Category: How To

How to: Fix Error 36 on Mac OS X when accessing Windows 7 shares
[ 1 ] Thursday, 27 September 2012 |

How to: Fix Error 36 on Mac OS X when accessing Windows 7 shares

Macs are getting ever more popular. This year Apple have taken a big chunk of the PC market but given the rise of multiple devices in homes catering for either multiple users or to provide media centres with content, people are hanging on to their PCs to act as file servers or repositories. The newer OS X releases are thankfully able to read and write to Windows Operating Systems via the SMB protocol but it can often be a painful experience getting things to work reliably.

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How to: Get iMessage on your Mac today
[ 0 ] Friday, 8 June 2012 |

How to: Get iMessage on your Mac today

I never thought I’d use iMessage on my iPhone anywhere as much as I do. It just goes to show how many people I know who have an updated iPhone running iMessage. Like many others I quickly wanted iMessage on my Mac rather than the never used iChat software. We all knew iMessage for Mac would be in Apple’s “Mountain Lion” OS X update (release summer 2012) however Apple has kindly made the product available to us, albeit with a beta tag, to install on Lion.

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How to: Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 with Sn0wBreeze (Untethered)
[ 0 ] Friday, 8 June 2012 |

How to: Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 with Sn0wBreeze (Untethered)

We’ve already shown how you can jailbreak your iOS 5.1.1 device using Absinthe 2.0 however there are other tools out there to achieve the same thing. Today we’re going to take a look at Sn0wBreeze, a Windows only jailbreaking application.

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How to: Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0 (Untethered)
[ 0 ] Friday, 1 June 2012 |

How to: Jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0 (Untethered)

I decided to take a holiday to France with my family and the day we left I was browsing Twitter in the ferry terminal when, to my delight, I saw a tweet by @pod2g saying he’d finally managed to get the untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak completed. Not long after Absinthe 2.0 became available to download. This is fabulous news and the toolset has already been used in excess of a million times to jailbreak the various iOS devices. Permission is granted for you to carry out a little happy dance before sitting down and carrying out the merry business of carrying out an untethered jailbreak of your cherished device using the Absinthe tool on Mac / Windows or Linux.

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How To: Jailbreak AppleTV 2G 5.0.1 (5.1.1) with Seas0nPass (Untethered)
[ 0 ] Friday, 1 June 2012 |

How To: Jailbreak AppleTV 2G 5.0.1 (5.1.1) with Seas0nPass (Untethered)

We recently saw an untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak released for our much loved Apple products, the main person involved in that jailbreak process, @pod2g has now released his work to other prolific jailbreak developers so that they can update their published tools – one such product is Seas0nPass. Seas0nPass is used to create custom jailbroken firmware for the AppleTV 2nd Generation. It’s a very simple tool and unlocks the potential of your AppleTV very quickly. The Seas0nPass application can be run on either a Mac of a PC and is completely free of charge.

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How to: Install XBMC on iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch
[ 0 ] Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |

How to: Install XBMC on iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch

The rather excellent XBMC media centre has been ported to the iOS platform, so without further ado, lets get that wonderful software on your iPhone, iPad and / or iPod Touch!

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How to: Jailbreak iPhone 4S / iPad 2 with Absinthe (Untethered)
[ 0 ] Tuesday, 24 January 2012 |

How to: Jailbreak iPhone 4S / iPad 2 with Absinthe (Untethered)

Permission is granted for you to carry out a little happy dance before sitting down and carrying out the merry business of carrying out an untethered jailbreak of your cherished device using the Absinthe tool on Mac / Windows or Linux.

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How to: Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 (Untethered) using redsn0w
[ 0 ] Tuesday, 3 January 2012 |

How to: Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 (Untethered) using redsn0w

So, you’re all fired up and ready to either enter the world of jailbreaking iOS device for the first time, or maybe are just looking for the most current “How to”? The method we’re about to explain uses redsn0w and works on both the PC and Mac platforms.

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How To: Jailbreak AppleTV 4.4.4 with Seas0nPass (Untethered)
[ 1 ] Tuesday, 3 January 2012 |

How To: Jailbreak AppleTV 4.4.4 with Seas0nPass (Untethered)

Seas0nPass is used to create custom jailbroken firmware for the AppleTV 2nd Generation. It’s a very simple tool and unlocks the potential of your AppleTV very quickly. The Seas0nPass application can be run on either a Mac of a PC and is completely free of charge. Here’s how to use it.

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