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IconSettings provides one-touch access to iOS settings with bookmarks

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2011)

IconSettings, from the South African blog iPhoneZA, is an interesting hack that lets you set up one-touch buttons on your iOS device to access specific parts of the Settings app (like turning Bluetooth on or off, toggling Airplane mode, adjusting date & time, etc.) without going to the ...

Apple played favorites with iPad access

by Mike Schramm (Apr 5th, 2010)

Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza has an insightful look at something that no one's really noticed yet: Apple definitely played favorites when it came to sharing the iPad. Here's the list of outlets and writers that got access to the iPad for an early review. You'll note that Boing Boing is on there, ...

Mac 101: Retrieve your Keychain passwords

by Cory Bohon (Sep 25th, 2008)

Have you forgotten a password to a website, email account, or other password? If you use Mac OS X's Keychain, chances are that your password can be easily retrieved. First off, open Keychain Access.app (located in /Applications/Utilities/). Once there, scroll through the list of keys until you ...

Widget Watch: iPhoto mini 1.3 gains a new UI, more

by David Chartier (May 23rd, 2006)

We blogged the iPhoto mini widget back in December, and since then it has received quite the feature update and face lift. The widget is now resize-able and just plain sexier. In addition to being able to browse all your iPhoto albums complete with image counts, you can now set the current image as ...

Access iPhoto and iTunes libraries with a simple Automator action

by David Chartier (May 3rd, 2006)

You could also file this under "fantastic Automator actions that Apple should've advertised when Tiger was being released." A post at macosxhints has discovered a simple Automator action you can use to open panel containing your entire iPhoto or iTunes library (pictured), complete ...