Capture Screenshot Image on iPhone (3G) and iPod Touch 2.0 Without Screen Shot Utility – HowTo

To  take a screenshot or capture the screen image in iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch (2.0 and later), just press the Home button and Sleep/Wake button (On/Off button at the top of the mobile device) simultaneously. The Apple device screen will flash and an image will be automatically saved and stored in the iPhone or iPod Touch Camera […]

Disable Unnecessary Services on Mac OS X

How to disable unnecessary services on Mac OS X based desktop / server / laptop. Mac OS X uses the following directories to start various services: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ – System-wide daemons provided by Mac OS X /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ – Per-user agents provided by Mac OS X ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ – Per-user agents provided by the user /Library/LaunchAgents/ – Per-user […]

List of Internet Acronyms & Text Message Jargon

With millions of people texting regularly, it’s no wonder you’ve seen this cryptic looking code! Commonly used wherever people get online — whether by text message, IM, SMS, email, cell phone, iPhone, Blackberry, PDA, etc. — and as seen on blogs, chat rooms, Web sites, games, and newsgroup postings — these abbreviations are used by […]

Installing NCFTP Client on Linux

NcFTP offers many ease-of-use and performance enhancements over the stock ftp client, and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms as well as operating systems such Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. How To Install wget ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ncftp-3.2.2-src.tar.gz tar -zxvf ncftp-3.2.2-src.tar.gz cd ncftp-3.2.2 ./configure make make install make clean

The IBM User Group SHARE celebrates its 50th year of existence in 2005

The IBM User Group SHARE celebrates its 50th year of existence in 2005. The SHARE user group holds its first meeting at the Rand Corporation on August 15, 1955 in Santa Monica, Calif. The first meeting is called to help scientific users grapple with the problems of IBM’s first major commercial mainframe, the 704.

How to recover missing, lost, or deleted files from Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 and Windows 7 as well as Apple Macs

Before reviewing the below recommendations and suggestions, verify that the files have actually been deleted; in some cases the files may have simply been moved. You can search the hard disk drive for the files you believe to be missing by running find or search on the computer. Recover file from backupIf the file has […]

Mac Black Grey Blue Screen Crash troubleshooting

Collection Procedure (kernel panic)http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106228looking for panic.log/Library/Logs Kernel Panic FAQhttp://www.index-site.com/kernelpanic.html CrashLogger (application failure)http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.htmluser’s home directory~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/.crash.log)/var/log/system.log Hardware Test (PowerPC)http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86287 Hardware Test (Intel)http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081 Example to identify kernel panic:http://www.index-site.com/kernelpanic.html

Darwin Streaming Server – streaming 3GP, QuickTime and MPEG-4 for Mobile Devices

Darwin Streaming Server (DSS), is the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP. Developed by Apple, it is the open source equivalent of QuickTime Streaming […]