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Official TQB App Live on App Store

The official TQB App for iPhone and iPod touch is now ready for download on the Apple App Store! The app allows you to browse TQB posts using a beautiful mobile format on your iPhone or iPod touch; and the app costs just $0.99! Download the app using the App Store link below! Here’s a quick [...]

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Tip: Add Reload button to Safari 4 Bookmarks Bar

Many people love the redesigned and ‘cleaned-up’ UI of Apple’s Safari 4, which had its Beta tag removed during Phil Schiller’s WWDC Keynote. I, for one however, just hate two things: the unnecessary “Add Bookmark” plus button attached to the left of the URL bar, and the relocation of the stop/reload button to the left [...]

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Introducing “CloudByte” Service

Readers of TQB, I have just set up a new free service for TQB Subscribers called “CloudByte”. This is a full install of eyeOS on TQB servers, with unlimited data storage space (as my host allows). All you have to do is to register a TQB username using this form, and I will let you know details [...]

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Tutorial: Search for Guitar Tabs and Compose iShred Song

Hi all, here’s a full tutorial on how to play a full rock song in iShred, from finding the guitar tabs, to setting up the user chords in iShred and the digital effects pad(s) as well. To begin, search for the tabs for your chosen song on 911tabs.com. I find this a full and complete database of [...]

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Tip: How to Resize OS X Toolbar Icon Sizes

Here’s a little tip that I accidentally discovered. By holding down COMMAND key (⌘) and clicking on the small rounded rectangle on the top right of some OS X application windows, you can manually resize the toolbar icons. There are several toggle options as you can see in the video above. This may be useful to [...]

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Google Search Applet

This is a simple AppleScript Application bundle that starts a search in Google. I recommend that this script is assigned to a keyboard shortcut or mouse button (if you’ve got a Mighty Mouse) in System Preferences. Add this icon to your dock, and every time the shortcut is pressed, a Google search is just a [...]

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iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09 Tutorials

This is a compilation and redesign of the video tutorials of iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09 found on Apple’s site (http://www.apple.com). I organized everything and made everything look nice, so please enjoy this! I hope you find it useful: this is quite a good collection of tutorials to help you get up and running with [...]

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