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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant.jpg" alt="Lion Recovery Disk Assistant" title="lion-recovery-disk-assistant" width="620" height="415" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19977" /></p> <p>Apple has released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, a small utility that provides the ability to create an external bootable recovery drive for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. This should quell some of the complaints from users who didn’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 a Lion USB install drive<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/wifi-keepalive-script.jpg" alt="Mac Wi-Fi Keepalive Script" title="wifi-keepalive-script" width="518" height="126" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19941" /></p> <p>Many users who upgraded to Mac OS X Lion discovered that their Wi-Fi connections were dropping periodically for no apparent reason. We published a reasonably thorough <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/wifi-dropping-in-os-x-lion-fixes/">walkthrough with tips on fixing OS X Lion’s wireless dropping issues</a> and that’s a recommended starting point because most tips are easy and…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/show-invisible-files-bifocals-mac.jpg" alt="Show Invisible Files quickly with Bifocals for Mac OS X" title="show-invisible-files-bifocals-mac" width="620" height="307" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19930" /></p> <p>The problem with traditional solutions like a defaults write command to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/02/25/show-hidden-files-in-os-x/">show hidden files</a> in Mac OS X is that they’re permanent unless another defaults write command is executed, this isn’t a big deal for some users but if you just want a quick glance at invis…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/new-folder-selected-items1.jpg" alt="New folder from selected items in Mac OS X Lion" title="new-folder-selected-items" width="615" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19902" /></p> <p>You can now select any number of files from the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> desktop or a folder and create a new folder containing those selected items:</p> <ul> <li>Select files you want to create a new folder containing</li> <li>Right-click on one of the selected files and choose “New …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mac-beachball.jpg" alt="Mac Beachball slow" title="mac-beachball" width="204" height="202" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19884" /> It’s unclear why, but the Mac App Store is running a lot slower in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> for some users, including myself. By slow I mean you’ll encounter nearly constant beachballs as you click from app to app, with the absolute worst offender being the main category sections.</p> <p> I’m assuming there is an underlying bug or issue with the App Store backend, so a true fi…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/mac-pro-three-displays.jpg" alt="Mac Pro with Three Displays" title="mac-pro-three-displays" width="620" height="248" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19876" /></p> <p>A Mac Pro with two extra NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 video cards and 16GB of RAM is driving these three displays, making one heck of a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a>. The left screen is hosting a Windows 7 virtual machine in Parallels full time, while everything else is all Mac OS X. Also pictured: an iPad 1 and iPad 2, iPhone 4, Magic Trackpad and wir…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/exit-full-screen-chrome-lion.jpg" alt="Exit full screen mode in Chrome under OS X Lion" title="exit-full-screen-chrome-lion" width="505" height="245" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19815" /></p> <p>If you’ve found yourself stuck in Chromes full screen mode, you’re not alone. Chrome has it’s benefits, like syncing and the native <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/05/safari-omnibar-combine-safari-url-and-search-bar/">omnibar</a>, but unfortunately Chrome does not play well with Full Screen Mode under Mac OS X Lion – at all. You are free to cl…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ios-5-beta-5.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Beta 5" title="ios-5-beta-5" width="556" height="236" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19870" /></p> <p>Apple has released iOS 5 beta 5, the latest build is 9A5288d and the same hardware is supported as prior <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5-beta/">iOS 5 betas</a>, including iPad 2, iPad, iPhone 4 GSM & CDMA, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th gen.</p> <p><strong>You can download iOS 5 beta 5 in one of two ways:</strong></p> <ul> <li>OTA delta update directl…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/show-available-disk-space-status-bar-mac-osx-lion.jpg" alt="Show available disk space and status bar in Mac OS X Lion" title="show-available-disk-space-status-bar-mac-osx-lion" width="617" height="369" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19856" /></p> <p>In Apple’s quest to simplify the user experience, they windows status bar in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>. This definitely makes for a cleaner appearance when looking at folders, but if you actually like to know how much disk space you have available at a qui…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iphone-charger.jpg" alt="iPhone Charger" title="iphone-charger" width="620" height="463" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19849" /></p> <p>We get a lot of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/fun/">silly</a> submissions but this one from <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ja4qq/so_my_girlfriend_had_an_awesome_idea_for_our/">Reddit</a> takes the weekly cake for it’s creative modification to the iPhone AC Adapter plugs. If you want to do this yourself, grab a couple of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004G5BF…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ios-5-beta-and-udid-crackdown.jpg" alt="UDID sales and improper iOS 5 beta usage crackdown" title="ios-5-beta-and-udid-crackdown" width="200" height="180" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19837" /> Apple has begun to crack down on registered iOS developers who are selling UDID activation slots for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5-beta/">iOS 5 betas</a> to other users, in some cases sending email warnings to devs, but also deactivating other developer accounts completely. Apple is even flagging some individual UDID’s and making the devices unusable, for…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/custom-terminal-background-picture.jpg" alt="Set a Custom Terminal Background Picture" title="custom-terminal-background-picture" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19824" /></p> <p>If you’re bored with the standard black text on a white background of Terminal, you can really spice up the command line interface by adding a custom background picture. One of our commenters <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/icloud-beta-wallpaper/#comment-219469">recently asked how</a> to do this, so here we’ll walk through the process.…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/safari-omnibar.png" alt="Safari Omnibar combines the Search and URL bars" title="safari-omnibar" width="620" height="111" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19803" /></p> <p>One of the best things about Google Chrome’s user interface is the combined URL and search bar, where a single input bar serves both purposes, but is smart enough to know the difference between a search query and a URL. Safari doesn’t have this feature, but Omnibar fills that gap.</p> <p>Safari Omnibar combines Safari’s URL bar and search bar into a single searchable input, …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/att-tethering-sms.jpg" alt="AT&T tethering SMS" title="att-tethering-sms" width="275" height="164" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19793" /> Unsurprisingly, AT&T is continuing to actively pursue users who partake in unofficial tethering methods by means of a jailbreak. This isn’t really news though, we mentioned that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/17/att-cracking-down-on-unofficial-iphone-tethering-mywi-users/">AT&T was cracking down on unofficial tethering</a> back in March, but nonetheless those who are still using apps like MyWi are co…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/lion-usb-install-applecare.gif" alt="Lion USB Install Media from AppleCare Now Available" title="lion-usb-install-applecare" width="620" height="316" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19783" /></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 a Lion USB install drive</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/08/create-burn-bootable-mac-os-x-lion-install-disc/">DVD</a> yourself? It’s <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/easy-way-to-make-lion…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ssh-iphone.png" alt="SSH iPhone" title="ssh-iphone" width="620" height="94" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19768" /></p> <p>You may know already that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> has the same underlying unix architecture as <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, and because of this you can SSH into an iPhone or iPad just like you would connect to any other Mac or unix based machine. </p> <p>As it turns out for us nerdier users, this ability is disabled without a jailbreak, so …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/disable-accented-characters-reenable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Enable Key Repeat in Mac OS X Lion and Disable the Accented Character Pop Up" title="disable-accented-characters-reenable-key-repeat-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="239" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19760" /></p> <p>If you hold down many keys in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>, a little popup menu appears showing an accented character selection window. This replaces the long existing default of a repeating key, where if you hold dow…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cancel-download-app-store.png" alt="Cancel Download from the Mac App Store" title="cancel-download-app-store" width="411" height="97" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19749" /></p> <p>While clarifying the instructions on <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/re-download-mac-os-x-lion-from-app-store/">how to re-download Mac OS X Lion from the App Store</a> I discovered a neat little trick; you can cancel downloads.</p> <p><strong>Hold down the Option key from the “Purchases” menu</strong> in the Mac App Store, this cau…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/change-launchpad-background-image-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Change Launchpads background image" title="change-launchpad-background-image-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="242" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19727" /></p> <p>Tired of the linen background image of folders in Launchpad? You can easily change it to anything you want with this simple walkthrough. If you recall our post <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/27/change-background-wallpaper-of-dashboard-mac-os-x-lion/">on changing the Dashboard wallpaper</a>, you’ll find this trick is v…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iosx.jpg" alt="iOS X" title="iosx" width="210" height="82" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19720" /> Yes, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> is obviously very <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a>-like, and now we’re hearing again that Mac OS X and iOS will begin merging late next year into a single unified OS. This is speculation <a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2011/08/03/apples-ios-merges-with-os-x-in-2012-says-jefferies/">according to</a> Jeffries & Co analyst Peter Mi…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/always-show-scroll-bars-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Show Scroll Bars in Mac OS X Lion" title="always-show-scroll-bars-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="313" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19667" /></p> <p>The scrollbars in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> are hidden until activated by use, this is the new default behavior that works very well if you primarily use a trackpad with your Mac. I use an external mouse with my Mac quite often though, and I find the hidden scrollbars to be annoying when I do. That’s my …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/icloud-background.jpg"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/icloud-background-sm.jpg" alt="icloud wallpaper small" title="icloud-background-sm" width="620" height="337" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19694" /></a></p> <p>Want the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/access-icloud-beta-apps-via-javascript/">iCloud.com beta</a> background image as your desktop wallpaper? I did too, so I grabbed the background image file from iCloud’s springboard, tiled it, and put a similar shadow on it with Photoshop. The resu…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/icloud-beta-apps.jpg" alt="iCloud beta apps" title="icloud-beta-apps" width="620" height="298" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19676" /></p> <p>iCloud Beta is now live for developers to access, and we know <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/01/icloud-pricing-plans/">what the pricing plans look like</a>, but average users are left just looking at screenshots for now. Just kidding! If you want to check out iCloud’s very iOS-like Springboard and web apps, and you don’t have a developer account, you can use this cool little trick from @devongove…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/redownload-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="re-download Mac OS X Lion from the App Store" title="redownload-mac-os-x-lion" width="616" height="282" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19655" /></p> <p>Need to redownload Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store? If you plan on making an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from-a-usb-flash-drive/">install drive</a> but you already upgraded to Lion, you’ll need to redownload the Installer so that you can extract the DMG file. This is the sure fire way to do it, in …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/easy-lion-install-usb-dvd.jpg" alt="Easily Make a Lion Install DVD or USB Drive" title="easy-lion-install-usb-dvd" width="266" height="342" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19650" /> If you don’t want to deal with the already simple task of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from-a-usb-flash-drive/">making a Lion USB install drive</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/08/create-burn-bootable-mac-os-x-lion-install-disc/">boot DVD</a>, you will probably like the little third party utility call…
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