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Disable automated iPhone backup in iTunes

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Everytime you sync your iPhone using iTunes it will try to make a full backup image of your phone. This is a great idea but it takes AGES and personally if my phone was to break I’d rather restore to a blank OS anyway. I assume this will work with the iPod Touch as well.
Here’s [...]

How to Jailbreak & Unlock your 2G 3G 2.0 iPhone & iPod Touch

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

iClarified have got some really great guides when it comes to hacking your iPhone. These guides will show you how to Jailbreak, activate and Unlock your 2.0 2G iPhone and how to Jailbreak and activate your 3G iPhone.
3G
How to Jailbreak and activate - Mac
How to Jailbreak and activate - Windows
2G
How to Jailbreak, activate and unlock [...]

Use your Mobile Phone (cell) as a modem with your Mac

Friday, March 7th, 2008

So… you’re going on holiday. You’re going to a press event. You’re going to a conference. What ever it is you’re bound to find a time where WiFi is unavailable and browsing the net on your iPhone just won’t do it.
Here’s a how to to get you going. These are instructions for a Mac running [...]

Leopard Week 4: Improve the Earth Horizon wallpaper

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

There’s no question about it, Leopard ships with some simply beautiful wallpapers. In fact so did Vista earlier this year. The photographer involved is a very talented guy. Leopard comes with a Wallpaper ‘Earth’ which you will find on the iPhone that’s gorgeous. It also ships with a very impressive ‘Earth Horizon’ wallpaper. This is [...]

Leopard Week 3: Make Time Machine backup to unsupported drives (SMB NAS etc)

Friday, November 9th, 2007

This week’s tip is short and sweet. All it requires is for you to run some code using Terminal.
Simply Launch terminal (type term into spotlight and hit enter)
Type the following:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 (all on the same line)
Hit Enter!
Enjoy! Leopard should now allow backing up to those NTFS drives over Windows etc.
On another note [...]

Leopard Week 2: Change your login (default) wallpaper

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Want to replace that gorgeous space wallpaper that Apple gives you with your new build of Leopard?
All you need to do is replace the file DefaultDesktop.jpg located in /System/Library/CoreServices/
Using spotlight (now super duper fast) and type disk util and hit enter. Select your drive and run a permissions repair.
Enjoy!