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With the advent of iLife ‘08, and in particular the newest version of iWeb, it has become a lot easier to build an ecommerce site.

Until now you had to use tools such as iWebMore and iWeb Enhancer to add snippets of HTML code, which even then had to be post-processed after generating the site [...]

The cool kids over at 9031.com in Japan have come up wIth a couple of really awesome Screensavers.

FliqLo – The Flip Clock Screensaver

The first is a super simple, but very effective flip clock style screensaver that dislays the system time in full view on a black background. As each minute rolls by the numbers [...]

Ambrosia Software’s Snapz Pro X is the perfect tool and enhancement to Apple’s Mac OSX built-in finder screen capture functions. Rather than trouncing the command + shift +3/4 key combination, Snapz Pro X supplements them by adding image capture and video capture combined with a whole slew of options. Whether you are switching from a [...]

Just released into beta, "Listen" a new app for the iPhone allows you to recognize the music you hear. It is very early days and the team of 1, Erica Sadun (of TUAW fame), is running a beta, but it is a great new addition to the music armoury of your iPhone.
When combined with an [...]

When you are stuck behind a corporate firewall, it can seem like the end of the world. hwoever, if you can SSH out, then all is not lost. Using port foorarding and SSH tunnels you can acheive pretty much anything you need. In this article we run through how to set up and use SSH [...]

In Tiger, OSX 10.4, Apple changed the format of mailboxes in Apple Mail from the standard MBOX format to EMLX files. It’s plausible that in recovering data from a hard drive that both formats will be found. In recovering data using applications such as SubRosaSoft’ FileSalvage and MacForensicsLab Apple Mail is particularly picky in the kind of files it will recognize and import, and the wrong text encoding is enough to cause problems. The trick is therefore to use a series of applications to import and convert the files so that they can finally be re-imported to Apple Mail.

Recently, whilst having to hard reset my Sony-Ericsson mobile phone – a w850i in fact – I have to quickly find a way to backup my sim and mobile contacts to my Apple, Mac OSX based machine to safeguard against their loss during the full restore.

The solution I came up with to do the backup [...]

Recently, because of the release of Microsoft Office 2008 for the Macintosh, I have been receiving a lot of requests from individuals who are unable to open the new default DOCX format that is saves Word documents as. Ostensibly, this is because the recipient is running Mac Office 2004 or earlier, versions incompatible with [...]

If you have Airport-enabled Speakers and are addicted to services such as Last.fm or Pandora, it won’t be long before you decide that you want to play the music through those speakers; likewise, if you are a teacher and want tobark orders at your kids. Unfortunately, on Mac or Windows, you can’t just play such [...]

MacLockPick is a USB flash key based application designed to take advantage of a Mac keychains default open status and other clear text data on a host computer to perform a quick and data collection for further analysis offsite. The primary aim of the device is to operate in as fast a time as [...]

Whilst working in bed recently, enjoying the benefits of wi-fi and early morning productivity, i discovered a nasty downside to my overzealous work attitude.
Given the way I sit in bed and work, my wrist would frequently start hurting when I used the laptop trackpad. This pain would then, rather annoyingly, follow on throughout the day [...]

At the end of the day, if your Apple Mac system hangs at startup, it could be anything, but in my experience there are usually a number of steps to take, starting with looking at the hard drive and the RAM, that act as a clear step-by-step process of deducation.
To start off I would setup [...]

Problems are almost inevitable, though they can for the most part be staved off by sensible action, care and caution. For example, if you persistenly have to force reboot after system hangs, this is symptomatic of a larger problem and needs to be dealt with, don’t ignore problems, as they they will go away, especially [...]

When you encounter troubles and you want to try and fix them, your first port of call is to reboot your mac from a device other than your internal hard drive. This alternative device could be anything from your CD-ROM, DVD-ROM drive to an external hard drive or even your iPod. In this article we outline the key combinations, needs and requirements for rebooting your Apple Mac from a secondary device and how to go about troubleshooting your problems.

So maybe you have heard the buzz and seen the goods, and if you are still wondering, i mean Apple’s new iTMS related widgets. This article highlights a few of the points as to why I think that the new Apple widgets for iTunes, for embedding on your web site, blog or social networking profile [...]

MacMP3Gain is an AppleScript Studio application which brings an Aqua GUI to the command line version of mp3gain, a utility that performs statistical analysis to determine how loud the MP3 file actually sounds to the human ear and performs lossless volume adjustments. And so if you want to make automatic equalizer adjustments to your [...]