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iPhone: Mimic Cocoa UIKit in Webkit

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Using webkit in iPhone / iPod touch application development is a common practice. However, jumping from cocoa to webkit and back can be confusing to the user. Here are a couple of simple hints for theming webkit to look like Cocoa’s UIKit framework.

OS X Activity Monitor: Monitoring CPU, Network, Disk or Memory Usage from the Dock

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The Activity Monitor is quite useful for pulling up the CPU, System Memory, and Network activity as well as Disk Activity and Disk Usage. The dock icon can be a useful tool all on its own, without having to keep the Activity Monitor window up and running. You can view CPU History as well as CPU, Disk, Memory, or Network Usage.

iPhone/iPod Touch: Two Caps Lock Methods

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Using cap locks on iPhone or iPod Touch devices is a useful feature that most people never use. When twittering I use this all the time… LOL, BFF, ABITHIWTITB, XOXOXO, etc…

Windows XP/Vista: How to Attach a VHD File

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If you wish to access the contents of a VHD file without having to run Virtual PC or Virtual Server, you can do so on Windows XP and Vista by installing only a component of Virtual Server and running a single command from the command line.

iPhone and Tmobile Users: T-Zones $5.99 data plan working on iPhone

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This guide is for T-Mobile users who have a jailbroken iPhone and want to get nearly full data services at 1/4 the cost of the normal Total Internet data plan (normally est $19.99). This does not require the T-zones hack from Cydia (the tzones hack actually made my iphone’s data not work w/tzones).

Workaround for IE6 Empty-Cells CSS Support

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The empty-cells property in css establishes if the browser should or should not create borders around empty cells in tables. Internet Explorer 6 was thought to not support this property. However, if you align the CSS moons in the perfect direction, IE6 actually does recognize the empty-cells property. Here is how to do it.

How to Transfer RSS Feed Subscriptions to Outlook 2007

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Outlook 2007 allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds. If you want to transfer the subscriptions from your current feed reader (or Internet Explorer) to Outlook, you can easily do this with the help of an OPML file.

iPhone / Touch: How to Locate the Device’s MAC Address

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If your wireless router uses MAC filtering, you will need to know the MAC address of your device so that it may connect to the internet.

OS X: How to View Log Files

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If your OS X system is acting flakey, checking out the log files is a great place to start your exploration of what is going wrong. Here is where to find your log files in OS X.

Open Office 2007/2008 Documents in Earlier Versions of Office

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Every time a new version of Office is released, new updated file formats are released as well. Older versions of Office have a difficult time reading and editing these new files formats. Here is how to do it.

Google Chrome: Use a Command Line Switch to Open in Incognito Mode

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Starting with version 0.3.154.6, you can use a simple command line switch to open the browser in Incognito mode. This means you can easily create a shortcut and not have to rely on javascript tricks to get the privacy you desire.