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Old-fashionned alarm clock with the flip-style numbers screensaver

Posted on July 4th, 2010 in 3rd Party Software, Screensavers | View Comments

Fliqlo is a screen saver styled like an old-fashionned alarm clock with the flip-style numbers.
Available for Mac & PC free download here.

Growl Animated Styles

Posted on December 19th, 2009 in 3rd Party Software, Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks | View Comments

Superb, I didn’t even know there were such a thing….
Growl animated styles to add to Growl as fast as a double click.
Made by Christopher Lobay, Christopher Lobay is a designer and developer.
He is the co-founder and Creative Director of Handcraft, a boutique creative agency.
Previously, he co-founded Infinite Ammo, an indie game company.

These styles: Mono and Basic, can be downloaded from here.

Quick Tip: Save a Lot of Room in your Mac HDD in 2 easy steps

Posted on May 31st, 2009 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks | View Comments

This is a trick I use to save space on my Macs HDDs, and it is impressing how much space you can save. The idea is to remove the additional languages installed by any application to your HD.

To make it, 2 easy steps, the result is -90% of space size occupied by each application (iChat went from 114 MB to 12 MB) and of course, faster to load applications.

Before making it, go to your applications folder, and sort the applications by size, then select on of the applications that takes the more space, for this tutorial, I’m going to select Mail.app

  1. Select the application file and make a “command + i” to see the informations on that application, here is what I get:

    mail-step-1

  2. Go to languages and select the languages you don’t need then click on the “-” button in the information window under the languages, you’ll be invited to move them to the trash, and click ‘OK’:

    mail-step-2

  3. Let’s now take a look at how much space the application takes now on the HD:

    step-3

Results: the application used to take 227.5 MB and now it takes 27.9 MB, we saved 200 MB!!!
Try doing it with the whole iLife suite and you’ll get approx 2 GB of additional space in your HD..

Mount your iPhone on your Mac just like a Disk

Posted on April 26th, 2009 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks, iPhone, iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 | View Comments

disk_for_iphone_macamourBored of that SSH solution to gain access via a FTP client to your iPhone, or you just want to use your iPhone like a flash disk, here’s the tutorial on how to make your iPhone mount on your desktop just like any disk you connect to your Mac.

This tutorial is not for Windows running PCs.

You may need to check if your Mac is compatible with Disk for iPhone.

  1. Download MacFuse (I already talked about this application in a how to make NTFS disk writable) and Disk for iPhone.
  2. Install MacFUSE.
  3. Install Disk for iPhone
  4. Run Disk for iPhone.
  5. Connect your iPhone with its USB cable to your Mac.
  6. Your iPhone should now mount as Media on your desktop.

5 Best Safari Plugins to perfect your Internet Experience

Posted on April 24th, 2009 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks, Safari | View Comments

Just wanted to share with my dear readers my favorite Safari plugins, you’ll love even more browsing the internet on the fastest and most beautiful browser ever.

  1. Inquisitor, I already made a review on this application a long time ago, the latest update is Safari 4 beta ready.
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  2. Cosmopod, I also made a review on it a long time ago (the actual version is also Safari 4 beta capable)
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  3. Cooliris a multimedia way to navigate the internet, it is just awesome, it worths a try (MacAmour is Cooliris ready)
  4. VLC plugins for Safari
  5. Some classics of course are highly recommended like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight

Make Boot Camp’s NTFS Partition Writable

Posted on February 8th, 2009 in Boot Camp, Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks, Security & Maintenance | View Comments

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Mac OS X doesn’t and will never support NTFS write but this desperate situation isn’t impossible to fix… thank God.
More… the solution is easy!
All you need is to install two small packages: MacFUSE and NTFS-3G.

You’ll be surprised like I was to see the miracle happen after you restart!

Bonus Trick: as a result of this trick, you will be able to modify the Boot Camp disk icon over your desktop… 

Also take a look at this post: Renaming/Hiding Boot Camp Partition

Error 1600 and Error 21 Fix on iPhone Unlock

Posted on December 30th, 2008 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks, iPhone, iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 | View Comments

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Well known and annoying error messages that appears on iTunes when you try to unlock/jailbreak an iPhone.
Here are the steps I followed to unlock an iPhone (factory settings), two friends helped me for this: Kofster and Houssem).
What you need to make it (Google is your friend):

  1. Pwnage Tool (latest release)
  2. QuickPwn (latest version)
  3. Boot Loader (3.9 and 4.6)
  4. the latest version of iPhone OS (2.2) downloaded

Make the jump for the complete tutorial.
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Best Tutorial on How To Jailbreak the new 2.0 iPhone in a Video

Posted on August 7th, 2008 in Macintosh Tips & Help, Mods and Hacks, iPhone, iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 | View Comments

The best tutorial I ever seen on the web for the moment showing a full “how to” jailbreak a 2.0 iPhone. Start your recorders!