Some research the other day led me to a helpful blog post explaining how to stop attachments from showing a preview of a PDF and/or image. If you would like to make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open ...
Time Zones on the iPhone
The iPhone automatically updates which time zone you're in, assuming you're using the default setting (you can change this in Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically). However, the behavior of the iPhone's calendar depends on another feature called Time Zone Support. This ...
MacBook Air (and Retina) users rejoice: FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, and USB 3.0 are here
The MacBook Air has always been a sweet little machine, but with the noteworthy constraint that there is no means of fast input/output -- USB 2.0 is as fast as it gets on most of them, and that's not even as fast (in actual real usage) as FireWire 400, much less FireWire 800, much less Gigabit ...
Taxi apps for NYC?
An article in this week’s Crain’s New York Business, called “Taxi apps may fuel better rides,” discusses the limitations inherent in creating an NYC taxi app for iPhone or Android that is approved by the Taxi and Limousine Commission. Because the TLC has so many regulations around what taxis can ...
Still on Leopard (10.5)? Prepare to pay to upgrade
If you're still running Leopard, aka Mac OS X 10.5, you now have no Apple-provided way of getting either Lion or Mountain Lion on your machine. You will have to buy a Snow Leopard DVD -- formerly $29, but now upwards of $70 on Amazon and eBay to update your system, and then you will have access to ...
“Power User’s Guide” to OS X Server
If you want a great overview of Mountain Lion Server, the website Ars Technica has an extensive yet well-written article about how to set it up, and how it's been simplified compared to its predecessors. Now even families, as well as small businesses, may find a use for a server. A few ways to use ...