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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/corona-untether.jpg" alt="Corona Untether for iOS 5.0.1" title="corona-untether" width="250" height="234" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25326" /> A new tool has been released that <em>untethers existing tethered jailbreaks</em> for iOS 5.0.1. This means that if you are using a tethered jailbreak right now, you can download a free package from Cydia to untether your jailbreak and never have to boot with redsn0w assistance again. The package is called Corona and it’s very easy to install.</p> <p>The current version of Corona untether is compati…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/untethered-jailbreak-ios-51.jpg" alt="How to Use Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1" title="untethered-jailbreak-ios-5" width="620" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25319" /></p> <p>The untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak has finally arrived, and it’s extremely easy to use. We’ll walk you through the process, but before proceeding make sure you meet the following requirements:</p> <ul> <li>Compatible device: iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, iPod touch 3rd gen, iPod touch 4th gen</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/untethered-redsn0w.jpeg" alt="Untethered redsn0w for iOS 5.0.1" title="untethered-redsn0w" width="175" height="171" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25309" /> The much anticipated <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/24/tethered-jailbreak-vs-untethered-jailbreak/">untethered</a> jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 has arrived in the form of Redsn0w 0.9.10b1, courtesy of the iPhone Dev Team and jailbreaker @pod2g. </p> <p>Redsn0w will provide an untethered jailbreak to the following iOS 5.0.1 devices: iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, iPod touch 3rd gen, iPod to…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/finder-browser-style-back-buttons-show-history.jpg" alt="Use Finder's back buttons as history browser" title="finder-browser-style-back-buttons-show-history" width="620" height="339" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25240" /></p> <p>The Back and Forward buttons in Mac OS X Lion’s Finder work much like their respective buttons in Safari or another browser, that is, they now track folder history. </p> <p>After you’ve visited several folders, <strong>click and hold on the Back button</strong> to display a pull-down menu of the past di…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/siri_icon.jpg" alt="Siri icon" title="siri_icon" width="84" height="84" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25301" /> An unofficial Siri port called Spire is now available as a free download for jailbroken iOS device owners. Spire is compatible with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th gens, although the sensitivity of microphones on iPad and iPod touch models may impact performance. Weighing in at about 100MB, downloading Spire will also grab the necessary Siri files from Apple via extracting the iOS <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/10/ios-5-0…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/option-click-expand-shrink-all-get-info.jpg" alt="Get Info" title="option-click-expand-shrink-all-get-info" width="565" height="434" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25234" /></p> <p>If you want quickly expand (or minimize) all of the detail sections within a Get Info window, just <strong>Option-click a single arrow</strong>. Instead of only expanding (or shrinking) that subheader section, all detailed sections will expand or shrink concurrently. </p> <p>This may be an addition to OS X Lion only, at the least I didn’t know about it…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/track-santa-iphone-ipad.jpg" alt="Track Santa with iPhone or iPad" title="track-santa-iphone-ipad" width="620" height="472" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25290" /></p> <p>Want to track Santa’s progress as he delivers presents around the world? You can follow Santa Claus on his Christmas eve deliveries around the globe right on an iPhone or iPad:</p> <ul> <li>Launch the “Maps” app and search for ‘Santa’</li> </ul> <p>That’s it! Santa’s current location will be shown on the world map. He moves around quick though so…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/macbook-christmas.jpg" alt="MacBook Christmas" title="macbook-christmas" width="620" height="412" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25269" /></p> <p>This <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> scene depicts what many of us will be doing this weekend; lounging around the Christmas tree with a warm drink and some Apple gear. On the left looks like a MacBook Pro 13″ and the right appears to be a white MacBook, both in the holiday spirit. </p> <p>I came across this great picture on <a href="http://www.flickr…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/falling-snow-ipad-app.jpg" alt="Falling Snow iPad & iPhone app" title="falling-snow-ipad-app" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25279" /></p> <p>Shorelines is a beautiful free app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch that generates winter scenes complete with falling snow, trees, and rolling fog. The trees are randomly generated, the snow gradually accumulates on the branches, and you can tilt the iPad or iPhone to affect the gravity and direction of the snow fall. Shaking the iOS device will even shake the snow off the trees branch…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/create-keyboard-shortcut-for-library-lion.jpg" alt="Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Library Access in OS X Lion" title="create-keyboard-shortcut-for-library-lion" width="620" height="386" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25254" /></p> <p>Using keyboard shortcuts are often the fastest way to navigate around the filesystem in Mac OS X, but OS X 10.7 Lion doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut to access the user library directory by default. Here is how to add your own keystroke combo to immediately open the ~/Library folder:</p> <ul> <li>Open Sy…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ipad.jpg" alt="iPad" title="ipad" width="620" height="233" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25248" /></p> <p>A new rumor claims that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipad-3/">iPad 3</a> will be released on February 24th 2012, Steve Jobs Birthday. The rumor appeared on <a href="http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201112230031">FocusTaiwan</a>, but the heart of the story appears to have been relayed from a different Taiwanese paper, the Economic Daily News:</p> <blockquote><p>A local Chinese-langua…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ichat-matte-lion.jpg" alt="iChat Matte in Mac OS X Lion" title="ichat-matte-lion" width="620" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25221" /></p> <p>iChat Matte is a popular mod for iChat that removes the bubble aqua style text blocks and changes them to a flatter matte. The tweak works by replacing a few image files, but the official version hasn’t been updated for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> and an <a href="http://cl.ly/0L1J0M0L0W3b1C1h360x">unofficial version</a> floating around has the …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/iphone-home-button.jpg" alt="iPhone Home Button" title="iphone-home-button" width="620" height="216" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25213" /></p> <p>From time to time, the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> Home button can become less responsive to clicks, and pressing the button will either result in a delay, lag, or sometimes complete unresponsiveness requiring multiple clicks. While this could be symptomatic of a hardware issue caused by moisture damage or dropping the phone, sometimes you can fix the response proble…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/fireplace.jpg" alt="Fireplace" title="fireplace" width="620" height="459" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25202" /></p> <p>Just in time for the holidays, Fireplace is a totally awesome interactive 8-bit fireplace app that fills your Macs screen with a pixelated fireplace. But don’t stop there, you can add logs, roast hotdogs and marshmallows, and even burn papers and photos. Each log ‘burns’ for about 30 minutes of pixel torching glory, and although it won’t heat up the room, it’s another great <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">retro<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/increase-size-of-desktop-wallpaper-thumbnails.jpg" alt="Increase the size of desktop wallpaper thumbnails in Mac OS X Lion" title="increase-size-of-desktop-wallpaper-thumbnails" width="620" height="267" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25193" /></p> <p>Using the familiar pinch and spread gesture in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a>, you can adjust the thumbnail size of desktop wallpaper previews within System Preferences. A spread gesture will increase the thumbnail size, and a pinch gesture will shrink the wallpape…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/unlock-ultrasn0w.jpg" alt="unlock iOS 5.0.1 with ultrasn0w" title="unlock-ultrasn0w" width="331" height="330" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25185" /> Ultrasn0w 1.2.5 has been released and it allows for unlocking some iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 models with older modem firmware versions. Compatible baseband is as follows:</p> <ul> <li>iPhone 4: 01.59.00</li> <li>iPhone 3GS: 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.13.04, 06.15.00</li> </ul> <p>You can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/10/how-to-check-iphone-firmware-and-baseband-ve…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/gift-this-app.jpg" alt="Gift This App in iTunes App Store" title="gift-this-app" width="620" height="438" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25172" /></p> <p>Want to give someone an iOS app as a gift this holiday season? You can gift apps directly from the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, iPod touch, or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>, without ever touching a computer and without the need for purchasing an iTunes gift card. This makes for a perfect last minute Christmas shopping or birth…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/hidpi-os-x-10-7-3.jpg" alt="Open in HiDPI mode " title="hidpi-os-x-10-7-3" width="209" height="122" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25161" /> The developer betas of Mac OS X 10.7.3 show new evidence of retina display Macs, according to a recent find by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/21/os-x-10-7-3-beta-reveals-active-work-on-retina-display-support-for-mac/">MacRumors</a>. The discovery points to some applications “Get Info” dialog box displaying an option to “Open in HIDPI mode”, although checking the box doesn’t appear to do anything yet, and th…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/go2shell-opens-terminal-from-finder.jpg" alt="Go2Shell opens new terminal from a Finder window" title="go2shell-opens-terminal-from-finder" width="620" height="243" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25152" /></p> <p>Go2Shell is a free Finder toolbar add-on that creates a new Terminal window from the current directory of any desktop folder in Mac OS X with a click of a button. This is similar to the services option that can be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/07/open-a-selected-finder-folder-in-a-new-terminal-window/">added to the right-click conte…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mac-os-x-llion-10-7-3-11D36.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 11D36" title="mac-os-x-llion-10-7-3-11D36" width="523" height="270" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25136" /></p> <p>A new developer build of Mac OS X 10.7.3 has been released by Apple as build 11D36. This is the third developer version of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7-3/">OS X 10.7.3</a> and is available for registered Mac Developers to download through the dev center with no known issues. </p> <p>Listing no known issues could suggest public availability …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/batch-resize-images.jpg" alt="Batch Resize Images in Mac OS X" title="batch-resize-images" width="620" height="299" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25125" /></p> <p>Need to resize a ton of pictures? Instead of downloading a third party application or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/12/16/batch-resize-images-on-mac-with-preview/">using Preview</a>, you can use Automator to handle the entire operation, even renaming the images to indicate they have been resized. Automator is included in every OS X installation’s /Applications/ folder and is si…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/two-finger-up-swipe-in-mission-control-show-app-windows.jpg" alt="Two finger upward swipe in Mission Control shows app windows" title="two-finger-up-swipe-in-mission-control-show-app-windows" width="620" height="375" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25117" /></p> <p>If you have a lot of app windows open in Mission Control, hover over a group of windows and use a two finger swipe upwards to expand and zoom on just those windows. This makes easier to differentiate windows and select one that may be obscured behind others in the default view. </p> <…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/firefox-9.jpg" alt="Firefox 9" title="firefox-9" width="620" height="370" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25102" /></p> <p>Firefox 9 has just been released for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The latest version brings some significant boosts to javascript performance, some theme fixes, and a variety of other under-the-hood enhancements. Probably the most noticeable addition will be for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> users though, with the addition of two-fingered swipe gesture navigation.</p> <h2 style="…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/growl-fork.jpg" alt="Growl Fork" title="growl-fork" width="620" height="381" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25092" /></p> <p>Growl is a popular notification system for Mac OS X that throws up those fading pop-up windows in the upper right corner of the screen. It’s a nice add on to OS X, and tons of other applications use Growl as their notification system. </p> <p>Then <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a> came out, and Growl went from being open source to closed, and now it costs $2 to get the newes…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/christmas-icons.jpg" alt="Christmas Icons" title="christmas-icons" width="620" height="105" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25082" /></p> <p>If you’re a last minute shopper like me, the next few days are when everything gets done. We’re quickly closing in on the final eligible days to receive free shipping by Christmas Eve from Amazon, so with that in mind we’ve compiled a list of some great Mac gift ideas and deals, whether you are shopping for a loved one or just getting yourself something nice for the holidays. </p> <p>RAM and SSD upgrades…
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