When I was young I remember looking at the pre-Christmas toy advertisements on the TV and wanting the latest Six-Million Dollar Man action figure in the Action Man range, the latest new engineering kit from Mecanno, a Lego castle (or two) and perhaps a chemistry set so I could practice blowing things up. Over the [...]

Categories: Apple

How do you transfer data between your iPod, Ipad or iPhone and a PC? Most will probably answer that they are using Apple iTunes for that. The iTunes software on the other hand is rather heavy on the resource side, and some users may prefer to use a lightweight faster software instead. That’s one of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The latest version of Apple’s iOS operating system has been released today and it brings with it several welcome enhancements, not the least of which is multi-tasking for the iPad, iPhone (3G, 3GS and 4) and the iPod Touch (2nd, to 4th generations). In a press release today, the company said… iOS 4.2 makes the iPad [...]

Categories: Apple

Hackers have moved in the last few years away from attacking platforms such as Windows, and instead on to attacking software.  This is in a large part because the security of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows have increased incredibly in recent years while other software companies have remained complacent. The latest threat is another [...]

Categories: Adobe, Apple, Hacking

Apple’s iTunes software is used by the majority of iPod users to manage their music library and synchronize songs with the mobile music player. Those that use a different software to manage their music are left with the option to add the music to iTunes as well to synchronize it with the iPod or to [...]

Categories: iPod

The number 13 is usually associated with bad luck. Friday the 13th (both the date and the movie). Many buildings don’t have a thirteenth floor. Fedora just released it’s number 13 and one might wonder if the number was good or bad for the release. I am happy to report that the number 13, for [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems

Why does it take so long to charge my iPad, iPhone or iPod on my PC? If you have been asking that question to yourself you might need to know that they do not play that well with low powered USB ports. There even have been reports that iPads could not be charged at all [...]

Categories: Apple

It’s taken me long enough, but finally a solution for syncing both an iPhone and an iTouch with Linux is possible. What is best about this method, is that it does NOT require a jailbroken iPhone. That’s right, you’ll be able to sync your iPhone, via USB, and add all sorts of good music to [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, iPod, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

When I switched to a Mac, I did not purchase an iPod for a few months. I previously had a Creative Zen Vision M media player. Unfortunately, this device was not mass storage, but utilised ‘Media Transfer Protocol’. Whilst several pieces of software on Windows provide the facility to move music to the device, OS [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Music and Video, Open Source, Software, Tools