Tutorials

ITakeaway is a customised pocket menu for iOS that takes the guesswork and mileage out of exploring the local restaurant scene. The free app lists eateries in your current location, along with their full menu and background information to help you decide what’s for dinner. ...

Ever since Apple built the App Store and opened its ‘doors’ for business, competition among developers and their creations is nothing short of fierce. You expect then, that any app from Apple itself should meet, even exceed, the bar it’s set so high ...

This is more than an app – it's a party trick! Consider this scenario: You're sitting in the pub, having a quiet ale or two with your mates, and a 'discussion' ensues over the origin or qualities of the beer you're drinking.
Just whip out your iPhone and fire up The Brewer's Nose app from Tasmania's Cascade brewery, developed by Droga5 Australia. You take a photo of the bottle or can's barcode (it can be any beer – not just Cascade ones) and it returns results telling you everything you need to know. ...

So your Mac isn't booting. You're seeing an endless grey screen, or an Apple logo that won't go away. What next? Some problems can be fixed by Disk Utility, and some cannot. Whatever it is, you will probably need to try to boot from some other drive if your Mac won't start. And how do you do that? Well, it depends on how new your Mac is. The process is quite different for the newest Macs and you'll need a fresh approach. Read on.

Lion, on a new Mac

Lucky you, there might be a recovery partition on your hard drive. This is a secret part ...

Find My Friends allows you to add and request to see the locations of your friends. Their location, if they opt in for it, will be shown on the map. You can also choose to share your location for a short amount of time. This is the perfect way to schedule a meet up with friends, maybe ...

Hi all

Just made a little tutorial on the column browser in iTunes 10.5, nothing fancy, but just thought you might find it helpful.



Cheers, Glen ...

There's a couple of questions floating around regarding the iPhone 4S launch here in Australia, so I thought I'd answer them and provide some relief for those seeking to upgrade to the latest iPhone. If there's something on your mind regarding the iPhone 4S in Australia, just submit a comment to this ...

Damn! My toaster isn’t working. This pile of junk hasn’t worked properly ever since I upgraded it to tOS (toast OS) v8. Every time I tell it to lightly toast I get “burnt to a crisp”.

Of course, we never really face these kinds of problems with our toaster. It really only does one thing - char the outside surface of bread products - and there isn’t all that much to fiddle with anyway.

A computer, on the other hand, is a far more general-purpose device with an infinitely greater scope for stuff to go wrong.

However, with some thinking and understanding you can develop processes that will help you fix any computer problem at all. Even if you’ve never seen it before and don’t really know why it’s happening.

What is this magic panacea for computer woes I hear you ask?

It’s called a diagnostic process.

At it’s heart is the concept of carrying out systematic troubleshooting.

Let’s take an example:


(For this example, I’m also going to stipulate that we’re dealing with an ADSL connection…)

One approach to a repair ...

I’ve been working with some AppleScript lately to help with my video conversions, and I’ve come up with something that saves me quite a bit of hassle.

It uses the free command-line interface of Handbrake called HandbrakeCLI, and is able to convert all videos from specified extensions ...