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Tagged: guides.
Tagged: guides
CardDAV on iOS, Google/Gmail contacts without Exchange/ActiveSync
Localized article, source and photos from Redmond Pie
Import/export Reminders to and from Mountain Lion and Google Calendar
The best addition they could have made in Mac OS X Mountain Lion is the Reminders app, which the public seems to have loved — even me, using it daily.
10 serious moves to protect your privacy
The other day I had a friend’s iPhone 4S in my hands so I could take photos and video. The first thing I asked — I always do — was “What’s the passcode?”
When Mail.app is slow
Macedonas.gr on compacting Lion/Mountain Lion Mail databases with a script, after backing up ~/Library/Mail.
Hidden shortcut at startup lets your Mac become an iPad
Apple is known for this kind of move: hiding capabilities on its computers. Capabilities that are usually enabled with some hidden shortcut.
iPhone Code Sign – Cydia & AppStore Deployment
A 2010-era note on developer certificates versus fake code-signing for Cydia builds, pointing at public guides, Xcode plist flags, and ldid.
Mass-edit Address Book with Automator
One of the few drawbacks of Address Book on Mac OS X is that you cannot change contacts in bulk. A few lines in Automator can change that.
Load the Mac OS X desktop before the log-in screen
So you can walk away from the computer while it loads the desktop (without the insecure automatic login), this script loads OS X before letting you in.
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.
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.
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.
Sleep timer for music (iPod app)
Are you one of those who leave the iPod app playing until you fall asleep and then cry over the battery in the morning “if” it lasted until morning.
Depth of field [iPhone camera trick]
Hold the subject 10 cm from an iPhone 3GS/4 lens, tap to focus, blur the background.
How to downgrade iOS 4.2.1 to 4.1 / 4.0.2 / 4.0.1 for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G, iPod touch, and iPad
iOS 4.2.1 came out yesterday for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G, iPod touch 4G, 3G, 2G, and iPad. Even an iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak was achieved with Redsn0w 0.9.6b2, but Cydia still does not run.
Build your own Priority Inbox with Apple Mail
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Bring color back to iTunes 10
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VAD, APR, AAR, Apple and other stories…
Decoding iSquare as VAD, Apple Authorized and Premium Resellers, retail chains, and rumours of a new Athens APR from Infoquest.
How to set up the Magic Trackpad
Here are instructions to start setting up your new Apple Magic Trackpad.
VPN tutorial for Pandora
Historical 2010 note: friends used Hotspot Shield so Pandora and some US video sites would stream from Greece; screenshots show OS X VPN setup.
What I Backup When Restoring My iPhone
A 2010 checklist of iTunes sync, photos, SpringBoard shots, Cydia packages, and SSH copies of Address Book, SMS, Safari, and sandboxed app Documents.
Hide Tweetie Mac Dock icon
Hide the Tweetie Mac Dock icon and more. A large number of Mac owners have caught the Twitter bug.
GeekTool guide and Geeklets
The following article is a republication of the related post on Macedonas.gr with permission of the author and publisher.
[Guide] Facebook chat from iChat
Republication from Milaraki.com.
How-to: clone your system
Pointer to a system-clone guide first posted on a Greek OS X forum.
How-to: run Windows apps on a Mac
WineBottler wrappers for single-exe Windows programs; see the WinBox-on-Mac guide.