Transfer Time Machine Backups

June 28th, 2010

http://www.macworld.com/article/152179/2010/06/transfer_time_machine.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbstories

Jailbreak firmware 3.1.3

May 20th, 2010
Goto the website below and get the software for Mac or PC!

http://spiritjb.com/

Spirit

What’s Spirit?
  • Spirit is an untethered jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch on the latest firmwares.
  • Spirit is not a carrier unlock.
  • If you currently are using a tethered jailbreak, you have to restore to use Spirit. Do not upgrade if you use an unlock on an iPhone 3G or 3GS. (You can, however, restore to 3.1.2 if you have SHSH blobs for that version.)
    • (If you mistakenly ran Spirit despite using a tethered jailbreak, try these instructions.)
Requirements
  • Any iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch on firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2.
  • An activated device: one not stuck on the Connect to iTunes or Emergency Call screen.
  • Any version of iTunes 9 (including 9.1.1).
  • Syncing with iTunes before trying this is highly recommended.

Note: On iPad, all this is still sort of beta. Some packages in Cydia, not designed for iPad, might screw up your system and require you to restore. Be careful. (And no, Cydia’s appearance is not final.)

Download

Other Stuff
  • If you liked this jailbreak, I greatly appreciate donations:
  • Update (May 3): I’ve updated the jailbreak tool. It no longer deletes photos (sorry!) and should resolve the issue with error code c0000005. (If you still get that error with the new version, try setting compatibility mode to Windows 95.)
  • Legal information.
  • Source code will be available after the inevitable update.
  • For troubleshooting purposes, here is a little program to read the syslog (which the spirit installer writes a bunch of stuff to). If you don’t know what this means, don’t bother.
  • Thanks to BigBoss, chpwn, chronic, MuscleNerd, OPK, planetbeing, pod2g, posixninja, saurik, westbaer, and anyone else whose name I have forgotten, for various contributions.
  • Plus, special thanks to everyone who donated to me in the past.
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AmpliTube iRig – Guitar Interface for iPhone and iPad

May 10th, 2010

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irig/features/

Add a word-count tool to TextEdit

May 10th, 2010

http://www.macworld.com/article/151125/2010/05/texteditwordcount.html
by Macworld Staff, Macworld.com

TextEdit is a nice, lightweight text editor, but in at least one sense it’s too lightweight: It doesn’t have a word-count feature. MacOSXHints.com reader mprussel figured out a solution: An Applescript that “adds a word (and character) count pop-up dialog” to OS X’s built-in editor:

<code>tell application "TextEdit"
  set word_count to count words of document 1
  set char_count to count characters of document 1
  set show_words to (word_count as string) & " words. (" & (char_count as string) & " characters.)"
  set dialog_title to "TextEdit Word Count"
  display dialog show_words with icon 1 with title dialog_title buttons {"Ok"} default button "Ok"
end tell</code>

Copy and paste the above into AppleScript Editor (in Applications/Utilities), and save it in your user directory’s Library/Scripts/Applications/TextEdit folder; I named mine Word Count. Next, open AppleScript Editor’s Preferences, and on the General tab, make sure Show Script Menu in Menu Bar is selected.

Now, with any TextEdit document in front of you, you can open the Script menu in the menu bar and select your script. When you do, you should see a small dialog saying something like:

TextEdit Word Count
2832 words. (15060 characters.)

The OK button dismisses the dialog box.

As the Hints commenters point out, there are some other ways to do much the same thing. Reader kirsch provided a link to a post on Daring Fireball that explained how to create a system-wide word-count service (again, based on an AppleScript). You could also embed the same kind of script in an Automator-based service, which would then be available in any app. And reader Stormchild pointed out that Devon Technologies offers the free WordService; its Statistics tool provides word and character counts.