Tips and Tricks
How to Add an Emoji Keyboard to Your iPad
27 October 2011:
iOS5 allows you to easily create an emoticon keyboard on your iPad, simply follow these steps and you’ll be good to go!
How to Add an Emoji Keyboard to Your iPhone
15 October 2011:
iOS5 allows you to easily create an emoticon keyboard on your iPhone, simply follow these steps and you’ll be good to go!
How to Create a Lion Installation Disk
12 October 2011:
Lion DiskMaker is a small utility application that makes the process of creating a bootable Lion installation disk a complete breeze.
Presenter View in Keynote
30 September 2010:
iWork’s Keynote has a highly configurable Presenter Display view and here as well showing the options I outline my preferred layout.
Multiplying Hard Drives
29 January 2010:
False mount points in OS X. Incorrectly removing a drive in OS X can cause the drive to remount with a different mount point name, adding a number to the name, which affects many software applications.
O2's not so simple Simplicity for iPhone
19 January 2010:
So the magic day has arrived … I’m out of contract on my iPhone 3G *deep joy* Time to change to a better value tariff so off I headed to O2 in Bolton. I knew what I wanted was a tariff called Simplicity 20 for iPhone … if only acquiring it had been simple. Sadly, [...]
Quick URL Entry on an iPhone Redux
31 July 2009:
Within days of getting my iPhone 3G in the summer of 2008 I’d found a real time saving feature on the keyboard for entering URL extensions and blogged about it too at Quick URL Entry on an iPhone. Well after the v.3 update not only is the feature still there but the range of extensions [...]
Safari 4 – Almost a Disaster
9 June 2009:
So after a fantastic night chatting with MacBiters in the MacBites chat room during WWDC I eagerly downloaded the release version of Safari and installed it. While I’m installing I ponder the slightly surprising decision to revert the top mounted tabs to their original location but I’m sure I’ll get used it again. Trouble is [...]
Quick URL Entry on an iPhone
22 July 2008:
I love the .com button on the iPhone keyboard but often wished it was configurable – what I hadn’t discovered is that it already is!! Clicking once on the .com does indeed add .com to the current address but holding your finger or thumb on the .com button produces a fly out menu containing extra [...]
Lose Your Dock … Recover Your Mind
15 June 2008:
At a recent Mac club meeting one of the talking points was the differences in how Windows and OS X handle application switching. So I thought I’d consolidate some of the ensuing discussion in a blog post.
