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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jailbreak-ios5beta2-redsn0w.jpg" alt="jailbreak iOS 5 beta 2 with redsn0w" title="jailbreak-ios5beta2-redsn0w" width="139" height="136" class="alignright size-full wp-image-17902" /> Just moments after the freshly released <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/24/ios-5-beta-2-download-released/">iOS 5 beta 2</a> was available, it has been jailbroken using <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/10/redsn0w-0-9-8b1-download-jailbreak-ios-5b1/">Redsn0w 0.9.8b1</a>. This is the same version of redsn0w that worked to jailbreak the first beta of iOS 5 and ther…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ios-5-beta-2.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Beta 2" title="ios-5-beta-2" width="617" height="226" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17882" /></p> <p>iOS 5 beta 2 has been released to download, the new build is 9A5248d, supports wireless syncing, and likely includes a hoard of bug fixes and improvements. The second <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> beta supports the same hardware as before, running on iPad 2 WiFi GSM & CDMA, iPad, iPhone 4 CDMA & GSM, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 3G & 4G. Backup your hardware and get downloading. <…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="377" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sRzLP0FJ82I?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/21/final-cut-pro-x-motion-5-and-compressor-4-released-as-downloads-on-mac-app-store/">recently released Final Cut Pro X</a> hasn’t exactly received the warmest welcome by longtime Final Cut users, and now thanks to Conan O’Brien (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/04/mac-setups-conan-obrien-uses-a-macbook/">he’s a Mac user</a> by the way), Final Cut Pro is the butt of a hilarious late night TV sketch. </p> …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/team-fortress-2-free.jpg" alt="Team Fortress 2 is Now Free" title="team-fortress-2-free" width="620" height="110" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17839" /></p> <p><strong>Team Fortress 2 is now completely free</strong> to download and to play online. No strings attached. That’s right, one of the most popular and highly rated online multiplayer games of all time is now being given away for free.</p> <p>This could very well be the best free online game for the Mac platform. If you haven’t played Team Fortress 2 before but you like …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mac-os-x-10-6-8.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.6.8" title="mac-os-x-10-6-8" width="592" height="435" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17831" /></p> <p>Fire up Software Update, Mac OS X 10.6.8 has been released. The update prepares your Mac for installing <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> when it is released next month and includes other bug and security fixes.</p> <p><strong>Direct Download Links for Mac OS X 10.6.8</strong> If you don’t want to go the Software Update route, here are the direct …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bamboo-paper.jpg" alt="Bamboo Paper for iPad" title="bamboo paper" width="620" height="407" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17821" /></p> <p>Steve Jobs famously said <em>“if you see a stylus, they blew it”</em> with regard to touch screens, but don’t tell that to Wacom. They just released a nice sketching and note taking app for the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> called Bamboo Paper. The app is intended for use with a stylus (shh, don’t tell Steve Jobs) and looks to improve the quick sketch experience on the …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/make-your-own-ipad-book-case.jpg" alt="Make Your Own iPad Book Case" title="make-your-own-ipad-book-case" width="620" height="424" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17792" /></p> <p>If you’ve always liked the idea of hiding your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> in a discrete case, why not build your own out of an old book? This is a great idea and it’s pretty simple, you don’t need much to get it done either:</p> <ul> <li>An old book that is a bit larger than the iPad</li> <li>Pencil</li&g…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="iOS 5 Widgets" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ios-5-videos.jpg" title="iOS 5 Widgets" class="aligncenter" width="620" height="355" /></p> <p>Soon users may not need to jailbreak in order <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/10/custom-widgets-in-ios-5-possible/">to get custom widgets</a> on the iPhone with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a>. At least, that’s what a recent patent granted to Apple suggests. </p> <p>Multiple references of widgets, custom widgets, and user created widgets using a “widget creator module” are reference in th…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/github-mac.jpg" alt="Github for Mac" title="github-mac" width="620" height="472" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17762" /></p> <p>If you use GitHub for version control or just to share and manage code, you ought to grab the brand new GitHub client for Mac OS X. It’s a great looking app that lets you find and manage repositories, check commit history and changes, sync and view branches, create and merge branches, compare and rollback commits, and everything else you’d expect from a version control client and the social code sharing site.</p> <p&g…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/uiiQ7.jpg"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/linen-apple.jpg" alt="Linen wallpaper with Apple logo" title="linen-apple" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17750" /></a></p> <p>The latest developer preview of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> includes a nice looking new login screen that features an Apple logo placed over the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/10/linen-wallpaper-from-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-mission-control/">ubiquitous Lion linen</a>. If just plain linen wasn…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iphone-5.jpg" alt="iPhone 5 set for September" title="iphone-5" width="200" height="372" class="alignright size-full wp-image-17745" /> The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-5/">next iPhone</a> will be released in September, according to a new report from <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-22/apple-said-to-prepare-faster-iphone-for-september.html">Bloomberg</a>. Citing several sources with apparent knowledge of Apple’s plans, here’s what Bloomberg seems to confirm about iPhone 5:</p> <ul> <li>A5 CPU, same as iPad…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/time-capsule.jpg" alt="Time Capsule" title="time-capsule" width="620" height="194" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17731" /></p> <p>You can plug any USB hard drive into a Time Capsule and expand the available disk space of the Time Capsule that way. This is then accessible as usual as a Network Attached Storage device for your Mac backups or whatever, and you can then even directly backup wirelessly to that external drive connected to the Time capsule using <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/time-machine/">Time Machine</a>.</p> <p>A…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/firefox-5.jpg" alt="Firefox 5 is now available" title="firefox-5" width="620" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17723" /></p> <p>Firefox 5 is hot off the digital presses for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, Linux, Windows, and Android. The new version is said to include over 1000 improvements and performance enhancements, with better HTML5, support for CSS animations, better tab handling, bug fixes, and more, but there’s nothing visibly different from 4.0 when you first launch the app.</p> <p&…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/clean-lion-install.jpg" alt="Clean Mac OS X Lion Install" title="clean-lion-install" width="620" height="495" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17701" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> is around the corner, and mixed in with the excitement is some frustration based on a misunderstanding of the system requirements. The latest bout of frustration comes from a post on <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/21/lion-clean-install-requires-snow-leopard-disk/">MacRumors</a> titled <em>“Lio…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/final-cut-pro-x.jpg" alt="Final Cut Pro X" title="final-cut-pro-x" width="516" height="168" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17691" /></p> <p>Apple unleashed several major updates to its professional video editing software suite this morning, featuring Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4. Final Cut Pro X was rebuilt from the ground up and is said to reinvent video editing. Apple’s SVP Phil Schiller expresses his enthusiasm:</p> <blockquote><p>“Final Cut Pro X is the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cu…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mac-app-icon.jpg" alt="Uninstalling a Mac application is easy" title="Uninstalling a Mac application is easy" width="200" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-17660" /> Uninstalling applications from <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> is probably the easiest method of removing apps from any operating system, and it’s far easier on a Mac than anything you’ll encounter in the Windows world. It’s so simple that some new Mac users are left wondering what else they’re supposed to do, I have received several family tech support …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hide-facebook.jpg" alt="Disguise Facebook" title="hide-facebook" width="620" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17676" /></p> <p>Just what you’ve been waiting for. Now you can hide your Facebook usage in plain sight with a crafty app called ExcellBook. That screenshot you see up top is Excellbook in use, it makes Facebook look like some boring old MS Excel spreadsheet, creating just about the best Facebook disguise I’ve ever seen. </p> <p>Even the app icon looks kind of Microsoft Office-ish, which makes Excellbook a very sneaky cove…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="600" height="371" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bcpF9P-1iqI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Ever wondered how <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> would work with a large touch screen? Curious how <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> would perform on a bigger screen than the iPad’s 9.7″ display? These videos will show you how both of Apple’s fine OS’s look on a 21″ touch panel. The Mac OS X video is shown above and the iOS video is embedded below.</p> <p><span id="more-17648"></span> &…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/three-fingered-tap-dictionary-lion.jpg" alt="Three Fingered Tap in Lion for a Dictionary" title="three-fingered-tap-dictionary-lion" width="620" height="382" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17638" /></p> <p>Applying a three-fingered tap on any word in a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> native apps brings up a pop-up dictionary, thesaurus, and even a Wikipedia entry on that word. If the summary isn’t enough information, you can select to read more directly from the QuickLook-esque popup. </p> <p&…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/apple-assets-buy-competitors.png" alt="Apple Cash could Buy Competitors" title="apple-assets-buy-competitors" width="515" height="394" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17626" /></p> <p>The next time you hear someone talking trash about the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> or Apple’s future in the mobile world, present this impressive fact: Apple has enough cash that it could buy outright most of it’s hardware competitors in the mobile phone industry. </p> <p>Yes, as ridiculous as that sounds, Apple could bu…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ipad-2-ios5-gaming.jpg" alt="iPad 2 and iOS 5 AirPlay make a gaming console" title="ipad-2-ios5-gaming" width="602" height="316" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17616" /></p> <p>The iOS line is gearing up to be a viable contendor in the video game console world, thanks largely to the new wireless AirPlay video mirroring feature coming in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a>. </p> <p>It works like this: an Apple TV2 becomes a wireless receiver that an iOS 5 equipped iPad 2 can then export it’s screen to, the TV can th…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ios-5.jpg" alt="iOS 5" title="ios-5" width="200" height="198" class="alignright size-full wp-image-17603" /> If you run <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-beta-1-download/">iOS 5 beta 1</a> on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you might be interested to know the beta includes an automatic <strong>expiration date of August 4th</strong>. </p> <p>For those with proper access to the newest beta releases from iOS Dev Center, this won’t be an issue as long as you upgrade to the newest betas as they become available from Apple. This …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/steam.jpg" alt="Steam" title="Steam" width="600" height="253" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17594" /></p> <p>Did you just get a new Mac? Maybe you upgraded your hard drive and went with a clean <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> install, but you want to maintain all of your Steam saved games from the old drive so you can pick up where you left off. </p> <p>Instead of redownloading everything, you can preserve your bandwidth and copy the files directly. Steam makes this easy to do by storing all game fi…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/macbook-air-college.jpg" alt="Studying with a MacBook Air" title="macbook-air-college" width="620" height="391" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17587" /></p> <p>Sometimes the best way to avoid distraction when trying to work is to isolate other components and hardware, so I really like the simplicity of this <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a>. It’s just the essentials, a MacBook Air 13″, some school books, and coffee, nothing to pull your attention away.</p> <p>Most students are out for the summer, bu…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="377" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TFFkK2SmPg4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has started to air a new iPad 2 commercial on TV, it’s titled “Now” and follows a similar theme to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/ipad-2-if-you-asked-commercial/">other</a> two <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/03/ipad-2-commercial-we-believe/">recent</a> <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipad-2-commercial/">iPad 2 TV ads</a>. </p> <p><em>“Now we can watch a newspaper, listen to a magazine, curl up with …
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