Upon hearing the news that Steve Jobs has passed away, my reaction was to check every news source I could to make sure it wasn’t some mistake like last time. Sadly, this time the news came directly from Apple’s board of directors and Steve’s wife Laurene. The world lost one of the most creative, ambitious and charismatic person [...]
Posts under ‘Gadgets’
Jul 21
Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]
As previously mentioned, OS X Lion does not support logging into NAS boxes running Samba or AFP servers that employ the DHCAST128 authentication method. Apple documented this as a security update, in which they outright disabled DHCAST128 in Lion. People who are running type of NAS system – FreeNAS or store bought boxes will not work [...]
Jul 21
Mac OS X Lion review
Hello y’all! It’s been a while since my last post. but it looks like there is still steady traffic to the site, which is pleasantly surprising! So thank you all very much! Today, Apple shipped MacOS X Lion via the Mac AppStore. It sells for $29.99 USD, and it is topping the charts at the [...]
Feb 04
greenpois0n RC 6.1 untetheredly jailbreaks iOS 4.2.1 [Mirrors Added]
This will be a short post regarding the new Greenpois0n RC 6.1 Release for jailbreaking your iDevice running on 4.2.1. For the longest time, we had to use the alpha Redsn0w release that not only required a 4.2b SHSH but the actual 4.2b IPSW which is only available to iOS developers. The Greenpois0n RC 6.1 [...]
Dec 07
Downgrade iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone and iPod Touch
Apple recently released iOS 4.2.1 which added quite a few awesome features including AirPlay, AirPrint, Safari “find on page”, and free “Find your iPhone” feature for iPhone 4. (sorry 3GS and 3G users… Apple purposely wrote you guys out of the deal.) My personal favorite would have to be the Safari search feature. I have [...]
Oct 01
Maximizing iPhone’s Battery Life
So many people asked for it, and now it’s here. I’m going to give you some very useful tips on how to get the most out of your iPhone’s battery The Facts Lithium-ion batteries start to lose capacity as soon as they are manufactured. The battery further closes capacity with every FULL cycle recharge. Extremely [...]
Sep 20
iPhone vs. Android devices
Recently we’ve had an interesting debate among some friends about which is the better platform. The debate of course came at the expense of my buddy Mitchell McKenna‘s Facebook wall… but nonetheless some interesting points were brought up. Mitch, I’m sorry we hijacked your thread. However, after David’s comment I just had to voice it [...]