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Entries by Alex Sullivan (5)

2:40PM

Tips on How to Free Up Storage on your iOS Devices

Have you ever noticed that your iOS device storage space is filling up fast? Well if you do below will be several tips on how to free up some space.

1. Remove Apps - If you download an app that you used once or twice and believe you may never use them again, then just delete them and that can save you from anywhere 1 MB to all the way up to 1.5 GB.

2. Remove all unwanted music. If you are on a shared computer and many different people in your house have different music on the one computer and you only listen to 1 GB out of 6GB on your computer, then make a playlist for yourself and within your iTunes iOS device setting when you plug it into your computer, select Music at the top bar and uncheck all music and check selected playlists and then select the playlist you just made for yourself.

3. Removed watched movies/videos. If you're a big traveler and have many movies on your iOS device, remove the ones you already watched or unwanted on your iOS device anymore. If you still want to have many movies/videos on your iOS device, you can have them on an external WiFi mobile hard drive that can hold all your movie/video files on it. Here is one that I suggest you look at: http://is.gd/zkk5kO.

4. Empty out your Photos/Camera Roll. If you have a sibling or child that takes pictures that are unwanted, just delete them. Also, don't sync your whole photo libary to your phone; only sync wanted pictures.

If you just do some of those steps listed above, you can easily clear up many MB or even many GB of space on your iOS device.

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10:30PM

Apple Now Has More Cash than the U.S. Government

According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. government had an operating cash balance Wednesday of $73.8 billion. That is still a lot of money, but it's less than what Steve Jobs has lying around. Apple had a whopping $76.2 billion in cash on Wednesday. Unlike the U.S. government, which is scrambling to avoid defaulting on its debt, Apple takes in more money than it spends.

10:34PM

Apple Charges Customer 122 Times for Lion

John Christman purchased OS X Lion on July 23, 2011 and paid $30.00. Then he was charged through PayPal $30.00 about 121 times, for a total of $3,878.40. Clearly John Christman did not need 122 copies of Lion, and something has gone wrong between Apple and PayPal. John got in touch with both PayPal and Apple customer support and both of the sides were pointed fingers at each other. “Apple blames PayPal, PayPal blames Apple. They both are claiming to investigate, but I am stuck broke for three days now.”

11:54PM

15" Macbook Air Coming Soon?

Several sources are reporting that Apple is in the final testing stage for an ultra-thin 15" notebook. Although we are unsure if this is a 15" macbook air or a significantly thinner macbook pro, it is expected that this machine will not include an optical drive and will ship with SSD storage standard. A 17" model will also be in the works as well, Will these  be a hybrid between a Macbook Air and a Macbook Pro? I believe that this will be a Macbook Pro instead of a 15" Macbook Air because apple is putting out that the Macbook Air is a ultra portable Laptop and a 15" Macbook Air would not be so portable.

7:04PM

How to Enable Front Row on Mac OS X Lion

As it was first said back in February, OS X Lion brings many new innovations, but loses others, such as Front Row.  Front Row, for those who are unfamiliar with it, is a full screen media interface for the Mac. Front Row made its debut a couple of  OS X releases back, and essentially is the initial Apple TV interface.  Since the information comes out that the software is missing from Lion, a reader put together a little application to bring back the functionality. The reader figured out that he could take the Snow Leopard Front Row files and then compile it into a runnable application for OS X Lion.  For those interested, he took these files:

/Systems/Libary/CoreServices/Front Row.app
/Systems/Libary/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework
/Systems/Libary/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
/Systems/Libary/LauchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist

/Applications/Front Row.app 

Many people have tried out the application and the tweak works, but you do have to restart.  Please only do this at your own risk.  Since this is so easy, maybe Apple will slap Front Row into the Mac App Store and charge $4.99 in the future!