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For you unlockers and jailbreakers, today the Dev Team has just released a version of UltraSnow that is compatible with iOS 5! So you can now unlock iOS 5 and use it with any provider. Check out the new features in iOS 5 here. Just know that no new basebands are supported. The update only [...]

Ok, so 2 days ago, a friend of mine had her iPhone 4 stolen. She was in a Starbucks, got up from her table to leave, threw out her empty coffee cup, walked outside about 20 feet, and quickly realized that she forgot her iPhone. She looked in through the window at the table where [...]

Do you want to add the ability for people to donate money to your cause, your website, or you? Want to use PayPal to do it? Want to set it up so that the donors can donate via their credit or debit card without having to sign up for PayPal? It’s easier than you might [...]

Ever have a need to know if a phone number is a land line or a cell phone number? Or maybe you want to know it’s location? Well, there’s an app for that. Kidding. I’m sure there is, but there’s a website for that as well. Here it is: www.reversenumberdatabase.com Los Angeles Computer Repair | [...]

I just had a client who reformatted his drive and reinstalled Windows XP Pro on it. After he did that, when he reattached the 2 other SATA internal hard drives that he has for his data, one showed up fine, and the other showed up as a “Foreign Domestic Drive” and had a yellow question [...]

If you have a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch and you bought some apps via Cydia that you forgot to backup before you upgraded to the latest version of iOS, then have no fear. Your Cydia purchases are intact! All you have to do after you jailbreak your iOS device again is log into Cydia, download and [...]

Did you get a “bad value” error while uploading a video to YouTube? Want to know what the deal is? It’s simply that there is a symbol in the description of your video that you typed that YouTube doesn’t like. The one that gave me the error was the “>” symbol. So if you used [...]

Want to know how to burn an .ISO file with your Mac? Here’s a quick video that I made that walks you through the entire process. If you’re not sure what an .ISO file is, it’s simply a disk image file that, when you burn it to a CD, it creates an exact duplicate of [...]

If you’re getting the message, “iTunes requires a computer with a G4, G5 or Intel processor”, then that means you’re dealing with an older Mac that has a G3 processor or earlier that is not compatible with the latest version of iTunes. What’s the fix? Well, you have to dig around the Internet to find [...]

I was sitting in Starbucks doing some work when I saw a girl going over her notes on her Mac in MS Word, but with a very cool layout…a layout that not only looked like a real notebook, but that also had tabs! Just having the notebook layout may be cool for students, but it’s [...]

I recently bought Pages ’09 (for only $19.99, btw) for a client via the Mac App Store on my Mac, because you need at least Mac OS X 10.6 to get the Mac App Store on your computer, which he did not have. And my client wanted to buy Pages separately. He did not want [...]

Today I attempted to purchase an Apple application called, Pages (Mac’s equivalent to MS Word), on my Mac via the Mac App Store. Pages is part of Apple’s iLife software suite. It’s a great suite and is MUCH less expensive than M$’s Office. Anyway, since my client does not have the latest version of Apple’s [...]

If you are looking at buying a used iPhone or you just want to know how to tell the difference between an iPhone 3G and a 3GS, then this is how you do it.

Do you have a Facebook page for you or your business? I’m not talking about your regular Facebook profile. I’m talking about a Facebook page for your business where you are actually allowed to do business, unlike your profile page. If you don’t, then I highly suggest you get one by going to www.facebook.com/pages and [...]

Do you have a blinking black cursor box where you usually just have a blinking line? Did this just show up out of nowhere? Pretty annoying, isn’t it? Well, luckily this is an easy fix.

Is an application that you are using on your Mac not responding? Do you get the notorious beach ball spinning around, not allowing you to do anything with that app? Or maybe your Mac is slower than usual and you’re not sure why. Well, in either case, it could simply be a matter of an [...]

Do you have Gmail configured on your iPhone or iPod Touch, but you don’t get instant notification of your email like a Blackberry does? Do you want to know why? Then watch the video below, because not only do I explain why, but I walk you through the process, step by step, of how to [...]

Want to export your contacts in your address book into a spreadsheet on your Mac? Luckily you have a Mac, because it is VERY easy to do on a Mac. Here’s how.

Have you been with AOL forever and you finally are making the switch to another Internet and email service? If so, you’re probably like everyone else who makes the switch from AOL in that you have been with them forever, and you don’t want to lose all of your contacts that you have accumulated over [...]

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to add up bits of time? 50 min here, 35 min there, etc, but you just didn’t have the tool to do it? Sure you could just convert the hours to minutes, add up the minutes, and the convert the minutes back to hours, but [...]

I just read Steve Pavlina’s blog post on overclocking your audio learning. It was a brilliant blog post about how you can listen to and comprehend any audio program very easily at double the speed. I found this very intriguing because I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and would love to double the amount [...]

Are you new to blogging? Do you want to add some life to your blog posts with pictures? As they say, a picture says a thousand words, and that’s no less true on the Internet. In fact, a picture says more than that on the Internet, because it can do so many things for your [...]

Do you have a Windows 7 PC that asks for a user name and password when you try to connect to your wireless network? I was having the same issue with a friend’s Windows 7 laptop. I did some searching and finally found the answer.

I just had a client who was infected by this nasty spyware. No, it was not a virus. It was spyware acting like an antivirus program. First and foremost, never…

Today I installed the Google Analyticator WordPress plugin in my Internet marketing blog, and it took longer than expected for Google Analytics to see the coding on my site. How long did it take?

Below are some free video tutorials for Act! 2009 (a contact and customer relationship management software), in case you need some quick training…

OK. Here’s an iPhone tip for you. This should work for all iPhones. It’s a tip that will help you to play your videos for a LOT longer time period before the battery dies…up to 3 to 4 TIMES longer! Crazy, huh? What’s the secret? How do you do it? Easy…

I don’t what it is about my iPhone these days. Maybe my iPhone knows that I’m thinking about getting the iPhone 4G when it comes out. Doesn’t it know that I’ll find a good home for it? Anyway, a day or two ago, I got the white screen of death. The whole screen was white [...]

I had posted a fix to an issue that I was having with my iPhone 3GS (it was randomly shutting off) that I thought I had taken care of, however, just this morning, when the battery had about 70% power, it just died, and I couldn’t revive it.. The last app that I was using [...]

Recently, my iPhone 3GS kept on shutting off out of the blue, and did so on a pretty regular basis. However, I only let this happen for a day or so before I took action, did research, and fixed it. I can not let anything happen to my beloved iPhone. It’s in integral part of [...]

Are you creating a document in MS Word (Mac or PC), and have a title page that you don’t want your main header or footer to be on, or you want a different header or footer to be on the first page of the document? Well, there is an easy way to achieve that: Here [...]

Have you been blogging on Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, another WordPress blog, or one of many other blogging services, and you have finally decided that you want your blog on the best blogging software available, WordPress? Well, now you can do it in just a few simple clicks…

Is your keyboard not typing the keys that you are hitting, and some keys do type something but the type numbers and symbols from a calculator (namely the U,I,O,P,:,L,K,J,M,< ,>./ keys?) There is a simple fix for this…

I just had this happen to me. I was in the gym, and for some reason, the volume all of sudden went down to zero. I tried different apps, but no matter what I did, when I ramped up the volume, it just went right back to zero. It was an easy fix…

Do you want to email a large file, let’s say over 10MB, (which is the limit for many free email services like Gmail)? Well, there is a way and it’s free.

Do you have a need for your Mac to read you any text you want? I know this trick definitely comes in handy when you are tired of reading, but you still want to continue to take in the information that you’re reading. So, here is a handy tip that will help you do just [...]

If you’ve gone to Abobe.com via Firefox and have tried to install the Flash Player plugin for Firefox, but it doesn’t install (even though it looks like it did; it’s still not viewing all Flash objects correctly), then here is the fix:

Want a free incoming fax service where the faxes are sent straight to your email (and I mean completely free, no signup fee or anything)? Here is your answer: