I had an issue with people trying to send iMessages to my phone number. for some reason ios7 had set iMessages to only send to my email address and not to my phone number. to fix it, I had to get the help from my boss at work :) its Read more…
This is a very cool thing I just found in safari on osx mavericks. if you have your twitter account linked to your os [it asks you the first time you log in to twitter in safari] you will have a section in the sidebar when you open a new Read more…
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 updates tend to eat all your data allowance. to disable the app auto updates: goto settings > itunes & app Read more…
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 time an sms text message was sent or received, there is a little trick to it (like there is for Read more…
This post will show you how to How to delete and move icons from apple tv! Its easy once you get the hang of it: Moving Icons Highlight the icon you want to move or erase. Press and hold the select button. The icon will start to wobble. You can Read more…
This is a pretty cool tip. in osx lion and mountain lion the right click gesture [two finger tap on the pad] is a little slow. it turns out that if you disable the ‘smart zoom’ feature (double tap with two fingers) then the right click option is much faster. Read more…
If you use the terminal app a lot, you will know that you can press the up arrow to get to the last command you typed to save you typing it again (it saves a load of history for you so you can pick the command that you typed ten Read more…
This post will show you how to disable smooth scrolling in osx mountain lion. open terminal type defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO smooth crolling will now be disabled!
This is an excellent tip. if you like the natural scrolling in osx lion for your trackpad, but want the old style scrolling for your mouse, then it is possible. download scrollreverser make sure that you have natural scrolling enabled: system preferences > trackpad > natural scrolling on start scrollreverser Read more…
You can get osx like reversed two finger scrolling in linux [mint or ubuntu or Backtrack], if you install ‘naturalscroll’. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zedtux/naturalscrolling sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install naturalscrolling
You can get the ios style ‘scroll down and release’ or ‘pull to refresh’ feature in google chrome or safari on osx by installing a simple extension. go here https://github.com/weetidy/Pull-to-refresh-for-Chrome-and-Safari and download the file as a zip. the extracted file contains two folders. click on the crx file in the Read more…
This will show you how to set custom ringtones for contacts on your iphone. 1) open contacts 2) pick the contact you wish to have a custom ringtone 3) click ‘edit’ 4) scroll down and you will see ‘ringtone’ and ‘text tone’ 5) click ‘ringtone’ and pick the rington you Read more…
This post will show you about moving between virtual desktops in osx mission control. I also have a post about how to setup multiple virtual desktops. Once oyu have the desktop spaces setup you can quickly move between them (I use the keyboard shortcuts all the time) – it allows Read more…
I like the new scrolling in osx lion. my brother hates it. If you want to turn osx lion scrolling back to normal like snow leopard then: Turn osx lion scrolling back to normal like snow leopard system preferences > trackpad > scroll & zoom untick ‘scroll direction: natural’ you Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to your Basecamp calendar in iphone calendar. For instructions on how to subscribe to your basecamp calendar in google calendar please see this post Basecamp is a great way to keep track of lots of things in your projects. You can use Read more…
iPad side switch screen rotating lock. One of the things that I find frustrating when reading on my iPad is the screen orientation reacting to the orientation of the iPad. When you rotate your iPad the screen tries to change to keep the screen content vertical. It can be frustrating Read more…
Osx lion has reversed scrolling. it behaves like the ipad. scrolling up on the multitiouch trackpad makes your page go down. snow leopard has traditional scrolling. scroll reverser will enable you to have lion like scrolling in snow leopard. its great =) it does take a little getting used to, Read more…
This post is about setting up XMAPP on a mac with xdebug. The first thing we are going to do is to change the document root inside xampp to the ‘Sites’ folder. Changing the DocumentRoot has a few benefits – one being that its far easier to get to in Read more…
ableton tutorial #1
warp markers.
this is the most important and the best thing about abelton – they are called warp markers.
im gonna tell you what they are all about, and im gonna tell you how you can use them to your advantage.
so…
fire up abelton.