Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad Problems

If you are unable to type letters, numbers, or symbols, you may have Mouse Keys enabled on a keyboard that has no numeric keypad or Num Lock key.


It happen to me this week, I was entering a password which had numerical numbers and I was using the numerical pad on the right side of my keyboard and I kept getting the wrong password message. I used the numbers above the letters on the keyboard and they worked. 


So I thought I had a bad keyboard, until I did a simple search and there it was at Apple support, "Unable to type while Mouse Keys is enabled in Mac OS X" posted December 05, 2011. 


Seams like I wasn't the only one having this problem.


Quick fix:
  

1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
2. Choose Universal Access from the View menu.
3. Click the Mouse tab or in Lion Click Mouse & Trackpad
4. Click Off, next to Mouse Keys.  If you have already logged in as a different user where Mouse Keys is disabled, click On and then click Off next to Mouse Keys, to return the keyboard to normal operation.

Note: You may also check/uncheck the box for "Press Option key five times to turn Mouse Keys on or off". 

Note: If you are logged on to a user where Mouse Keys is already disabled, but your keyboard is not responding properly, toggle the radio buttons for Mouse Keys "On" then "Off" to restore normal functionality.

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Save Your Battery - On your Laptop

FlashFrozen maybe the answer to your short battery life. If you use Google Chrome, Firefox 4, and in Safari on 64-bit Macs, the Flash plug-in is pushed onto its own process. FlashFrozen lives as a tiny menu app, monitoring this process and will warn you (by turning red) if Flash is using a relatively significant amount of processor cycles. You can then go to FlashFrozen's menu to kill the Flash plug-in.

Any running Flash content is replaced with the broken plugin icon. Want to get Flash working again? Simply reload the page, or go to a new one. The next time Flash is needed, it'll come back to life. Flash ads or other Flash-related junk forces our processors to run hot and leech our precious battery fluids.

Flash animations and videos are among the top processor hogs on Mac OS X. A single poorly-designed Flash banner - even in an inactive window or tab - can suck up an entire processor core with its shady mortgage offers.

Your 5-hour battery life gets cut in half, your laptop runs hotter, and your legs cook to medium-rare.

That's where FlashFrozen comes into play.

FlashFrozen lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do. Probably blog or tweet or something.

And the new AutoKill mode actively stops Flash at all times. Turn this on and off at will to save even more battery life. 

iPad HD coming this Fall - it will run Final Cut Pro.

Our sources are saying that not only will there be a newly designed iPhone coming in the fall, but there is going to be a new entry into the iPad family as well. The new tablet is said to sport a double resolution screen (2048 x 1536), and will be dubbed the “iPad HD.” The idea behind the product is apparently that it will be a “pro” device aimed at a higher end market — people working in video and photo production possibly — and will be introduced alongside something like an iPad version of Final Cut or Aperture. This product is specifically said to not be the iPad 3, rather a complimentary piece of the iPad 2 line. 

How to Close Your iPad Apps

Since the introduction of Multitasking to iOS, you can now run more than one program on your iDevice at the same time. That doesn’t mean you always want them open though – so this  will show you how to close (or quit) any program running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

1. Start out by “double-clicking” the Home button on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The Home button is the one at the bottom of your iDevice, as illustrated in the image below.

2. This will bring up the ‘list’ of currently running Apps – by way of an “App bar” at the bottom of your screen. Tap and hold down on any one of the currently running Apps (even if it’s not the one you want to close).

3. You’ll notice that each App will start to “wiggle” and now has a small “minus sign” circle in the upper left corner. Tap the “minus sign” of the App you want to close/quit.

4. That App will now close. NOTE: This will close the App, not delete it. 

5. You can continue tapping the “minus signs” to close all open Apps, if needed.

6. That’s it!

Opena iPhone 4 case - Opens Bottles - Corona Time

The awesomeness you see above is an iPhone 4 case dubbed the Opena. It is the result of the work by Melbourne, Australia-based industrial designer Chris Peters and Rob Ward, a former Toolmaker.   The pitch?

 "The idea for The Opena came to us one afternoon when we were out having some beers. Some people have bottle openers on their keyrings, but many times you don’t always have your keys with you. But what is always with you? Your phone!"

The injection-moulded case is machined from solid blocks of ABS plastic while the bottle opener part is stamped out of food-grade stainless steel. The final production-spec Opena case will have a fine satin textured surface finish. They are raising $15,000 on Kickstarter to complete the project – it’s costly due to the tooling and 3D CAD technology involved. You can secure yourself one the first Openas for just fifteen bucks. We just hope opening bottles with this thing won’t scratch or break the iPhone 4′s glass back.

17 popular apps Steve Jobs just killed

Yesterday, just in case you were not online, was Apple’s annual WWDC event. The enhancements Apple made to iOS, Mac OS, and the entire Apple ecosystem were revolutionary. 


The following is a list of app categories, represented by one example, that will surely suffer from the new and integrated features in iOS 5.

1: Boxcar (Notification Apps)
2: Dropbox (Cloud syncing apps)
3: WhatsApp/Kik (Free messaging apps)
4: QuickPix (Camera- enhancing apps)
5: Instapaper (Read later apps)
6: Twitpic (not an app)
7: Remember the Milk (Reminder apps)
8: Photoshop Express (Photo Editing apps)
9: Echofon/Tweetdeck (Twitter apps)
10: Instagram (Photo Sharing apps)
11: Pulse (Reader apps):
12: iChromy (Browsers)
13: Wifi Photo (Wifi syncing apps)
14: Dictionary (Translation apps)
15: Gmail (Web app)
16: Find my iPhone
17: iTunes: “For the first time ever, you can now own an iOS device, without a computer. No more need for iTunes and all that wasted syncing time. You can set up the device wirelessly, back up your files wirelessly, and sync your device wirelessly. This is huge. I have two words for you, Apple. Good riddance. And here are some more words I have been waiting to say for a long time. Bye bye iTunes, hello wireless syncing. I don’t know you yet but I think I love you!”

iCloud will it be free or will it be $25/year

Nobody knows for sure what Apple has in store Monday when it introduces, iCloud, the company's newest cloud service offering. Will iCloud absorb MobileMe--Apple's calendar, e-mail, and contacts sync service -- or will it stand alone? Does Apple have plans for a new file sync feature that will seamlessly unify files on your iOS devices with your Mac or Windows PC?

Several pictures taken outside of Moscone West, where WWDC will be held, capture banners bearing the word "iCloud" together with an icon and a huge banner depicts Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud as being the three components adding up for WWDC 2011. Additional banners hung from the ceiling are still under wraps. In previous years, Apple has kept some of these banners under wraps until the Keynote presentation."

iWork now available for iPhone, iPod Touch

In addition to the iCloud announcement, Apple® today announced that its groundbreaking iWork® productivity apps, Keynote®, Pages® and Numbers®, are now available for iPhone® and iPod touch®, as well as iPad®. Created for the Mac® and then completely redesigned for iOS and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface, Keynote, Pages and Numbers allow you to create and share stunning presentations, beautifully formatted documents and powerful spreadsheets on the go. iWork apps are available on the App Store™ for $9.99 each to new users and as a free update for existing iWork for iPad customers.

“Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our powerful software make it easy to create, edit, organize and share all of your documents from iPhone 4 or iPod touch.”

Keynote, Pages and Numbers import and export documents from iWork for Mac and Microsoft Office; print wirelessly using AirPrint™; and include beautiful Apple-designed themes and templates. All iWork apps now include improved document management with thumbnail images that let you find your files quickly, organize them and group them into folders using intuitive gestures. From the Tools button in the toolbar, you can easily share any presentation, document or spreadsheet without leaving the app.

Keynote makes it easy to create impressive presentations, complete with animated charts and transitions. You can play your presentation in Full Screen view on the stunning, high-resolution Retina™ display or connect to a projector or HDTV for a large audience. Available separately, the Keynote Remote app allows your iPhone or iPod touch to control a Keynote presentation on any iOS device or Mac.

Pages is the most beautiful word processor ever designed for a mobile device and has everything you need to create amazing documents. Pages takes full advantage of the high-resolution Retina display on iPhone 4 and iPod touch so you can see all the detail and richness of your documents. To make working with text easy on iPhone and iPod touch, Smart Zoom automatically zooms in to follow the cursor while you’re editing and zooms back out when you’re done.

Numbers uses Multi-Touch gestures and an intelligent keyboard to help you create compelling, great-looking spreadsheets with over 250 easy-to-use functions, flexible tables and eye-catching charts. Just like Pages, Numbers takes advantage of the high-resolution Retina display and Smart Zoom to make working with text and cells on iPhone 4 or iPod touch easy.


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iSync is missing in Lion

The iSync application lets you automatically transfer information from iCal calendars and Address Book contacts on a Mac to your third-party mobile device.  For example, your third-party mobile phone device can be synchronized using iSync to display your latest events, and your contact list can always be up-to-date with your Mac.

Lion users are saying that iSync is nowhere to be found in Apple's next OS, along with FrontRow, Java runtime and Rosetta. 

From Mobileme to iCloud ...

Sparrow - The new gmail for Mac

Sparrow now supports General IMAP - Google Mail, Mobile Me, Yahoo, AOL and any custom IMAP account. Sparrow is a minimalist mail application designed to keep things simple and efficient. Nothing fancy just your email and nothing else.

• Full IMAP support - Sparrow now supports all IMAP accounts, including: Gmail, Mobile Me, Yahoo, and custom IMAP.
• Multiple accounts - Plug as many accounts as you want in Sparrow and seamlessly switch from one to the other.
• Conversations - Quickly flick through threaded mail conversations like never before.
• Labels - Create and edit Labels straight from within Sparrow. Easily keep a clean and tidy inbox.
• Quick replies - Replying your mail has never been so simple. Click, write and send in the same window.
• Formatting bar - Sparrow makes it easy to change font styles, format lists, and more.
• Inline attachments - Drag & drop images and documents straight into your mail.
• Notifications - Stay up to date with your mail stream on selected accounts
• Menu bar notifications - Always keep an eye on your inbox.

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Your machine has been infected with viruses that only a "MacDefender" app can remove. "Only" is the key word.

First Off:

You can limit your exposure to these kinds of scams and malware. The malware targets Safari, so follow these steps to protect your Mac:

1 - Launch Safari.

2 - Select Preferences > General from the Safari menu.

3 - Uncheck the "Open 'safe' files after downloading" box found in the area I've outlined in red below:

What a MacDefender attack looks like

MacDefender attacks your Mac from any site on which a hacker has installed a custom JavaScript. Visiting a web page that you believe is benign runs a JavaScript that redirects you to a malicious website. These sites are changing from day to day, so it's virtually impossible to block them.

Once your browser has been directed to the malevolent site, you'll see a page very similar to the one seen at the top of this post. It's telling you that your Mac is infected with viruses. As mentioned earlier, hackers are already changing the look of the malicious websites, so don't expect the page to look exactly like this.

Usually, just visiting the bad website downloads a file to your hard drive. That file is generally named something like BestMacAntivirus2011.mpkg.zip or anti-malware.zip, but the name may be different. Keep an eye on your downloads folder and keep it clean so that any new downloads that cause the folder to "bounce" will catch your attention, and you may catch that the malware file has been downloaded. It has an extension of .mpkg and a name of MacDefender, MacSecurity, or MacProtector. If you see this file in your downloads folder, put it into the Trash, empty the Trash, and you've just saved your Mac from the malware.

If your Mac is set up to automatically open "safe" files, you still have a chance to keep MacDefender off your machine. In this case, the file is unzipped and the installer package (a file with an .mpkg extension) launches. You're going to see a standard installer window that looks something like this:

Go Back and Delete...

GoFlex Satellite offers wireless hard drive for iPad's

Seagate introduced the GoFlex Satellite, a portable, battery-powered hard drive targeted for iOS devices. The external hard drive includes an iOS app for the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch that lets you browse and view multimedia files stored on the drive. Different than most external drives, the GoFlex uses WiFi to share its data with up to three WiFi-enabled devices at the same time. If you need faster transfers, an included cable lets you connect the drive to any USB 3.0 port. The battery-powered drive delivers five hours of continuous usage and 25 hours in standby mode. The drive ships in a single 500 GB capacity option (US$199) and is available for pre-order now from Seagate, Amazon and Best Buy. The drive should hit U.S. retail shelves in July and international retailers later this summer.

Twitter Blog - A better app for your mobile browser

We want you to be able to access Twitter no matter where you are; regardless of what device you use; or, whether you prefer to access Twitter through a mobile application or the browser. Today, we’re starting to roll out a new version of twitter.com for mobile devices. This web app allows us to provide a high-quality and consistent Twitter experience on high-end touchscreen devices – whether or not an official Twitter application is available. It was built from the ground up for smartphones and tablets, which have more advanced browsers that support the latest web technologies, including HTML5.

The app is fast – you can quickly scroll through your timeline, move between tabs and compose Tweets. It’s rich – it takes advantage of capabilities that high-end device browsers offer, such as touch gestures and a large screen. And it’s simple – it’s easy-to-use and has the features you’d expect from a Twitter application, including your timeline, @mentions, messages that you can read in conversation view, search, trending topics, lists, and more.

We are releasing this application today to a small percentage of users on iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android smartphones, and we’ll be rolling it out to additional folks with those devices in the coming weeks. You can use Twitter on your phone’s browser by going to twitter.com. If you don’t yet have access to the new web app, you’ll still be able to use the existing version of twitter.com for mobile browsers.

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ClamXav is a free virus scanner for Mac OS X

ClamXav is a free virus scanner for Mac OS X. It uses the very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end and has the ability to detect both Windows and Mac threats.

ClamXav can be setup up as passive or active: scan only the files you tell it to or choose to activate Sentry to monitor your hard drive and scan new files as they arrive.

Introducing ClamXav 2

• Clean, simple-to-use interface
• Clearly lists infected files
• Free virus definitions (usually updated daily)
• Save your favourite scan locations for easy access
• Customise the toolbar - or hide it entirely
• Send selected files to quarantine or trash with one click
• Specify files to exclude using plain text* or by using drag & drop from the Finder
• Specify schedules to update virus definitions and perform scans
• Use ClamXav Sentry to monitor your hard drive and scan new files as they arrive
• Use the bundled ClamAV engine or bring your own installation
• Compatible with 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 Snow Leopard

Skype to Fix Wormable Bug in Mac Software

Skype plans to push out an important update to its Skype for Mac software next week that will fix a big that could be leveraged by hackers looking to build a self-copying worm program.

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Details of the flaw haven't been made public, so it's unlikely that anyone is going to write a worm any time soon. But the bug is serious, according to Gordon Maddern, the Australian security researcher who reported the issue to Skype.

"The long and the short of it is that an attacker needs only to send a victim a message and they can gain remote control of the victims Mac," Maddern wrote in a blog post. "It is extremely wormable and dangerous."

According to Skype, any attack that exploited it would involve sending a maliciously crafted message to someone on the attacker's Skype Contact List. The flaw does not affect Windows or Linux users, Skype Chief Information Security Officer Adrian Asher wrote in a blog post on the issue.

Skype will push out an update to its Skype for Mac software early next week, which means that all Mac OS users should be offered the fix within days.

But security-conscious people can already download a "hotfix" that Skype released on April 14. However, to date, Skype hasn't pushed this patch out to its users. Because "there were no reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, we did not prompt our users to install this update," Asher said.

Mac users who want the fix now can click on Skype --> Check for Updates, or they can download the latest update from Skype's website. Otherwise they'll be prompted to upload the fix early next week.

Navigon iPhone 4 Design Car Mount Kit

Navigon's $50 iPhone 4 Design Car Mount Kit (also available in a model for the iPhone 3G and 3GS) is a car mount consisting of a windshield suction mount, a 12/24V car charger that plugs into your vehicle's accessory port, and a 4.9-foot USB dock-connector cable. (A separate Dashboard Mounting Pad is available for $10 if you'd rather attach the mount to your car’s dashboard.) The Design Car Mount Kit is available exclusively in the U.S. from BringMobi.

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i.TV The #1 TV and Entertainment App

If you're looking for an attractive and capable iPhone or iPad program guide. The free i.TV app for iPhone has been providing program guide and show information for TV addicts since October of 2008. i.TV is what you do while watching television. In addition to local television listings, i.TV also enables you to add shows to your list of favorites, learn about shows and celebrities on IMDb and Wikipedia, view related videos on YouTube, see which shows are available on Netflix, Hulu and iTunes, schedule a recording on your TiVo DVR, and read the  latest entertainment news. 

Click on this link to see more.

Apple's website hints at iWork '11

A small misstep by Apple in a MacBook Air image hints at the rumored iWork 11 suite. Located directly above the iPhoto image in the right sidebar is a reference to the rumored productivity suite. Rumors coming fast and furious last year pointed to a January launch of the iWork 11 applications along with the Mac App Store. While the OS X App Store debuted on time, the suite of applications which include Pages '11, Numbers '11 and Keynote '11 did not materialize.



The primary feature which is likely to be of the most use in iWork ’11 is the use of Lion’s AutoSave and Versions features.  As its name suggests, Versions records the evolution of a document as you create it’.  Therefore, if you wish to revert to an earlier version, Lion brings up a Time-Machine like screen to allow you to select which one you want.  Similarly, if you shut down an application, the AutoSave and Resume feature will automatically reopen where you left off.  It is likely that this will somehow be expanded and tightly integrated within iWork ’11.


The second feature relates to the AirDrop and sharing features.  AirDrop allows you to share files with anyone around you wirelessly, something that would be incredibly useful in iWork ’11.  In addition, recent rumors are suggesting that Apple will be relaunching MobileMe this year with a much greater emphasis on cloud storage and sharing.  It is likely that this will be a big component in iWork ’11 and another reason why we haven’t seen it up until now. Apple has already dipped into this with the iWork.com beta but we may see a lot more functionality when it finally launches.

Is iCloud the next MobileMe

News this morning is that Sweden - based Xcerion just sold its iCloud.com domain for 4.5 million and that Apple might be the buyer. Xcerion had previously sold a cloud-based storage service called iCloud, but it's been rebranded as CloudMe after the sale of the iCloud.com domain.


Speculation abounds that Apple is nearing the launch of a cloud-based music service that would allow people to store their music libraries on the Web for access anywhere they can connect to the Internet. Last month, Amazon.com launched its own digital music locker, allowing folks to store their tracks on the Web. The Amazon service also lets people store video and e-books. However, the service launched without licensing content from record labels, potentially putting it at a disadvantage when compared with services that have licensed content and can thus deliver a more well-rounded, feature-rich offering.

Sync Google Calendar with iCal

If you use Google Calendar, why not sync it to your Mac? Setting this up is very simple:

• Launch iCal
• Open iCal Preferences from the iCal menu
• Click the Accounts button
• Click on the + icon in the lower left corner of the window to add an account
• Enter your Google credentials and click on Create

You can keep the import settings on Automatic, although setting to Google seems to speed up the first time the calendars are synced. iCal will contact Google for you and grab all the information, there’s nothing else to do.

Now you can add events from iCal and the Mail app on your Mac, or Gmail and Google Calendar from anywhere else, and you’ll always have the same date and event information regardless of where or what you’re checking your calendar from. Don’t forget that you can add Google Calendar support to your iPhone or iPad too.