Adobe CS4 Web Cast Launch Date Sept 9th 2008

GET READY for Adobe CS4! It is gonna to be BIG! The web cast will launch this month on Sept 23rd 2008. Mark your calendars, and go here to register to be able to watch it.

Enjoy!

Tip: Recover Frozen Mac Apps from Spinning Wheel

If you have been experiencing the usual beach ball spinning effect on your mac aka frozen app, you maybe able to unfreeze the app and recover whatever you were previously doing.

Solution: Open the Activity Monitor and select the frozen app and in the menu bar select View > Send Signal to Process, you will be presented with a dialog box and from the drop down menu select “Interrupt”. This will nudge the frozen app back to life and happily continue to work

P/s: This will work in most instances, if not the App has crashed and not frozen. Force Quit and Restart

Thanks! MakeUseOf

Enjoy! 

Jott is Out of Beta and starts to charge

Jott is out of beta and has started to charge for the service I knew this day would come as they would have to foot the bill to the greedy teleco companies, somehow or another. It was a fantastic service while it lasted. There is still a free service, but there is no outgoing email or text messaging support for your Jotts. Price start at $3.95 and up per month. I do wish them the very best and thank them for a wonderful free service while it lasted, but for now I will switch to Evernote.

Update: MobileMe Password Security

UPDATE: In order for you to create a password for your Public drive is MUST be 6-8 characters no more no less. Now after you have created your public password in your iDisk preferences, in order to login to your public iDisk via your Web Browser you have to enter “Public” without quotes into the Name: field and the public password you just created. So it would be Name: public, Password: what you want but it MUST be 6-8 characters. DO NOT enter your MobileMe login or password it is NOT encrypted. That’s it!

Note: If you want to upload a file via the browser, you have to set Read & Write permissions in the iDisk ON. 

So my suggestion is to a Password for your public iDisk and check Read & Write to enable uploading capabilities. I really do hope Apple will improve the public iDisk settings soon.

Is your MobileMe passwords handled correctly? I have realized this, while accessing my public iDisk from a browser. The issue is this, while trying to upload via the browser you will be greeted with the message above, asking for your name and password to login to confirm the upload, BEWARE it notes that ”Your password will be sent in the clear”, this will happen if you leave the iDisk preferences as read only and without a public folder password. Though I have not tried, I am guessing it is asking for your MobileMe login and password, no way I releasing that in the clear. Your email passwords should be the most guarded password. Period! 

In my opinion, this sending of password in the open flaw should be fix! 

Solution 1: Change your iDisk Public preferences to Read & Write and you will be fine, BUT you will open up your Public drive to the world to upload or delete anything anyone wants! Not good, but it sure beats giving out your email password.

Solution 2 (could not get this to work for me on Tiger, yet.): Assign a iDisk Public drive a separate password under the preferences, however I cannot get this work yet! Maybe they are still fixing all the MobileMe issues including the email access

I really do hope that Apple will fix this security flaw and also the ongoing the email accessing issues, which has been going on for DAYS!

Embed MobileMe Gallery into your own domain

In order to embed your MobileMe gallery into your own domain easily without any coding, you will need iWeb ’08 widget, but if you are without iWeb ’08, don’t fret, the trick is to use a <iFrame> and wrap the entire gallery in there.

Example:

<iframe height="100%" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" style="width:100%;border:none" src="http://gallery.mac.com/YOURNAME#ALBUMNUMBER&view=mosaic&bgcolor=dkgrey"></iframe>

If you want to embed the entire gallery instead of specific albums, just remove “#ALBUMNUMBER&view=mosaic&bgcolor=dkgrey" and you are all set.

Thanks! [Macosxhints and chrisjniles]

My 1st Paid App Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D is my 1st paid iPhone app and it ROCKS! Think of Mario Kart 3D for your iPhone. Above is a snapshot taken of the actual game play on my iPhone.

The use of the accelerometer is fantastic, it even allows you tune it to your liking. The game play is very smooth and it even has the ability to DRIFT your kart! The only problem is that I will need to tag my charger everywhere, we definitely need a solar powered iPhone! If there is one game you want to get right now, this is it! 

Enjoy!

How to Sync iPhone with multiple computers

UPDATE: IT DOES WORK WITH ITUNES 8 ( THANKS DILLY! )

In order to sync your iPhone with multiple computers you always had to “erase” one iTunes library and sync with another, no longer! Thanks to Andrew Grant at Shiny Things who create a step by step instruction for syncing your iPhone with multiple computers and giving you full manual control on how you want to organize your iPhone music between multiple iTunes libraries. 

This is NOT for the faint hearted as it does involve tweaking of files, please proceed with caution and BACKUP everything, especially your “iTunes Library” and “iTunes Music Library.xml” files before proceeding. I have performed this and it works flawlessly but if for any reason your iTunes or your iPhone or your data becomes destroyed, I am NOT responsible. Now that we have gotten the disclaimer aside, let’s proceed with the fun stuff.

Make sure iTunes on BOTH computers are NOT running.

Step 1: On the computer that already has an iPhone synced, (if you not synced your iPhone, please sync it once), locate your “iTunes Library” and “iTunes Music Library.xml” files, they should be located in either your “User > Music > iTunes” on your Mac or “My Music or Music > iTunes” on your PC

Step 2: Open up the “iTunes Music Library.xml” file, locate the <string> tag and copy the 16 digital string in between the <string> tags

Step 3: Switch over to the other computer with the iTunes you want to sync your iPhone with and locate the ”iTunes Library” and “iTunes Music Library.xml” again.

Step 4: Open up the ”iTunes Music Library.xml” on the new computer and locate the <string> tags again, COPY the EXISTING 16 digital string, and place it somewhere for save keeping as we will need it later and REPLACE the EXISTING 16 digital string with the one you copied from your other “iTunes Music Library.xml” file

Step 5: Open up the “iTunes Library” file, with a Hex Editor, I told you it is not for the faint hearted, come on it is easy, I assure you. If you don’t have a Hex Editor, you can either download HexEdit for the Mac or AptEdit or Free Hex Editor Neo for the PC

Step 6: Use the Find and Replace command in the Hex Editor, I have only used HexEdit, but I am sure there is a Find and Replace command in both PC versions, now under the Find dialog, paste the EXISTING 16 digital string you kept for safe keeping and under the Replace dialog, paste the 16 digital string you COPIED from your other computer and hit return or enter. Save and close the file.

Step 7: Startup iTunes on the other computer and hook up your iPhone to it and you are good to go!

If you need further help, just leave me comment.

Note: This even works for syncing with multiple accounts on the same computer.

Enjoy!

Thanks! [Andrew Grant at Shiny Things]

Adjust MobileMe iDisk Default Size

 

Upon setting up your MobileMe account for the first time, you will notice by default that your iDisk has only 10g of space, this is not an error, the space allocation in iDisk is combined with your email. You can always adjust the allocation of your iDisk space via the account setting you find on the top left corner, it is the icon that looks like a person, then click the storage settings and use the drop down menu for your email allocation and adjust it accordingly to your preference and you see the change reflected on your iDisk.

Use AIM to sent and receive SMS for Free

 

I have just test this out and it works! You can use any AIM client including iChat and the AIM client on the iPhone to send and receive SMS messages to any US cell number. Just login to your AIM client, then for the screenname enter +1 and the recipient’s cell number, eg. +11234567899. then fire off your message and the recipient will receive the message as a sms and will be able to reply it. The replies will then appear in the AIM client and then you will be able to text back and forth. Best of all it is all free!

 

Enjoy!

Google Gmail and Apple MobileMe/.Mac Possible SPAM Alert

I have been very concerned with this lately. Upon signing up with MobileMe, my life has totally changed, I have finally been able to sync and push my contact and calendar information over the air to my Macs at anytime and everything is in sync. I love it but it has a huge loophole and the same loophole that occurs with Google’s PicasaWeb Gallery, that is it will show your email address in the address bar! This is a very very big flaw that needs to be address ASAP! What this means is that spammers are able to obtain your email address free and easy! All they have to do is perform a search for your web galleries, located at either PicasaWeb or MobileMe and take the name after the / slash and add [at]gmail or [at]me.com to that name and bingo they have your email address! Below is an image of what I mean. They can just take emily_parker add the [at]me.com and they have her address, this is not good at all.

Gmail has the same issue, using the convenience of the single login to Google Account has it flaws, I think Google is well aware of this issue as I will explain in the solution later on. Flickr is the only image service that I know that will not showcase your yahoo email in the address bar, instead it will ask you to create a name for your photostream, unless you use the same name as your email, if that is the case I can’t help you.

PicasaWeb Solution: Login into your Google Account, select Picasa and click Picasa Web and click Settings, create a new username for your web address

that’s it, however if you want to keep using your gmail user id or if you are wanting extra security on top of the new username, uncheck Public Search option, this will prevent the search engines from finding your Picasaweb albums but you are still able to have your blog plugins work for your to import your images, so you are fine. 

 

MobileMe Solution: Create your own domain and use that domain to mask the web gallery address.

 

I really do hope that Apple and Google will create a fix for this flaw before the spammers catch on.