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Secrets: Recommended OS X Download

I'm noticing a trend of in depth tutorial posts from my fellow writer and site founder Skafia surrounding OSX related tweaks and enhancements. To kind of add to this I would like to bring up a great little System Preferences add-on called Secrets. It's a pretty awesome tool that I have yet to use to its fullest potential. It has a strong database of hidden setting tweaks and adjustments that can easily be toggled and experimented with. To name just a few of the useful tweaks look below: E...

Changing HDD Icons, and ‘Recent Apps’ Stack

Changing HDD Icons If you want to change the icon displayed for your hard drive disk (or pretty much any other icon), without having to pay for a third party App then please read on! The process is really, first you need to find the icons that you want to use. I downloaded a set of beautiful icons from Louie Mantia. After you have downloaded the icon, in Finder right click the icon and click Get Info, then click on the small preview of the icon at the top of the newly displayed Get Info wind...

Facebook for Palm App Review

So Palm finally came out with a Facebook App for their WebOS operating system that runs on the Palm Pre and now their new model, the Palm Pixi.  It was released this weekend along with the 1.3.1 OS update which provided functionality and framework for the Facebook App to work.  Needless to say, many people, myself included, have been eagerly awaiting for this App to be released.  It was mentioned way back in January at CES, when Palm announced the Pre, that they were working closely with Faceboo...

Remote Tap: VNC on your iPhone

If you're familiar with VNC you’ll already understand how handy it can be in a pinch. If not, then chances are you're missing out on a valuable productivity and kick ass power tool to log-in and control your computer remotely. There are a variety of clients for Desktop-to-Desktop virtual network computing, and I won’t go into that, what I will be covering is it's uses on your iPhone so that you can remotely log-in and use your Mac. VNC Choices There are several choices for VNC Apps on the ...

Change iPhone Dock Without Winterboard

This article applies to Jailbroken Apple iPhones only. The standard dock on the iPhone is pretty lame, it is nowhere as cool as the OS X dock or even the Apple iPod Touch dock! So for those of you who want to change your dock but don't want to install Winterboard (or any other theming program) then this article is for you! Winterboard is an awesome program, it change change a lot of visual aspects of the iPhone but with cool functionality comes performance factors. From my experience Winte...