Web & Mobile Solutions
Aperture 3 is an amazing product. However, when importing images from an iPhone (or any other device like a digital SLR camera), it does not prompt the user to delete those images off the device. It turns out there is a simple fix for that but its not in Aperture at all. Open up Image Capture from your Applications folder while the iPhone is connected. Click on the iPhone’s icon under...
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What’s the best way to get the photos taking with the iPhone onto my computer? The iPhone will appear to any application that supports direct digital camera import as a digital camera device, similar the older digital cameras that were used before they started adopting a USB Disk Mode. If you start up the Windows XP “Scanner and Camera Wizard” the iPhone should appear as a...
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If you are after for a way to modify the proxy used by Google Chrome, you will soon come to the conclusion that you are out of luck, since it is using the settings as specified by the operating system and the system administrator. However, you can bypass the proxy settings by specifying a proxy address with a command line option. So, start the application from the command line (or create a...
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If you don’t have (or don’t want to use) a Hotmail or Live account and you want to use MSN Messenger follow the instructions below: Navigate to the Windows Live ID page. Under the Sign up today header and subsection“Use an e-mail address you already have” section, click the Get started now link (it should be the second one). Enter your personal details. Click next, type...
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In Windows, you can scan the computer’s hard disks for errors (bad sectors) by right-clicking on the hard disk icon from My Computer and selecting Properties. Under Tools, press the Check Now button. The disadvantage of this tool is that you receive no information on what it is doing and it does not produce a report on the status of your hard disk. There is an alternative method of...
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The list with the available extentsions for Firefox over in Mozilla Update is so vast that may prove quite a challenge to identify the essential ones. Hence, I have compiled a list with all the Firefox add-ons that I feel that stand out. All-in-One Sidebar: A sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads,...
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A web developer based in Athens, Greece, Apostolos Dountsis, having lived and worked for 10 years in Brighton, UK, is now unleashing his expert iOS and PHP skills in the Greek and international market. In his limited spare time, he develops open-source plugins for CMS systems like WordPress and Drupal and iOS applications.