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The fact that I frequently display my iPhone 5 to you, whenever I am displaying tweaks, themes, or anything else iOS related. I often get asked what specific app I use for what, which apps are my favourite and a wide spectrum of questions relating to this sort of thing. Instead of answering all of these individually, I thought I would correlate which apps I use with a video, so here is it! What’s on my iPhone 5? Check out the video below to find out:

This was just an overview of the main applications that I use on my device. Of course, my iPhone 5 is jailbroken, so if you’d like to see ‘What’s on my iPhone 5′ jailbreak edition, I’ll be sure to produce that for you in the near future.

I’m curious to know, what applications do you use on a daily basis? Are there any in my selection that are also in yours? Let me know in the comments below.

Btaccel(cloud bitorrent client) and optimize firefox to get over 1gb speeds for your torrent downloads!

8/7/09- Initial release

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use this great online bitorrent client called btaccel and how you can get your torrent download speeds up over 1gbs. Read ahead to learn how to never wait long again for the torrent you want…..

What is btaccel you say…
Btaccel is an online bitorrent client that downloads whatever torrent you want into their cloud servers much like a gmail account, which means that you can get a direct download once the torrent has been available. Getting a torrent this way is alot faster because you no longer have to worry about getting seeds for a connection, it just tells you when the download is available to you. Better yet btaccel will email you once your torrent is available for a direct download.
How do I sign up for btaccel?…
To use Btaccel all you need to do is register for an account(which is free) and login much like you would a normal email account. Go to www.btaccel.com and register for an account. Then after using the confirmation email you’ll be able to login. To learn more and register for a btaccel account click the link>
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Using btaccel’s search/Url box…
Now there are a couple different ways to use the search box located at the top of the page on btaccel.com to find what your looking for, I’ll explain it below the 3 ways I would suggest.

1. You could search for a program or movie by name which will bring you to a typical google search for what you are looking for. This way is not the most effecient because using google to find a good torrent is like finding a needle in a haystack. I do not suggest doing it this way, below are my 2 favorite ways of finding what you want.

2. Search your favorite torrent sites for whatever torrent you are looking for. I like going to sites like demonoid and mininova cause you can read the comments and know exactly what your downloading and if it’s safe. Also once you find what your looking for you can simply copy the URL(web address) and paste it into the search box at btaccel and directly link to that site, bypassing the google search completely.

3. Using Vuze bittorent client’s built in search feature you can search multiple torrent sites at once without the hassle of going to a different torrent site. This is my favorite way of doing this, because with Vuze’s search you can add more sites by searching for templates. Also with vuze it display’s the torrent’s url up top after you select the one you want. Now this is the way I like doing it but if you don’t have vuze or use utorrent I would suggest option #2.

Now I have the URL what do I do…

Just paste the URL into the btaccel search box and it’ll give you a status on that particular torrent. Some torrents will be available right away while others will be qued into your browser and an email will be sent once the site has completed the torrent download. Once it’s out of que just click on the email link it gives you and select the torrent and begin downloading directly. Doing it like this you can get an average of 400kb’s -600kb’s for your download. But like I said before we can increase that speed by double. Read ahead and learn how…

How to optimize Firefox to increase your download speeds to over 1gbs…

Downthemall: This is the must have addon for anyone who uses firefox. Installing this will give you up to 4x download speeds! Now when you click on your torrent available in btaccel you’ll get a pop up box asking how you would like to download the file. Just click dta one click if it’s a single file or downthemall if it’s multiple files and hit save file. Doing this will increase the download speed to over 1gbs and put a smile on your face. The first time I used this I couldn’t believe how fast this simple little addon made my download’s. With the use of downthemall and btaccel no more looking at your speed go from 400kb’s down below 100kb’s ever again. That sounds to good to be true give me downthemall now. Ok, you want it you got it, click the link for downthemall addon>

These following addons are a must for anybody who download’s alot…

Skipscreen: This nifty little addon makes waiting at sites such as rapidshare or mediafire a thing of the past. What it does is exactly what the name suggests it skips the waiting screen for you, which is really great for rapidshare users cause it basically gives you a premium account of sorts. To get skipscreen click on the link >

Download Statusbar: View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. This puts all your downloads at the bottom of your browser page for easier viewing. Get it here > <Download Statusbar>
FasterFox: Browse faster by speeding up common tasks – faster downloading, searching, visiting favorites, copy & paste, and more. Basically just speeds up your browser for doing everything a little bit faster. This addon is for older version of firefox but a beta for firefox 3.0 is available. Get fasterfox by clicking on the link>
Final thoughts….
I hope you have learned something useful in this tutorial. Using btaccel.com and firefox’s downthemall is incredibly simple and makes bitorrent clients like vuze or utorrent a thing of the past. With the recent implenentation of cloud computing into out daily lives expect to see alot more great tools like this. The future of computing will eventually all be done on the net. This is merely the beginning. Now that you’ve learned about btaccel and how to optimize firefox to download quickly and effieciently go out and start getting whatever you want with ease.

Apple Now Accepting Mac And iOS App Nominations For 2012 Design Awards

Apple Now Accepting Mac And iOS App Nominations For 2012 Design Awards

The most coveted app awards will be announced by Apple this summer at WWDC 2012.

Following the announcement of the already-sold-out WWDC 2012, Apple has officially begun accepting nominations for its 2012 Apple Design Awards. Mac and iOS apps can be nominated to win the most prestigious developer awards Apple gives each year, and past winners include apps like Infinity Blade and Things.

Registered iOS developers can nominate apps today and Apple will announce the winners at WWDC in June.

The criteria each app will be judged by:

Well-Designed

Apps that are inviting, engaging, easy to use, intuitive, and compelling.

State of the Art

Apps that take advantage of the latest hardware, OS releases, and technologies to offer rich functionality, high performance, and extensive system integration.

Innovative

Apps that are revolutionary, inspiring, and do things in new and creative ways.

Any app submitted by May 1st to the iOS or Mac App Store can be considered. Nominations don’t necessarily secure a win, as Apple usually gives out design awards on its own anyway. You can view last year’s winners to get a taste of the kind of excellence to expect from this year’s awards.

Who’s pumped for June 11th?

Add Automatic Cloud Syncing To Any Mac App

Add Automatic Cloud Syncing To Any Mac App [How-To]

Syncing any file or directory to Dropbox is easy using Terminal.

One of the greatest things about a service like Dropbox is that as long as you are either using apps with support baked in or can save your files to a Dropbox folder, you can keep all your data synced between multiple Macs.

What if you want to keep app data synced between Macs that don’t lend themselves to being saved to a Dropbox folder or don’t come with Dropbox support, though?

For example, most Mac games don’t allow you to specify where you keep your saves, but what if you want to be able to save your game on your iMac and then load it up again on the road on your MacBook Pro? Or what if you want to keep your app settings synced between your iMac and MacBook Air? Settings files are usually stored in a hidden system folder on your Mac, so how do you keep things synced then?

It’s actually way easier than you might think. Here’s how to keep any file or folder synced between Macs using the cloud, no matter where it’s stored.

The technique we’re using in this tutorial involves symbolic links. Symbolic links are old as the hills: they’ve been around since the 70s, and OS X has always had them, ever since the first release.

What symbolic links allow you to do is tell your Mac that a file or folder in one directory should be treated as if it were in another directory. For example, using symbolic links, you can tell your Mac that any time you write a file onto the Desktop, it should really be saved to your Documents folder instead.

What we will do in this tutorial is “trick” your main Mac into writing all of its changes to a given file or directory to your Dropbox folder instead. Then we will similarly “trick” your other Mac into accessing the synced data from your Dropbox folder instead of from its normal location.

Warning: Only try to sync files or folders that you will be using on one machine at a time! Doing otherwise could wreak havok. Also, this trick works best on smaller files and folders of less than a megabyte.

1. If you don’t already have one, register for a free Dropbox account, then download and install the freeapp on any Mac you want to keep in sync. A new folder called Dropbox will be created under yourUsers / [Your User Name] / directory. Any files or folders saved here will automatically be synced between any other Mac with Dropbox installed.
2. Find the file or folder you want to keep synced in Finder. Depending on the app you’re trying to keep synced, this could be tricky, but Google will usually tell you where your favorite app’s settings or save files are stored.
3. On one Mac, open Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
4. At the prompt in your main Terminal window, type “ln -s” without the quotes, then hit space. Don’t hit Enter!
5. Now drag the file or folder you identified in step two to your Terminal window. A path to that file or folder should automatically be appended to the end of the prompt. Again, don’t hit Enter!
6. Now find your Dropbox folder in Finder and similarly drag that folder on top of your Terminal window. Again, a path to your Dropbox directory should get appended to the end of the string.
7. You should have something that looks like this: ln -s /path/to/desired-file-or-folder ~/Dropbox/desired-file-or-folder. It’s okay, you can hit Enter now.
8. It won’t look like anything has happened, but if you go look in your Dropbox folder, you’ll now see a copy of the file or folder you want synced. Better yet, if you change the file or folder in its original location, the one in your Dropbox folder will also change. Why? Because it’s really the same file!
9. So far, so good. We’ve synced a file or folder in one location on your Mac to your Dropbox folder automatically. Now we need to tell all your other Macs to start looking for this same data in your Dropbox folder for now on.
10. On any other Mac you want to keep synced, find the same file or folder you identified in step 2 in a Finder window.
11. Back this data up somewhere else on your Mac in case something goes wrong, then — and this is scary! — Delete them from their original location.
12. Here’s where it gets cool. Open a new Finder window and go to your Dropbox folder. You should see the data you synced on your other Mac in step 8 already there.
13. Open Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
14. Type in “ln -s” at the prompt with a space at the end. Don’t hit Enter.
15. Drag the file or directory from your Dropbox folder onto the Terminal window. Again, don’t hit Enter.
16. Now drag the parent directory of the data you deleted in step 11 to the Terminal window.
17. You should now have something like: ln -s ~/Dropbox/desired-file-or-folder /path/to/parent-folder.Enter.
18. Repeat steps 10 – 17 for any additional Macs you want to keep in sync. Voila! You’ve now synced your data between Macs!

What did we accomplish here? Using the above steps, I added Dropbox support to the Mac rogue-likeDungeon Crawl: Stone Soup which automatically saves the game between turns: I can now start a game on my iMac and then continue it on my MacBook Air, all without ever playing a section of the game over. However, you could use this same technique to make sure that all your PhotoShop settings are the same between Macs, no matter which machine you change them on, or to create directories that sync with Dropbox even if they are located outside of your Mac’s Dropbox folder. Using this technique, as long as you know where your Mac app saves its data, you can automatically keep the data synced to the cloud. It’s all up to you!

Hope this was helpful. Let us know how you got on in the comments!

“Wake Up, Mac Users!” One In Five Macs Carry Malware

“Wake Up, Mac Users!” One In Five Macs Carry Malware

Mac users are being urged to "wake up" and realize that malware is a growing problem for Mac OSX.

Think your Mac’s safe now that you’ve removed that Flashback infection? Think again. New research conducted by security specialists Sophos has revealed a “disturbingly high level” of Macs are currently carrying malware, though much of it is designed to attack Windows machines.

Of the 100,000 Macs that Sophos analyzed, one in five was found to be carrying Windows malware, while one in 36 was carrying malware designed for and dangerous to Mac OS X.Sophos used a snapshot of 100,000 Macs running its free antivirus software and found that one in five machines was carrying one or more instances of Windows malware. While the malware cannot have any affect of Mac OS X, it can be spread, and it can affect your system if you choose to run Windows inside your Mac.

2.7% of those machines were found to be carrying Mac OS X malware. That doesn’t sound like a lot, until you realize it’s accounts for one in 36 machines, which is alarming. Graham Cluley, senior technologyconsultant at Sophos, is urging Mac users to “wake up” and realize that malware is a growing problem for the Mac:

Some Mac users may be relieved that they are seven times more likely to have Windows viruses, spyware and Trojans on their Macs than Mac OS X-specific malware, but Mac malware is surprisingly commonly encountered. Mac users need a wake-up call about the growing malware problem.

The Flashback infection, which has been in the news a lot recently after it was found to be infecting more than 600,000 Macs, is at the top of the charts when it comes to Mac malware threats:

1. OSX/Flshplyr 75.1% 2. OSX/FakeAV 17.8% 3. OSX/RSPlug 5.5% 4. OSX/Jahlav 1.2% 5. Other 0.4%

So how do you pick up these infections? Well, you can get them from infected USB sticks, email attachments, files you download from the web, or from what Sophos describes as a “drive-by installation,” whereby the malware is installed onto a Mac without its user’s knowledge.

Cluley explains that Mac users are seen as a “soft target” because of the common misconception that Macs are immune to malware, and that they don’t need antivirus software:

Cybercriminals view Macs as a soft target, because their owners don’t typically run anti-virus software and are thought to have a higher level of disposable income than the typical Windows user. Mac users must protect their computers now or risk making the malware problem on Macs as big as the problem on PCs.

The top Windows malware discovered on Macs includes:

1. Mal/Bredo 12.2% 2. Mal/Phish 7.4% 3. Mal/FakeAV 3.8% 4. Troj/ObfJS 3.6% 5. Mal/ASFDldr 3.3% 6. Troj/Invo 3.0% 7. Troj/Wimad 2.6% 8. Mal/Iframe 1.5% 9. Mal/JavaGen 1.4% 10. Other 61.2%

Some of this malware dates back to 2007, and Sophos insists that much of it wouldn’t be around if users had installed an antivirus product sooner. ”The simple fact is that you can scan your Mac for infection from your armchair,” Cluley said. “The test is painless and free; you just download an anti-virus product and allow it to check your computer and protect it against infections in the future.”

I know what I’ll be doing this evening.