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How To: Keep Steam for Mac Data in an Alternate Location
Steam for Mac is great, and I’m really enjoying Portal at the moment. I recently upgraded the storage setup of my new Core i7 MacBook Pro 15″ by: – swapping the boot drive to an 80Gb SSD (Intel X-25M V2) – swapping the optical drive to a 500Gb HDD (using an Optibay) – installing the [...]
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How To: Successfully switch between multiple iTunes accounts from different countries
I have, up until just now, been vexed. Vexed by the seemingly random nature of my iPhone 3G’s reactions when switching between my Australian and my US iTunes accounts. It’s quite simple: once upon a time, I lived in Australia, and bought a number of applications for my iPhone using my Australian iTunes account; now, [...]
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How To: Synchronise Contacts & Appointments between a Work Windows/Exchange/Blackberry world and a Home Mac/Mobile Me/iPhone world
Seamless synchronisation of PIM data is the Holy Grail, right?
This ain’t it, but it’s a good enough solution until Monty Python turn up with the real thing.
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MacHeist 3
MacHeist 3
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Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server
A tidied up version of a collection of posts on MacTalk.com.au. This thread, for reference. I’ve been trying to find info on Snow Leopard Server for a while, as it seems pretty interesting from a few perspectives, even for individuals. My main interest is as to whether Snow Leopard Server is a possible replacement for [...]
In: General Nerdery, iPhone, Server, Software · Tagged with: Apple, calendar, contacts, Home Server, iPhone, Mobile Me, push email, Server, Snow Leopard Server, storage, synchronisation
Un-Jailbreaking – “Re-virginising” the iPhone 3G
iPhone Hacks has a great guide to re-virginising the iPhone 3G – http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/10/virginizeiphone.html. Main points reposted here because the internet is a fickle beast. Apologies to iPhoneHacks if they’re not impressed with the re-post of their guide; if so, please contact me. Step-By-Step Guide to ReVirginize or Restore iPhone One of the most commonly asked [...]
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Jailbreaking the iPhone 3G – Part 2 – iPhone Firmware 2.2.1 / OS X 10.5.6
Success!
I now have a jailbroken iPhone 3G, running firmware 2.2.1.
Thanks to Apple’s update to firmware 2.2.1, and the Dev Team’s update of PwnageTool, along with some good instructions of how to get around the 10.5.6 no-DFU problem.
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