Do you back up your most important stuff? (April 27th, 2009 - 1,293 views)

I keep hearing about people losing heaps of important stuff so I thought I should give you all a reminder to back up your stuff (as I run my kinda-daily backup).  There is no need to argue toward this one. You know that you keep your photos, your music, your work and much more on [...]

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Your iPhone is simply a new interface (March 25th, 2009 - 1,697 views)

I have been thinking about this for a while now, but it took Mick’s Mobile Killed The Desktop Star post to remind me to write it down. The correct answer is “derrr Mick, of course!” When the iPhone had just launched and everyone was asking my opinion I suggested that they think of it as a [...]

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Make your iPhone battery last longer (February 11th, 2009 - 2,973 views)

Like anything if you use it more it will take more energy. That’s the only ‘battery issue’ with any of the Apple stuff – it keeps coming up.. iPods, iPhones.. we use them too much. If you really want to save power: * Turn down the brightness. * Set push notifications to manual. * Turn [...]

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The iPhone Headphone Mic Buttons (January 22nd, 2009 - 6,075 views)

The iPhone iPod app is obviously great because it holds your music collection. I have got the home button set so that if I push it twice quickly it loads the iPod app, or pops up a small notification window for quick back, play/pause and skip options (you can set your home button preferences in [...]

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Google shows their hand with Chrome (September 4th, 2008 - 1,763 views)

Google have expanded their vision. They started off with a simple search box that simply found you whatever you were looking for. That google search page is just as simple today as the day they first launched in 1996. What’s next? If you are not going to put anything more on the webpage, you might [...]

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