Gadget Techie

UPDATE: I highly suggest NOT updating your iPhone to the newest 3.1 OS. After using the phone a couple of days I have noticed that my battery drains A LOT quicker. And by a lot I mean it is under 20% at 4pm after not using it AT ALL and having fully charged it the [...]

Macs are known for their ability to just work. Software seems to behave very well and for the most part, you don’t get as many crashes or freeze ups as on a Windows machine. However, the more I use my Macbook Pro the more I realize that, while it is true that you get less [...]

Emoji icons are Japanese picture characters of emoticons. If you have looked at the app store lately, you have probably run into quite a few of them either in the title of some apps or the reviews of apps.

Now before I continue, realize that ALL iPhones have the emoji characters built in. All the apps [...]

Parallels and OnTheHub are currently offering free copies of their amazing Parallels Desktop 4.0 to the winners of their Twitter contest. The instructions are on their twitter accounts and on the OnTheHub page but basically, all you have to do to enter is: Re-tweet #parallels4students. That is it! The contest might still be going so hurry [...]

Google and Hasbro are teaming up to bring you the classic game of Monopoly with a new twist: Google Maps! You will basically be able to play Monopoly using real locations. It is called Monopoly City Streets.

Each player will start with $3 million and be able to buy property and constructs buildings to get rent [...]

While working on Hillegass’ book Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition). I made this small app. It is called Speak Line and it basically speaks whatever you type in the text field. It is very entertaining.
The book shows you how to do it with the default voice but I could not stop there. [...]

Today I was programming in Xcode and realized that every time I ran my programs, I would get these weird messages in the debugger console. They didn’t break anything or cause the program to end prematurely but it made the compile and run process take longer and flooded the console with the weird message “unable [...]

A lot of people always ask me what the easiest way to create ringtones for the iPhone is. Apple made sure to make the process time consuming and not that obvious for the average user. Instead they offer to create the ringtone for you through iTunes at a price. Well I am here to tell [...]

After installing the new OS X Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro, I encountered some incompatibilities with some software. All of these incompatibilities were easily fixed by updating the software except for one: my HP printer/scanner/copier software.

The printer was working fine as a printer but I was not able to scan anything. I would press [...]

Up until today, I have been using hot corners in Mac OS X Leopard in two ways:

To start the screen saver as a way to lock my machine (require login)
To put the display to sleep when I am in class and wish to conserve energy or hide my screen without having to log back in.

After [...]