Jul 1, 2010

Have you ever wished you could carry on a conversation with multiple people in the text messaging app on iPhone?

Jun 29, 2010

Are you looking in you Macintosh OS X Activity Monitor?  Do you see a process called hidd?  What is it?  Why is it consuming cpu and memory? Human Interface Device Daemon The hidd service is the Human Interface Device Daemon.  In fact, the hidd service is required for your Mac to operate properly as it is responsible for the operation of any human input...

Jun 28, 2010

While some people find the need for a clicking sound on the iPad (due to lack of a physical keyboard), others simply despise it.  How do you turn it off?  Well let me show you! The first thing you need to do is tap the settings icon on your home screen. On the left tap General and then on the right tap Sounds. Now simply click the Keyboard Clicks switch to...

Jun 27, 2010

With all the hype of iPhone 4, Steve Jobs reality distortion field is in full effect.  I know there are literally thousands of reviews out there of the iPhone 4.  I almost didn’t do one.  However, I and TheGeekPub have been accused of being so pro-Apple that I felt I had to do a review of the iPhone 4 to prove that I can be critical of them.  WHAT? ...

Jun 21, 2010

A frustration for new Mac OS X users is tap to click.  You can’t just tap the trackpad to click on an icon, you have to actually click the button.  Or do you? Actually, the truth is… enabling “tap to click” is very simple on the Mac.   To enable tap to click go to your system preferences and click on trackpad. The very first option...

Jun 15, 2010

A sparsebundle is a really nice feature under OS X that allows you to create a file to send your time machine backups to.  There’s a whole lot of good reasons to create one and we’re going to walk you through it! So what is a sparsebundle anyway?  A sparsebundle is a file on the Mac OSX filesytem for use with time machine. Let me ask a couple of...