RestoreMeNot
The window restoration feature of Mac OS X Lion is one of the coolest features of Apple’s new OS. Sometimes however, one might not want the windows of a certain application to be restored when launching it. Unfortunately window restoration can only be disabled system-wide and not on a per-application basis.This is where RestoreMeNot comes in and provides a simple preference pane for disabling window restoration for individual applications.

Growl
When you’re working on your Mac, sometimes things happen in the background that you would like to keep track of while working in another application. Growl works with hundreds of popular Mac apps to notify you of specific events, like when a download is completed or when your CD-burning project is finished.

For example, it can notify you when a friend comes online in Adium, when your EOD backup is done, and even pop up abbreviated versions of incoming e-mails–all while you’re working on something entirely different, often with the help of app-specific plug-ins like GrowlMail, GrowlTunes, and GrowlSafari.

We like having control over what gets a Growl notification (which you can handle through easy preference pane settings) and the ability to choose from numerous skins to customize the look of each notification. Overall, if you’re looking to always know what’s going on with your running applications, this free program is an excellent way to stay notified. The newest version requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

Choosy
Forget the default browser, Choosy opens links in the right browser. When you click on a link Choosy will do the right thing, whether that’s something simple (like using whatever browser is already running) or something complex (like prompting you to pick a browser, but only when you hold down the shift key and click on a link to google.com). 

Tuxera NTFS
Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box. The solution is here. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is our commercial read/write NTFS software for Mac users. It builds and extends upon the proven stability of Tuxera’s popular open source NTFS-3G to deliver a full featured, commercial grade NTFS driver for your Mac. With Tuxera NTFS for Mac you can access your Windows disks as easily as any Mac disk. Tuxera NTFS for Mac delivers the fastest NTFS data transfer speeds you can have on Mac while protecting your data with its new, smart caching layer.

1. School of Arts / Tetrarc Architects

2. Primary School & Sport Hall / Chartier-Dalix architects

3. Jean-Perrin High School / Atelier d’Architecture Brenac-Gonzalez

4. Umeå School Of Architecture / Henning Larsen Architects

5. Sacred Heart Primary School Library / Suters Architects

6. Panyaden School / 24H > architecture

7. Nueva School / Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

8. Marysville Getchell High School / DLR Group

9. The National Ballet School / KPMB Architects

10. Stoutland School / Dake | Wells Architecture

Now how to install this plugin:

1. Download it from here (it’s called Archive.qlgenerator)
2. Navigate to  /Library/QuickLook/ or ~/Library/QuickLook/
   Lion users: you can’t see your root folder anymore, just type open /Library/QuickLook/ in Terminal
3. Copy Archive.qlgenerator there
4. Restart Finder.app (Right click Dock Finder icon with holding Option key)
5. Just press SPACE to see inside any zip files.

Vijay wrote an interesting article about using the power of GPUs in your Graphic Card to bruteforce password and crack it down!

Unfortunately, this method works on Windows although in Mac it’s easier to use GPU power with Grand Central. The method supports:

• Plain MD4, MD5, SHA1.
• NTLM
• Domain Cached Credentials
• Oracle 11g
• MySQL5
• MSSQL
• vBulletin
• Invision Power Board
• Drupal
• and more …

In this post I gather every review, teardown, unboxing, unlock, etc.

Keep checking this post as I keep adding new reviews, news, and basically everything you need to know in one place!

PS: please Digg/stumble/twitter this post if you like it.

Reviews

- MacWorld
- “Pick up an iPad 2 after handling an original iPad, and you’ll notice the difference right away. This is a lighter, thinner device.”
- “The iPad 2 also has 512MB of RAM–twice that of the original iPad–and a 200MHz bus speed, likewise twice that of the original.”
- “Though the iPad 2 is an improvement on the original iPad in numerous ways, it’s still an evolutionary product, not a revolutionary one”
- “In short, the iPad 2 is the fastest iOS device ever made, by a long shot.”

- AllThingsD
- Cameras take mediocre still photos, decent video
- Battery life not as strong as first iPad, but impressive.
- “It never crashed in my tests, unlike every Android tablet I’ve tested.”
- “As of now, I can comfortably recommend it as the best tablet for average consumers.”

- Engadget
- “iPad 2 managed an astonishing 10 hours and 26 minutes of non-stop playback” — better than iPad 1 in their testing.
- Cameras are “pretty bad” for stills, reasonably useful for video
- GarageBand is a “groundbreaking piece of software for tablets”
- “The iPad 2 isn’t just the best tablet on the market, it feels like the only tablet on the market”

Benchmarks from Engadget
- NYTimes
- “My friends, I’m telling you: just that much improvement in thinness, weight and speed transforms the experience. “
- 5-megapixel camera on back (no flash) (? Only review to claim this stat and is contradicted by other reviews)

- SlashGear
- “We were able to software decode a side loaded 1.4GB .avi file in OPlayer on the fly, while watching it, without and lag or stutter. The same clip in the same app on the original iPad loads slower and drops frames and audio during playback.”

Apple has posted guided tour videos showcasing the iPad 2 and the new apps including Garageband and iMovie.

Source: macrumors

iPad 2 versus Motorola XOOM

Unboxing

Macroumors.com unboxing photos

PC Magazine unboxing video

Teardown

iFixit

• Finally!!! The iPad has come back to iFixit! And this time, it has a 2 at the end of its name, hence the iPad 2!
• After a much awaited debut, the iPad 2 is expected to fill in the gaps left by the first generation iPad.
• Tech Specs:
  • 1 GHz Apple A5 dual-core processor
  • 512 MB of LPDDR2 RAM
  • 16/32/64 GB internal storage capacity
  • 9.7″ LED-backlit glossy Multi-Touch display with IPS technology(1024 x 768)
  • HD (720p) Rear-facing camera + VGA Front-facing camera

Update: video added

Here is step by step guide:

Step one download QuickSilver and install it.

Step two install Extra Script plugin

install extra script plugin

This plugin allow us to run apple scripts or automators.

Step three Open Automator, select application from ‘Choose a template’ startup screen. Then, add new audio capture and start capture from Movies library to workflow as shown below

save it as “record mic”

Step four rescan quicksilver catalog then trigger quicksilver and just type “record mic” (it will come up sooner).

That’s it! you are now recording from your mic (or any other source, you can change them in Preferences). next time just type record mic in Quick Silver

PS: I tried Firefox and Safari

Any css tips for MS?

The Starcraft story happens in 2030 or something. The main character, Jim Raynor, is officially a cowboy. not that anything is wrong with being cowboyish, but obviously this theme doesn’t work for a game like starcraft. likewise, choice of music is somehow cowboyish 80′s.

All of those are not the most annoying part! It’s not just the theme which seems to be wrong, the actors are so calm in difficult situations; they supposed to be nervous and sad for god’s sake! aliens are killing your people “doc”!!

I stopped playing campaign long ago. It’s sad I can’t get rid of 80′s musics ( which btw is very relaxing and not relative to game context). Good job bilizzard ruining my fav game. Can I have my money back?

First solution is adding a small piece of tape over the bottom left of your iPhone, where there is a small gap. For more info watch below video

the second solution, it turned out the micro SIM touches the sim tray and when you hold your phone it confuses Baseband.

Points 1 and 2 are microSIM contacts, only for that purpose; point 3 is the microSIM tray itself – and if there’s some grounding or shorting going on between 1 and 3, or 2 and 3, or heaven forbid 1, 2, and 3 all at the same time or even sporadically, then again, “Houston, we have a problem.”

While gripping the phone tighter decreases the resistance and increases the capacitance effect on signal attenuation (wicks away more energy off the antenna bands), it could have the secondary effect as I’ve already noted of causing that gap between

points 1 and 2 and the microSIM tray itself, 3.

How to fix it:

• Take the micro SIM out

• use some sort of tape to avoid micro sim touching the edge of your sim tray

• put your sim inside again

a dude who knows about RF explained here why the second fix works for most of us:

Let me add my explanation of why this fix works in many cases. I will qualify my assertion by saying that I have a good working knowledge of RF energy and have held various radio licenses over the past quarter century.

RF energy travels through the air in waves in the form of electromagnetic and electrostatic fields at 90 degrees to one another. The frequency of the transmitted wave has a ‘wavelength’. The transmitting and receiving antennas must be of the proper length to be ‘resonant’ at or near the wavelengths involved. In a nutshell, you will receive maximum signal strength when your antenna is the proper length.

Since we are talking about microwave frequencies here, the resonant length of the antenna is very, very short and will be thrown off resonance by a long ways with just the slightest change of ‘electrical’ length. I say electrical because aside from the physical length, changes in effective length occur with two phenomenon known as inductance and capacitance. Our bodies make for a good capacitor plate and this is how touch lamps can change brightness by sensing a capacitance change when we touch them.

The micro SIM tray is metal on the iPhone 4 and is part of the band surrounding the phone which IS part of the antenna on this new design. If the gold SIM contacts are touching or are too close to the metal tray, they are creating a shift in resonant frequency of the antenna which will degrade its reception of the cell frequencies it was designed for. The SIM contacts are NOT part of the designed electrical length of the antenna, but they can create a change of that length if they touch it. Those SIM contacts need to be as far away as possible from the physical antenna which the SIM tray is a part of on the new phone.

So now, you grip the phone with your finger bridging two of the antennas on the outside and you have killed the reception altogether because the antenna is way off resonance from the cell tower frequencies. Something to note here is that the BOTTOM of the phone’s metal band is the cellular antenna because the transmitted RF is required by law to be as far away from our head as possible.

This fix that the OP posted has technical merit and should be at least tried by those who feel comfortable messing with their SIM cards.

I have no explenation if these solutions don’t work but I would be more than happy to hear from you whether it works or not. leave a comment

PS: a video demonstration for second fix will be added soon

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