One of the new features of iOS4 is custom wallpaper on the home screens. This idea came from the iPad, which on the iPad looks amazing. This is because there is more screen real estate. On the iPhone however, the icons are much closer together and it starts to look a bit cluttered.

I’ve found that reverting back to black is actually quite visually appealing.

Also, I’ve made a custom logon type lock screen. It can show your avatar, your name and “if found” details.

Download the PSD package
Download the classic black wallpaper

Cluttered home screen:

Classic home screen:

Custom logon screen:

Just found this awesome menu bar tool which lets you quickly swap the graphics card on your Macbook Pro. It lets you swap say from onboard Intel graphics to dedicated nVidia, or vice versa.

It should work with most Macbook Pro.

http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/

Why is this awesome? Because Google are dropping a locked in piece of software (which is bug ridden, and insecure, and has extremely poor performance on anything but Windows).

Just check out Google maps on iPhone Safari:

It supports dragging around to pan, and pinch to zoom. I guess it’s using canvas, html5 goodness.

New service put.io is a commercial service which has allows you to download torrents using their servers, store the files and then later download them to your computer, or stream them to your iPhone, without a trace.

Obviously you must agree to the terms and conditions, which probably have some sort of ass-covering legalities such as the DMCA.

The service is extremely fast. Collecting an 8gb torrent took only about 10mins. Then downloading it took me about 2 hours. The service also has some sort of realtime transcoding going on too. It can convert most types of video/audio to suite streaming.

The servers are based in The Netherlands, security and privacy is pretty tip top. On their website they state:

Your files are your business. We do not log your location, isp or ip address.

SSL can be configured in the users account panel.

Prices start at $US4.90 for 10gb storage and 10gb bandwidth.

And… There’s a Boxee plugin too.

via Yell

Nice UI for Quicksilver from Ben Cochran.

http://code.bencochran.com/bezelhud/

I’ve found this really handy jQuery plugin for TextMate.

It’s originally written by kswedberg on github, but i’ve compiled it and zipped it for ease of use.

When you plug in a mouse to a Macbook/Pro/Air sometimes you want to ignore the trackpad because, well, you have an external mouse and don’t want to flick around with the trackpad.

Apple have changed this from being in either Mouse/Trackpad under System Preferences, to being in Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad.

Great stuff, Apple.

Now that all UK mobile providers are capping all unlimited data plans to <1gb, this data monitor might be useful. And it's pretty good looking too.

Free, http://bjango.com/apps/consume/

Stupid SanDisk make it so difficult to remove their on board software which comes preloaded on the Cruzer range.

I bought a 16gb Cruzer and have had big issues trying to format the disk in NTFS/FAT32. Each time Windows would only allow me 200mb.

Download the removal software (Windows only) to get rid of this nasty software, once and for all!