Last fall, we got a Belkin N+ wireless router. After we got the initial kinks worked out (including a near-impossible firmware update) and got over the fact that it won’t work with HFS+ hard drives, we started running into problems with dropped connections, especially on my wife’s MacBook.
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I have an iPhone and my son has an iPod Touch. Until recently, we’ve been frustrated by our inability to share apps that one of us buys. Fortunately, we’ve since figured out how to share apps without re-buying them, and it doesn’t even violate the iTunes user agreement.
Have you ever wondered where Mac OS X stores your iPhone or iPod apps? If so, then you’ve come to the right place…
To find your apps on your Mac hard drive, simply navigate to:
~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications
Inside the “Mobile Applications” folders, you’ll see a ton of .ipa files. These are your mobile apps. Curious as to why you might need this info? Check out my article about how to share iPhone or iPod apps between multiple users.
If you don’t know what a resource fork is or why you might want to remove one, you can probably safely skip this post. But if you do… Then read on, as I’ve stumbled across a handy little tool.
This is just a quick note to say that DropBox, which is a very handy tool for synchronizing files across computes, will fail to sync if you use certain ’special’ characters in the file name.
Over the past few weeks, my wife’s MacBook has been having sporadic problems with our wireless network. It can see the network just fine, but at times it loses internet connectivity. At the same time, my MacBook Pro has been just fine, so we know it’s computer-specific. Fortunately, I think I’ve found a fix.
We recently replaced our HP LaserJet 1200 with a Brother 2170W wireless laser printer. It arrived today, and I thought I’d share some tips for setting it up to work with a Mac.
This is just a quick followup to my previous post about the Belkin N+ wireless router. While I’ve been able to get my firmware problems sorted out, I’ve run into another snag with this otherwise excellent router.
I recently migrated all of my e-mail into Google Apps (basically Gmail for those with their own domain) and have been managing it via IMAP using Apple’s Mail.app. Following a recent OS X 10.5.x update, however, Mail.app has insisted on creating a Gmail label called “Apple Mail To Do.” If you delete this label, it just comes back the next time Mail syncs with your Gmail account. Annoying.
Have you ever wished you could batch edit file meta data in Mac OS X? Well, I just discovered a handy little app for batch editing file creation dates, modification dates, EXIF shooting dates, and other things that the Mac finder won’t let you modify.