I came across this extensive list of text editing programs for iOS. If there's a feature you want a text editor to have, this is the place to look for it: the iOS Text Editor roundup ...
yes, you can print from iPhone and iPad and iPod Touch
iOS is all about simplicity, and so Apple has built no-configuration printing capability for it, called AirPrint. The trick is that your printer needs to be AirPrint-compatible -- but if you already have one you want to use, there may be still be an answer for you. Apple maintains a list of ...
Lion users finally get Quicken
When Apple released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, they also left many Quicken users in the cold, because Lion no longer supports PowerPC applications. Quicken Essentials 2010 does run on Lion, but it has been widely panned due to its meager feature set as compared with its predecessor. Intuit has finally ...
Thunderbolt lets you have FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet for your MacBook Air
The MacBook Airs are lovely machines, but they lack ports. You get USB 2.0, SD (on the 13") and headphones, and ThunderBolt. No FireWire, no Ethernet, no eSATA. In other words, no fast connectivity, except for Thunderbolt. Apple's $29 Ethernet adapter is only 100Base-T, not Gigabit; Belkin has a ...
AirPlay on a Mac: play any video through your Apple TV
It is said the best things in life are free, and the point is reinforced by a couple of really useful no-cost utility programs which bring AirPlay — Apple’s system for streaming video to an Apple TV — to your Mac. Normally, AirPlay only lets you play video from an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S. AirFlick, ...
How to make a Lion installer USB stick when you already have Lion installed
This is a bit of rehash, but it felt worth rehashing. It's been well established, such as in this tutorial, that you can use the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion download from the Mac App Store to make a Lion installer USB stick. However, that doesn't help if you bought a new Mac and it came with Lion. When a ...