Using iPhone 3G S Voice Control Commands

Apple’s latest hardware upgrade for the iPhone line, the iPhone 3G S, adds voice control capabilities. Without looking at the device, using voice control you can easily dial the phone using numbers or a contact’s name, and control the iPod with various commands. Here are the details:

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iPhone 3G S: Show Battery Percentage

The new 3G S has several nice, little features. One of my favorites is the ability to show a percentage of the battery life in the upper right hand corner instead of just the battery graphic. Here is how to do it.

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iTunes: How to Manually Add Album Art

You will find that sometimes the album art for your music is missing or incorrect. You can manually add an image to fix this.

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Macbook Air - Enable Four Finger Gestures on OS X Leopard 10.5.7

This recipe is for all of you macbook air (pre-oct 2008 owners) who are lusting after those macbook pro and macbook air users w/the four finger gestures.

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How to Prevent iPhoto ‘09 from Opening when Camera is Connected

By default, iPhoto automatically opens when you connect your camera to your computer. If you don’t use iPhoto each time you connect, you can disable this feature.

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VLC Media Player for Mac: Listen to Shoutcast Radio

I love listening to internet radio, it allows me to explore all kinds of music for free. You can use the VLC Media Player to listen to Shoutcast Radio without installing any other software or add-ons.

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Leopard: Deleting a Boot Camp Partition

If you have installed Windows using Boot Camp, the partition has eaten away at some valuable hard drive space. When you are done with running Windows on your Mac and want to regain that partition space you can delete the Boot Camp partition without affecting the data on your OS X partition.

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OS X Leopard / VMWare : Turn on and off opening of files in virtual machines (ie .doc in office for windows)

This recipe will explain how to enable / prevent VMWare Fusion from opening documents when in the Mac OS / Finder (ie not running in a virtual session).  For example, I have Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion and in turn installed Office 2007 and also shared my User folder in XP.  After doing this, I noticed that when i tried to open a .doc or .txt; VMWare Fusion would start my XP Machine and open it in Word 2007 (cool at first but annoying since i had iWork installed and preferred using Pages). For others though this might be nice integration. Here’s how to enable/disable this feature.

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