Monthly Archive: July 2009

Jul
25
2009

iPod Touch Update to OS 3.0 for free – in some cases

Today i wa suprised, that i could update my iPod Touch 1G for free to OS 3.0. To make things clear, i didn’t hack it and it is 100% legal, because the update is free, if you have already payed the 10$ for a previous update. In my case i updated my iPod Touch to …

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Jul
21
2009

Mac OS X 10.5: Setting a custom umask

umask is a UNIX command to set the default permissions for newly created files and folders. Especially when you have to share your files with other users on your computer or on a network share the default umask of 022 which Mac OS X uses is not very handy, it would be better if all …

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Jul
09
2009

Using facebook with iChat

iChat authorize contact

If you like to live on the bleeding edge of instant messaging, you may like to chat with your Facebook buddies by using your default Instant Messenger on a Mac: iChat. But wait, there are some pros / cons for this method: + only one Instant Messenger for iChat, AIM, Jabber and MSN, Yahoo, etc. …

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