Mailbox app imap folders disabled: Mailbox app is a great email app for the ipad. A major bonus also occurs when you link it to your dropbox account – you get a free 1gb extra space! When I tried to setup an account I encountered a problem though: a message Read more…
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 while back and I use it every day. a few of the features that you’ll like: iCloud sync: Tapatalk remembers Read more…
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 to your iTunes. until I found cloudscrob. its an app that costs 69p, but for me its well worth it Read more…
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 > security & privacy > privacy click ‘location services’ in the left hand menu tick ‘enable location services’ at the top Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your podcast subscriptions between your ipad and iphone in your iphone / ipad: goto settings > podcasts turn ‘sync subscriptions’ on currently you cant sync subscriptions via icloud to itunes on your mac, but this feature is coming in itunes 11 :)
This post will show you how to sync ibooks information across devices. you can sync the position you are at in a book and you can sync bookmarks too. in your iphone or ipad: open settings > ibooks make sure that ‘sync bookmarks’ is on if you tick ‘sync collections’ Read more…
This post will show you how to get your bookmarks from chrome / firefox / chrome into your ipad or iphone’s safari browser firstly, make sure that you have safari on your computer also make sure you have icloud installed in your pc if you run windows next, open the Read more…
This post will list the various ways to get pdf ebooks (or anything in a pdf) on to your iphone / ipad / ipad mini there are a few ways to do it: if its just one or two pdf files then email it to an email address thats configured Read more…
How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx Once you have setup your mac and iOS device to use the same method to send and receive iMessages then anyone who sends you an iMessage (ether to your phone number or email address) will have that message delivered to Read more…
Safari in mountain lion has a cool new feature – icloud tabs. icloud tabs let you sync your browser tabs between devices, eg you can open a tab in your ipad, and then view it in your iphone or on your mac! to enable icloud tabs on your mac: open Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your twitter contacts with your osx addressbook contacts. It will add the twitter account details of the people who are already in your addressbook to those entries. Goto System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars add your twitter account if not already Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your LinkedIn contacts with your iPhone addressbook. Goto the LinkedIn app Goto the ‘you’ section Click the gear Click on ‘download connections’ You are done :)
This post will show you how to sync your twitter contacts with your iPhone contacts. It will add the twitter details of the people who are already in your addressbook to those entries. It won’t fill your addressbook with twitter usernames! Goto iphone settings > twitter Click ‘update contacts’ Done Read more…
This post will show you how to sync all of your Facebook contacts details with the contacts in your iPhones addressbook. It will only add the information that your Facebook contacts have allowed to be synced, so if bob or joe don’t want you having their new cell number or Read more…
A rundown on some productivity apps that I use with my iphone first and foremost, I use google a lot. I have my iphone set to sync all my contacts and calendars with google calendar and contacts you can also sync the notes from notes.app with your gmail account evernote Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to your facebook friends birthdays using ical on your mac 1) login to your facebook account 2) goto events (in the left hand bar) 3) click on the maginifying glass in the top right 4) pick ‘birthdays’ 5) click on the maginifying Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to facebook events using ical on your mac osx 1) login to your facebook account 2) goto events (in the left hand bar) 3) click on the maginifying glass in the top right 4) pick ‘export events’ 5) click on the url Read more…
Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…
You can download and install the public beta version of the upcoming mountain lion messages app right now! you can get the app from here When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work. And Messages brings iMessage to the Mac â just like on Read more…
The interwebs are all a-tweet with the news of osx mountain lion. it will bring with it a few things that I had pointed out for osx lion, most notable are airplay mirroring for your desktop, notes from the ipad, reminders from the ipad, imessage and notification center :D there Read more…
It took me a while, but I finally jumped on board the evernote bandwagon. i was happy with the built in notes.app for my iphone and I was happy syncing it via gmail to my mail.app on my mac. i got an iphone 4s, and donated my iphone 3gs to Read more…
This is a list of twitter clients for osx available on the mac app store. 1) twitter official client pros works with lists multiple accounts looks excellent cons can only view one thing at a time, eg you cant have a live stream of two accounts at once no sync Read more…
This will show you how to sync your notes from mail.app with gmail. [doing this will let you use gmail to sync the notes.app on your iphone / ipad with your mail.app on your mac] 1) setup a google account in mail.app. 2) any notes you enter will now appear Read more…
It took me a while to figure this one out, because I didnt have to do anything! i wanted my reminders from my reminders.app in my iphone and ipad to be in sync with each other and with my mac. i thought they might go into mail.app, or ical. turns Read more…
This will show you how to enable wifi sync on iphone and ipad. Wifi sync will let you sync apps and movies and ebooks between your iphone or ipad and your computer, without having to plug your device in during the sync. Once you have enabled the wifi sync you Read more…
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3 files, and will make your itunes look perfect :D 1) download and install you can download the app from the Read more…
Make snow leopard more like lion: you can use most of the features of osx lion / icloud right now. using google. mail: to sync all your mail on all your devices you need gmail. this first post will show you how to setup gmail in your macs mail.app this Read more…
If your iphone is going slow then you might be able to speed it up significantly by deleting your photos and videos. the first thing to do is to make sure you have all the photos synced to your pc or mac. once you are sure they are all on 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…
Free carrier unlock for uk o2 iphone without jailbreak. this will show you how to unlock your iphone by going to the O2 website and filling in a form. its free for contract users and it costs £15 for pay as you go users. I got an email the other Read more…
Do you have a folder called ‘ipod photo cache‘ on your desktop that, no matter what never ever goes away, even if you delete it, it comes back ? This post will show you how to remove it. The reason that this folder appears is that iTunes will create images Read more…
http://reederapp.com/ I have tried a lot of rss readers. ive tried netnewswire for iphone and for mac. ive tried using google reader (which I use to keep all my feeds in =) i started using reeder on the ipad because of allt he reviews around the net. i now use Read more…
This post will show you how to get your basecamp ical in google calendar (and onto your iphone, mac, etc) goto basecamp goto the main dashboard goto the bottom of the page copy the link for the iCalendar goto google calendar goto the bottom of the left hand bar goto Read more…
Here are the detailed instructions on syncing iphone notes app and mail app using gmail . This will enable bi-directional syncing: you can edit the notes on any device and it will be synced to the others automatically =) After doing this you will have all your notes on your Read more…
this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends using Facebook chat in iMessages on your mac. Facebook chat uses the xmpp protocol. This means that you can connect to Facebook chat using third party chat applications. This makes Facebook chat comparable to the way you used to connect Read more…
this will show you how to make Itunes smart playlists for podcasts and music so you can have every episode of certain podcasts, and the latest episodes of the others. Its also good for music – eg songs you have never played, songs you havent played in the last 6 Read more…
i will show you an alternative to using stickies and notes. it also allows syncing between your iphone and your mac simplenote iphone app (search for simplenote in the app store) simplenote client for mac (selfcoded.com/justnotes) they are simple to use, they sync with each other. its free. all notes Read more…