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03-18-11 \\ Technology

Mike Tyson cures angry birds addiction

On the day of the iPad 2 release, Mike Tyson looks to cure users of their Angry Birds Addiction.

03-16-11 \\ OSX

Mail 5 for OSX Lion: 5 things Apple should fix to make it perfect.

The new Apple Mail 5 client for OSX Lion is the one feature that I’m most excited about in the new OSX operating system. I’ve been waiting for a refresh to Apple Mail for a long time. I’ve been using PostBox for now, but it’s never felt like a complete mail solution as good as [...]

03-16-11 \\ Guides

CSS3 Generator

Fantastic CSS3 generator by Eric Hoffman and Peter Funk

03-10-11 \\ iOS

A note on the lack of iOS app trials: Installious to the rescue

I don’t condone software piracy. As a software developer, I’ve gone out of my way to ensure that I own everything that I use. However, the iTunes iOS app store policies have brought a new question to light: Why should I spend money on something that I can’t try first? Would you by a TV [...]

03-09-11 \\ Themes

OmniFocus Theme 3: Clean, simple and elegant

A new theme that I created for OmniFocus. It is a bit of a cross between my previous two themes, but includes more elegant group separators for context views.

03-04-11 \\ Technology

Introducing the iPad 2 – Hysterical Parody

Director Dan Dobi and writer Steve Rogowski skate pretty close to several uncomfortable lines in this one, however, which, presumably is intentional.

03-01-11 \\ Web

12 Top Quality Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

Below are a few Photoshop light effect tutorials that have caught my eye while looking over the tutorial sites, for me these produce the best results while using brushes, blurs and other media such as textures to create a top quality effect.

02-21-11 \\ News

Scientists build the world’s first ANTI LASER

Less than a year after it was first suggested, the world’s first antilaser is here. A team of physicists have built a contraption that, instead of flashing bright beams, utterly extinguishes specific wavelengths of light.

02-20-11 \\ News

GeoHot, Sued after PS3 Jailbreak, Asks For Donations To Fight Sony

In an interesting turn of events, Sony might have stumbled into a tough nut to crack. George Hotz (aka GeoHot) famous for his iPhone hacking achievements, is planning on fighting the big corporation on removing his free speech rights at utilizing his fully paid for hardware. Hotz has always claimed being anti-piracy (since iPhone activities) [...]

02-20-11 \\ News

Scientists Aim To Print Human Skin

Scientists Aim To 'Print' Human Skin: “suraj.sun sends this excerpt from CNN: ‘Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, inspired by standard inkjet printers found in many home offices, are developing a specialized skin ‘printing’ system that could be used in the future to treat soldiers wounded on the battlefield. ‘We started out [...]

02-17-11 \\ Guides

A quick way to determine iOS package icon names and bundle IDs for winterboard theming – iOS 4.2.1 tested.

Tired of trying to find out your app bundle identifiers? Here’s a quick way to find the bundle IDs and icons in iOS 4.2.1

02-13-11 \\ Guides

Untethered Jailbreak Apple TV2 and all iOS 4.2.1 devices with greenpois0n RC 6

Greenpois0n, the  tool for jailbreaking your iOS devices on version 4.2.1, has been updated again, and now supports jailbreaking the second generation Apple TV. By jailbreaking the second generation Apple TV you will be able to install NitoTV without all the hassle and difficulty of using SSH and entering lines of code into terminal as [...]

02-08-11 \\ Guides

Fixing the wordpress XML-RPC Response Parsing Failed error when using Mars Edit.

I kept coming across this error when trying to update my word press blog with Mars Edit
“XML-RPC Response Parsing Failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. expected ‘>’.”

02-06-11 \\ Guides

How to Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 Device Using Greenpois0n

All I can say is: YES; and don’t forget to donate!!

02-03-11 \\ Technology

Volkswagen: The Force

Funny Volkswagen commercial about an aspiring Darth Vadar.

02-03-11 \\ Guides

Copy your Angry Birds data between your iPhone and iPad with PhoneView

I was hesitant to purchase Angry Birds for the iPad since I wouldn’t be able to transfer over my scores. This little tutorial did the job.

02-02-11 \\ iOS

OmniFocus for iPad – The Ultimate GTD tool with OTA Sync!

I would have to completely agree with this great article from AppStorm. It took me a long time of going back and forth between different GTD systems, Things especially. Cultured Code’s development cycle was simply too long and in the end, OmniFocus was able to develop a superior product that included many of the features [...]

02-02-11 \\ Guides

URL to HTML Hyperlink Converter

How many times do you receive a link from someone and can’t click on it because it automatically tries to play the item? Haven’t you ever wished that there was a way to just right-click (or ctrl-click) on the link so you can save it? Enter the URL below and press submit, and you will receive a hyperlink.

01-21-11 \\ OSX

Thoughts on Cultured Code’s Cloud Sync FAQ for Things.

Just curious as to why CC has spent the past two years developing a cloud sync solution that requires additional storage options when most users already have plenty of data storage options. Dropbox, Mobile Me, WebDav. It seems as though many of these options not only have been tried and tested, but also fit into [...]

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