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Create Multiple Docks

  As I acquire and use more and more applications on my MacBook Pro the Dock grows and the application icons shrink in size. My Dock now fills the width of my 27″ screen, but when I’m away from my big screen the Dock icons on the 15″ MacBook Pro screen require serious squinting to [ READ MORE ]

Marware iPhone 3G Case

  Shortly after the iPhone 3G went on sale in Australia I gave in to temptation and purchased a black 16GB iPhone. Three months later the silicone case I had originally bought was looking worn and after using a friend’s leather flip style case on his iPod Touch I decided to look for something similar for my iPhone. [ READ MORE ]

Glass Trackpad Rumours

  Numerous Mac rumour sites are mentioning whispers of a glass track-pad on upcoming MacBooks. This could be a great step forward in the user interface. How quickly iPhone and iPod Touch users have become used to the touch screen interface. Many of the features seen on these devices could be adapted and integrated into the [ READ MORE ]

Disabling Snap Shots PopUps

I recently learned that Snap Shots popup boxes were annoying visitors to my website by appearing whenever the site visitor hovered their mouse cursor over one of the many links on my webpages. It took a little bit of Googling for me to find the answer as to how I could disable this feature, not [ READ MORE ]

1Password iPhone Application Update

A few days ago I wrote about how the iPhone application, 1Password version 1.3, had a bug which prevented it from auto-filling your username and password into website login pages, something it’s desktop version does wonderfully well. A fix for that bug is now available for download from the iTunes App store. I have installed [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Explained, Well Sort Of…

Twitter is one of those unexpected phenomena that occasionally appears in the tech world and takes it by storm. Introduced in 2006 Twitter rose to fame in early 2007 when the ability to micro-blog on Twitter was taken up by tens of thousands people around the world. In just 140 characters you tell the world what you are [ READ MORE ]

Copy and Paste for iPhone & iPod Touch

In my totally non-expert way of thinking, one of the simplest operations to have on any operating system is the ability to copy & paste between applications. But Apple has chosen to ignore requests for such a feature on the iPhone. Not surprisingly, third party developers for the iPhone are chomping at the bit to [ READ MORE ]

1Password iPhone Version Bug

1Password software securely holds all your website login details and other sensitive information allowing you to log into your websites without having to remember all those pesky passwords. It runs on Mac OS X and there is a version for the iPhone. I installed 1Password on both my MacBook Pro and iPhone. It worked perfectly [ READ MORE ]

iMac’s 10th Birthday

Ten years ago this week Apple launched the iMac G3, a new style of computer hardware design intended to turn the world of beige-box computers upside down. It succeeded in changing the course of not only computer box design, but the white and translucent plastic concept spread across many areas of industrial design. The original [ READ MORE ]

Twitter No Longer Sending SMS to Australia…

And not only Australia, but if you are a Twitter user in any country except Canada, USA or India you will, from today, no longer receive Twitter updates via SMS on your mobile phone. Twitter has announced that for financial reasons it is no longer able to offer this service. Mobile operators charge Twitter for the SMS [ READ MORE ]

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