Posted: September 2nd, 2011 | Author: Akmal
In Mac OSX lion holding a keyboard key reveals a contextual menu allowing you to choose different variations of the character. This happens to be a major annoyance for me since I don’t really use that feature. So here is how you can disable it using a terminal command if you decide to revert back the typical performance of repeating characters while you’re holding the key.
Just run the Terminal.app and enter the following command.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
This will disable Lion’s contextual pop up menu when you long hold a key for repeating characters.
Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
Imgup is a nice little free utility that will set in your Mac OS X menubar. You can quickly drag and drop your images or screenshots and it will automatically upload them to Imgur, a very popular image sharing site.
Once the upload is complete, it will place the shortened URL in your clipboard.
Posted: September 8th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
With the release of iTunes 10 there has been a flood of hatred towards it’s newly designed icon. No one likes the icon and they want to change it immediately.
If you are on a PC you can quickly customize the icon by going to the properties of the iTunes shortcut and changing the icon from the customize tab. If you are on a Mac it’s a bit tricky, because the default way of changing an application or folder icon posted on Apple’s site doesn’t work for iTunes.
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Posted: September 5th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
So everyone is freaking out over the disappearance of the ringtone editor from iTunes 10. You just have to relax, because you can still get your custom ringtones in iTunes 10 for free and without using any additional applications.
Follow the following steps in order to get custom ringtones in iTunes 10:
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Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
Today Microsoft released new updates to Exchange ActiveSync that allows Hotmail users to get push email, contacts and calendar automatically in their phones. ActiveSync will allow your phone to be completely in sync with the web so whatever you do like delete an email or book an appointment on your phone will also be automatically reflected on the web.
The list of supported devices include Windows Mobile 6.1 and above, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad & Nokia smartphones running Mail for Exchange application.
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Posted: August 27th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
Gmail recently added a new feature that allows US and Canadian users to make calls right inside their Gmail account. The feature is fully integrated into Google Voice and works great. However, Google Voice is only available in US right now so users outside US will not be able to add credits to their account and make paid calls.
If you live outside US you can set your Gmail interface language to English (US) and you will get the “Call phone” option in your chat box.
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Posted: August 10th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
So you have an iPad and you use Google Chrome, but you want your Chrome bookmarks synced with your iPad. Since iTunes will only sync your Safari bookmarks, you are left no choice but to find a workaround.
Here is one:
You can use Xmarks. This free service will seamlessly integrate with your web browsers and keep your bookmarks backed up and in sync. You should note that Xmarks has plenty of other features, however this post will only focus on its bookmark syncing feature.
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