Eddie On Everything

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Entries Tagged ‘Apple’

iPhone Stuck on Apple Logo Screen, Error 1611

Egads, my 2G iPhone won’t turn on!
Well to be more accurate, it will turn on, but it will only show the Apple logo, and then turns off after 5-10 seconds.
I have no idea what caused this – I connected it to the charger one night, came back the next morning, and it had the problem. [...]

Twitter’s latest iPhone client update so slow it’s unusable

I have a pretty old iPhone. To be more precise, I have the original iPhone – aluminum backing, 4GB, EDGE-only, fake GPS.  I can’t even update to the latest version of iOS, because I’m told my phone is too old.  Why not get a new one, you ask?  I dunno. Call me lazy. Call me [...]

How to Fix the iPod/iPhone “Download Error. Tap to retry” Error WITHOUT Using Your PC

It’s stuff like this, Steve. Stuff like this.
About a month ago, I used my iPhone to purchase a song from the iTunes store. Or, at least I tried to. My phone refused to download the song.
When I tried to download the song, I got a “Download Error. Tap to retry” [...]

How To Tell If Someone Is Lying About Their iPad Experience

OK, maybe that title is a little harsh.
Perhaps a better title would be “When someone tells you they love their iPad because it functions as an eBook reader, you should be a little suspect of their claims, because they’re starting to sound like a fan-boy, simply parroting the ad-copy dreamed up in Cupertino, [...]

Free up Disk Space on your Mac by Removing unnecessary OSX language files

Mac OSX.
It looks pretty.
It’s based on BSD.
But it’s a disk space HOG, with a full install consuming nearly 20GB of disk space.
Fortunately, there is an easy way that you can reclaim 1-2 GB of disk space on your Mac. By default, Apple’s OSX installs hundreds of language (localization) files [...]

  

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