Filed under: App Store, iPadiNet is incredibly handy. I needed a list of the MAC addresses of all of the devices on my network. It’s a fairly tedious process that requires a lot of copy and pasting and a lot of poking around in network settings. Then, …
Category Archives: iPhone Apps
Create keyboard shortcuts to jump to Safari 4 tabs directly
Filed under: AppleScriptMy friend Steve (no, not that Steve) just solved a problem I’ve had for awhile now: how to jump to a specific tab in Safari using the keyboard. Turns out that it’s possible, and it’s free, and it works pretty well. What else cou…
OneWay for fast S/FTP uploads
Filed under: SoftwareOneWay is a free utility that does one thing: uploads to SFTP/FTP servers directly through a context menu in the Finder. This is very handy for those times when you just want to get a file to a server with the minimal amount of fus…
Making your iPad 3G work in Canada
Filed under: iPadIf today’s news about Rogers’ rate plans for the iPhone left you feeling a bit cold about your 3G options for an iPad in Canada, perhaps this BoyGeniusReport story will warm you up.
BGR walks you through the steps necessary to make y…
Fluid lets you embed webpages as your desktop or in menu bar
Filed under: InternetI refer to my calendar a lot during the day, but I don’t always have my calendar program running. Most of the time I just want to glance at something to confirm the time/date of an upcoming event, or just double check a date: “What…
Marking out iPhone app icons on the iPad
Filed under: iPad
David Frampton has an interesting idea for how to display non-universal iPhone apps on the iPad: put a black border around them, much like how iPhone apps will display if they are not scaled-up.
I think it’s a brilliant idea. It make…
IM+ lite now available for iPad and iPhone
Filed under: iPad IM+ Lite is now available for iPhone and iPad as a free, ad-supported universal application.
Our full review of IM+ for iPad is in the works and should be appearing shortly, so I’ll just hit some highlights here: With the exception o…
Rogers offering $20 for iPad add-on to existing iPhone customers?
Filed under: iPad
The Apple Store for Canada is currently showing the above rates for iPad data plans, but before you get too excited, note a few things. First, Rogers’ official iPad page does not yet show any rate plan information. Second, BoyGenius…
Case Study: Standing at your Mac to save your back
Filed under: Rig of the Week
BusinessWeek is worried that Your Office Chair Is Killing You. “Short of sitting on a spike, you can’t do much worse than a standard office chair,” says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. …
Use networksetup to change AirPort networks from the command line
Filed under: UNIX / BSD, Snow LeopardThe other night I needed to change Wi-Fi networks on a computer that I was connected to via ssh. Just about every page that I found via Google led me to try the exact same thing (type “airport -A”) with one minor pr…