Calibrating your mac battery

Calibrating your battery ensures you get the longest possible running time from it. Calibrate your battery during the first week you own it, and then recalibrate it every two months. If you use your computer infrequently, it’s best to recalibrate it at least once a month.

1. Plug in the MagSafe Power Adapter and fully charge the battery.

When the battery is fully charged, the light on the MagSafe Power Adapter connector changes to green and the Battery icon in the menu bar indicates that the battery is charged.

2. Allow the battery to rest in the fully charged state for two hours or longer.

You can use your computer during this time as long as the power adapter is plugged in.

3. With the computer still on, disconnect the power adapter and continue to use your computer.

4. When you see the low battery warning, save your work and close all applications. Keep your computer turned on until it goes to sleep.

5. After your computer goes to sleep, turn it off or allow it to sleep for five hours or longer.

6. Connect the power adapter and leave it connected until the battery is fully charged.

You can use your computer during this time.

Use this software to see you mac battery capacity.

How to add more than 11 pages on Springboard without jailbreaking it (iPhone/iTouch)

1. Make the first page & last page full of applications/games
2. Put Voice Memo application on last page at the bottom right corner
3. Open page 10 ( page before the last page ) and move one of applications to the last page ( page 11)
4. Your Voice Memo application will dissappear, don't worry..
5. Just restart your iPhone / iTouch
6. Done! You have 12 pages on your iPhone / iTouch
7. Just follow my instruction above to add more pages ( 13 pages, 14 pages, 15 pages, 16 pages, 17 pages .... )

How to move widgets from dashboard to desktop

1. Open terminal ( on application/utilities/terminal.app )
2. Type : defaults write com.apple.Dashboard devmode YES
3. Press enter, log out, then log in
4. Open terminal again, type : killall Dock
5. Press enter, log out, then log in
6. Quit all running applications
7. Go to dashboard
8. Click '+' sign to add more widgets
9. Click a widget, hold on until you press F12 key to close the dashboard ( F12 is a default key on mac to close the dashboard )
10. Done!

If you want to remove widgets from desktop
1. Open terminal and type : defaults write com.apple.Dashboard devmode NO
2. Click a widget on the desktop that you want to remove, hold on, press F12 key, just put it back to the Dashboard
3. Done!

actually, there's a software to put widgets to the desktop, but this is the "terminal" way

How to make our Mac greet us when log in

1. Go to application
2. Choose applescript / just search applescript editor on spotlight
3. Double Click applescript editor
4. Start to make the script

tell application "Terminal"
say "Hello master, it's good to have you back"
end tell
quit application "Terminal"

then File < Save as ( type whatever you want, example : welcome script)
save on Application folder
save as application / use the format : application

after that, quit the script editor
go to application then put the welcome script to the dock
right click on the welcome script & choose Open at Login

done! if you want to try it out, just log out then log in =)

How to make your own iPad micro SIM

Despite the 3G version of the iPad being sold unlocked, it requires a whole new type of SIM card, or does it? That's right, we've been trimming away the mystery of the new micro-SIM.

At first glance, the electronic contact area is no different to that of a conventional SIM, you know, the type that's small enough to fit into a tiny phone never mind the hulking iPad.

As it turns out traditional SIMs measure 15 x 25mm and have that angled corner. The new micro-SIM is officially 12 x 15mm. That's effectively the size of just the normal SIM contact area.

Apple was just wanting to be clever or it just wanted everyone to be forced to buy new SIMs, either way it's a touch annoying, but with our mighty scissors we can cut them down to size and so can you. SIMples.

How to do it:

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1. Here's a traditional SIM and its measurements, the only working area is the metal contacts.

2. This is the same SIM with the micro-SIM specifications overlaid. You can use this to trim yours down to size.

3. Here we are cutting our SIM down to size...

4. ...and now it's ready to activate in our shiny new iPad.

techradar.com (well, nice trick, good one..)