1. Download the Screenstagram screensaver from here, then Double click the icon once you have unzipped the file

2. Install the screensaver

3. Enter your Instagram details when it asks you

4. Browse to the screensaver within your settings and alter them if you need to.

It was developed by the Barbarian Group and you can find out more about it by going to there site www.barbariangroup.com

Transferring photos over wifi and for free couldn’t be easier with this free app.

You start it up and just input the IP address in your browser and you can browse the photos from your iPhone on your iPad or Mac using a web browser.

Download for your iPhone or iPad – itunes.apple.com/us/app/wifi-photo-transfer

I have used the Microsoft remote desktop app for a while, that was until it started having problems seeing my local drive making impossible to upload work to our windows server. I started to search the internet to find something else that would work for me, I found a application called Cord which is much easy to use and remembers a number of servers that I use. As with Microsoft’s remote desktop it would frequently forget which server I used and even if I saved the small file with the details for each server I still had to manually input the details each time I needed to log on.

Cord is so simple to use, I just set up the servers put in the details and when I need that server I just click connect. In the preferences you can save what to open and what resolution you want to view the external server. I have noticed it looks a little fuzzy compared to MS remote desktop, but I can live with that if it mean it remembers my local drives, and more importantly remembers my drives right down to a particular folder!

You can download Cord here.

Cord say this on there website -

“Macs interact well with Windows, and with CoRD the experience is a bit smoother. Great for working on the office terminal server, administrating servers or any other time you’d like your PC to be a bit closer without leaving your Mac. CoRD allows you to view each session in its own window, or save space with all sessions in one window. Scale session windows to whatever size fits you—the screen is resized automatically. Enter full screen mode and feel like you’re actually at the computer. The clipboard is automatically synchronized between CoRD and the server. For system administrators, CoRD creates a simpler workflow by allowing you to save server information, then quickly connect to that server by using HotKeys or the server drawer. This makes quickly connecting to a specific server easy, even when managing many servers.”

This looks great, just what I need to have my apple devices on my desk, sadly only a prototype by Andrew Kim. Hopefully someone will pick this up and make it.

www.minimallyminimal.com

My wife is always picking it up to search for something, usually something to do with shopping but other times just to find out the answer to something. This was always done before with my iPhone (still first generation and going strong), but now it’s the iPad that is picked up first. I have the wifi only one, and find this is fine for me as I tend to be always around a connection. I can see myself getting one of Three’s Mifi devices on pay as you go for my needs when out and about.

My son loves watching mickey mouse or other assorted Bob the Builder or Fireman Sam movies, he’s only 3 and can navigate his way around the apps and games with ease. Which does go to show you that the UI and responsiveness of the device is the best you can get.

I managed to use it for work doing UI concepts with an excellent app called iMockups there’s a great review with video at TUAW found I could mock them up then email the wireframes to myself .

Using it as a photoframe viewer always turns head’s, as does using it for either radio in the kitchen or recipe guides when cooking.

Here’s  is a quick list of apps I have been using.

1. Dropbox
2. Penultimate – not taking for the Moleskin fanatic
3. Adobe Ideas
4. Sorted – to-do’s
5. SimpleNote – notetaking
6. Explore flicker – handy for backgrounds
7. Accu Weather
8. GoodReader
9. Doc HD – doc editing
10. Early Edition – RSS reader that looks like a newspaper
11. Let’s Golf – game and way to addictive

Loads more and you do find yourself in the app store looking for great apps alot.

This is a handy idea, put your iPad in a bag and attach it to the back of your front seat in your car for the kids.

Read more on how to do it here – www.tuaw.com

Got my AppleTV two days ago and after a few initial problems is now working great. Will post my review screenshots and information on my experiences with the device.

After installing Snow Leopard (in haste) I haven’t found anything that exceptional to keep it going in the face of my main app not working, Adobe Photoshop CS3!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 crashes all the time, I just can’t keep up the workflow with this happening. Adobe don’t support CS3 on Snow Leopard and actually don’t tend to support older versions of there programs for newer operating systems. I have even tried the trial version of CS4 and that crashes too, so I’m left with no other option other than to downgrade Snow Leopard to Leopard!

I wish I had made a backup of Leopard before installing the newer Snow Leopard, I do have a copy but its four weeks since my last backup (let that be a warning to me and others on backing up before you install a new operating OS!!!).

Here’s what you do:

1. clone your drive as is right now – use either Super Duper of Carbon Copy Cloner, I have used the later numerous times and works great!

2. Pop in your Leopard Disc and do an “erase & install”

3. You use migration assistant to bring your apps and data over from the backup.

That should be it, I’m in the process of doing my back up so will update this post with any findings!

UPDATE: 8 September

Well it took almost three days trying to Leopard back. First you can’t use migration assistant to migrate your apps and files from Snow Leopard to Leopard. It will as in my case though try, and with over 250GB of data to transfer I tried three times, and each time it failed right near the end. The thing to look for is when you first start up migration assistant, if the user details you select say “0kb” then it won’t work, as soon as I tried migration assistant from my previous Leopard backup the user I selected stated the true amount of data, then I clicked transfer and one hour and forty five minutes later it was back!

I have my iTunes folder on another drive and when I purchased some new music I got an error where it wouldn’t download (err = 500) or simliar. I found the fix for this here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1843056

I’d like to report that CS3 and all my apps are once again working!! I’ll think I’ll wait now until everything is tested and working on Snow leopard before I upgrade.

Still have the laptop to fix, which isn’t going to be much fun as I don’t have a very recent backup of that…

Querious is a new MySQL database management application written from the ground up exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard. Unlike mindless Mac OS X versions of applications made for Windows or Linux, Querious is a stunning new app that is precise and easy to understand, giving you full control without getting in your way.

Viewing, searching, editing, importing, exporting, and structuring your data has never been so easy. With Querious, you can even open up raw CSV or Tab files in a spreadsheet-like document. Need to rename or reorder the columns? No problem. Searching for data is a breeze, and you can even convert the whole file to another format in a snap.

Very handy app, why not check it out www.araelium.com/querious

Apple creates a dedicated area to using you iPhone for all kinds of useful things.

www.apple.com

Found this handy link to ‘46 things for Business users using the iPhone‘.