One of the best apps to have in the toolkit of the privacy minded, developer Objective Development has just unveiled Little Snitch 3.1, their app that prevents other Mac programs from ‘phoning home’ under certain conditions.
Here’s how Little Snitch works, if you’re not familiar. Basically, with Little Snitch, you set up rules that tells your Mac whether or not to allow individual apps on your system to gain access to [Read More...]
The Automatic Link is a new iPhone accessory that’s been built to provide you with all of the important information you’ll ever need to know about your vehicle. It plugs into your car’s on-board diagnosis port, then transmits all sorts of data to an accompanying app on your iPhone.
Not only will Automatic Link help you identify why your “check engine” light is on, but it’ll also give you all kinds of [Read More...]
The iPhone gained a handy feature with iOS 6 that allows you to quickly respond to an incoming phone call with a preset text message. This is a perfect solution if you’re busy in a meeting, classroom, driving, or in any other situation where you can’t take a phone call, but the caller is important enough to let them know they’ll be contacted [Read More...]
The X-Cap gives any camera an automatic lens protector.
This is the X-Cap, a prototype self-opening lens cap for compact cameras. It’s a straight replacement for the removable lens caps increasingly found on higher-end point-and-shoots, and turns them into low-end point-and-shoots.
The cap offers the same auto-opening trapdoor that you get on pretty much any camera these days, and it too is activated by the movement of the lens as it moves [Read More...]
Dropbox has issued an update to its iOS app this morning, introducing the ability to automatically upload photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to the cloud. Version 1.5 also delivers a new gallery view for your images, the ability to move and delete multiple files simultaneously, and more. Like Dropbox for Android, the iOS app now has the ability to upload your photos and videos automatically [Read More...]
With this new jailbreak tweak, you can enable all of these scrolling options. A new jailbreak tweak has landed in Cydia. It’s dubbed SuperScroller and it’s by Ryan Petrich. It allows you to assign an Activator action to the tweak (up to four actions) to help make scrolling more of a luxury. As shown above, you can have the application auto-scroll up, or auto-scroll down. Additionally, you can have it page up or page down if you [Read More...]
A folder in OS X Lion has been discovered by Mac OS X Hints that uses iCloud to automatically sync stored documents between Macs. While iCloud stores your saved documents from Mac and iOS devices on iCloud.com, Apple has yet to implement a polished, Dropbox-like way to let users sync iCloud data between desktop machines. Tucked in the “Library” directory in Lion, the “Mobile Documents” folder [Read More...]
