With the release of the new iPhone OS, users can change the phone’s background image. Jailbreaking the phone is no longer required for changing the background images.
As my AT&T service is often poor, I frequently need to check my voicemail from a phone that is not my iphone. Luckily, this is not very difficult once you know the steps to do it.
If you don’t really use the icons in the Notification Area and are looking to have a clean looking taskbar, then a simple registry script will do this with ease.
Within many computer environments, users do not have admin privileges to install software packages. This becomes very frustrating when that same user is locked into a substandard browser like IE6. This tutorial demonstrates how to install and run firefox without administrative rights.
Although slowly losing popularity, telnet remains a very valuable tool. The telnet client is not installed by default on Windows 7. These are the steps required to enable it for use.
Apple Mail 4.3 update contained mostly bug fixes. One new, mildly amusing feature was added. With this version of Mail, the user can now change the font face and size in the mailbox title text. If you like customization and personalization of your OS X system, this new feature will give you 43 seconds of intense pleasure.
Windows has never handled the viewing and browsing of networks very well. Just when people got used to the XP style, Windows 7 changes things up again. These hints will help with the new “My Network Places” functionality. This tutorial will also show how to create icons pointing toward your network.
For households with a single computer, a single library in iTunes can be a real pain. Each member of the household has their own tastes and they don’t always match up with those of the other members. iTunes allows you to create multiple libraries so that each member can have their own without having to look at other members’ media choices.
If you want to create an account so that you can download free apps for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch from the App Store and you don’t have a credit card, there is a simple way to create an account without having to use payment information.
If you have a large collection of bookmarks on your Desktop or Laptop computer and want to add them to your iPad, you could go through the long task of typing them in one-at-a-time or you could opt for a simpler, less painful method using iTunes to transfer the bookmarks for you. The two-way sync will work with Safari on Mac computers and with both Internet Explorer and Safari for Windows on Windows PC’s. You can use a workaround to get Chrome or Firefox bookmarks onto the iPad, but it will not give you a 2-way sync between browsers.
I am a huge, huge fan of Steam’s gaming platform for OS X. However, I’m not a big fan of its running itself every time I restart my macbook. Skype likes to load at every startup as well. Here is how to disable these programs from running at every reboot.
The virtual machines in parallels are huge and will quickly eat up your valuable Time Machine space. These steps will prevent parallels from backing up your virtual machines to your Time Machine drive.
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