Have you ever been experimenting with iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and your free trial has run out leaving you unable to make any changes to your documents?

There's a quick way to get around that restriction, say if you needed to have a fully functional keynote for an extra day of free trial for that important presentation.

Head to your harddrive directory, in my case Macintosh HD, then go to Library, then to Preferences, then look for the file com.apple.iWork09.plist (also works for iWork0X.plist, depending on which trial version you are running)

Macintosh HD -> Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.iWork09.plist

Then simply delete the file. Open up any of your iWork apps and with you can start a new 30 day trial.

I do not condone doing this endlessly; however, it's very useful in those instances when you need some extra time.

By the way, there's plenty of good reasons to pull a key off your keyboard (cleaning being one of them). If you just pull it off because you're wanting to avoid doing other work, just look at the pictures below instead. It'll save you a lot of hassle.

Keychain "name" cannot be found to store "sampleitem"
Your keychain may have been renamed, deleted, or it's on a unmounted volume.
You can then click Cancel or Reset To Defaults. The alert may appear again.

Here's a link to the Apple support document on how to resolve that.

The keychain is where Safari stores all of your passwords/logins that you have it save so you don't have to remember them all the time. For some reason, the Flash upgrade seems to be corrupting your keychain and then Safari thinks it has to create a new one. Hopefully you catch it before it completely erases your keychain!

The site was dormant for awhile, but recently woke up and has resumed posting.

Interesting side note, it's run by Tim Gaden who is Dean of the Theological School , College Chaplain and Stewart Lecturer in Theology at Trinity College within the University of Melbourne. He also teaches Greek.

For iPod touch users though, due to the way Apple does their books on the iPod touchs, it's a $9.95US upgrade. Which begs the question - is it worth it to upgrade your iPod touch to iPhone 3.0?

Unless you just bought your ipod touch you probably don't already have the iPhone 3.0 installed but it might worth it to double check. To find out which version you have:

• Tap the settings icon
• Tap General
• Tap About to see the version number

Apple lists the major new features for iPod touch users as:

• Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks via Wi-Fi
• Stereo Bluetooth (only for 2nd generation iPod touch - to tell if you have a 2nd gen or not, you can easily tell by whether your iPod touch has a speaker built in or not. If you can't hear anything from your iPod without headphones plugged in, you've got a 1st gen iPod touch)
• Peer to Peer Gaming (also only for 2nd gen iPod touch)
• Landscape Keyboard
• Spotlight Search
• Cut, Copy & Paste

There's a few other upgrades worth mentioning as well including parental controls, automatic wi-fi login, iTunes store account creation, new languages, push notifications, third party accessories, Safari improvements, sync notes and shake to shuffle.

After initially installing the update on my 1st gen iPod touch I wasn't that impressed with everything to think it was actually worth it. Cut/copy/paste is nice, but not a feature I'd use a lot. Same thing with the landscape keyboard. The push notifications and third party accessories will be nice, once software/hardware developers start supporting them but as of now there isn't a lot that are - though that's sure to change in the coming months.

The Safari improvements are nice and it's definitely a quicker browser, but it's not wouldn't be enough for me to warrant an upgrade either. I knew I'd like the fact that the Notes app would finally sync to Mail.app but it also wasn't a deal maker/breaker for me.

So my initial impression was that I wouldn't really recommend it to folks at this point. If $10 could be better spent elsewhere, then do so.

After having used it for a couple weeks though, I think I've changed my thoughts. The Notes syncing has become something I'm using much more (though to be honest, it should have been there from the beginning). Same goes for the landscape keyboard - it's nice to have but not something that should have taken until version 3 to arrive, in my opinion. Spotlight search is also a very handy tool to find information/apps on your iPod touch - I just need to remember to use it more often instead of manually trying to find it.

At this point I can say that I'd recommend upgrading. Besides the few major features, the behind the scenes improvements/optimizations are well worth the $10 price. If you think of the money you'd spend on a Mac OS or, heaven forbid, a Windows OS upgrade it's a pretty cheap OS upgrade. Once more apps start making use of push notifications and the peer-to-peer connectivity (connecting to another 2nd gen iPod touch or iPhone), it will be well worth it.

Click here to visit Apple's iPod touch software update page for more information.

What do you think? Will you (or did you) upgrade your iPod touch?

Enjoy!

Apple's on their way to having sold 1 billion apps (!) from the iPhone/iPod touch App store and they are holding a contest where you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Each time you download an app, you are entered but you can also enter without having made a purchase by going here and giving Apple your information. You can actually enter up to 25 times a day - an easy thing if you've got a program like 1Password to fill in all your details automagically!

Make sure to check the official rules to make sure that you are eligible before filling out the form 25 times.

• MacHeist 3 Bundle Revealed
  Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 in Promos - Comments: (0)
  The latest MacHeist bundle has been revealed and it's quite a good one this year. For those not aware, the MacHeist bundles are a collection of various Mac apps sold together in one package for a lower price than buying all the individual programs separately. As more people buy the bundle, more apps are added to the bundle. They also donate 25% of every sale to charity.

The latest MacHeist bundle has been revealed and it's quite a good one this year.

For those not aware, the MacHeist bundles are a collection of various Mac apps sold together in one package for a lower price than buying all the individual programs separately. As more people buy the bundle, more apps are added to the bundle. They also donate 25% of every sale to charity. They do all this for a limited time (2 weeks?) so you need to get it while you can.

Right now the bundle is valued at $626.75 and it's selling for $39. There's a few applications that look really good to me (iSale, World of Goo, Little Snapper, Acorn, WireTap Studio, BoinxTV, and Espresso) so at $39 it's a pretty sweet deal to get all of them when normally that would only get you one of the applications - but you're mileage may vary depending on what you use your Mac for.

One thing to watch for is the applications are typically the lite version or are about to get revised to a new version, and then try and prompt you to upgrade for a small fee. It's nothing evil - you are getting the version of the software they promote on MacHesit. Just go into it knowing that a new version may be around the corner.

I think I'll be buying the bundle this year. Will you?

• Getting Started With Garageband '09
  Posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 in Garageband - Comments: (0)