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I need vodafone to open!

by rhodzy • on 25. Jun, 2010 • in techy / geeky

I’ve never wanted to speak to vodafone as much in my life as I want to now, I need their phone lines to open so I can ring up and activate my micro sim for my iPad, still not sure what tariff am going to go on but still I just want to use the InternetInternet where ever I am and I need to use it right now where I don’t currently have the Internet.

The phone lines open at 8am and I reckon I will be the first caller of the day. I’m starting to love this ipad more and more each day, finally getting used to using it and where I need to lay it down to use the keyboard so I can write blog posts like I am now!!

UPDATE: it’s now 8:30am and the vodafone iPad activation sim line is still not open, apparently they open at 8am Monday to Friday, and yet still at 8:30 they still aint open and the message still says open at 8am. Shocking.

UPDATE 2: iPad in now activated, I opted for the £10 a month which gives me 1gb data allowance

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Mac OS X Shortcut: Quick Hide Dock

by rhodzy • on 06. Dec, 2009 • in Tech Tips, iMac / Macbook, osx86, techy / geeky

If you are like me and you are always changing your desktop, moving icons around or just want a different look for the time you are on the computer then this may be handy for you.

This shortcut command will allow you to quickly hide/show the Mac OS X dock.

?-option-d

Pressing it once will hide it, pressing it for a second time will show the dock again.

It doesn’t make it go away permanently, this command only activated / disabled quick hide dock.

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Customise How The Mac OS X Dock Looks

by rhodzy • on 18. Nov, 2009 • in iMac / Macbook, osx86, techy / geeky

To change the appearance of your Dock just follow these very simple instructions.

Find a design you like, http://leoparddocks.net has some real beauties

Then just follow these instructions

1. Click the ‘Download’ button above the image of the dock you want

2. Open the folder System/Library/CoreServices/

3. Control-/right-click on Dock.app and choose “Show Package Contents”

4. Navigate to Contents/Resources/

5. Make a backup of all of the “scurve” .PNG files and then get rid of them from that folder (authentication may be required)

6. Copy the contents of the downloaded file into this folder.

Open up Terminal.app and type “killall Dock” (without quotes)

This is how mine looks at the moment, I have decided to go for old school matrix feel on my macbook : ) suits me down to the ground.

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Change Mac OS X Login Window

by rhodzy • on 18. Nov, 2009 • in iMac / Macbook, techy / geeky

Please note this is for Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6

Change the Login Screen Wallpaper Image in Snow Leopard 10.6 (also works for Leopard 10.5)

Launch the terminal and issue the following commands:

* cd /System/Library/CoreServices
* sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg DefaultDesktop_org.jpg
* sudo cp /path/of/image.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg

Of course, change /path/of/image.jpg to the path of the image file you want to use. Basically what you’re doing here is moving to a folder, backing up the old “DefaultDesktop.jpg” by renaming it, and then copying in the new image and naming it “DefaultDesktop.jpg” instead.

Edit: Don’t pay for apps that do this for you, the method above works great and it’s totally free, If you are like me you will change your desktop wallpaper quite frequently and also you can now change the boring login window within OS X : ) enjoy!

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For the next 10 days I will be giving away 10 Google Wave invites

by rhodzy • on 03. Nov, 2009 • in Google Wave, techy / geeky

I currently have 10 Google WaveGoogle Wave invites to give away, over the next 10 days I will be inviting 1 person a day to Google Wave.

All you have to do is simple RT the following as many times as you see fit, show me how much you want these invites.

The tweet:

RT @rhodzy retweet and make yourself known for a Google Wave Invite 10 days 10 invites http://rzy.me/9b

I recently got given 20 Google Wave invites and already invited ten friends but am now stuck at what to do with the remaining 10 invites, fancy a wave invite? Just RT the message above and make yourself known.

Simple : )

Get your Google Wave invite!

I will choose the best tweet and reply asking you to DM me your email address for an invite.

Tuesday’s Invite goes to @doctorsblog
Wednesday’s invite goes to @iyoungare
Thursday’s invite goes to @carlk
Friday’s invite goes to [no one wanted to play]
Saturday’s invite goes to @saracenrebel & @macflii & @NolanRoberson
Sunday’s invite goes to
Monday’s invite goes to
Tuesday’s invite goes to
Wednesday’s invite goes to
Thursday’s invite goes to

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Had my official invite from Google for Google Wave

by rhodzy • on 01. Nov, 2009 • in Google Wave, techy / geeky

Last night I checked my GmailGmail account like I do every couple of hours and noticed an email from the Google WaveGoogle Wave team, I have been using Google Wave for around a month now so wondered what it was and why I was sent it.

I checked out the email which was an invite to use the service….hmm ok I am already on it and have been for some time so why am I receiving this invite?

I just ignored it and went to sleep, this morning I got speaking to a friend on wave who said he has been given 20 invites for Google Wave to nominate his friends to use, why haven’t I got any I thought.

After a little chat I told him I had received an official invite from GoogleGoogle in my inbox and not sure why I got it, I think it may be I registered to be in the preview mode when it was launched, this is where it got interesting. He said he had got the exact same email and clicked the link, the next thing he knew was in his wave inbox he had 20 invites to send out!

I tried this and what do you know, I had a wave in my inbox saying I got nominate 20 friends to start using Google Wave! Yeeah!

Now I can finally get some friends on Wave.

I have already invited 3 who I know are interested so this is how many I have left!

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If you are already on wave and get an email from Google Wave, make sure you click the link, it just may give you some invites in your inbox to send out!

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