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iPhone Data Recovery
August 18, 2010 – 8:53 am | No Comment

iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this (tested on my iPhone 4, with iOS 4.0.1 using the www.jailbreakme.com jailbreaker). You don’t need OpenSSH installed, but I prefer it. If you install OpenSSH, connect using …

Mac OS X Gaming Part II
March 10, 2010 – 5:03 pm | No Comment

In my last post about MacOSX gaming, I mentioned I like to play Counter Strike / Left 4 Dead, and how I attempted to run it via Parallels virtually etc etc etc. Well, yesterday, Valve …

Mac OS X Speedup Bits
March 3, 2010 – 3:30 pm | No Comment

I decided my Mac was running a bit slower, something I would usually refer to as the “Windows downhill effect”. Turns out Mac OS X has it too! Albeit slightly less intrusive…
As usual, Google delivered. …

Mac OS X Gaming
March 2, 2010 – 10:23 am | 2 Comments

Having bought a Mac, I sort of stopped playing Counter Strike, in the absence of a mouse etc. I managed to have a crack at TOCA Race Driver 3, which is still by far one …

Macintosh Performance Guide: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Booting the 64-bit Kernel
February 23, 2010 – 8:17 pm | No Comment

I was stunned the other day when I was looking through my system info on my Snow Leopard equipped Mac Book Pro to find it was running in 32bit mode…. Turns out you have to …

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
November 10, 2009 – 10:07 am | No Comment

I like to think I’m pretty good with the MacOS now, but let’s face it, there’s still a whole bunch of little things I’m still learning…
Take for example, how to boot up a CDROM or …

Mousey mousey!
October 19, 2009 – 3:19 pm | No Comment

I’m a Mac convert. I have been working with Windows since 2003, and was always the Windows guy blah blah blah. Until I started using Linux more and more for my previous job and reluctantly …

TeamViewer for Remote Support
October 12, 2009 – 4:13 pm | No Comment

We’ve been using TeamViewer here to remotely connect to clients for about 2 months now. To say we have been impressed is an understatement. The ease that we we can connect to a client’s machine …