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Toggle Mac OS X 10.7 Lion New Features On / Off With Lion Tweaks

By Usman on Aug 09 2011 "The latest Mac OS X 10.7 brings a whole lot of improvements along with a dozen iPad inspired UI features and animations. Although these improvements don’t come into conflict with UI design and core features of Mac Snow Leopard, many users hate the idea of bringing the iPad like UI elements and animations to Mac OS X. If you’re amongst those who want to keep Mac OS X 10.7 installed on your system but also want to toggle some of its new features, window options ...

11 tips to ensure great smartphone photos

by Dave Johnson, PCWorld Aug 9, 2011 9:30 am "You probably don't carry your fancy-pants DSLR camera with you all the time, but your smartphone—along with its built-in camera—is in your pocket everywhere you go. That's why these days the most popular camera used to upload photos to Flickr isn't a camera at all, but the iPhone." Read more: http://www.macworld.com/article/161499/2011/08/11_tips_great_smartphone_photography.html#lsrc.rss_main

How to remove a “duplicated home page” in wordpress

Several wordpress themes have a problem where a duplicate "Home Page" shows up in the Menu when you are using a "Static Page" as your Home page. If you want to get rid of the duplicate home page, you must follow these instructions: – Login into your blog wp-admin – Got to Appearance and select "Editor" – Select Header.php from the Template list – Find wp_list_pages(‘….stuff here…’) – Just before it should be a line with something like<li><a href=”….. some code…..Home</li> – Delete that line – Update File Now your page should ...

How to make time machine to recognize any disk for backup

The following are some simple instructions to set up a new backup volume from scratch and have Apple Time Machine to recognize it: ♦ Find your machine name (machine_name) and run the following command in terminal (in this example we're creating a 250GB partition): hdiutil create -size 250G -fs HFS+J -volname 'My Backups' -type SPARSEBUNDLE machine_name.sparsebundle ♦ The output should be something like machine_name.sparsebundle under your user's home directory. ♦ You will need to find your hardware UUID in the System Profiler. ♦ Create a file (using your text editor) and name it TimeMachine.MachineID.plist and ...

Did you change your Cisco Router settings and now can’t use Cisco Connect?

If you have one of the new Cisco/Linksys E3000/E2000 series routers and changed different parameters using the web gui, you probably won't be able to use "Cisco Connect" again to modify your "Guest Network" or change "Parental Controls" However there is a way to access "Cisco Connect". 1- Go you your router web gui and change the router password to match your network SSID password: 2- Make sure that your broadcasting the SSID. If you are not, you can enable temporarily and change it back after you finish using Cisco Connect 3- Go to C:\Program ...

How to enable Apple Airprint with shared printers in Windows

You upgraded to iOS device to 4.2.1 and now want to be able to print but you don't own one of those new HP printers that support Airprint... You can still print using your PC shared printers following these steps...

How to fix the Netflix streaming issues on you iPad

If you are using a DD-WRT firmware on your Wireless router you had probably seem that your iPad (or iPhone 3GS/4 using WIFI) have problems streaming Netflix movies. The main issue is that when you select the movie that you want to see on your iPad Netflix application the movie start to load and then after few seconds it goes back to the original screen and the movie never loads. The solution it's to disable DNSMasq in you router's basic setup configuration screen. Here is how to fix it: 1- Point your ...

iOS 4.1 Available!

These are the new features included in the iOS 4.1 Software Update: This update contains improvements, including the following: • Game Center - Send and receive friend requests - Invite friends to multi-player games over the Internet - Play multi-player games by auto-matching with other players - View Leaderboards and Achievements - Discover new games from friends • High dynamic range (HDR) photos on iPhone 4 • Support for TV show rentals on iTunes • Ability to upload HD videos to YouTube and MobileMe over Wi-Fi on iPhone 4 • Additional support for AVRCP-supported accessories, including next & previous track control • FaceTime calling directly ...

Database Crash!

There was a database crash that affected the blog and forums. It will take me some time to recover the information from the database. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

If you switched from Windows to Mac as I did. Sometimes it’s difficult to match all the new shortcuts from Mac with the Windows shortcuts. Here are some of the common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts: (Command key) – Sometimes called “Apple key”; on Apple keyboards this key also has an Apple logo () (Control key) (Option key) – “Alt” may also appear on this key (Shift key) (Caps Lock) – Toggles Caps Lock on or off fn (Function key) – Located in the lower left corner of built-in keyboards ...