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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/desktop-utility-osx-lion.jpg" alt="Desktop Utility for Mac OS X" title="desktop-utility-osx-lion" width="547" height="281" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19347" /></p> <p>If you don’t want to deal with manually <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/23/hide-all-desktop-icons-in-mac-os-x/">hiding and showing the desktop icons</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/02/25/show-hidden-files-in-os-x/">showing hidden files</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/">accessing the user libra…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>Do you miss the way Mail used to look? Mail.app received a pretty significant makeover in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>, but if you’re not a fan of the revised layout, you can easily revert back to the classic Mail appearances original UI:</p> <ul> <li>Open Mail and Preferences</li> <li>Click on “Viewing” tab and choose “Use classic layout”</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/old-mail-interface-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Get the old Mail layout back in Mac OS X Lion" title="old-mail-interface-os-x-lion" w…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><object width="600" height="459"><param name="movie" value="http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed_wide.swf?episode=7443"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed_wide.swf?episode=7443" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" width="600" height="459"></embed></object></p> <p>You can do just about anything in an Apple Store and the employees don’t seem to mind. To prove this point, a comedian …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lynx-from-macports.jpg" alt="Lynx in Mac OS X via MacPorts" title="lynx-from-macports" width="620" height="383" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19255" /></p> <p>Lynx is a text based <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a> web browser, it’s relatively popular within unix communities but it also has a variety of general uses too; it’s great if you want to discretely browse the web and read articles at work or school, and developers use lynx frequently to test accessibility and to roughly estimate how spiders or craw…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mac-os-x-1068-supplemental-update.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.6.8 Supplemental Update" title="mac-os-x-1068-supplemental-update" width="617" height="76" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19305" /></p> <p>For those of you who aren’t running <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> yet, Apple has released a supplemental update to OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard that includes a variety of bug fixes for the OS and for moving to 10.7 Lion. Here are the brief release notes:</p> <blockquote><p> The Mac OS X 10.6.8 Suppl…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ios-4-3-5.jpg" alt="iOS 4.3.5" title="ios-4-3-5" width="620" height="215" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19296" /></p> <p>iOS 4.3.5 has been released by Apple, the update includes a fix for a security vulnerability pertaining to certificate validations and is recommended for all <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> users – unless of course you rely on a jailbreak. iOS 4.3.5 is build 8L1 and supports iPhone 4 GSM, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch 3rd and 4th gen, a separate 4.2.10 release is available for iPhone 4 CDMA users.<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/disable-new-window-animation-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="The New Window Animation in Mac OS X Lion can be disabled if you don't like it" title="disable-new-window-animation-os-x-lion" width="620" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19287" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> brings a subtle new window animation, it’s so subtle that many people probably won’t even notice it, but it displays any time a new window is created. It’s better seen than described (the above screenshot only captures so much), but…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lion-text-to-speech-voices.jpg" alt="OS X Lion includes high quality text to speech voices" title="lion-text-to-speech-voices" width="620" height="205" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19281" /></p> <p>Mac OS X 10.7 includes many new high quality voices for it’s text-to-speech abilities, they’re in a wide variety of languages and accents and are probably some of the best computer rendered voices out there. We got a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/15/mac-os-x-lion-new-text-to-speech-voices-samples/">sneak peak</a> at these months ago, but n…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/macports.jpg" alt="MacPorts 2.0 for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" title="macports" width="192" height="85" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19242" /> MacPorts 2.0 has been released, the new version includes full <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X 10.7</a> compatibility. For those who are unfamiliar, MacPorts is a popular package management utility used to easily install thousands of open-source applications and utilities for the command line, X11, and even some Aqua apps. Because MacPorts handles the retrieval and building of dependencies in additio…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="377" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v_gQHtXsLtU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has released a new iPad 2 commercial that follows closely in the same theme set by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipad-2-commercial/">prior iPad 2 ads</a>. The ad emphasizes the user and how they fit into the rapidly changing post-PC world that Apple has pioneered:</p> <blockquote><p>“We’ll never stop sharing our memories, or getting lost in a good book… We’ll always cook dinner and cheer for our favorite team… We’ll still go to meetings, m…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/install-lion.jpg" alt="Installing Lion" title="install-lion" width="620" height="361" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19221" /></p> <p>The weekend is here, and there are quite a few people who haven’t installed Mac OS X Lion yet. Why wait? Now’s as good a time as any, so <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fos-x-lion%252Fid444303913%253Fmt%253D12%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store"…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/western-digital-3tb-drive-deal.jpg" alt="Western Digital 3TB Drive Deals" title="western-digital-3tb-drive-deal" width="620" height="309" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19198" /></p> <p>If you need more storage capacity, these two top-rated Western Digital drives on sale from Amazon are great deals, they both have giant capacities of 3TB and 2TB respectively. </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SH5VQ4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/change-ical-leather-to-aluminum.jpg" alt="Change iCal Leather Interface to Aluminum in OS X Lion" title="change-ical-leather-to-aluminum" width="620" height="171" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19171" /></p> <p>Do you hate the way iCal looks in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>? The leather interface of iCal looks like it’s right out of an iPad has definitely caused a split with users, people either love the way it looks or hate it with a passion. For the sake of this article, we’re going to assume you’re not …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/redsn0w-0.9.8b4.jpeg" alt="Redsn0w 0.9.8b4 for iOS 5 beta 4" title="redsn0w 0.9.8b4" width="161" height="176" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19189" /> <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/ios-5-beta-4-available/">iOS 5 beta 4</a> was just released but the iPhone Dev Team works fast, already jailbreaking the latest beta. This continues to be a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/24/tethered-jailbreak-vs-untethered-jailbreak/">tethered jailbreak</a> for all hardware, which includes the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd and 4th gen, and…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mac-setup-mbp-imac-external.jpg" alt="Mac setup of a MacBook Pro, external display, and iMac 27" title="mac-setup-mbp-imac-external" width="620" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19181" /></p> <p>On the left is a MacBook Pro 15″ Core 2 Duo with an SSD, the center <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/28/rotate-mac-screen-orientation/">rotated</a> Dell 22″ screen, and on the right is a Core i7 iMac 27″ decked out with 12GB of RAM. Maybe it’s could just Exposé but it looks like the menubar is still sideways on that vertically oriented …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ios-5-beta-4.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Beta 4 downloads on the iOS Dev Center" title="ios-5-beta-4" width="569" height="234" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19163" /></p> <p>Apple has released iOS 5 beta 4 and is available for developers to download through the iOS Dev Center. The build comes in as 9A5274d and like the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5-beta/">iOS 5 betas</a> supports iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th gen. </p> <p>Developers can grab the release on <a href="http://developer.apple.com/d…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="User Library Folder in OS X Lion" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/show-library-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" title="User Library Folder in OS X Lion" class="aligncenter" width="600" height="191" /></p> <p>Mac OS X 10.7 Lion hides the ~/Library directory by default. This is easy to reverse and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/">show Library all the time</a> with a terminal command, but for most users that simply isn’t necessary because they won’t be accessing the Library directory enough to make it worthwhile.</p> <p>For quick a…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lion-wifi-dropping-fixes.jpg" alt="Fixes for OS X Lion wifi dropping " title="lion-wifi-dropping-fixes" width="620" height="281" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19135" /></p> <p>Updating to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> for the vast majority of users is a painless experience and everything works great. But for others there can be trouble, there are various user reports in our comments and <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/message/15675496">around</a> <a href="https://discussions.apple.co…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/joy-of-tech-lion-gestures.gif" alt="Lion Gestures comic from Joy of Tech" title="joy-of-tech-lion-gestures" width="620" height="850" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19129" /></p> <p>I love <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> like the rest of us, but I found this <a href="http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1569.html">Joy of Tech</a> comic strip hilarious, it touches on everything from natural scrolling, the lack of PPC support, new scrollbars, downloading from the App Store, and more. <…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/full-screen-apps-copy.jpg" alt="Maximizer brings more Full Screen Apps to OS X LIon " title="full-screen-apps copy" width="84" height="84" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19119" /> Maximizer is a free utility that brings Full Screen app mode to all Cocoa apps running in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion 10.7</a>, even if they don’t technically support the feature yet. </p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/20/mac-os-x-lion-download-app-store/">Lion</a> is needed, as is the following to get this wor…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mac-mini-2011-benchmarks.png" alt="Mac Mini 2011 Benchmarks" title="mac-mini-2011-benchmarks" width="620" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19105" /></p> <p>The 2011 Mac Mini is blowing away early benchmarks, in some cases doubling their predecessors and even outperforming the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/20/macbook-air-2011-benchmarks/">impressive MacBook Air 2011 benchmarks</a>. Not bad for a tiny Mac are they? Unsurprisingly, the Mac Mini Core i7 model is the most impressive, with a whopping 9573 GeekBench score, but the …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/steve-jobs1.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs" title="steve-jobs" width="250" height="286" class="alignright size-full wp-image-19087" /> This will be the funniest thing you will read all day. An apparent excerpt from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047Y177U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0047Y177U">Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=B0047Y177U&camp=217145&creative=399373" width="1" h…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/install-lion-more-than-one-computer.jpg" alt="Intall OS X Lion on more than one computer" title="install-lion-more-than-one-computer" width="620" height="335" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19073" /></p> <p>One of the great unsung features of Lion is the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/07/single-purchase-of-lion-installs-on-all-macs/">personal use license</a> which allows you to download OS X Lion once and then install it on all of your authorized personal Macs. This makes the $29.99 purchase an even better deal than it would be already,…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/front-row-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Front Row for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" title="front-row-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18923" /></p> <p>You might have heard that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> ditches Front Row, the easily accessible media player that was activated by hitting Command+Escape on a keyboard or by pressing play on an Apple Remote. If you like Front Row and are disappointed in Lion leaving it behind, you can easily get it working again just by copying a coupl…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/free-mac-os-x-lion-via-up-to-date-program.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion is free with recent Mac purchases" title="free-mac-os-x-lion-via-up-to-date-program" width="620" height="159" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-19025" /></p> <p>Did you buy a new Mac between June 6, 2011 and July 20, 2011? If so, don’t grab Lion from the App Store quite yet because you <strong>qualify for a free download of Mac OS X Lion</strong>, directly from Apple. All you need to do is visit Apple’s Up-To-Date page to claim your copy, just be sure you have your Macs Serial Num…
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