How To Shut Down Windows 8
I never thought anyone would have to write a how-to on shutting down a computer, but it took me quite a while to work out how to do it myself.
How To Improve Your Burglary Skills
Are you an amateur burglar hoping to nab some extra loot this weekend? Good news; there's an app for that! No, it isn't called iBurgle or anything like that. It's called Facebook. Yes, everyone's beloved social networking site and the app that goes with it can be used as an aid to someone looking to rob you of your possessions.
University Choices: Done.
I mentioned a couple of months ago that I was having trouble deciding which universities to choose to apply to. However, I have visited a few of them and I have made my mind up.
Recover iTunes' Missing "Create MP3 Version"
Around the time version 10 was released, the option in iTunes to "Create MP3 Version" seemingly disappeared for a lot of people. It turns out, it hasn't been removed from iTunes, but there's a setting you need to change to get it back.
Pixelated Star Wars Posters
I found these Star Wars posters and thought they were pretty good. This is the best one, and there are more on the original site.
I have to say, I'd never have the patience to work out the exact shapes and colours needed to create something like that.
iCloud iPad Wallpaper
Developers have been given beta access to the web interface of iCloud, and many people have noticed the unique error pages on the site. I enjoy the icons on those error pages, so I created an iPad wallpaper out of them.
"Facebook Chat is experiencing technical problems" In Safari
A few weeks ago, I logged in to Facebook and went to open a chat with a friend, when suddenly the chat window disappeared and was replaced with a little warning symbol and the message "Facebook Chat is experiencing technical problems". Oddly, this was only happening in Safari – I could use chat perfectly fine in Chrome.
This went on for a while, until a couple of days after I installed Lion on my MacBook. I was testing out resizing a window whilst holding the Option key (this resizes the window equally from each side as you drag) on a Safari window. I happened to have a Facebook window open as I did it, and once the window got to a certain width, the chat sidebar appeared! I tested a few times, making the window smaller and bigger, and it was definitely the window width determining whether chat was working.
So if you ever run into this issue with Safari and Facebook, try making the window wider. It would be nice if the error message said the window was too small, but at least this seems to work for this particular issue.
Coping Without The Downloads Window
There are some people who are complaining about the fact that the Downloads window was removed from Safari in Lion and replaced with a popover instead. How can we possibly cope without a floating window showing the progress of current downloads?! Quite easily, actually.
Review: Textastic For iPad
If you're looking for a text editor for your iPad that also doubles as an FTP client and a Dropbox client, look no further. The best one you could find is Textastic, a £6.99 ($9.99) app which not only does all of the above, but also includes features such as syntax highlighting. Let's start with a look at some of the best features it has.
Remap The Dashboard Key To Launchpad
In Lion, Dashboard is given its own space, which is easily opened with a swipe. That means (to me, anyway) that the Dashboard key on the keyboard (F4) is useless. So I remapped it to open Launchpad.
