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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/get-http-header-from-website-with-curl.jpg" alt="Retrieve HTTP Headers with curl" title="get-http-header-from-website-with-curl" width="569" height="220" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18419" /></p> <p>The easiest way to get HTTP header information from any website is by using the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a> tool curl. The syntax goes like this:</p> <p><code>curl -i url</code></p> <p>Try it out yourself, here’s an example using Google.com:</p> <p><…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad-hd.jpg" alt="iPad 2 HD" title="ipad-hd" width="620" height="235" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18399" /></p> <p>Retina iPad 2 rumors just won’t die, and alongside the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/07/iphone-4s-is-iphone-5-in-existing-enclosure/">report that iPhone 4S is really just iPhone 5 in disguise</a>, ThisIsMyNext mentions a new iPad will launch this year. Dubbed “iPad HD”, or “iPad Pro”, supposedly the next model will not be iPad 3, instead it will compliment the existing iPad 2 lineup with the main difference being a 2048…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>If you’ve been confused by the whole iPhone 4S vs iPhone 5 thing, we may finally have an answer. Contrary to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/27/iphone-5-iphone-4s-coming-in-september/">reports suggesting otherwise</a>, ThisIsMyNext is claiming that the “iPhone 4S” doesn’t exist as a separate product at all, it’s simply Apple disguising the newest iPhone 5 components in the older iPhone 4 enclosure.</p> <p>Suggesting the disguise is to throw off any leaks of what the next-gen iPhone will look like, <a href="http://thisismynext.com/2011/07/07/iphone-5-design-ipad-hd-iphone-4s/">ThisIsMyNext</a> e…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/iphone-5-prototype.jpg" alt="iPhone 5 prototype possibly" title="iphone-5-prototype" width="460" height="613" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18381" /></p> <p>You might be looking at a prototype <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-5/">iPhone 5</a> running on the worlds largest cellular carrier, China Mobile. The iPhone pictured looks very similar to the iPhone 4, but clearly shows an unreleased baseband version 06.10.01, and like other Apple prototype iPhones, there is no <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/13/iphone-imei/">IMEI num…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/facebook-video-chat.png" alt="Facebook video chat in Mac OS X Lion" title="facebook-video-chat" width="469" height="138" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18371" /></p> <p>Facebook just announced their built-in video chat feature that uses Skype to initiate video calls, but unfortunately support for the new feature is lacking for users with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> and the latest version of Safari. If you try it, you’ll see the video call button has been greyed out with a message saying “Not supported in…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a> tool textutil allows you to quickly convert text files to many other useful formats. The command syntax you’ll want to use is:</p> <p><code>textutil -convert filetype filename</code></p> <p>Conversion options are txt, rtf, rtfd, html, doc, docx, odt, wordml, and webarchive, here’s sample syntax converting a text file named test.txt to an rtf:</p> <p><code>textutil -convert rtf test.txt</code></p> <p>Textutil will automatically append the filename with the appropriate extension…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/iphone-5-redesign.jpg" alt="iPhone 5 redesigned to be thinner and lighter?" title="iphone-5-redesign" width="500" height="363" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18352" /></p> <p>The various <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-5/">iPhone 5 rumors</a> have been going back and forth on whether or not a significant redesign is coming, but a new report from the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576429292482910586.html">Wall Street Journal</a> seems to suggest that iPhone 5 will have a completely redesigne…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jailbreakme.jpg" alt="Jailbreakme 3" title="jailbreakme" width="620" height="314" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18328" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/06/jailbreakme-3-0-is-now-available/">JailbreakMe 3.0 is out</a> finally and if you’re interested in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreaking</a> this is what you’ve been waiting for; it is entirely computer free, there is no DFU mode, there is no restoring firmware and IPSW files, nothing complicated at all, just load the jailbreakme.com website fro…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jailbreakme-3.jpg" alt="JailbreakMe 3.0" title="jailbreakme-3" width="620" height="291" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18332" /></p> <p>After a long wait, JailbreakMe 3 has finally been officially unleashed, and it is without a doubt the easiest <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> ever to exist. </p> <p>No computer is necessary, no downloading weirdly named jailbreak apps, no technical process, it’s just a matter of visiting <a href="http://www.jailbreakme.com">Jailbreakme.com</a> on your iOS de…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://affiliate.buy.com/fs-bin/click?id=uO47tEUahH8&subid=&offerid=229300.1&type=10&tmpid=6933&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.buy.com%2Fprod%2Fkingston-128gb-ssdnow-v100-series-2-5-sata-ii-internal-solid-state%2Fq%2Floc%2F101%2F218194454.html"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kingston-ssd.jpg" alt="Kingston SSD" title="kingston-ssd" width="500" height="356" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18320" /></a></p> <p>If you’ve been waiting for a good deal on an SSD upgrade, don’t miss these Kingston 2.5″ SSD’s from Buy.com. Each drive comes with free shipping…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad-2-jailbreak1.jpg" alt="iPad 2 jailbreak for iOS 4.3.3 using a local web server" title="ipad-2-jailbreak" width="471" height="411" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18313" /></p> <p>Want to jailbreak your iPad 2 running iOS 4.3.3? Getting impatient for JailbreakMe 3.0 to be released? You can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> your iPad 2 right now running iOS 4.3, iOS 4.3.1, iOS 4.3.2 and iOS 4.3.3 by creating your own local web server. No, it doesn’t have the ease or beauty of the expected JailbreakMe 3.0 release, an…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pixel-art.png" alt="Pixel Art" title="pixel-art" width="620" height="146" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18298" /></p> <p>Pixel art of the 8-bit flashback NES variety is all the rage right now, be it in games like The Incident and Sword & Sworcery or just for avatars on the web. If you’re wondering how some of that beautiful pixel art is created and how you to do it yourself, here are some tips for near-instant pixel art. We’ll use OS X’s zoom feature, Pixelfari, and also configure Photoshop to make your own <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/r…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/itunes-vim.jpg" alt="ViTunes command line iTunes player" title="itunes-vim" width="620" height="367" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18277" /></p> <p>If you just want a basic command line mp3 player, you could <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/07/command-line-mp3-player-in-mac-os-x/">use afplay</a>, but if that’s not enough for you, install ViTunes. The little VIM plugin gives you full access to iTunes directly from the command line text editor VIM, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s just a boring old music player, it actually has some …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/show-library-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Show Users Library Directory in Mac OS X Lion" title="show-library-mac-os-x-lion" width="600" height="191" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18257" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a> defaults to hiding the users Library directory, this is probably to keep people from accidentally deleting or damaging files that are necessary for OS X Lion to function properly. That is fine for novice users, but for some of us, we want to be able to access ~/Library/ at will. A visible…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/doublepane-window-manager.jpg" alt="DoublePane Window Manager for Mac OS X " title="doublepane-window-manager" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18269" style="border:1px solid #ddd;" /></p> <p>DoublePane is a simple window manager for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> that is impressively useful. It works by resizing a selected window to fit precisely on one half of the screen – on the left or right – which then allows you to place another resized window directly next to it on the opposing ha…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/macbook-air-usb-key.jpg" alt="MacBook Air USB Restore Key" title="macbook-air-usb-key" width="605" height="293" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18208" /></p> <p>If you have a MacBook Air, you also have that nice little USB restore key. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to use that as a normal USB drive if you wanted to? You can do it, but first you have to ‘unlock’ the USB restore key.</p> <p>Here’s where I think this is most useful: with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> coming out soon, a restore key ru…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/iphone-4-prototype-auction.jpg" alt="iPhone 4 Prototype " title="iphone-4-prototype-auction" width="620" height="252" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18252" /></p> <p>Prototype Apple gear is a hot commodity, but would you guess that a prototype <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> would be selling for over a hundred grand? Me neither, but an eBay auction for a prototype iPhone 4 has hit $100,800 and continues to climb north into the stratosphere. </p> <p>To make this even more ridiculous, the prototype iPhone …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/super-mac-setup.jpg" alt="Super Mac Setup" title="super-mac-setup" width="620" height="373" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18242" /></p> <p>A day late here, but todays <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> won’t disappoint, it’s an iMac 27″ with dual 27″ Apple Cinema Displays, and two additional (22″?) displays are connected to PC’s running Ubuntu Linux floating above it all.</p> <p><del datetime="2011-07-03T18:36:41+00:00"> I’m not sure if there’s another Mac Pro or something driving one of the C…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/steam-sale.jpg" alt="Steam Sale" title="steam-sale" width="600" height="315" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18227" /></p> <p>Want to make it a gamers weekend? Don’t miss the huge Steam sale going on now that has just about every game for at least 30% and up to 75% off. Everything offered on Steam is instantly downloadable so you can quickly get your gamer fix, some of the hot titles for Mac OS X include:</p> <ul> <li>Half Life 2 for $2.49</li> <li>Portal 2 for $33.49</li> <li>Civilization V for $33.49</li&…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/9820827?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p>Starting from 1976 with the Apple I, this video goes through the next 25 years showcasing aspects of Apple’s design evolution all the way to the modern day with the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>. The video is actually from last year so the iPad is the original and not iPad 2, and it misses some substantial Apple design cues like the 20th Anniversary Mac, iMac, and all the iPods, but it’s still interesting to watch. </p> <p…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lion-virtual-machine.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion in a Virtual Machine" title="lion-virtual-machine" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18184" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> can run additional copies of itself in virtual machines on the same machine, this is the first time that Apple has allowed this feature outside of Mac OS X Server. This was discovered by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/01/os-x-lion-allows-running-multiple-copies-on-the-same-machine-virtualizat…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ipad-2-jailbreak.jpg" alt="iPad 2 Jailbreak" title="ipad-2-jailbreak" width="620" height="146" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18195" /></p> <p>The long awaited iPad 2 jailbreak is finally here, albeit unofficially, due to a leaked beta version of comex’s JailbreakMe 3.0 utility. Like the original version of JailbreakMe, the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> exploits a bug in how Mobile Safari handles PDF’s, so the process of installing the jailbreak is surprisingly easy and just a matter of opening a PDF from the Safa…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/world-of-warcraft-free.jpg" alt="World of Warcraft free" title="world-of-warcraft-free" width="620" height="393" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18128" /></p> <p>Blizzard has made its ultra popular virtualcrack game World of Warcraft free to play up until level 20. Free players can access the entire game and all quests of paying players, but there are a few limitations with the free World of Warcrack, notably:</p> <ul> <li>Free players can not join guilds</li> <li>Free players can not accumulate more than 10 gold coins (pr…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion" title="mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="362" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18170" /></p> <p>The public release of Mac OS X Lion is imminent, possibly coming as soon as July 14th, according to the well-sourced <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/01/apple-to-ship-os-x-lion-on-july-14th/">9to5Mac</a>. This news comes immediately after Apple has <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/01/mac-os-x-10-7-lion-gm-download-released-to-developers/">released the Lion GM build for developers to download</a&…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion-gm.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.7 Lion GM build" title="mac-os-x-lion-gm" width="620" height="191" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18161" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> Golden Master has just been seeded for developers to download, the latest and possibly last dev release of Lion comes as build 11A511. </p> <p>A GM build typically means a public release is due out in the very near future, meaning the Mac OS X Lion release date may be a lot earlier in the month of July than …
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