After the move to an iPhone 6/6+ many people lost their voicemails. If you have a backup made from your previous phone, this quick technique will bring them back. Mike Reyes figured this out and wrote short Terminal only instructions, so for people a little less comfortable in the Terminal, here’s a visual guide. Mike’s […]
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How to Disable Auto-Play Videos in Facebook
Recently Facebook decided that we wanted our feeds littered with auto-playing videos. The only saving grace is that the audio doesn’t also play but it’s still distracting and annoying to many of us. Luckily, there’s a switch to turn it off from the web-version of Facebook, and in a completely different place to turn it […]
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The Apple Contacts application isn’t really designed to handle how many different ways we have of contacting people these days. In particular it’s awful at handling couples in a single card entry. Let’s say you’re friends with Bob and Sally Schwinkendorf. You send them a holiday card every year so you want both of their […]
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Activity Monitor is a great utility on the Mac to monitor what applications and services are chewing up CPU cycles, energy hogs, and other things that might slow your Mac down. in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to engage a version of Activity Monitor to track your iOS device. My particular interest in using […]
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Problem to be Solved You’ve got a great backup of your OSX computer, and you need to get something back from the Library folder, say something in the Application Support subfolder. These instructions will show you how to do unhide the User Library folder on the external drive or even on a second Mac. Credit […]
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Download Audacity You’ve got your recording finished and realized there’s a hum or hiss on one half of the recording. This quick tutorial will walk you how to import your audio into Audacity, split the stereo track and remove the noise. Start by downloading Audacity from audacityteam.org/download for your operating system (Mac, Linux or Windows). […]
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The problem to be solved here is that it’s a hassle to remember to tell iTunes to update your podcasts before you sync your iPod or iPhone to get the latest shows. The easiest thing to do on iOS is to use a podcatching client like Downcast, which lets you skip iTunes altogether but if […]
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You need to email a file or folder of files to someone, but the information is sensitive. These slightly geeky but easy to follow instructions will show you how to do it. We’re going to compress the file(s) into a single zip file that’s encrypted by issuing one single command into the Terminal. When you […]
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Textual How to Configure Textual for NosillaCast Live Colloquy How to Configure Colloquy for NosillaCast Live Adium How to Configure Adium for NosillaCast Live Thanks to Kirschen Seah of freerangecoder.com for the Adium Tutorial!
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These quick instructions will show you how to use a Word file containing addresses to make mailing labels Assumptions: You’re running Office 2011 for Mac You have a comma delimited file with the same number of fields in each address You have already purchased, or plan to purchase labels that match one of the […]
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