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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/open-finder-from-launchpad.jpg" alt="Open Finder from LaunchPad" title="open-finder-from-launchpad" width="614" height="252" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20459" /></p> <p>Want to open the Finder and your standard desktop <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> windows from LaunchPad? You can, but you have to drag the Finder application into LaunchPad. Here’s how to do this:</p> <ul> <li>From the Mac OS X desktop, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up “Go To Folder” and enter the following path:</li>…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/access-use-USA-app-store-outside-us.jpg" alt="Access and download USA App Store apps from outside the US" title="access-use-USA-app-store-outside-us" width="502" height="260" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20519" /></p> <p>A common complaint about free app giveaways is that they’re often constrained to the USA based iOS App Store, in other words if you’re outside of the US you don’t get in on deals like the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/19/rage-hd-is-free-for-ipad-and-iphone/">recent Rage HD giveaway</a> and the ongoing myriad of other…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/hp-webos.jpg" alt="HP WebOS" title="hp-webos" width="620" height="500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20501" /></p> <p>If you missed out on the $99 HP TouchPad deals that seem to have the entire tech web in a frenzy, don’t forget that you can experience WebOS for free right now on <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, just by using the SDK’s emulator. You’ll need to download VirtualBox and then the WebOS SDK which comes as a preconfigured virtual machine, but then you can toy around in WebOS and get a feel for the (po…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/droid-vs-ios.jpg" alt="Droid vs iOS users " title="droid-vs-ios" width="620" height="175" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20491" /></p> <p>Wonder what differences between iOS vs Android users are? What about their personality traits and preferences in things like fashion, food, media consumption, technology, and politics? Or how about general life experience and spending habits? </p> <p>Stereotypes abound in this giant iOS vs Android user profile infographic, and it covers a wide variety of data that spells out the differences between the ave…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/launch-terminal-from-recovery-hd.jpg" alt="Launch Terminal from the Recovery Disk in Mac OS X Lion" title="launch-terminal-from-recovery-hd" width="615" height="228" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20127" /></p> <p>Whether you made a Lion recovery drive with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant-tool-makes-external-lion-boot-recovery-drives/">Apple’s Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Tool</a> and you’re booting from that or you’re just relying on the Recovery HD partition, this technique works.</p> <h2 style…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fix-spelling-autocorrect-language-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Fix spelling autocorrects language priority in Mac OS X Lion" title="fix-spelling-autocorrect-language-mac-os-x-lion" width="615" height="222" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20479" /></p> <p>Is autocorrect in Mac OS X Lion driving you nuts? We’ve received a fair amount of complaints regarding Mac OS X Lion’s spelling autocorrect feature erroneously correcting things like British English words to American English words, and changing the spelling of some words like “colour” to “color” and so on. The…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Apple-Mac-Store.jpg" alt="Mac App Store" title="Apple-Mac-Store" width="620" height="248" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20244" /></p> <p>Reading App Store reviews and opinions from a variety of websites only does so much, if you really want to know what an app is like, you have to use it yourself. Some apps offer light versions as free downloads on the App Store, but what about the others? What if you’re on the fence about upgrading to OS X Lion? </p> <p>The easiest way to try out any Apple software is by just <em>visiting an Apple St…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/use-emoji-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="use Emoji in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" title="use-emoji-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="302" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20468" /></p> <p>Emoji are extremely popular picture characters and emoticons that are an integral part of Japanese tech culture and communication, but now with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a> the Emoji character set is available to everyone on a Mac regardless of your localization settings. Some of the characters are pretty funny so even if you have no in…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/vt220-mac-pro.jpg" alt="Mac Pro and VT220" title="vt220-mac-pro" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20162" /></p> <p>I’m not sure this qualifies for a traditional <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> post but it’s neat enough that it has to be posted. You’re looking at a Mac Pro with an old school VT220 connected to it functioning as a terminal, as you can see it’s working just fine too, running the ‘top’ command to show off the Mac Pro’s stats.</p> <p>If this strikes your fancy, y…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/rage-hd.jpg" alt="Rage HD" title="rage-hd" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20437" /></p> <p>Rage is a first person shooter for iOS where you blast your way through mutants in some post-apocalyptic disaster, it’s fairly similar to classics Doom and Quake, and that’s because ID Software created them all. </p> <p>Both versions of the game, Rage and Rage HD, are available free for a limited time, with the HD version bringing higher resolution graphics and textures to iPhone 4, the latest iPod touch, and the iPad and iPad …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ios-5-beta-6.jpg" alt="iOS 5 beta 6" title="ios-5-beta-6" width="553" height="226" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20445" /></p> <p>Apple has released iOS 5 beta 6 for developers to access through either OTA updates on the iOS device itself, or through the iOS Dev Center. Supported hardware continues to be all versions of iPad and iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and the last two generations of iPod touch.</p> <p>OTA updates are by the easiest method to get beta 6, accessed from tapping to Settings > General > Software Update, but you can …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lion-tweaks.jpg" alt="Lion Tweaks" title="lion-tweaks" width="620" height="398" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20025" /></p> <p>Tired of tweaking <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> on your own with all the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/defaults-write/">defaults write commands</a>? Don’t want to manually <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/23/change-ical-leather-interface-back-to-aluminum-in-os-x-lion/">change iCals leather look back to aluminum</a>? What about older tips like turning the…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/disable-spelling-auto-correct-safari1.jpg" alt="Disable Spelling Auto Correct in Safari under Mac OS X" title="disable-spelling-auto-correct-safari" width="620" height="142" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20432" /></p> <p>If you <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/28/turn-off-auto-correct-in-mac-os-x-lion/">disabled spelling auto-correct</a> in Mac OS X Lion but find yourself still being autocorrected as you type various words in Safari, that’s because Safari 5.1 has a separate spelling and grammar engine than the core OS. Here’s how to turn…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>As if there was any doubt that Apple is the innovator here, here’s an amusing graphic showing the design of tablets before and after the launch of the iPad. </p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tablets-before-and-after-ipad.jpg" alt="Tablets before and after the iPad" title="tablets-before-and-after-ipad" width="580" height="812" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20422" /></p> <p>Similar graphics exist comparing the iPhone and smartphones too, <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/18/tablets-before-after">DaringFireball</a> links to a few comparing …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/skitch-simple-mac-image-editor-free.jpg" alt="Skitch is a simple free Mac image editor" title="skitch-simple-mac-image-editor-free" width="620" height="408" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20404" /></p> <p>Skitch, a simple image editor for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, is now available free from the Mac App Store. Skitch calls itself an image swiss army knife, but you can think of it like Preview on steroids, with your standard basic image editing features of rotating, cropping, flipping, in addition to various…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/resize-windows-lion.jpg" alt="Resize Windows in Mac OS X 10.7 with Modifier Keys" title="resize-windows-lion" width="620" height="418" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20035" /></p> <p>New to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> is the ability to resize any window from any corner or side, just grab onto it, and when your cursor turns into the little double-sided arrow, start dragging. That’s a great addition, but it’s even better when some modifier keys are applied.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;"&g…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/show-system-info-hostname-os-x-lion-login-screen.jpg" alt="Show System Info and Hostname at the Mac OS X Lion Login Screen" title="show-system-info-hostname-os-x-lion-login-screen" width="620" height="238" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20386" /></p> <p>Prior to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a>, you used to be able to click on the “Mac OS X” text to display additional system information about the Mac, showing things like IP Address, OS X version and build number, and the machines Hostname. Apple pulled that a…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="Show User Library in OS X Lion" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/show-library-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" title="Show User Library in OS X Lion" class="aligncenter" width="600" height="191" /></p> <p>Ahhhh the user Library folder has disappeared again! If you already installed <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/16/mac-os-x-10-7-1-update-released-direct-download-links/">Mac OS X 10.7.1 update</a>, you may have noticed that your user library directory is hidden, again, returning it to the default invisible state that Lion wants. Mildly annoying, but it should be expected that system up…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mac-os-x-lion-ui-elements.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion UI Elements PSD" title="mac-os-x-lion-ui-elements" width="620" height="274" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20362" /></p> <p>Whether you’re a UX or UI designer, app developer, or just want to create some mockups of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> apps for fun, don’t miss these free OS X Lion UI Element kits from designers Jonatan Castro and Joshua Geiger. The GUI kits come as well labeled multi-layered PSD files that have all the main user interface elements f…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/signature-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Digital Signature in Mac OS X Lion" title="signature-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="307" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19961" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> brings a revamped Preview app that includes the extremely useful Digital Signature feature built right in. Using your Macs built-in iSight camera to capture your signature, Preview can keep multiple electronic signatures on file which can then be amended to PDF’s.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mac-os-x-10-7-1-update.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.7.1 Update " title="mac-os-x-10-7-1-update" width="620" height="213" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20351" /></p> <p>Mac OS X 10.7.1 update has been released by Apple for all <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> users to download. One of the most significant bug fixes pertains to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/wifi-dropping-in-os-x-lion-fixes/">dropping WiFi issues</a>, so if you have been experiencing connectivity problems don’t miss this update. Othe…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iphone-5-mockup.jpg" alt="iPhone 5 mockup from MacRumors" title="iphone-5-mockup" width="620" height="536" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20343" /></p> <p>You may be able to pre-order iPhone 5 as soon as September 30, with the actual launch still occurring in early <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/iphone-5-launch-set-for-october/">October</a>, according to a new report <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/16/apple-currently-plans-to-start-pre-orders-for-next-iphone-on-sept-30-launch-oct-7/">from 9to5mac</a>. </p> <…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/4g-apple-store.jpg" alt="Alleged 4G LTE Equipment at an Apple Store" title="4g-apple-store" width="620" height="371" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20336" /></p> <p>Making yesterdays <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/15/4g-lte-iphone-undergoing-carrier-testing/">4G iPhone carrier test plist</a> find much more interesting, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/16/why-is-lte-equipment-being-installed-in-an-apple-store/">Engadget</a> was notified by an anonymous source that some major Apple Stores are getting in-store 4G LTE eq…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/free-iphone-app-starbucks.jpg" alt="Free iPhone apps from Starbucks " title="free-iphone-app-starbucks" width="250" height="364" class="alignright size-full wp-image-20321" /> Apple and Starbucks have partnered up to offer free weekly iPhone app downloads to patrons of Starbucks stores. The free apps come in the form of a promo code printed on cards available at the register, those <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/17/how-to-redeem-an-app-store-promo-code-mac-app-store-ios-app-store/">promo codes can be redeemed on the iOS App store</a>.</p> <p>T…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/os-x-lion-usb-thumb-drive.jpeg" alt="OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive" title="os-x-lion-usb-thumb-drive" width="620" height="308" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20304" /></p> <p>Don’t want to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from-a-usb-flash-drive/">make an OS X Lion USB install drive yourself</a>? Apple has you covered, and now the official Apple OS X Lion Thumb Drive is available for purchase through the Apple Store for $69. The main advantage to using a USB installer is that it allows you to ins…
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