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Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
If you are an RSS addict and you happen to have an iPhone or iPad, Reeder is a must-have. It syncs Google Reader and present it in such a beautiful way that makes reading so much easier, peaceful background, beautiful fonts, exquisite white space position, and easy operations.
For Mac users, they are lucky to get a Reeder for OSX, but there’s no Reeder for Windows. We introduced you an add-on on Firefox, called PureReader, which mimicks Reeder’s user-interface and things were good for a couple of month. Until last week Google pushed its new design of Google Reader, and everything is broken in PureReader.
Switching back to Google Reader’s original Web UI hurts my eyes so badly that I stopped reading RSS for a week. With 3000+ feeds stacking up, I’m almost desperate enough to spent $999 on a Macbook Air plus another $9.99 for Reeder.
Then came this Reeder for Chrome out of the blue, which is an add-on for Chrome that installs a theme close to the original Reeder for OSX, and it’s free. What a relief! Check it out!
Now let me read some feeds and be back later.
See ya!
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
If you’re a frequent Google Reader user or an RSS reader in general, you know how reading (or just scanning through) hundreds of pieces of news every day can be stressful (but addicting), on iOS, luckily we have Reeder, absolutely the best in function, speed and GUI design.
As a Mac user, you can purchase Reeder for Mac, but PC and Linux users are not left in the dark: if you use Firefox, try Pure Reader for Firefox, it’s a resign of Google Reader’s default UI, and once installed, you get a pretty interface with larger and prettier fonts, larger white space, smaller other things less important and less ads. I’m not sure if it’s related to Reeder, as the UI are quite close.
Grab it for free: Download.
It is actually ported by by Jimmy Ti of the original Pure Reader for Safari: Download, by Na’ Design.
Tags: addon, firefox, ios, ipad, iphone, mac, safari
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
I have been using GoodReader to read text novels for a long time, but I do not particularly like iPhone’s system fonts for reading, so I want to add some extra fonts to iPhone’s font library and use it in any app that can utilize iPhone’s system fonts.
After hours of digging in Google and various forums, a solution has been found and here’s how you can add your preferred fonts to iPhone, tested on iPhone 4 iOS 4.1.
So here we go:
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Tags: cydia, font, fonts, iphone, iphone 4, jailbreak
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
The first time I wanted to hook up my Xbox360, HTPC and Blu-ray player to my old HDTV which had only 1 HDMI port left, I didn’t know what device I should be looking for. I know what I want it to do for me, but I don’t know how to call it for me to google it. To be honest, I came up with “HDMI hub”, which I borrowed from a network hub which could split network signals for multiple computers. I was also thinking of “HDMI adapter” and “HDMI splitter”. Unfortunately, none of them were the popular names.
Such a product is actually commonly called an HDMI switch or HDMI switcher. Of course, there is no official name for it, but there are names more commonly used than others by the majority of the users. So knowing the right names help you research them better and find better prices before you decide to buy one.
After reading this article, you will get a much clearer picture of the common names of the many HDMI gadgets and what they do.
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Tags: HDMI, hdmi adapter, HDMI selector, hdmi splitter, HDMI switch, HDMI switcher, HDTV
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
 
Apple released iOS 4.0.2 for iPhones and iOS 3.2.2 for iPads, patching the PDF security exploit, which also blocks browser-based jailbreaking by visiting JailbreakMe.com. For iPhone 3GS and 4G users, if you are relying on jailbreaking and carrier unlocking, stay away from this update until jailbreaking tools are released.
Fortunately for iPhone 3G users, you can still jailbreak iOS 4.0.2 using redsn0w by pointing to the older iOS 4.0 firmware ipsw file, here’s how.
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Tags: ios, ios 4.0.2, iphone 3g, jailbreak, jailbreaking, redn0w, redsnow
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
There is no way in near future that Apple will officially allow Flash on its iPhones, iPads or iPod Touch, but that doesn’t stop 3rd-party programmers from trying it. Comex released Frash for iPhone so now you can play Flash if your iPhone 4 is jailbroken.
Here’s how.
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Tags: flash on iphone, frash, iphone, jailbreak
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
It’s deadly simple: just visit JailbreakMe.com on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch’s Safari, and swipe on the slider that says “slide to jailbreak” and all will be taken care of, that’s it!
Also, it is the first publicly released tool that can jailbreak iPhone 4 and iPads on iOS 3.2.1.
Read after the break to preview the stupidly simple jailbreaking process.
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Tags: ipad, iphone 4, ipod touch, jailbreak, jailbreaking, jailbreakme 2.0
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The latest Apple MacBook, Mac, and iMac series use Mini DisplayPort as its outgoing video port. Because Mini DisplayPort has rather uncommon presence, this has put many Mac users into awkward positions: you probably cannot use your MacBook to give a presentation, or output your work project from Mac to another display, or simply share your photos to your family or friends on a bigger screen.
Isn’t Mac supposed to be easy to use? This is totally not what you’ve paid the good money to Apple for.
Well, don’t worry, there are solutions. Let’s first see what Mini DisplayPort is.
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Tags: apple, HDMI, imac, mac, mac mini, macbook, mini displayport, mini displayport to vga
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
If you only occasionally need iPad to access the Internet outdoors, you do not have to pay your carrier with hefty monthly bills. Just use your existing iPhone 4 MicroSim on your iPad. All you need is the following little tweak.
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Tags: apn, ipad, iphone
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Firefox 4 is awesome, but as always without extensions Firefox is nothing special. After having installed Firefox 4 beta, you may easily find that most of your extensions are incompatible with this major update. Don’t give up just yet, there is a way to override the incompatibility and install all your favorite plug-ins.
Please note, the following method will bypass (blind) Firefox’s extension check, many old extensions will get enabled this way and still work well. However, it will not make an extension that really doesn’t work with Firefox work, and you may go into endless cycles of having tabs opened and closed, etc. So please do it for fun and at your own risk.
Here’s how.
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Tags: firefox 4, firefox extension
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