How To

Review: Camera+

August 16, 2010 How To

I recently started a new photography project to challenge myself and improve my photography. I”ll be taking photos all year round using nothing but my iPhone 4 and a few iOS photography apps (Camera+, AutoStitch, PixelPipe). I’ll be uploading the best photograph of the day to a new blog. The Camera+ app from model and [...]

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PixelPipe: Upload 720p HD video from iPhone 4 to YouTube

July 6, 2010 How To

I saw a recent Apple Byte episode in which host Brian Tong mentioned that there is no way to upload a full 720p HD copy of a video captured on an iPhone 4 without first syncing to a computer. I can imagine why he would think that. Just a few days after getting my shiny [...]

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Setup Google Apps (Mail, Calendar and Contacts) on the iPad

May 11, 2010 How To

Google provides a method for accessing their Gmail service via the IMAP protocol. IMAP is a standard protocol for accessing email but unlike POP3 the email stays on the remote server. With POP3 you are limited to reading your email from one location. With IMAP the email stays on the server and you can read [...]

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Watching TiVo on an iPod Touch

April 20, 2010 How To

I’m finally getting around to working on something I’ve wanted to do for sometime. Last year my kids and I got hooked on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Every Sunday morning we would sit on the sofa and watch it on the TiVo. It was our way to reconnect and watch something we enjoy together. [...]

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Installing apps on your Mac

April 13, 2010 How To

A number of my friends are fist time Mac users and I’ve been answering a lot of questions. One place where new Mac users get stuck is with installing apps. My friends are used to the Windows method of installation. Launch a setup.exe file, click Next, click Next again to agree to the license, wait [...]

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Using Mail, Address Book and iCal with Exchange 2007 and Active Directory

March 30, 2010 How To

Once I had setup the OS X 10.6 VPN and had a working connection to my employers’ network I wanted to use the native OS X 10.6 applications to access my email and calendar. I have a copy of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 which includes Entourage. Entourage is Microsoft attempt at providing an Outlook [...]

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