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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/show-files-to-be-installed-mac.jpg" alt="Show Files and Locations of Files to be Installed in Mac OS X" title="show-files-to-be-installed-mac" width="612" height="290" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21564" /></p> <p>In nearly all Installer and Package apps, you have the option to <em>view exactly what files will be installed</em> and where the installer wants to place them. This is an often overlooked feature of the OS X Installer, and it you’ve ever wondered what and where on earth that random .pkg wants to throw its contents, this will show…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cortex-a9-quad-core-cpu-xcode.jpg" alt="" title="quad-core-ARM-cpu-xcode" width="620" height="409" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21555" /></p> <p>Apple looks to be experimenting with quad-core ARM CPU’s, possibly for future iPhone, iPad, and even MacBook Airs, as references in Xcodes default compiler reveal. This was first discovered by <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/support-for-quad-core-arm-cpu-shows-up-in-apples-xcode-but-why.ars">ArsTechnica</a>, who proposes three possible scenarios for why the CPU support exists:<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dark-menu-bar-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="Dark menu bar for Mac OS X" title="dark-menu-bar-mac-os-x" width="604" height="129" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21536" /></p> <p>If you’ve been using Nocturne to get the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/25/black-menu-bar-mac/">black menubar</a> in Mac OS X but don’t care for any of the features outside of the darker menu bar, check out MenuBarFilter. All it does is turn the Mac menu bar color into a dark black gradient, closely resembling iOS.</p> <p><a href="http://eece.github.com/MenuB…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mount-hidden-partition-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="View and mount a hidden partition in Mac OS X" title="mount-hidden-partition-mac-os-x" width="620" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21524" /></p> <p>By enabling a hidden debug feature in Disk Utility, you are able to both view and mount hidden partitions on hard drives in Mac OS X. Hidden partitions include things like Linux swap, Windows Recovery drive, and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a>‘s Recovery HD, and once they’re mounted they can be edited or formatted…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mac-os-x-10-7-2-11c62.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.7.2 build 11C62 suggests release alongside iOS 5 and iCloud" title="mac-os-x-10-7-2-11c62" width="452" height="239" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21516" /></p> <p>Mac OS X 10.7.2 build 11C62 has been released to developers today with no known issues. The second update to OS X Lion primarily focuses on iCloud support, suggesting the software update will likely be released alongside iCloud, iOS 5, and whatever iPhone is <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/21/iphone-5-launch-date-october-4/">announced at t…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/iphone-4s-otterbox-case.jpg" alt="iPhone 4S Otterbox case" title="iphone-4s-otterbox-case" width="518" height="250" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21502" /></p> <p>At least one of the devices to be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/21/iphone-5-launch-date-october-4/">launched by Apple on October 4th</a> looks to be named ‘iPhone 4S’ after all. The proof comes in the form of several pictures of an Otterbox case, clearly showing the iPhone 4S monicker printed on the packaging, which were discovered and posted to Twitter by jailbreaker <a …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/keyboard-illumination-lock.jpg" alt="Keyboard Illumination Lock icon " title="keyboard-illumination-lock" width="620" height="297" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21491" /></p> <p>Can’t turn on your MacBook Pro or Air’s keyboard backlighting? No it’s probably not broken, it’s most likely the light sensor. If the ambient light sensor on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models detects too much light, the keyboard illumination will disable itself and refuse to turn on, showing the above locked image instead. </p> <p>You can force the keyboard illumin…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ipad-vending-machine.jpg" alt="iPad vending machine" title="ipad-vending-machine" width="620" height="440" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21497" /></p> <p>Would you buy an iPad from a vending machine? Never thought about it? Me neither, but pushing aside the old <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/10/ipod-vending-machines/">iPod vending machines that</a> have been around a while comes an all new iProduct vending machine, this time including iPad 2. Of course there are also iPod touches, shuffles, AppleCare, and assorted other tech products, …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/itunes-library-itl.jpg" alt="Fix iTunes Library.itl Error" title="itunes-library-itl" width="148" height="154" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21471" /> We recently showed you how to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/13/delete-itunes-in-mac-os-x-10-7-lion/">delete iTunes</a>, which is typically done for the purposes of downgrading iTunes to a previous version. If you’ve done this and you are now encountering an error about “iTunes Library.itl” not being readable due to it’s creation by a newer version of iTunes, here’s the fix via <a href="http://www.…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stop-desktop-icons-changing-place-reboot-mac.jpg" alt="Stop desktop icons arrangement from changing placement after a reboot in Mac OS X" title="stop-desktop-icons-changing-place-reboot-mac" width="619" height="377" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21479" /></p> <p>If you spend time customizing the desktop icon placement, it can be pretty annoying to discover that after each restart of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, the icons seem to take on a mind of their own and rearrange themselves, usually changing their pos…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lock-dscl-utility-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="lock the dscl utility in os x lion" title="lock-dscl-utility-os-x-lion" width="150" height="216" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21459" /> We recently wrote about the dscl utility and how it allows a Mac OS X Lion user to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/19/change-password-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-without-knowing-current-password/">change a password without knowing the existing password</a>. The lack of required admin authentication has since been widely reported as a bug, and a small Security Update will likely be issued…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/tim-cook-iphone-5.jpg" alt="Tim Cook and iPhone 5" title="tim-cook-iphone-5" width="620" height="399" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21452" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-5/">iPhone 5</a> will be announced on <strong>Tuesday, October 4</strong>, at an event led by Apple CEO Tim Cook. This apparent confirmation of a launch date comes from the usually very reliable <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110921/apple-to-hold-special-event-on-october-4/">AllThingsD</a>, a branch of the Wall Street Journal,…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stop-safari-auto-refresh-lion.jpeg" alt="Stop Safari from Auto Reloading Web Pages in OS X Lion" title="stop-safari-auto-refresh-lion" width="510" height="109" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21438" /></p> <p>A new addition to Safari 5.1 in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a> is that web pages auto-refresh if they are left inactive for a period of time. The feature can seem unnecessary and even annoying, but there’s no clear preference option to disable reloading of pages. Thankfully, <a href="http://stormchil…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fan-noise-overheating-mac-os-x-lion.jpeg" alt="Fix fan noise and overheating with Mac OS X Lion" title="fan-noise-overheating-mac-os-x-lion" width="176" height="170" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21432" /> A fair amount of users are reporting that upgrading to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> has caused their Macs to run hotter in general and their fans to constantly engage, creating excessive and unusual fan noise. For users who have just performed an upgrade from 10.6, this is <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/09/…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/apple-customer-satisfaction.jpg" alt="Apple tops customer satisfaction survey, again" title="apple-customer-satisfaction" width="532" height="344" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21421" /></p> <p>Apple’s customer satisfaction is at a new all time high, topping it’s own previous record but also continuing their dominating lead in the overall PC industry. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (<a href="http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=262:press-release-september-2011&catid=14&Itemid=287">ACSI</a…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/convert-upper-case-to-lower-case.jpg" alt="Convert Upper Case to Lower Case Text from Anywhere" title="convert-upper-case-to-lower-case" width="620" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21409" /></p> <p>Few things are more annoying than reading text that is ALL IN UPPERCASE, but with the help of text transformation tools, we can instantly convert that obnoxious uppercase text into lowercase (or vice versa, if you really want to…). </p> <p>For the purpose of this example, we’ll use TextEdit. You can either do this with an existing docu…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/change-password-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Change password of current user in Mac OS X Lion" title="change-password-mac-os-x-lion" width="200" height="288" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21400" /> There are <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/">a few ways to reset a password in Mac OS X 10.7</a> but both of those methods require reboots. This approach is different, it lets you <strong>change the password of the user currently logged into Mac OS X Lion</strong>, <em>without knowing the user password</e…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>Whether you just use OS X’s Mail.app or an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, the Address Book in Mac OS X stores a lot of vital information that you don’t want to lose. If you’re going to be making any changes to how you sync this data, adjustments to where and how it’s stored, or just want to move it to another Mac, here’s how to back it up. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Exporting from Address Book</h2> <p>By far the easiest way is to just export the archive from Address Book.app itself:</p> <ul> <li>Go to the File menu scroll down to Export, then choose ‘Address Book Archive’</li> &…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/redsn0w-0-9-9-b1.jpg" alt="Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 jailbreak utility" title="redsn0w-0-9-9-b1" width="561" height="187" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21383" /></p> <p>A new version of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/redsn0w/">redsn0w</a> jailbreak tool has been released by the iPhone Dev Team, mostly as a feature enhancement update. Versioned as 0.9.9b1, the release includes a variety of new features, including:</p> <ul> <li>Automatic device and firmware detection via DFU mode</li> <li>Grabs some IPSW versions f…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/apple-money.jpg" alt="Apple money" title="apple-money" width="620" height="242" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21374" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/06/what-if-you-had-bought-apple-stock-instead-of-apple-hardware/">Apple stock</a> surpassed $400 a share again last Friday, bringing their market cap to $371.30 billion. That $371,300,000,000 is worth more than each of the following things:</p> <ul> <li>All 32 Eurozone Banks</li> <li>The Entire Economy of Singapore</li> <li>All of the …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/recover-deleted-voicemail-iphone.jpg" alt="Recover deleted iPhone voicemail messages " title="recover-deleted-voicemail-iphone" width="320" height="480" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21357" /> If you accidentally deleted a voicemail on an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, you can usually retrieve these messages by looking through a somewhat unknown “Deleted Messages” list. Here’s how to access this:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on Phone and “Voicemail” as usual</li> <li>Scroll all the way to the bottom of the …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/macbook-pro-cinema-display.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro docked to an Apple Cinema Display" title="macbook-pro-cinema-display" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21360" /></p> <p>This reader submitted minimalist <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> comes from Danny B, it’s a MacBook Pro 17″ turned into desktop workstation thanks to the connected Apple 24″ Cinema Display, wireless keyboard, and Magic Mouse. </p> <p>Thanks for sending this in Danny!</p> <p>You can submit your ow…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/chrome-full-screen-lion.jpg" alt="Google Chrome Full Screen Support comes to OS X Lion" title="chrome-full-screen-lion" width="573" height="93" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21352" /></p> <p>Google’s Chrome browser has been updated to support two native OS X Lion features; <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/10/full-screen-keyboard-shortcut-mac-os-x/">full screen support</a> and overlay scrollbars. These features have been available in the unstable developer channels but now they’re finally released in the stable build, meaning you no longe…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enable-airdrop-unsupported-mac.jpg" alt="Enable AirDrop on Unsupported Macs Running OS X 10.7" title="enable-airdrop-unsupported-mac" width="618" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21343" /></p> <p>AirDrop is the extremely easy local peer-to-peer file transfer tool that is built into <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a>, it allows you to easily send and receive files wirelessly over a network just by dragging and dropping. It’s a great addition to Lion, but it’s not supported on all Macs (some 2008 model…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/portal-free-download.jpg" alt="Portal is a free download for Mac and PC" title="portal-free-download" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21333" /></p> <p>Just in time for some weekend fun, you can download the wildly popular physics-puzzle-shooter game Portal for free from Steam until September 20.</p> <p><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1">Download Portal from Steam by going here and clicking the big green “Install Game” button</a></p> <p>Portal runs in both <…
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