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Get your ebooks ready for iPad

If your expecting your iPad soon then your going to want to load it up with goodies as soon as you tear through that packaging.  iTunes 9.1 (available now) supports the management of ebooks in the ePub format to sync with the new iPad that drops this Sunday. If you already have a hefty collection of ebooks in the DRM free format of ePub then you can simply load them up into iTunes and your good to go. However if your collection of ebooks are not in the ePub format (PDF, LIT, MOBI, RTF, PDB, T...

Make Shiretoko (Firefox) More Compatible!

If you haven't heard, Shiretoko (http://www.latko.org/downloads/) is the codename for internal builds of Firefox 3.5. If you are running an Intel-Optimized version of this browser on your Mac then you've probably seen those annoying errors that say "This web-site is incompatible with your browser". Those errors are truly annoying and they prevent you from viewing the intended web-site, well here's an easy fix! In Shiretoko's location bar, type about:config, proceed if you see a warning dialog...

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...

Less iPhone Homescreen Clutter Please

The Apple iPhone is a great device and I've been enjoying mine [2G, 3G, 3GS] since it's inception. The App Store now houses over 100,000 Apps and with this gi-normous amount of Apps come insanely cluttered homescreens. Every single time I pick up another person's iPhone I cringe on how their Apps are dispersed throughout their homescreens, there seem to be no form of order, everything is just thrown together randomly and I think for a device created with such detail, it deserves a little standar...