Archive for the 'iPhone' Category

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 [...]

iPhone 3G Review - 11 days later

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Let me start by saying this isn’t going to be a ‘full’ review of the phone - just my general feelings after 11 days :-)
When it came in the post I, like any other geek was very excited. I don’t know why but I was expecting something great when it came to the box - [...]

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 [...]