Tag: "Mac"

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

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.

How to: Take a screenshot in Mac OS X

How to: Take a screenshot in Mac OS X

Sometimes the simplest of things need an answer and this is one such occasion. Long term Windows users arrive on Mac OS and wonder, “Where’s the Print Screen button” or “How do I take a screenshot?”.

How to: Set up your Mac as wireless hotspot

How to: Set up your Mac as wireless hotspot

There are times when we want to share our Internet connection with other devices. Thankfully there’s a really quick and simple way to share your Mac’s Internet connection with other devices using the Mac’s built in components.

How to: CTRL ALT DEL on a Mac

How to: CTRL ALT DEL on a Mac

If you’ve been a long term user of Windows and / or are relatively new to the Mac Operating System, the chances are that at some point you’re going to ask the question, “What’s the equivilant to CTRL ALT DEL on a Mac?”

How to: Fix Steam Needs to be Online to Update pop up [UPDATED]

How to: Fix Steam Needs to be Online to Update pop up [UPDATED]

You’ve fired up Steam on your Mac and you get a pop up message telling you that, “Steam Needs to be Online to Update”. You click ok, the message goes away but Steam closes. Annoying isn’t it? Thankfully there’s a simple fix

How to: Fix iTunes error 1013 (when upgrading or restoring)

How to: Fix iTunes error 1013 (when upgrading or restoring)

Every time I attempted to restore my iPhone I ended up with “The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1013)”. Here’s the fix!

How To: Open .toast files on a Windows PC

How To: Open .toast files on a Windows PC

Ripped your CDs or DVDs to your Mac using Toast and haven’t currently got access to a Mac (or Toast) in order to extract the data or burn the image files but do have access to a Windows PC

How to: Transfer iTunes apps between computers

How to: Transfer iTunes apps between computers

Sometimes we just want to transfer iTunes applications between computers and not the whole iTunes installation. It’s very easy to move these files, let’s look how it’s done.

How to: Stop SkyPE from auto starting when booting Mac OS

How to: Stop SkyPE from auto starting when booting Mac OS

If, like me, you find it frustrating when you fire up your trust Mac that you’re forced to wait for SkyPE to open then you’ll be pleased to know you can prevent SkyPE from starting on system startup.

How to: Upgrade / jailbreak iPhone 3G with iOS4 and redsn0w

How to: Upgrade / jailbreak iPhone 3G with iOS4 and redsn0w

iOS4 is available, but not by general release at this time. Here’s how to upgrade to it AND jailbreak your handset afterwards. (PC & Mac)

Essential applications for Apple Macs

Essential applications for Apple Macs

As part of a quest to find what applications and software I need to get, for my MacBook Pro, I tweeted out looking for suggestions. The below list is a combination of suggestions that people tweeted back as well as some I’ve found for myself.