/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -backgroundTo get things back to normal (which you ...
Cut-the-Crap iPhone Headset Battlemodo [Battlemodo] (9)
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Whether you love or hate your iPhone, you'll get tired of holding that big sticky piece of glass next to your face eventually. Want have a talk while you work or exercise? Need hands-free calling behind the wheel? Do you just have lazy, withered arms? Chances are you need a headset. Though the famed white earbuds are good enough for some, why settle for them just because they just happen to come free, and with ...
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javaneze said:
interesting!
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Pat said:
soon I hope
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Walter DeFoor said:
I hate trying to pick out headphones and stereos without hearing them first, good to have a valid source of reviews that aren't Amazon fanboy rants.
Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks [Magic From Space] (63)
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Here's how the air, ground, data, landline, cellphone, and sea ship traffic looks from space in Great Britain, one of the busiest countries on Earth. The BBC's Britain from Above documentary took satellite and air images and mixed it with 3D GPS data to create these breathtaking high resolution pictures and videos: Air traffic in Great Britain. Ships crossing the English Channel. Data and phone calls across Great Britain. Absolutely beautiful. I, for one, love ...
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aaa said:
downloaded =]
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Daniel said:
Woah!
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jgd3 said:
Amazing! Thanks for sharing, Paul!
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Trae said:
Awesome, tracking various things from space.
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Jonathan said:
wow, you have to click on the site to view the videos which help describe what the pictures mean, and it's AMAZING!
Inside MobileMe: Apple's Push vs Exchange, BlackBerry, Google (3)
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Apple's MobileMe provides mobile device push and an innovative Wide-Area Bonjour push sync mechanism for securely updating desktop clients over the Internet. There's currently nothing identical to the service on other platforms, but there is some fea...
How to: Create free ringtones for your iPhone (1)
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For some reason, we never tire of having our current favorite song playing as a ringtone on our cell phones. There are several ways to create free ringtones, so you won’t always have to shell out an extra buck every time your tastes change. The…
Lightning Review: Brando's Power Station iPhone Charger [Review] (7)
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The Gadget: Brando's Power Station, a portable battery pack for your iPhone that slides easily into your dock connection for charging away from a socket or a USB connection. The Power Station, in turn, is charged from ITS dock connection, so you can use the same charger for both devices. Comes in white and black. The Price: $25 The Verdict: Works as advertised. In our tests, it charged our iPhone 3G from 10% to 60% ...
iPhone 3G accessory incompatibility index (7)
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As previously reported, many accessories that were compatible with the first-generation are not compatible with the iPhone 3G, either failing to charge the device or losing functionality completely. We’ve compiled a list of incompatible devices based on user reports. If you have any to add, please let us know. Will not charge the iPhone 3G: The explanation for this issue is as follows: most accessories on the market charge iPods/iPhones through either USB or a ...
Disable backups to speed iPhone/iPod touch syncing (19)
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I have several (more than 30) applications installed in my iPhone 2.0 (some of them are over 10MB). I've been a bit disappointed with the oh-so-slow syncs in iTunes due to the required backup process. Searching a bit, I found that I could disable the backups by setting a hidden iTunes preference. Quit iTunes, open Terminal, and enter this command: defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool YES Whe you next sync, your iPhone won't be backed ...
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RossW said:
‘Ahhhh… and the heavens opened up…’ Salvation, at last.
Brando's iPhone Battery Gets a White Version [IPhone Battery] (3)
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Brando's cheapest iPhone supplemental battery just got a white version today. You obviously know if you'd want one, so there ya go. Still $25. [Brando]
Dr. Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon CS professor, Dead at 47 (79)
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Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and worked on the Alice program, an animated educational system for high school and college students. It’s not difficult to find educators in CS who are as personable as Dr. Pausch was but it is definitely rare to find one filled with such kindness and ...
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WHB said:
Beeindruckend!
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Brian Phillips said:
Wow - worth seeing again
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Kesor said:
His last lecture is remarkable. I have seen it several months ago.
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Mark Whiting said:
A memorial fund is the opposite of the right way to morn such a man but anyway, it is a sad day for the world of CS, it looks like he died on my birthday.
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Mark said:
This guy seemed very cool. Looked death in the eye and seemingly said "FU". Probably something kids should watch...
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Aju said:
Rest in Peace
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NunTiuX said:
You have to watch this video... amazing guy!
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Brent said:
:(
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John said:
scares the shit out of me
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Nitya said:
A great educator. An even more inspiring speaker -- tuned in to the Last Lecture when it was delivered live and it really did make an impression that has lasted to this day!
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Ranvir said:
just watched the whole lecture start to finish. a rare individual: a truly inspirational geek.
Stay cool with the MacBook Air (2)
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Jason Snell and other have noticed that Intel’s Santa Rosa chip architecture, used by the MacBook Air, shuts down a core when it gets too hot. The result? At random times, generally on warm days and generally in the afternoon after you’ve been using my MacBook Air for a while, the computer will become crazily unresponsive.
Stay cool with the MacBook Air (1)
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Jason Snell and other have noticed that Intel’s Santa Rosa chip architecture, used by the MacBook Air, shuts down a core when it gets too hot. The result? At random times, generally on warm days and generally in the afternoon after you’ve been using my MacBook Air for a while, the computer will become crazily unresponsive.
Review: OmniFocus for iPhone (3)
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The Omni Group’s OmniFocus is a complex to-do application for the Mac, and it’s equally complex in iPhone form. While overkill for some, users who like the Getting Things Done workflow philosophy or who already use the desktop version will like OmniFocus on the iPhone.
Review: OmniFocus for iPhone (1)
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The Omni Group’s OmniFocus is a complex to-do application for the Mac, and it’s equally complex in iPhone form. While overkill for some, users who like the Getting Things Done workflow philosophy or who already use the desktop version will like OmniFocus on the iPhone.
Workaround lets iPhone users share apps (3)
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Developer Melvin Rivera has posted a workaround for sharing iPhone apps on his All Forces blog. The simple workaround takes advantage of Apple's Fairplay, which allows users to sync up to five computers with each iTunes account, along with unlimited iPhones and iPods. Although the process is initially time consuming -- and maybe a bit confusing --...
First Look: Bloomberg (6)
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Filed under: iPhone, App StoreI'm the first to admit that I am no financial whiz. I know very little about stocks, bonds, and money in general (I'm a blogger after all), however, I do know a thing or two about iPhone apps. Imagine my surprise that one of my favorite iPhone apps is the Bloomberg app (shocking, I know!).Bloomberg, in case you aren't aware, is one of the leading sources of financial news. The company's ...
1Password for iPhone announced (23)
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Filed under: Software, iPhoneWe gave you a first sneaky peek at this a couple of weeks ago, but now the full details of the 1Password app for iPhone have been posted online by the team at Agile Web Solutions.This is going to make a lot of the people who added comments to our iPhone apps we crave post very happy. The app's features include: dual PIN and Master Password security, so you can quickly access ...
App Preview: 1Password for the iPhone — for FREE! (5)
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Confession: I use 1Password on the Mac a lot. I just used it to login so I could write this preview. I use it synced to my desktop at home, and I’ve used the various incarnations of the 1Password javascript bookmarklet on the original iPhone 2G. But now they’ve gone native, baby! Internet security is a a huge concern, and with mobile internet security we ain’t seen nothing yet. Browsers the caliber of MobileSafari make ...
iPhone backup process extremely slow, corruption issues (10)
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Many iPhones users are reporting that the backup portion of syncing in iTunes is taking a very long time to complete or results in a non-responsive iPhone. In some cases, the inordinately long backups may be the result of corruption issues that may be resolved via the following process: Allow a backup to complete Unplug your iPhone In iTunes, navigate to Preferences > Syncing (under “iTunes” on the Mac and under “Edit” in Windows) and ...
Video of the Moon Passing in Front of the Earth Taken From 31 Million Miles Away [Space] (51)
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We don't have too many cameras out there in space past the moon, which is why most of our space shots are either looking outward, such as the shots taken by Hubble, or taken of Earth from the moon or closer. Which is why this video is so astounding. It's a video of the moon passing directly in front of the Earth, taken by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft from a whopping 31 million miles away. The ...
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Derick Valadao said:
Well, seeing the earth from 31,000,000 miles away is a must see.
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Daemach said:
Very cool :)
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Aaron H. said:
That is incredible.
