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Ok so I have installed the Lion Update and now I'm frozen with this... Suggestions please

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:17:44 -0700

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My latest roadblock on the path to installing #lion #apple

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:41:10 -0700

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I'm now in a world of #apple hurt #lion

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:44:51 -0700

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It would be fair to say that my install of #lion is not going well...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:28:24 -0700

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How can you not love live TV

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:43:36 -0700

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Just got my official certificate from @leolaporte I'm now the proud owner of one brick! #twit

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:14:57 -0700

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It's hard to believe she is still single...

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:06:20 -0700

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Angus & Julia Stone "Just A Boy" Live at 3630 Festival, Shepparton

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:39:00 -0700

Angus & Julia Stone performing "Just A Boy" Live at 3630 Festival, Shepparton on the 13th March 2010

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Kevin and Marlain's 2011 AFL Tipping Competition

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:12:00 -0700

Hello Everyone, Once again Marlain and myself are running our AFL Footy Tipping competition, last year we had a great contest with the winner being Roger Size. This year we are hoping to make it even bigger, Once again the competition is free to enter, and there will be a great prize for the winner, plus there will be some extra competitions through the season.

Also this year we have changed the rules to allow you to submit your tips up to five minutes before the start of each match.

The Competition is very easy to join and simple to play, your tips can be submitted via the website, or via SMS.

We look forward to tipping with you this season. Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone you think might enjoy playing. Kind regards Kevin & Marlain Perry

Join our AFL 2011 Tipping Competition now:

1. Go to http://www.oztips.com/

2. Click the 'REGISTER' button on the homepage and set-up a Login (if you played with us last year you already have a username & password).

3. Once you have successfully registered a Username and Password, click the 'JOIN A COMP' button.

4. You will be asked to enter an OzTips Comp Number and Password.

The Comp you've been asked to join is:

Comp#: 246101

Password: admin

5. That's it!

6. Full instructions on how to Tip can be found on the website by clicking on the 'Help' link in the top header.

7. If you have any other questions send us an E-Mail

The Basics

Tipping Format: This is straight pick the winner tipping.

Tip Cut-off Time: Tip cut-off time for your Comp is 5-minutes before EACH match. This option enables Tipsters to make selections right up until the start of each match.

Scoring

Correct Tip - 1

Incorrect Tip - 0

Tip a Draw - 3

Match Drawn (but not Tipped) - 0

RULES

1. Non-Submission: Calculation of Points for Tipsters who fail to submit their Tips by the 5-min Tip cut-off times. Tipsters will receive any points awarded for correct Away Team Tips if no Tips have been saved.

2. Late Start: Allocation of Points for Tipsters who start later than Week 1. Tipsters will receive any points awarded for a correct Away Team Tip in each missed match.

3. Prize Information: This is a winner takes all competition. Judges decision is final

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Angus & Julia Stone "Just A Boy" Live at 3630 Festival, Shepparton

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:20:00 -0700

Angus & Julia Stone performing "Just A Boy" Live at 3630 Festival, Shepparton on the 13th March 2010

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How To Make Your iPhone Look A Lot More Like Android

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:05:00 -0800

If you own an iPhone, chances are you genuinely prefer the feature set of iOS to Android, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t appreciate having access to some of Android’s best features. This guide walks through setting up the best of both worlds.

If you don’t want to go all the way and install Android on your iOS device, you still have plenty of ways to bring the best features of Android to iOS. Jailbreaking will really let you go all the way, but it’s definitely not required. Whatever your situation, here are the many ways of making your iOS device look and act more like Android.

Note: If you haven’t jailbroken your phone but you want to (or this post convinces you that you should), be sure to check out our always up-to-date guide to jailbreaking your iOS device.

Lock Screen Widgets

While customising your iOS home screen like Android isn’t really a viable option at the moment, you can do a lot to customise your iOS lock screen and even add widgets. While it may seem daunting at first, it’s actually really easy to do. Following ouriOS lock screen customisation tutorial, I was able to put one together in under 10 minutes. While you’re not going to have the simple flexibility of Android, you will have the ability to add practically anything you can imagine. The more CSS and JavaScript you know (or care to learn) the more you’ll be able to do, but you definitely don’t need any programming skills to make some pretty amazing alterations.

An Unobtrusive Notifications Bar

iOS does a lot of things very, very well, but if there were one place where it fails pretty miserably it’s how it handles notifications. No matter what kind of notification you get, be it SMS or an alarm clock, iOS gives you the same annoying blue dialogue box that interrupts whatever you’re doing. If you’re sick of notifications getting in your way, MobileNotifier is an excellent solution.

This is a jailbreak hack, so you’re out of luck if you’re sticking with a jailed device. If you need a reason to jailbreak, this is a good one.

MobileNotifier handles notifications similarly to the way Android does — by keeping them in an always-accessible drawer and by notifying you without interruption so you can continue doing what you’re doing. When you receive a text message, for example, a little bar will pop up top to let you know that you’ve received a notification. You can leave it up there for as long as you need and dismiss it (or act on it) whenever you want. To see all of your notifications (or to clear them), you just need to double tap the home button and you’ll see your notifications drawer (as well as multi-tasking mode). If you’d like to set up MobileNotifier (and you should), follow our instructions here.

Getting Google Apps

The official Google Mobile app is an obvious choice because it provides easy access to a pretty wide swath of Google’s features (including Google Goggles). You can also grab Google Latitude andGoogle Earth for iOS. If you want to start syncing your Google Docs, GoodReader is an excellent option (and absolutely worth the $US5 cost for all it can do). Finally, you may find you actually prefer Google’s mobile web apps over the native options, so be sure to load them up on your iOS device and bookmark them if you do. You can create a bookmark on your homescreen that acts just like an app, so it may really be a better alternative in some cases.

Enabling Google Sync

Apple’s never been particularly good at over-the-air sync, and they seem dedicated to keeping you tethered to iTunes for the rest of eternity. If you don’t like constantly syncing, paying for MobileMe, or just prefer to sync with Google in the first place, you can enable Google Sync on your iOS device to solve both of those problems.

Google Sync for iOS will let you push your contacts, calendars and mail to your iOS device and it’s really easy to set up. It’s almost identical to setting up MobileMe, except it uses the Microsoft Exchange protocol. Google Sync requires iOS 3.0 or higher, but iOS 4.0 or higher will let you add multiple Exchange accounts (so you’ll want to make sure you’ve upgraded if you need multiple Exchange accounts on your device). If you want to get Google Sync set up, Google has some step-by-step instructions to get you started. Once you have it up and running, you’ll have your Google data pushed and syncing over-the-air to your iOS device just like you would with Android.

Enabling the Wi-Fi Hotspot

Sure, if you’re running iOS 4.3 you can pay $US20 per month for a Wi-Fi hotspot on your phone, but if you jailbreak you can pay $US20 just once to get the same functionality. My-Wi is a $US20 application that you can purchase in the Cydia store and makes nearly every tethering option you can imagine a possibility on your device. All you have to do is search for it in the Cydia store, purchase it, and install it. From there you just launch the app, click the Wi-Fi symbol, and turn your hotspot on.

The Finishing Touches

As vain and trivial as it is, one of my favourite parts about the Gingerbread release of Android is theeffect you get when you turn off the phone. It looks like an old CRT television turning off, which is significantly more fun than the screen simply cutting to black. It’s strange to see Apple forgo the opportunity to smoothly animate between every state of iOS, but they’ve somehow neglected this one. Fortunately, if you jailbreak, you can install this effect very easily.

To get the effect, simply search Cydia for TV Tube Sleep. You’ll need to first pay $US1 to purchase the tweak, but then you’ll be able to install it. Once installed, Cydia will ask to restart Springboard. Once Springboard has restarted, you should be able to see the effect any time your device’s screen shuts off.

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A Bit Of 'Great Banter' For Your Friday - Video

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:04:50 -0800

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iPhone 101: How to Take a Screenshot on Your iPhone

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:13:00 -0800

This tip isn’t exactly a new feature, as it’s been around since day 1 of the iPhone, but it is a handy one that I get asked about quite a bit. If you have something on your iPhones screen that you want to take a picture of to send to someone, just click the Home and Power/Standby button at the same time and release quickly. If you did it correctly, you will hear a camera noise and your screen will flash white briefly.

This will place a screen resolution image into your camera roll that you can now email or upload. This comes in handy for bragging about that latest Doodle Jump or Peggle score, or showing off your current playlist or song choice to your Facebook or Twitter followers.

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Not as good as it looks

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:28:45 -0800

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Something for the Thursday Hump

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:00:55 -0800

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Video - DID I MENTION I LIKE TO DANCE

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:51:21 -0800

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iPhone 101: How to Send Your Location to Someone Using Maps

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:56:00 -0800

If you’ve ever tried to give someone directions to where you are in a strange city, you know that the task can be a daunting one. Even if it’s in your home town, telling someone else how to get where you are might not be easy if they’re unfamiliar with street names and such. Thankfully the Maps app that ships on your iPhone has the ability to grab your location and send it right to the person of your choice. Here’s how.

First, find you location in the Maps app. To do this, launch Maps and tap on the small arrow in the bottom left corner. This will pinpoint your location as indicated by the glowing blue dot in the center of the screen. This can take a minute or so so be patient. It’s also more accurate outdoors where there is GPS reception.

Once the dot shows up, tap on it to see your current address. Then tap on the blue arrow on the right to have it take you to the page which displays the address and some options for what to do with it.

To share the location, tap on the Share Location button at the bottom.

Then simply choose an email address or MMS number to send the location to and shoot it off. When the recipient gets the message they’ll be able to tap on a link to it and be shown the location in their Maps app. They can then use the app to get directions to your location.

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Loving the Heat

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:39:37 -0800

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Marcus at Prayer Time

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:11:00 -0800

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Fix iTunes And Other Slowdowns By Ditching Third-Party DNS Servers

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:02:00 -0800

A lot of anecdotes regarding slow iTunes and Apple TV downloads are spreading around the internet, and it turns out third party DNS—like previously mentioned OpenDNS or previously mentioned Google DNS—might be the problem.

If you’re experiencing slowdowns when downloading large files from iTunes or your Apple TV (or, in some cases, other places ’round the net, like YouTube), the problem may be your DNS. AppleInsider explains it best:

Network users are supposed to look up IP addresses from a nearby server, which itself queries and caches answers to name and address lookups from other DNS systems, distributing the workload across the network. CDNs like Akamai, which Apple works with to deliver iTunes downloads, use DNS lookup information to locate where users are, and then optimise content delivery via the nearest available server.

When millions of users all tap into the same DNS server addresses to resolve domain names, as Google DNS does by design, Akamai and other CDNs route content to those users along the same path, preventing the network from working optimally. This causes problems not only for Apple’s iTunes, but also any other media streaming or download service that uses a similar CDN strategy to distribute downloads.

So, while Google DNS or OpenDNS might have other benefits, they could be causing some pretty major slowdowns in other areas. I haven’t experienced this myself, since previously mentioned Namebench already discovered that my ISP’s DNS was faster than Google or OpenDNS anyways, but it may be something to look into if you’re using a third-party DNS server and you’re having problems (if you don’t use iTunes and aren’t noticing other slowdowns, you could be fine). Hit the link to read more. I’d also recommend reading AppleInsider’s piece on it, since it’s the most informative I’ve read on the subject so far. (Also bear in mind if you’re an iiNet user that using a third-party DNS will also likely eliminate the benefit of unmetered iTunes downloads which you otherwise enjoy.)

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