By default, you can watching YouTube videos on iOS devices.  But you unable to download it and watch later.

There is an apple app called MXTube that allows you to download YouTube video for offline viewing. Besides, it also allow you to stream the youtube video. But this cool apps is not available in apple store. This free apps only available in Cydia store. So, you will need to jailbreak your iOS devices in order to install MxTube from Cydia store.

To install MxTube

• launch Cydia store

• Search for MxTube

• After that, press on Install button to install it

Download Movies with MXTube

• It is very easy to use it. First you just Search for YouTube videos inside MXTube application.

• After that, just click on the video you want to download and select the quality.

If you have any others cool apps, please share with me

Zimbra’s collaboration suite can be accessed from the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad which will pull in calendar, contacts, and email. So, it possible to Zimbra Calendar with your IOS devices.

If you would like to sync just your Zimbra calendar, just follow below steps:-

Now, you should be ready to configure Google Sync on iPhone.

• On your iOS devices home screen tap “Settings” application.

• then Mail, Contacts, Calendars

• Under Accounts, select Add Account…Because Zimbra is not listed, we have to select Other

• Select Add CalDAV Account

Enter the following info:-

Server: your mail server URL. (Example: mail.techkaki.com)
Username: Your zimbra email (Example: contact@techkaki.com)
Password: your zimbra email password
Description: a description of your choosing

• After that, click Next
• You may be prompted with a warning message. Just “Accept” it.
• Finally, just select Done.
• Now your IOS devices will sync the calendar from your Zimbra server.

I just discover a cool trick on iOS devices. The cool trick that i going to share here is how to take a screen shoot of your iOS devices. It is useful when you want to show friend or colleague a snap shot of your iOS devices (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) to guide them do the setting of the new application.

To take a print screen of your iOS devices, just follow below steps:-

• First, go to the screen that you intend to snapshot or capture.
• Hold down the Home button and then press the power button.

• Once released, a flash screen with white background will appear together with camera capture sound, indicating that the screen has been captured successfully.
• To view the screen shoot that you capture just, just go to Photo icon, you will notice those images have been stored under Camera Roll, just like where you store photos captured using iPhone’s built in camera.

If you have any others tips and tricks about iOS devices, please share with me by leave your comment here

You can easily transfer Photos from your iOS devices (iPhone/iPad/iPod) to your Mac computer. The easiest way to transfer pictures from your iOS devices to your Mac is through Preview. You’ll need to connect your iOS devices to your Mac computer via USB cable. In this tutorial, i will going to use my iPod Touch to do it.

Below are the few simple steps to do it:-

• Launch Preview
• From the File menu navigate down and select “Import from iPod…”

• Select “Import All” to get all the pictures, otherwise individually select pictures and click ‘Import’

• By default, all the picture will import to  ~/Pictures/ folder. You can change the location by select the your preferable location from the drop down box. In this example, i will select the default location.
• After import, the photos show up on Preview so you can edit, crop or color correct if you’d like.

Besides using Preview, you can also transfer pictures to your Mac with iPhoto or Image Capture. If you have any other alternative to do it, just share with me by leave your comment here

I’m sure every iDevice (iPad, iPhone, iPod) user would like to access App Store download games or apps to play. To download Apps from App store, every user require to create an Apple ID, but most of them will stuck at credit card info portion. It is because most of user refuse to give away their credit card info. The following tutorial i going to show you how to create new Apple ID without a credit card.

To create an iTunes App Store account without a credit card please follow the steps below :-

Step 1: Download and install iTunes

For Windows users, just click HERE to download latest version of iTunes

Step 2: Open iTunes on your computer and click on “iTunes Store”.

Note: Please be ensure that you are not logged in to iTunes Store

Step 3: Once the iTunes Store has loaded, try to download any of the free apps. Eg: Facebook

Step 4: A pop-up windows will prompt you to login. Just click Create New Account

Step 5: You are directed to the “Welcome to the iTunes Store” screen. Click Continue

Step 6: Read the iTunes Store Terms & Conditions. Make sure you check the box next to where it says “I have read and agree to the iTunes Terms and Conditions.” if you agree with it.

Step 7: Fill in your details by enter your email address, create your password, continue to create and answer your security question, then enter your birthday. After that, Click Continue.

Step 8: Select None as the payment option and continue fill up the form.

Step 9: You’ll then see a screen that says ‘Verify your Account‘. Click Done and then check your email for a verification email from iTunes Store

Step 10: A verification email will send to your mailbox. You just need to login to your mailbox and verify the email to activate your account.

After this, you should able to use your new Apple ID to log in App Store. Done!!!:-)

DFU stands for Device Firmware Update. Normally people access DFU mode on their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch is to change the firmware on their device. DFU mode is not the same as Recovery Mode. DFU mode bypasses the current OS installed and allows you to upgrade, downgrade your OS or jailbreak.

Here are the simple steps to show you how to enter DFU Mode in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch:

• Power on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch if it’s in off state.
• Connect the device to computer via USB cable or dock.
• Run and open the iTunes program so that user will be notified when device enters DFU mode.
• Press and hold Power or Sleep-Wake and Home buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.

• Release the Power or Sleep-Wake button and continue holding the Home button for 10 to 60 more seconds.
• Wait until iTunes detects and recognizes the iDevice in DFU Recovery mode with notification message or system sound indicating hardware connect or disconnect.
• Now your iDevice is in DFU mode.

If you have recently Purchased new Apple ipad 2, i’m sure you will facing a problem on how to insert micro-SIM card to your new ipad2.

Here i going to show you how to do it. Just follow the below steps:

• Place the iPad 2 face down on a soft surface.
• Locate the SIM eject tool that came with your iPad 2 or alternatively you could use paper clip
• Insert the SIM eject tool into the hold in the SIM tray.
• Push firmly and push the SIM eject tool straight in until the tray pop out.
• Press firmly and push the tool straight in until the tray pops out
• Pull out the SIM tray to remove or install the micro-SIM card from the tray.

If you have another tips and trick on ipad2, please share with me via leaving your comment here.

If you suspect your Mac machine might have a hardware failure, you can use the bundled Apple Hardware Test that came with your Mac to do a diagnostics.

Apple Hardware Test is a diagnostic tool for detecting issues with your computer’s internal hardware components such as the logic board, memory, modem, video RAM, and Apple’s AirPort card. It does not check externally connected hardware components such as USB drives or Firewire devices; it does not check non-Apple devices such as PCI cards from other vendors.

Apple Hardware Test does not check your computer for issues with the Operating System (OS) or other software related issues such as application or extension conflicts.

These are 2 way to run the Apple Hardware Test

1) To run Apple Hardware Test from the internal hard drive

• Restart your computer while pressing and holding the ‘D’ key on your keyboard during startup.

Note: If Apple Hardware Test was removed by reformatting the drive, or if you cannot open it from your hard drive, you can still use Apple Hardware Test from the ‘iMac OS X Install Disc 1′ install DVD that came with your computer.

2) To run Apple Hardware Test from the Install DVD

• Insert the ‘iMac OS X Install Disc 1′ install DVD into the optical drive of your computer.

• Restart the computer while pressing and holding the ‘D’ key on the keyboard during startup.
• It takes a minute or so for Apple Hardware Test to start up and inspect your hardware configuration. While this is taking place, an icon appears on the screen:
  

• select your language and click the right arrow

• select your language and click the right arrow

• The Apple Hardware Test console appears. You can choose which sort of test or tests to perform:
  • To perform all of the basic tests, click the Test button or press the “T” key or the Return key.
  • To perform a more thorough diagnostic test, select the “Perform extended testing” checkbox under the Test button before you click the Test button.

• After the Hardware test, a fault code will be display on screen if there is a hardware fault. Once you get your fault,call Apple and tell them your fault code to get help from them.

Besides that, Apple Hardware Test also consists of a version of the Apple System Profiler, and allows you view your computer’s memory configuration, video card info, active communication ports, and basic system info such as your serial number, Boot ROM version, and model number.

Nowadays i facing some problem on my Apple Airport Extreme Wireless router. My Snow Leopard MacBook connection always drop left and right and i could not maintain the connection. It always reconnect by itself. It come worth for my Tiger and Leopard MacBook. The connection will lost and could not reconnect by itself until reboot the Machine.

I think this should be something happen with AirPort setting. So i try to check my AirPort Extreme setting via AirPort Utility. I tried to change the wireless channel.

Below are the steps that i did:-

1. Open Finder , Applications , Utilities , Airport Utility
2. Click Wireless
3. Change Channel from Automatic to 11 (If channel 11 does not work then try different channels)
4. Click Update
5. Allow router to restart and reconnect to wireless network.

After i change the Channel setting, i noticed that my Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger MacBook do not have any connection issue. So far, the connection quite stable.

If you have other way to solve this problem, please leave a comment and share your experience with me.

I would like to sync my iPod’s media file on Linux Machine, is it possible?  As i know iTunes does not support on Linux platform. I found 1 of the open source software called gtkpod. Gtkpod is a platform independent GUI for Apple’s iPod using GTK2. It allows you to upload songs and playlists to your iPod. It supports ID3 tag editing, multiple charsets for ID3 tags, detects duplicate songs, allows offline modification of the database with later synchronisation, and more.

Installing GTKPod

Before you start sync your iPod, you should install GTKPod 1st. I going to install GTKPod on my Ubuntu Machine.

• Launch your terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)
• type following command to install GTKPod

sudo apt-get install gtkpod

How to use GTKPod

First plug in your iPod into your desktop system using the iPod USB cable. The iPod should be mounted automatically, and you should find an iPod icon on your desktop.

Now start your gtkpod (on Ubuntu 10.10, it’s under Sound & Video> Sound > gtkpod iPod Manager)

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