Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques - Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection…
I finally swapped my iPhone for an android phone. I've been an iPhone user since the iPhone 3gs, right through till the 6plus. I was spoiled a little in the…
My iPhone 6 plus was going slow, so I got a battery from ebay and followed the ifixit iPhone battery replacement tutorial - my phone is now much faster (it…
osx mojave beta is available to the public. To get it you have to sign up at apples btea program website. Once signed up, you can click the link for…
I joined a few older posts together (and redirected those old posts here) to create a single place for my public dns services list and instructions. Short list of IP…
This post is a combination of previous posts about privacy settings in mac and ios. Safari do not track: Safari gives users the option to enable the 'do not track'…
Replace iphone home button: The home button on my iphone 6 plus stopped working, so I had to fit a new one. Unfortunately touchId won't work any more but at…
This is a short post that shows you how to force icloud backup. If you get the message telling you that icloud hasnt been able to backup to icloud for…
This post will show you how to lock the auto-focus on your iPhone camera (or your iPad camera). The camera is great, and you can get to the camera in…
The iPhone is great, but its autocomplete isn't the best. It gets frustrating when you are an English speaker / writer. (as compared to an American English speaker / writer).…
this post will show you how to how to disable facebook video autoplay on iphone. goto settings > facebook > settings > video > autoplay select 'off' now you wont…
How to enable iCloud password for all sites on iPhone and iPad: ICloud keychain is great. But some sites block the saving of passwords. Fortunately there is a way to…
ICloud keychain is an excellent feature in osx mavericks and ios7.To enable iCloud keychain on iPhone and ipad: class="alert alert-success">If you have iOS < 7.0.3 Install iOS 7.0.3 [preferences >…
This post is about osx console emulators. It should help you pick the best emulators for your games jump to: Game Boy / Color / Game Boy Advance Nintendo Entertainment…
This one confused me for ages. iCloud tabs in safari in iOS. they are a great feature, you can pickup where you left off reading tabs from your mac on…
On the newer iPhone burst mode is a feature in the camera app that takes photos in rapid succession when you hold the shutter button down. I just noticed this…
This is a great feature on the new ios7 for your iPhone: blocking callers. to block someone from phoning you when you have ios7: open the phone app go to…
This post will show you how to turn off app auto update on iphone. if you have a limited data plan then you might want to do this as the…
Its not easy to show the time an sms text message was sent from your device, or sent from someone else to you. In ios7 and above its a little easier to get the…
Tapatalk forum app for iPhone is now free. I participate in a lot of forums: imore macrumours digital point ubuntu forums and lots of others I first found tapatalk a…
This post is great: it shows you how to silence your iphone, except from a selected number of contacts. to set this up on your iphone, with ios7: settings >…
As you probably know, I use reeder on my iphone (and on my mac) to fetch all my rss feeds that I recently moved to feedly from google reeder. the…
reader - the awesome iphone rss reading app has now updated with support for feedly! google reader is now dead, so I moved to feedly. there was a one click…
This post will show you how to delete the backups of your iphone or ipad from itunes on your mac / pc with icloud you no longer need to make…
There have been a lot of posts going about the blogosphere in the last few months from people talking about their ios7 wishlist. I thought I'd publish mine. 1) ability…
Bluestacks run android apps on your mac! bluestacks is an awesome app for your mac: It lets you run android apps on your mac! Bluestacks is a virtualised android environment…
How to change the temperature scale in ipad Siri will tell you the weather on the ipad if you ask. On the iphone there is a weather app. in the…
This post will show you how to change the volume of siri. ie change how loud siri's beeps and voice is. the iphone and ipad have 3 volume settings: ringer…
Ios 5 came along with a new set of keyboards: emoji emoji are like smilies, but there are hundreds of them you can enable them on your ios 5 or…
Basecamp now have an iphone app, so in addition to having your basecamp calendar on your iphone to remind you of important upcoming dates you can also do cool things…
I use last.fm. I also use itunes match. the only problem is that there isnt an easy way to sync the play counts unless you sync your ipad / iphone…
This post will show you how to enter a carriage return on an iPhone. Usually with an iPhone the return key will submit the current action. eg if you are…
This post will show you how to turbo charge your jailbroken iphone or ipad: 1) search cydia for 'accelerator' and install it 2) head to settings > accellerator 3) enable…
How to take panorama photos on iphone ipad with ios6 and later: when apple announced ios6 it came with a panorama photo feature, it lets you take 180 degree photograph…
There are lots and lots of stories about the ubuntu phones. at least for me they could be an iphone killer. there is an excellent article here that explains a…
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best Snes emulators on ipad mini. first up: snes…
This is an excellent tip I saw in one of my rss feeds over the christmas break: quickly view and edit drafts in iphone / ipad mail.app open the mail…
This post will show you how to enable the private browsing mode in safari for ipad and iphone. goto settings > safari in the privacy section there is an option…
This post will show you how to sync reminders (including location based reminders) between your mac and your iphone or iPad. enable location services on your mac goto settings >…