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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sprint-iphone.jpg" alt="Sprint iPhone 5" title="sprint-iphone" width="350" height="301" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21068" /></p> <p>Sprint will be the USA’s only cell provider to offer unlimited data plans with the upcoming <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-5/">iPhone 5</a>. This latest news come from <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-09/sprint-is-said-to-plan-unlimited-data-with-iphone-5-to-stand-out-from-pack.html">Bloomberg</a>, who also confirms the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/23/iphone-5-com…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/find-ip-address-iphone-ipad.jpg" alt="Find an IP Address on the iPhone or iPad" title="find-ip-address-iphone-ipad" width="620" height="284" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20905" /></p> <p>Getting an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPads</a> IP address is fairly straight forward, and the instructions are the same for basically all versions of iOS. From the devices home screen:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on the “Settings” icon and navigate and tap o…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mac-to-windows-file-sharing.jpg" alt="Mac to Windows File Sharing" title="mac-to-windows-file-sharing" width="200" height="183" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21048" /> If you have a mixed network of Mac and Windows PC’s, chances are good that you’ll be wanting to move files between the two operating systems. The easiest way to share files from Mac OS X to Windows is to enable Samba support for a given user account on the Mac. </p> <p>Samba (SMB) is a separate sharing option within OS X’s File Sharing panel, here’s how to enable it and then how to connect…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/custom-launchpad-folder-name.jpg" alt="custom LaunchPad folder name with Emoji" title="custom-launchpad-folder-name" width="523" height="259" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21040" /></p> <p>You may know by now that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/20/emoji-mac-os-x-lion/">Mac OS X Lion has Emoji support</a>, which is easily accessible in most applications. This brings a wide range of icons and emoticons to the Mac, and some of them are perfect to customize the appearance of LaunchPad folder names. Here’s how:</p> <ul> <li…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/app-store-element-inpsector.jpg" alt="Mac App Store element inspector" title="app-store-element-inspector" width="620" height="538" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21026" /></p> <p>The Mac App Store has a hidden element inspector that lets you view the source of any page or element drawn within the App Store, letting you extract text or images, and even enter your own code into the console (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/access-icloud-beta-apps-via-javascript/">which can lead to all sorts of fun things</a>). This is probably most usef…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/take-screenshot-preview-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Capture Screenshots with Preview in OS X Lion" title="take-screenshot-preview-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="405" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21006" /></p> <p>Preview in OS X Lion now includes the ability to capture screen shots directly within the app, with the resulting images opening directly into Preview rather than saving to the Mac desktop. There are three different capture modes available that are almost identical to the standard keyboard shortcuts, here’s how to use them:</p> <ul>…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/macupdate-fall-bundle.jpg" alt="MacUpdate Fall Bundle of Mac Apps " title="macupdate-fall-bundle" width="620" height="347" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21010" /></a></p> <p>The latest <a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479">MacUpdate Bundle</a> has been announced, stuffing in 11 great Mac apps at a dramatically reduced price. Purchased individually these would cost $487, but the MacUpdate Bundle brings the combined price down to <a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479">$49.99…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/switching-desktops-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Switch between Desktops faster in Mac OS X Lion" title="switching-desktops-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20998" /></p> <p>Switching between active Desktops/Spaces in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> with the three fingered sideways swipe is quick, but an even faster method is by using the Control keys. </p> <p>The first option is to use the Control + Arrow keys, which is enabled by default. As you might expect, <st…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stop-apple-support-community-emails.jpg" alt="Stop Apple Support Community Emails" title="stop-apple-support-community-emails" width="620" height="293" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20985" /></p> <p>Rant time! Waking up this morning to 49 new emails from “Apple Support Communities Updates” was less than pleasant, especially considering I had already unsubscribed from all email notifications the night before – or so I thought. </p> <p>It turns out that <strong>you have to unsubscribe to email notifications from each individual thread&l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/shake-to-undo-macbook.jpg" alt="Shake to Undo on a Mac Laptop" title="shake-to-undo-macbook" width="500" height="229" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20972" /></p> <p>If you’ve used an iPhone or iPad much, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/08/21/shake-to-undo-and-redo-typing-in-iphone-30-plus-a-bunch-of-other-iphone-tips/">‘shake-to-undo’ feature</a> that lets you literally shake the device to undo an event or clear a text box. With a little help of a third party tool, we can <strong>bring shake to un…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="iPhoto Library" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iphoto-pictures-location.jpg" title="iPhoto Library" class="alignright" width="170" height="169" /> Need to move your iPhoto library? No problem, it’s easily done by a two-step process – first you need to physically move or copy the picture library to the new location, and then you have to tell iPhoto where the new location is. Here’s how to do this:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.1em;">Move the iPhoto Library</h2> <ul> <li>Open ~/Pictures/ and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/30/where-iphoto-pictures-are-located/">…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Deutsche_Telekom_logo.png" alt="Deutsche Telekom" title="Deutsche_Telekom_logo" width="500" height="91" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20945" /></p> <p>Hinting at an impending release of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-5/">iPhone 5</a> and anticipating significant demand, Deutsche Telekom has begun to offer reservations for EU customers who are interested in purchasing the next-gen iPhone, whenever it is released. </p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-05/deutsche-telekom-to-offer-iphone-5-reservation-a…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/internet-explorer-7-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="Internet Explorer 7 running in Mac OS X" title="internet-explorer-7-mac-os-x" width="620" height="496" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20915" /></p> <p>If you’re a Mac user that requires the usage of Internet Explorer under Mac OS X, you’ll find your choices are generally as follows: <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/20/run-internet-explorer-on-your-mac/">run IE on top of Mac OS X with Wine</a> which can be slow and buggy, dual boot Windows and Mac OS X which is a nuisance because it requites rebooting…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mac-mini-ipad.jpg" alt="Mac Mini and an iPad 2" title="mac-mini-ipad" width="620" height="412" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20896" /></p> <p>Digging through some of our reader <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> submissions, I realized we hadn’t posted a Mac Mini in a while, so here’s one to fill that gap. It’s a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive attached to an external 23″ Acer display, alongside an iPad 2. Elsewhere is an iPhone 4, iPod Shuffle, Apple Remote, and of course the …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/amazon-tablet.jpeg" alt="Amazon Tablet, the Amazon Kindle" title="Amazon Tablet, the Amazon Kindle" width="560" height="317" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20891" /></p> <p>Another <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> competitor is about to enter the stage this holiday season, this time from none other than Amazon. Apparently it’ll just be called “Amazon Kindle”, and while the name isn’t too groundbreaking the preliminary info and specs of the prototype <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/">th…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/redsn0w-0-9-8b7-jailbreak-for-ios-4-3-5.jpg" alt="redsn0w 0.9.8 b7 supports iOS 4.3.5 and iOS 5 beta 6 & 7" title="redsn0w-0-9-8b7-jailbreak-for-ios-4-3-5" width="539" height="248" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20879" /></p> <p>For those that follow along with all the jailbreak stuff and rely on third party Cydia tweaks, the iPhone Dev Team has released redsn0w 0.9.8b7 which is aimed at making the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/26/ios-4-3-5-jailbreak-with-redsn0w/">existing iOS 4.3.5 jailbreak</a> easier, but also adding support fo…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/any-font-terminal-mac-os-x-lion.gif" alt="Use any font in the Terminal of Mac OS X Lion" title="any-font-terminal-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="380" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20870" /></p> <p>The Terminal in Mac <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X 10.7</a> Lion enforces a new monospacing character width standard, which in laymen terms means you no longer have to use monospace fonts in the Terminal. You can now use any font you want, even Comic Sans like the screenshot shows up top (hooray?). </p> <p>&l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/10-commandments-of-steve.gif"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/steve-arrows.gif" alt="A picture of Steve Jobs with arrows and some assumptive text coming out of his head" title="steve-arrows" width="276" height="400" class="alignright size-full wp-image-20858" /></a> Newsweek’s The Daily Beast published an interesting infographic on Steve Jobs and his supposed playbook for managing the creative process at Apple. </p> <p>The “10 Commandments of Steve” are:</p> <ul> <li>Go for perfect</li> <li>Ta…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/stop-iphone-taking-2-pictures-hdr.jpg" alt="Stop iPhone HDR from taking and storing two pictures " title="stop-iphone-taking-2-pictures-hdr" width="620" height="345" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20845" /></p> <p>iPhone’s HDR mode takes great pictures, there’s no doubt about that. What is not so great for avid photographers is that when you have HDR mode enabled, the iPhone will store two versions of all photos you take, which at 5 megapixels a pop can quickly consume an iPhones available storage. For some situations, the two photos look so similar that…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/open-home-directory-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Open Home Directory in Mac OS X Lion as New Window Default" title="open-home-directory-mac-os-x-lion" width="469" height="529" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20839" /></p> <p>When you open a new window in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>‘s desktop, you’ll default to see “All My Files”, but if you’d rather access your home directory instead this is just a matter of changing a setting.</p> <ul> <li>From the Mac OS X desktop, pull down the “Finder” …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="600" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_5i1Dyj5k1A?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has started airing a new <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipad-2-commercial/">iPad 2 commercial</a> focused on learning and education, titled “Learn”, which is appropriate given the fall back-to-school season. The text of the ad is:</p> <blockquote><p>Are you curious about new ideas? Do you want to learn a new language? Or just a new word? Maybe you want to know more about anatomy? Or astronomy? You could master something new. Or uncover a hi…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/1000-free-minutes-att.jpg" alt="1000 Free Minutes from AT&T" title="1000-free-minutes-att" width="539" height="558" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20830" /></p> <p>Are you an AT&T customer? Want 1000 free rollover minutes? Of course you do, all you need to do is <strong>send a new text saying “YES” to 11113020</strong>. Wait a minute or so, and you’ll get the confirmation:</p> <blockquote><p>“Thank you for responding to our free 1000 bonus Rollover Minute offer. You will receive a confirmation message upon validatio…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ios-5-beta-71.jpg" alt="iOS 5 beta 7 IPSW downloads on dev center" title="ios-5-beta-7" width="551" height="223" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20824" /></p> <p>Pushing ever closer to a GM and the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-release-date-fall-2011/">final release date</a> in the near future, iOS 5 beta 7 has just been seeded to developers. The newest <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5-beta/">iOS 5 beta</a> can be downloaded as IPSW from the iOS Dev Center, or more easily, as an Over-the-Air (OTA) update, whic…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sync-app-data-with-dropboxappsync.jpg" alt="Sync App Data Across Macs with DropboxAppSync" title="sync-app-data-with-dropboxappsync" width="400" height="284" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20811" /></p> <p>If you’re one of the many Mac users who uses multiple Macs, say an iMac at home or work, and a MacBook on the go, you should get DropboxAppSync. </p> <p>This free utility syncs your ~/Library/Application Support/ folder across multiple Macs via the free Dropbox service, allowing you to have the exact same app setups, like preferences, plug…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/macbook-air-amazon-chief-almir.jpg" alt="MacBook Air in the Amazon with Chief Almir" title="macbook-air-amazon-chief-almir" width="620" height="422" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20798" /></p> <p>The middle of the Amazon Rainforest is probably the last place you’d expect to see a brand new MacBook Air, but that’s exactly what Chief Almir of the Surui people is using in his fight to protect the Amazon. The internet, a partnership with Google, and Apple’s flagship ultraportable MacBook Air, have enabled the chief to track the tribes territory and report i…
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