1Password for iPhone
1Password
Here’s
some excellent news for iPhone owners,
1Password
have
decided to release their iPhone version
of the
Mac application absolutely FREE......
Yep thats right, one of the best Mac app’s ever
(In my opinion anyway) is going to be available
FREE hopefully by the end of next week. (25th
July)
Unlike the Mac version of 1Password, the
iPhone/iPod touch application will be constantly
closed and opened throughout the day.
Not only is the device turned off frequently
(i.e. placed in your pocket) but only one
application can run at a time so 1Password will
be constantly closed and opened as you multitask.
Because of this unique usage pattern we did not
want to require a Master Password every time
1Password was opened. Since you will often be
accessing “less important” login details like
Forum logins, Digg accounts, etc, we use an
Access Code to open 1Password.
The Access Code is a 4 digit number that allows
you to quickly open 1Password without entering
your full Master Password. Since the Access Code
is short and only contains digits it can be
entered very quickly, but as a consequence items
protected only by the Access Code are not as
secure.
For items that require a higher level of
security, such as bank accounts, a real password
is needed to keep your data safe and secure.
These types of accounts are used less frequently
so requiring a full password to be typed when
using them will not be a burden.
You can configure each item in 1Password to be
protected by your Master Password. In 1Password
for Mac this is called a Security Level.
Users of 1Password for Mac will want to keep
their iPhone/iPod touch data in sync with their
Mac.
To start the sync process, tap on the Sync icon
to bring up the Sync screen.
The local network will be searched for any
running 1Password applications. If none are found
you will be presented with the Search screen as
1Password continues to search:
To sync with your Mac, start 1Password on your
Mac and then open the iPhone Sync window by
selecting Sync > Sync to iPhone… menu item:
Check out
all the details Here
Apple iPhone Pay & Go
O2 UK
have let slip the pricing for the Pay & Go
iPhone.
On their website for a couple of hours only, were
the price of the new 3G Pay & Go iPhone along
with information on data charges.
The starting price will be £299 for the 8GB and
£359 for the 16GB model.
The purchase cost will include 6 months free Data
usage and free access to their
WiFi
providers The Cloud and BT Openzone.
After the initial 6 months you are able to
continue using data at a cost of £10 per month.
Alternatively anyone not tacking out the offer of
£10 per month unlimited data could be facing a
charge of £3 to £6 per Megabyte.
This offer will be available until December
31st....
Prices for Talk & Text Pay & Go tariffs
are quite reasonable...
Unless Apple cut the price of the iPod Touch I
would say it’s definitely worth paying an extra
£50 to upgrade to a iphone and benefit from the
free 6 months of data.
Keynote downloads from Apple
Apple
Keynote
Apple has now made
available for subscription all of the Keynote
speeches on iTunes.
This means we can stop trawling the web or iTunes
looking for them as there all in one place now...
Apple Keynote Podcast
Time Capsule
My apple Time Capsule arrived just over a week ago now, about the 8th of March.
I decided to go for the 500 GB model instead of the 1 TB as I figured by the time the 500 GB was full, the price of 1 TB HDD would have fallen quite a bit, and from what i've seen on some blog post's it's quite easy to replace the Time capsule HDD yourself.
What can I say about the packaging apart from Apple impressed me again.
Once opened you find the Time Capsule, a few user manuals in a variety of languages and a disc containing a new version of the Airport software for Time Capsule.
What you won't find however is a network cable. I don't know why, maybe Apple think whatever size cable they put in the box won't be the right size, or maybe it's just a way for them to save a money. Whatever the reason please just be aware if you don't have a spare network cable in a box somewhere in your house your going to have to go buy one.
I took a few un-boxing pictures while I went through everything, I think it's just something you have to do nowadays with Apple products, then prepared to set Time Capsule up for the first time.
I'll explain the positioning of my Time Capsule quickly, it will become apparent why I do this later on.
I have a Plasma TV mounted on the wall in my living room, with a small door in the corner allowing me excess behind it to get to all the plugs and wiring etc. I've installed a few shelves, back there where I have my Linksys WAG 54 G router.
I've placed my Time Capsule and a few external HDD's connected via a Kingston 7 port USB hub. It's a bit crowded, but everything is out of sight and no one gets to see the pile of cable that could easily be mistaken for spaghetti.
Once i'd got the Time Capsule in place it was time for the setup.
I installed the disc with the new Airport software on it, that was straight forward as you'd expect, then plugged in the Time Capsule.
The setup via Airport Utility was straight forward and took less than 10 minutes. I chose the manual setup, enabled WPA encryption etc.
Once this was done I was ready for my first backup. This didn't go according to plan, I got the preparing message in a little box for about 30 minutes.
After trying it again with the same results I decided to do the auto setup option, this took very little time and once I opened Time Machine preferences and chose the disk for the backup, it started straight away with no problems.
Earlier on in the day I had moved my itunes library to an external HDD via FW800, once I verified it was OK I deleted it from my MBP, I also chose not to back up any movie files and a few other things, to help reduce the size of my first Time Capsule backup.
I was left with about 46 GB of files to back up using Time Capsule. Once I set Time Machine away doing the back up, it was apparent it was going to take a while.
In total it took just over 8 hrs to backup the 46 GB. As I mentioned earlier, because of the placement of the Time Capsule I was expecting a slow transfer speeds, and I got it.
I did move my MBP closer to the Time Capsule and did see a improvement in the transfer speeds.The speeds I got were about 3.5 mb/s and when I moved it closer to the Time Capsule this improved to about 7.0 mb/s.
Overall I'm very happy with Time Capsule. I'm now able to move about the house again freely with my MBP, no more tied to the desk with multiple HDD's attached to it.
Apple have now released Time Machine and Airport Updates v1.0 which improves compatibility for Time Machine and Time Capsule.
From what has been said on a few of the blog sites, it's also enabled Time Machine backup's to external HDD's attached to Airport Extreme's, although as of yet Apple have not officially said this.
Apple Keyboard Symbols
I've spent a little time putting together a list of Apple keyboard Symbol / Shortcuts, They were done on 17" MBP.
They haven't been tested on any other keyboard so I hope they work for you..
Please feel free to take a copy.
Keyboard shortcuts
Macbook Pro Trackpad
I tried it and it's true, it works just like the new multi-touch Trackpad on the Macbook Air and new Macbook Pro's.
You can pinch and expand your fingers to zoom in and out.
My Leopard has arrived.....
I've been running it for a couple of days now and I'm loving it...
I did a clean install then moved over all my files using migration assistant, All went well and the whole install process took about 1hr 45 mins from start to finnish including checking the DVD, installing and migrating all my data etc..
Spaces- I think this is great and I'm adding apps to spaces all the time.
Time machine- It's a great idea I think, I use SuperDuper for my clone back ups (Awaiting for the Leopard integration) but the features in time machine for data recovery are fantastic.
Coverflow- in finder is taking some getting used to.
Automator- I think I'll start using it more now with the record feature.
Preview- The best thing i've seen for ages.
Lots more stuff and I'll get on playing with it and see what else I'll find...
iLife 08
Well I've had my copy for a little while now and my thoughts are:
iPhoto changes are great, I dont have a massive library of photo's yet so upgrading to 08 wasn't a big deal for me.
After installing it I spent about 45 minutes moving a few things about and naming some events etc, but have to say I like the look of 08.
iMovie, well this is a whole new app and I'm not so impressed with it. I miss my timeline......
I can see that it's now intended for people new to movie editing and I cant knock them for it but I've been using 06 for a while now and like the timeline view.
I may have to consider Final cut express HD 3.5
Garageband, I haven't used it yet, I haven't used 06 yet either but 08 looks better so I will eventually get round to it.....
iWeb, I use Rapid Weaver 3.6
iDVD, Not much has changed here so.........................................
