Apple’s AirPrint technology in iOS is great, that is if you have a special AirPrint enabled printer. Unfortunately for the majority of us we already have a printer and have no intentions of purchasing a new one anytime soon. I’m in that boat, I’ve been very happy with my Brother laser printer, but I want to be able to print from my iPad. I have seen several paid software solutions like Finge...
For years now I have really enjoyed the feature that lets you automatically set your iChat status to the current iTunes track. These days, however, I find myself using Spotify more and more. A while back I looked into this and found a few posts on how to do it, but it looked rather difficult. Today I decided to sit down and figure it out.The script I came up works the best for me. I was loo...
I’ve been familiar with creating aliases in OS X, and they usually work pretty well for me. Recently, however, I was working on a project where a friend has shared a root folder of a website with me via dropbox. This folder now lives in my dropbox, but I need it to be in my htdocs folder for use with MAMP. Obviously I could just copy it over, but I wanted to keep the working files in Dropbox...
I recently found out that there were “jailbreaking” tools for the Kindle which allow you to apply a number of different hacks. The one that I found most appealing was the ability to add your own screen savers. Having jailbroken my iPhones before, I was expecting it to be an involved process, but it extremely simple. Jason Fitzpatrick over at How-To Geek wrote a great article that lists all o...
For the last month I’ve been having issues with iCloud backup on my iPad. The auto backups weren’t happening, and even if I attempted a manual backup, I would get an error that said “There was a problem completing the backup.” After pouring over what felt like hundreds of pages, I finally found a solution that worked! Here is the solution from this Apple forum pageI finally have a complete b...