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AirPort Utility For iOS Can Setup Your AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule [Review]

airporticonApple released iOS 5 and iCloud this week and iOS 5 is the version of iOS designed to set your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch free with the help of iCloud. By free I mean that along with iCloud you no longer need to...

How To Speed Up iTunes Backups And Restores Before Updating To iOS 5

I’m seeing a lot of comments about slow backups and restores on my post Early iOS 5 Installation Problems Surface As Upgraders Cannot Restore/Update Their iPhones [Updated] and most of the time that problem is caused by bloat in an iOS device user’s Camera...

Having Problems After Installing iOS 5? Here Are General Troubleshooting Tips For iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

iphone4sA number of Cult of Mac readers, and many more on Apple’s Discussion boards, have reported problems after trying to upgrade to iOS 5 on Wednesday. A good percentage of the time these updates go well, but they didn’t today. On Friday, we may...

Apple TV iOS 5 Update Got You Down? Then Try This Fix [Work Arounds]

atvI went to bed last night and my Apple TV stated that the update was gong to take a whopping nine hours. I get up this morning only to find out that it wasn’t even close to being done or that it had even...

Apple Releases Xcode 4.2 Free Development Tools For Mac OS X Lion & Snow Leopard

Apple’s development tools for Mac OS X and iOS are joining the iOS 5 launch party today with the release of Xcode 4.2. The new version of Xcode is now available as a free download in the Mac App Store or through the regular Apple developer...

Early iOS 5 Installation Problems Surface As Upgraders Cannot Restore/Update Their iPhones

Users are reporting problems when they try to update their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to iOs 5 today. A plethora of reports are popping up about the problem this afternoon as many users complain about the problem they are encountering. The problem according...

This Is How You’ll Transition From MobileMe To iCloud [Gallery]

14-move2icloudHere is a quick run through of what you can expect when you start the process of moving from MobileMe to iCloud. This step-by-step process transitions your email, calendars, contacts and bookmarks to iCloud. After updating to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 you’ll have...

MobileMe Users Get 25GB iCloud Plan Until End Of June 2012

mobileme20gbplanExisting MobileMe customers will be happy to find out that Apple is giving them access to the 20GB iCloud storage plan until June 30, 2012. The total allotted storage comes to 25GB, but the plethora of storage plans I expected to appear didn’t. Instead Apple...

Magazines Begin To Populate Apple’s Newsstand App

newsstandA few magazines have begun to populate Apple’s Newsstand app on the eve of the October 12th release of iOS 5. Right now the only two magazines that I could add to Newsstand were Wired and Popular Science. They only showed up on an iPad...

Get More Out of Your Finder Windows By Turning On The Status and Path Bars [OS X Tips]

FindersampleFinder has two nice features that you might want to turn on if you aren’t using them already the Finder status and path bars. Both of these give you kick access to some very useful information about your Mac. Status Bar The status bar...

Disable Restoration Of Previously Open Windows In The Lion Preview App [OS X Tips]

previewiconYou’ll either love or hate Mac OS X Lion’s Restore feature. If you didn’t know it the Restore feature kicks in when you relaunch an app. All the windows that were open the last time you used that app are open again and restored...

We Just Got Our iPhone 4S Shipping Notification, Have You Gotten Yours? [Open Thread]

orderstatusAlthough the iPhone 4S just went on sale this past Friday the first wave of iPhone 4S shipments from China have started with a delivery date of October 14th. The carrier in my case is UPS. I received my shipping notification this morning and...