Colby Aley
Manager and owner of CPAley's Tech Blog. Lead writer and editor.
Homepage: http://cpaleytech.com
Posts by Colby Aley
Fully Delete Apps Off Your Mac With AppDelete
Mar 8th
One thing that OS X is missing is a solid and simple way of removing applications, screensavers, plugins, widgets, and preference panes. AppDelete fixes this. When you open AppDelete, you are greeted with a simple trash can on a gray background. Thats it. Except for a few menu items at the top of the window. If you are a neat-freak Mac user or just trying to save some space on your hard drive, this is an app for you. AppDelete is also great for if you’re like me and test out a lot of applications on a regular basis and don’t want those apps leaving little files behind to clog up your Mac.
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ShadyURL: Make Your URLs Scary!
Feb 28th
Have you ever wanted ot scare your Twitter followers? ShadyURL.com is a service which lets you do exaztly that. ShadyURL takes your URLs, then turns them into something that will scare the people who look at them. It’s like a URL shortener like Bit.ly or TinyURL, except not at all. ShadyURL makes your links longer, but most importantly, makes them scary.
ShadyURL doesn’t really do anything useful, unless you think making people not want to click on certain links is useful. It is a fun service but is deferentially not a service that you would need to use daily.
Switching Over to OS X
Feb 23rd
Yes, I switched over to OS X! Last Sunday I walked over to my local Apple store and bought the 2.53Ghz Mac mini. 4GB of RAM. 320GB hard drive. After using it for a few days, I LOVE IT! It’s great! Fast, small, and elegant, I love the Mac mini.
This is just a short and quick post. I just wanted to announce to everyone that I am now a Mac. Do you know of any good Mac apps that I should download? I have been testing out a few and will be doing some reviews on them later.
iRip Saved My Life
Feb 23rd
Have you ever had a computer break and lost all your iTunes? The other day, this happened to me. My computer would not turn on. After tinkering with it for a few minutes, trying to turn it on, nothing happened. When I bought a new computer, I suddenly realized that something was missing. My iTunes. Probably some of the most valuable data on my computer. Gone. Luckily, I had all my iTunes music on my iPhone. After doing a little searching, I ran across an application called iRip by The Little App Factory. I read about it a little more, downloaded it, then did a little happy dance around my bedroom.
What iRip does, is it lets you transfer music from your iPhone or iPod Touch to your Mac or PC. This is exactly what I was looking for! iRip is simple, reasonably priced and has a great user interface. It does exaztly what it says it does, takes music from your iPhone/iPod and moves it to your iTunes. It is cross platform, so it runs on windows and OS X.
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My Thoughts On Google Buzz
Feb 10th
As you may already know, Google has recently launched something called Google Buzz. In this post I will be telling you more about Google Buzz and I will also be sharing my opinions on the service.
How is Google Buzz different?
In my opinion, Buzz is not a copy of Facebook, nor is it a copy of Twittr. Buzz is simply in-between. It is not as complicated as facebook, but is also not as simple as twitter. What makes it different than Twitter is the fact that Buzz lets you comment on other peoples updates and it also lets you upload photos. You man say that Twitter does let you upload photos, but it doesn’t. Twitter only lets you post links to photos and has no native way to attach photos. The only way to post a photo in Twitter is to use a service like Twitic or yfrog. Also, Twitter does not let you comment on other people’s updates. The closest thing to commenting on an update is @replying somebody. The bad thing about an @reply is that it is not connected to a specific tweet, so things can get a little confusing when you are receiving many @replies.
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10 Must-Have iPhone Apps
Feb 9th
Do you have an iPhone? iPod touch? Today, I will be telling you about ten iPhone apps that you NEED to have on your iPhone (or iPod Touch).
Tweetie (Website) (Review)
Do you tweet? Have an iPhone? Why not tweet on your iPhone? Tweetie is a great app for doing this and it’s also my primary Twitter client for the iPhone. It is clean, simple, and quite useful. The app supports the new version of ReTweets, and GeoTagging as well.
AutoStitch (Website) (Review)
Ever wanted to make your pictures bigger and wider? Can’t fit all the objects you want into the photo? AutoStitch For iPhone lets you quickly and easily “stitch” your photos together, creating one big photo.
Cube Runner (Website)
Bored? Cube Runner is a free and simple game for your iPhone that is a great time-waster. The objective of the game is to run through the land of cubes without hitting them. The further you get in the land of cubes, the more points you get.
Dropbox (Website) (Review)
So, you want to transfer your photos from your iPhone without syncing in iTunes, or having to Email the photos to yourself. If this applies to you, you NEED Dropbox! There is also a Dropbox application for your Mac or PC that looks like a folder on your hard drive, but is actually syncing across all your computers, your iPhone , and the Drobox website. The basic, free version of Dropbox includes two free gigabytes of storage space but if you click here, you can get 250MB of extra space to store your files!
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