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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mac-toilet-paper-dispenser1.jpg" alt="iWipe - Mac Toilet Paper Dispenser" title="mac-toilet-paper-dispenser" width="620" height="423" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17813" /></p> <p>Have a broken old Mac SE or Mac Plus laying around? <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/stupid/">Dork</a> out your bathroom with a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">retro</a> Mac toilet paper dispenser! Affectionately called the iWipe, inside of this Mac SE shell is a mounted toilet paper holder, and the screen was replaced with a translucent …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/save-app-icon-mac.jpg" alt="Extract High Resolution Application Icons in Mac OS X" title="save-app-icon-mac" width="620" height="568" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18154" /></p> <p>Using the same trick to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/29/quickly-create-a-new-image-file-from-clipboard-contents-with-preview/">create a new image file based on clipboard contents</a>, you can extract high resolution icons from any Mac OS X application. Preview is smart enough to extract just the icon and not try to copy the app file itself (like Windows wo…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><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%252Fartist%252Felectronic-arts%252Fid284800461%253Fuo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ea-game-sale.jpg" alt="EA iOS Game Sale" title="ea-game-sale" width="620" height="293" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18146" /></a></p> <p>If you’re a gamer don’t miss Electronic Art’s huge iOS game sale this weekend, everything is just $0.99, even their most popula…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/system-activity-mac-menubar.jpg" alt="Show System Activity in the Mac OS X Menu Bar" title="system-activity-mac-menubar" width="619" height="119" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17866" /></p> <p>You can display and monitor virtually all essential system activity directly from your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> menu bar using a great utility called iStat Menu:</p> <ul> <li>CPU usage</li> <li>Memory use</li> <li>Disk capacity</li> <li>Disk activity and I/O…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ipad-delta-terminal-jfk.jpg" alt="iPad's at Deltas terminal in JFK" title="ipad-delta-terminal-jfk" width="620" height="393" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18141" /></p> <p>Apparently Delta Air Lines has placed public-use iPads at their airport terminal at JFK (no not the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line Terminal.app</a>, an airport terminal). This is a great idea for many reasons, maybe it’s a sign of things to come at airports everywhere?</p> <p>iPads are getting a wide range of uses already bec…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ipad-boombox.jpg" alt="iPad Boom Box" title="ipad-boombox" width="620" height="305" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18113" /></p> <p>I know what you’re thinking, the only thing missing from the iPad is the ability to throw it on your shoulder and pretend it’s a boom box, right? Well this much anticipated feature is missing no more, because now you can finally take your iPad back to the 1980′s by turning it into a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">retro</a> boombox with the free Jamboxx app. </p> <p>This ridiculous app …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lion-recovery-hd.jpg" alt="Lion Recovery HD" title="lion-recovery-hd" width="182" height="232" class="alignright size-full wp-image-18098" /> If you want to remove the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> “Recovery HD” partition, you’ll need to do a little bit of work because it’s a hidden partition. Hidden means it’s not just a matter of using your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/12/how-to-install-dual-boot-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-and-10-6-snow-leopard/">dual boot</a> to go into 10.6 and then deleting it with Disk …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/battery-cycle-count.jpg" alt="Battery Cycle Count" title="battery-cycle-count" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17779" /></p> <p>If you have a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro, you can check the battery cycle count to get an idea of overall battery health. </p> <ul> <li>Launch Apple System Profiler (called System Information in Lion) either through /Applications/Utilities/ or by going to “About this Mac” and selecting “More Info”</li> <li>Under Hardware, select “Power”</li> <li>Look…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ip-address-menubar.jpg" alt="IP Address in the Menu Bar" title="ip-address-menubar" width="502" height="71" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18088" /></p> <p>Do you need your IP address often? If so, IPMenulet is likely the quickest way to have the number handy all the time, it’s a free and simple menu item that displays your current external IP address in the Mac OS X menu bar, there’s no other frills or features.</p> <p><a href="http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/IPMenulet-1.1.dmg">You can download IPMenulet now</a> (direct .dmg …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/macbook-pro-raid-thunderbolt.jpg" alt="Thunderboot Supports External Boot Drives" title="macbook-pro-raid-thunderbolt" width="620" height="410" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18074" /></p> <p>Thunderbolt equipped Macs are able to boot from external Thunderbolt drives. This means that you could run a full Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux installation from an external drive connected to a Mac with Thunderbolt connectivity, and because of Thunderbolts speed, it would be extremely fast. How fast? Theoretically, Mac OS X running on an external Thunderbolt drive sh…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/text-to-spoken-audio.jpg" alt="Convert Text to Spoken Audio the Easy Way" title="text-to-spoken-audio" width="614" height="107" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18059" /></p> <p>I showed you how to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/28/convert-a-text-file-into-spoken-audio/">convert text to spoken audio files via the command line</a> but some people ran into trouble with that method. It turns out I completely over-engineered how to do this, because there is a much easier way to convert text to audio that is guaranteed to work for everyone, yo…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/final-cut-x-pro-tutorial.jpg" alt="Free Intro to Final Cut Pro X Tutorial" title="final-cut-x-pro-tutorial" width="620" height="399" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18048" /></p> <p>Interested in learning how to use the all-new Final Cut Pro X? Don’t miss this free video learning tutorial set from IzzyVideo. There’s no signups or strings attached (other than owning <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%252F…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/new-from-clipboard.jpg" alt="Create new image from clipboard" title="new-from-clipboard" width="561" height="406" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18037" /></p> <p>With Preview you can quickly create a new image file from your clipboard contents. On it’s own that might not be too enthralling, but this feature extends beyond Preview, meaning any image that you have copied from anywhere using Command+C will work as the source image to create a new image file. This includes images copied from all web browsers, other Mac apps, and even files in the <a href=…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>Using <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/28/how-to-make-your-mac-talk-text-to-speech/">Mac OS X Text to Speech</a> tools, we can convert any .RTF or .TXT file into a spoken audio file which can then be transferred to your iPod or iPhone for later listening. </p> <p>The command format is as follows: <code>say -o output.m4a -f /path/to/file.txt</code></p> <p>The default output will be to the Terminals present working directory (usually your Home), but you can specify it to go elsewhere if you want. Here’s an example, with the output going to the desktop and the input file coming from a…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/swf.jpg" alt="SWF to HTML5" title="swf" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-18023" /> Swiffy is a new experimental tool from Google that easily converts SWF Flash files to HTML5, making Flash-only content accessible to hardware like the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> in just a few seconds. This should be a really useful utility for designers and it’s well worth a bookmark if you work with HTML5 and Flash content for the web or elsewhere.<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hackintosh-mini.jpg" alt="Hackintosh Mini" title="hackintosh-mini" width="286" height="246" class="alignright size-full wp-image-18008" /> Remember the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/hackintosh/">Hackintosh</a>? Mostly consisting of modified netbooks running Mac OS X, the movement became fairly popular until Apple stepped in with the iPad and then MacBook Air to effectively redirect everyones attention back to official Apple hardware. But the hackintosh community isn’t dead – far from it – in fact you can still build a really powerful hackintosh for just …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/steve-jobs-ipad-prototype.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs and the iPad Prototype " title="steve-jobs-ipad-prototype" width="431" height="423" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17914" /></p> <p>Finally, a rare picture of an elusive iPad prototype surfaces, with none other than the man <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> himself is holding it! </p> <p>Is this the iPad 10? iPad 12? iPad 3000??? Four simultaneous homescreens guarantee all your multitasking needs will be handled with ease, and the luxurious duct tape center…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mac-os-x-trim-support.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.6.8 TRIM Support" title="mac-os-x-trim-support" width="620" height="332" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17987" /></p> <p>The recently released <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/23/mac-os-x-10-6-8-released-ready-to-download/">Mac OS X 10.6.8 Software Update</a> has quietly added native TRIM support to Macs equipped with SSD drives. TRIM insures that your SSD drive will be functioning at optimal speed and extends the life of the solid state disk, making this a must-have update for any Mac user usin…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/redsnow.png" alt="" title="redsnow" width="128" height="128" class="alignright size-full wp-image-17974" /> In another move <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/27/is-apple-going-to-kill-jailbreaking-with-ios-5/">suggesting that iOS 5 is aimed to kill jailbreaking</a>, the infamous iPhone Dev Team is reporting that new versions of iOS 5 prevent future iOS versions to be downgraded. To clarify, users will continue to be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/13/downgrade-ios-5-beta-to-ios-4/">able to downgrade from iOS 5 back to iOS 4</a> and other pre-…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iphone-51.jpg" alt="iPhone 5 mockup" title="iphone-5" width="587" height="426" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17967" /></p> <p>Two new and distinctly different iPhones may be released this September, according to a new analyst report. Yes two iPhones, both an iPhone 5 and a lower cost iPhone 4S, are now expected to be launched this fall, presumably <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-release-date-fall-2011/">alongside iOS 5</a>. </p> <p>If this is true, the two new iPhone models might spec out something like this:</p…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/25579140?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="610" height="343" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2011/06/24/new-in-ios-5-restoring-from-icloud-backup-shown-on-video-tutorial/">iDB</a>, the same guys who brought us the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/25/ios-5-wireless-syncing-video/">iOS 5 wireless syncing video</a>, are now showing off another hot feature in iOS 5: restoring iOS backups directly from iCloud. </p> <p>The video shows how smooth the process is. Fro…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/things-to-do.jpg" alt="9 things to do this weekend, with 6 pictures to show that. Interesting." title="things-to-do" width="620" height="284" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17932" /></p> <p>Looking for some geeky stuff to do this weekend with your Apple gear? Here’s a slew of ideas that are sure to keep anyone busy, whether it’s a DIY project, learning from WWDC 2011, getting your Mac ready for Lion, or just gaming away into the wee hours of the morning, boredom be gone!</p> <h3 style="font-size:1.3em;">Do-it-Yourself Projects</h3> &l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/wwdc-2011-videos.jpg" alt="WWDC 2011 session videos" title="wwdc-2011-videos" width="445" height="455" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17836" /></p> <p>For those of us who didn’t make it to WWDC 2011, Apple has released full videos of all the WWDC sessions. There’s a lot to learn here, with over 100 sessions covering both Mac OS X and iOS, and each is presented by Apple engineers.</p> <p><a href="http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/index.php">Head over to the Dev Center</a> to get the videos on iTunes.</p> <p>…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mac-setup-tumblr-office.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro setup at Tumblr offices" title="mac-setup-tumblr-office" width="620" height="414" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17897" /></p> <p>If you want a guaranteed to be great <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a>, get a MacBook Pro and add an Apple Cinema Display. This particular desk has a MacBook Pro 15″ with a matte display (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/16/new-macbook-pro-15-hi-res-screen-comparison/">vs glossy</a>) connected to the always beautiful 27″ Ap…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/25577886?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="610" height="343" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p>One of the most hotly anticipated features of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> is wireless syncing, and the video above <a href="http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2011/06/24/new-in-ios-5-wi-fi-sync-demonstrated-on-video-tutorial/">from iDB</a> shows exactly how it works in iOS 5 beta 2. </p> <p>If you’re a developer you can access this feature right now in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/…
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