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TimeStream Software today announces an update to its popular “Walt Disney World Guide” Notescast for the iPhone and iPod touch. With over 200 pages of information, over 150 photos, and rich in-depth content, the updated Walt Disney World Notescast is a comprehensive vacation planner and in-park guide covering nearly every aspect of the entire resort and all four theme parks, including the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and more.

TimeStream Software today announces its “Disneyland Park Guide” Notescast for the iPod Classic, iPod 5th Generation and iPod nano. Now guests of Disneyland Park can access a magical new vacation planning and in-park guide. Designed to complement its counterpart for the iPhone, the new Disneyland Park Notescast is a powerful new vacation planning and in-park guide filled with over 120 pages of in-depth information covering nearly every aspect of Disneyland Park.

With the announcement of the iPhone 3G S yesterday, many current iPhone users have been looking to upgrade to the new model. Unfortunately, many users have been surprised and disappointed to find that their carriers are requiring that existing iPhon…

In the wake of yesterday’s big announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, several smaller items of interest have managed to fly under the radar.

- iDisk iPhone Application: Apple’s “More Features” pages for the iPhone …

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Clever Coding, in partnership with Southwest App, today announced the release of their newest 3D iPhone application, Domino Domino Lite. The first thing users notice about Domino Domino Lite is how fun and easy it is to make your own domino course. Once users have built their course, they can choose how they want to watch their creation fall. Users can also experiment with a variety of objects provided by the game to add style to their course.

AT&T has posted a walkthrough video explaining how to order the new iPhone 3GS and what pricing you can expect. Unlike the iPhone 3G launch, Apple and AT&T are allowing pre-orders on the iPhone 3G S which means you can order today to get your hands…

I found a solution to why my laptop fan was running constantly and running my battery out in an hour. This problem is common for MacBook users and many websites and forums suggest restarting, installing fan regulation software, resetting PRAM, etc. None of these really work, but the solution is very simple.

Since laptop users are mobile, they’re frequently using different printers. When sending a document to print sometimes my MacBook selects the wrong printer, when it doesn’t print I select a new printer and print again. But I forgot to delete the print job sent to the first printer, so my Mac keeps looking to print at the other printer causing the processor to heat up and the fan runs constantly.

Therefore, open System preferences go to Print & Fax, then select the printer that has a document in the queue, delete the print job and the fans shuts off within a minute — and stays off.

The laptop will stay quiet and cool, the battery will last the usual amount of time, and Ma…

I work at an Apple authorized service provider, and many times we need to do a new OS X install, create a (temporary) user account, run all the updates, then delete the user account and get the machine back to “new” condition, i.e. no user accounts and Setup Assistant runs at boot.

The process in 10.4 is pretty well documented, but not so 10.5. Here’s a process I’ve come up with and tested twice. It’s not as elegant as just deleting the whole netinfo database, but it still seems to accomplish what I need. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can improve it!
To delete a user from the command line in 10.5:

1. Boot into single user mode. Hold Command-s at startup.
2. Check the filesystem: /sbin/fsck -fy
3. If no remaining errors, mount the filesystem: /sbin/mount -uw /
4. Start up directory services …

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

At work I plug in my iPod into my speakers and let it shuffle. Since the iPod touch now has the line out at the bottom, I can no longer position my iPod in portrait mode, since the cable to my speakers gets in the way. Therefore I position it in landscape mode, which brings up the Coverf Flow view. Nice, if only it would always refresh to the album art for the “now playing song” and, more importantly to me, if it would offer a volume slider. Both features are missing in landscape mode.

Here are two workarounds; first the simple solution:

• Shuffle songs
• Click the Home button to return to the main iPod touch screen
• Double-click home button to display the ‘music widget’ with volume slider.

The widget will still be in portrait mode, though I can live with that. The second solution is a bit more complex, but works in landscape mode:

• Shuffle songs
• Open a photo
• Landscape your iPod
• Double-click the Home button to display t…