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Articles & notes.
Original writing and technical notes by Lefteris Iliadis / SomniusX.
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A strange iPhone charger
A Japanese artist’s unusual iPhone charger gadget, with video.
The Seven Types of iPhone Users
A humorous infographic from allareacodes.com on seven kinds of iPhone users.
Enable FaceTime on the iPad [guide]
FaceTime on the iPad is probably one of the features iPhone/iPod users have that iPad users miss. The full experience would need a front camera and FaceTime, which the iPad “1” still does not have.
Greenpois0n RC5-2 mirror
Greenpois0n RC5-2 Mirror
MacBook Air 11.6 Invisible Film Keyboard Protection
After selling an iPad for an 11.6-inch MacBook Air, a thin eBay keyboard film went on in about 15 minutes, with spare keys in the pack.
A very good list of OS X shortcuts
Suicico points at Dan Rodney’s thorough Mac OS X shortcut list.
Keyboard shortcuts for special characters (€, ®, ©, ½…)
Use Show Keyboard Viewer, then Option or Command, to see special characters. Via Evripidis.
Renaming files with Automator’s help
Evripidis from Macedonas.gr builds an Automator Service that batch-renames Finder items to Mass Rename_001, Mass Rename_002, and so on.
The Macintosh celebrates its 27th birthday
On 24 January 1984 Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh; 27 years later, a short history from System 1.0 to the iMac era.
Free Remote Desktop on Snow Leopard
There are thousands of reasons to control your computer from afar over the internet. That process is called remote desktop, and there are several ways to do it.
Greek and English spellcheck together
Republication from Macalla.
Dropbox v1.0 is out. Be careful though!
Installing the Dropbox 1.0.0 release candidate trashed a working client; the lesson is not to touch what already works.