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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iOS-5-features.jpg" alt="iOS 5 features" title="iOS-5-features" width="620" height="206" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17002" /></p> <p>You know that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-release-date-fall-2011/">iOS 5 will be released in the Fall</a>, but what are the latest and greatest features? Here are some of the most exciting features that were shown off by Apple at WWDC 2011:</p> <p><span id="more-16987"></span></p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Notification Center</h2> <p>iO…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ios-5-release-date.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Release Date" title="ios-5-release-date" width="550" height="363" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16983" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> is jam packed with new and awesome features, so when can you get your hands on it? Developers will get beta builds today, but <strong>the iOS 5 public release date is set for Fall of 2011</strong>. From the looks of it, it’s well worth the wait.</p> <p>The next natural question is, what hardware is iOS 5 going to be compa…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lion-available-only-from-mac-app-store.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion available only from the Mac App Store" title="lion-available-only-from-mac-app-store" width="600" height="399" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16974" /></p> <p>Some of the biggest <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> related news from WWDC 2011:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will be publicly released in July</strong> – this fits in line with Apple’s expected ‘summer 2011′ release announcement</li> <li>&…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/app-store-promo-code-error.jpg" alt="Mac App Store promo code redemption error" title="app-store-promo-code-error" width="553" height="150" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16961" /></p> <p>One of our readers sent in this screenshot with a funny looking error code they got when trying to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/17/how-to-redeem-an-app-store-promo-code-mac-app-store-ios-app-store/">redeem a promo code on the App Store</a>. It’s a sloppy error, spilling over the allocated space and dumping some object name or something onto the user.…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/isteve-book-of-jobs.jpg" alt="iSteve Book of Jobs biography" title="isteve-book-of-jobs" width="378" height="370" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16950" /></p> <p>The official and exclusive biography of Steve Jobs is now available for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451648537/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217153&creative=399701&creativeASIN=1451648537">pre-order on Amazon</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=1451648537&camp=217153&creative=3997…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="377" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mmiWTKZzBLY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>This is where it all started from, the classic “Hello” iPhone commercial that featured all the scenes of famous actors answering phones in famous movies. Airing on Oscars night in February of 2007, this was the first commercial to show off the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, a full four months before it was officially released in June of 2007. </p> <p>Seems like a while ago doesn’t it? </p> </div> <p><a h…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/call-of-duty-4.jpg" alt="Call of Duty 4" title="call-of-duty-4" width="620" height="385" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16935" /></p> <p>The highly acclaimed first-person shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is on sale this weekend for Mac OS X gamers through <a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479">MacUpdate Promo</a> for just $23.99. For comparison, it’s $35.99 on the Mac App Store or $24.88 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00134G3AS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217153&creative=399349…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dicom-viewer-mac.jpg" alt="OsiriX DICOM MRI Imagery Viewer for Mac OS X" title="dicom-viewer-mac" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16917" /></p> <p>Files from medical imaging devices like MRI’s, ultrasound, PET, CT scans, etc come as a collection of .DCM files which will not open on their own through just any image or video application. No big deal, because I came across some pretty amazing software for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/my-app-updates-automatic-download.jpg" alt="Automatic Download in iTunes leak" title="my-app-updates-automatic-download" width="613" height="121" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16909" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> has been long rumored to include wireless syncing and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/05/ios-5-over-the-air-ota-updates/">over-the-air updates</a>, and now at least part of this feature seems to be confirmed through a brief leak on iTunes. <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/0…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/white-vs-black-ipad-iphone.jpg" alt="White vs Black iPad and iPhones" title="white-vs-black-ipad-iphone" width="620" height="419" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15743" /></p> <p>Sometimes deciding between black and white is too difficult, so why not choose both? Ok so the black <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> is actually an original model and not an iPad 2 like the white model, but who cares. Not quite a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a>, but close enough.</p> <p>Im…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mobilenotifier-possible-ios-5-notification-system.png" alt="possibly the new iOS 5 notification system" title="mobilenotifier-possible-ios-5-notification-system" width="620" height="181" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16897" /></p> <p>Is this what the new <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> notification system will look like? That’s the question on everyones mind now that there has been confirmation that the developer of MobileNotifier is working for Apple. </p> <p>For those who don’t know, MobileNotifier is a popu…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/click-to-play-flash-chrome.jpg" alt="Click to Play Flash in Chrome" title="click-to-play-flash-chrome" width="464" height="143" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16887" /></p> <p>Rather than <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/24/turn-off-flash-chrome/">disabling Flash completely in Chrome</a>, why not enable a hidden “Click to Play” feature that prevents the plugin from automatically loading? This option does not require any additional plugin downloads, it’s built right into new versions of the Chrome browser:</p> <h2 style="font-siz…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>You can quickly retrieve active DNS server IP addresses on any Mac by using the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/networksetup/">networksetup</a> utility. Launch the Terminal and type the following:</p> <p><code>networksetup -getdnsservers airport</code></p> <p>Note that I’m specifying ‘airport’ because I primarily use a wireless connection, but you could also specify ethernet and bluetooth.</p> <p>Assuming there are several DNS servers set within Mac OS X’s networking preferences, you will see a report of each DNS server in the order of their priority, looking something lik…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ipad2-kidney.jpg" alt="Kidney iPad 2" title="Kidney sold to buy iPad 2" width="600" height="450" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16862" /></p> <p>Some stories are so outrageous they are hard to believe, and this is a big <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/wtf/">WTF</a>: a 17 year old boy in China sold his kidney to an organ broker so that he could buy an iPad 2. </p> <p>As if this story didn’t sound bad enough, now comes the extra bad part; the hospital that performed the kidney extraction was not qualified to do so, and now the kid…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>A post on <a href="http://www.hardmac.com/news/2011/06/03/mac-os-lion-server-will-not-come-for-free">HardMac</a> suggests that any <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> installation will be upgradeable to Lion Server via a paid update through the Mac App Store. This was discovered by a French reader who apparently has or had access to different Lion Help documents than what exists on Apple’s US servers, since we were unable to verify this ourselves.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lion-server-from-app-store.jpg" alt="Lion Server downloa…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/31/mac-os-x-update-removes-malware-maintains-malware-definition-list/">malware protecting Mac OS X Security Update</a> will automatically download and update it’s malware definitions list from Apple, but if you’re like me you probably want to know how to manually check if the list is updated or not. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Check When the Mac Malware Definitions List was Last Updated</h2> <p>You’ll need to use the command line for this but it’s simple:</p> <ul> <li>Launch the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/)</li> <l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/6-things-ios-needs-from-windows-8.jpg" alt="6 Things that iOS Needs from Windows 8" title="6-things-ios-needs-from-windows-8" width="620" height="285" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16829" /></p> <p>Putting on my bullet proof vest here, dare I say there’s some features shown in the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/02/windows-8-video-demo/">Windows 8 demo video</a> that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> and even <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> would greatly benefit from? &l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="600" height="371" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p92QfWOw88I?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Competition is heating up as everyone races to catch up to Apple’s runaway success with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a>. Now Microsoft is throwing it’s hat into the touch and tablet ring with their first video demo of Windows 8. Clearly influenced in part by the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> but still adding a unique twist to touch interfaces, Microsoft’s demo video of Windows 8 is actually pretty impressive. There’s…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lion-cheap-with-icloud.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion to be cheap and include some iCloud services, maybe" title="lion-cheap-with-icloud" width="620" height="385" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16796" /></p> <p>A new report indicates that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> will be “aggressively priced” and include free access to some of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/01/possible-icloud-feature-list/">expected iCloud features and services</a> as an added incentive for Mac users to upgrade. &l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/possible-icloud-features.jpg" alt="Possible iCloud Features" title="possible-icloud-features" width="620" height="319" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16789" /></p> <p>Not much is known about iCloud other than that Apple will officially <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/31/wwdc-2011-steve-jobs-mac-os-x-lion-ios-5-icloud-confirmed-macbook-air-iphone-4s-maybe/">unveil the service next week at WWDC alongside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and iOS 5</a>. The most obvious aspect of these three products launching alongside one another is that they’ll all be …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/opt-out-of-mac-malware-updates.jpg" alt="Opt out of daily updates to Mac Malware definition list" title="opt-out-of-mac-malware-updates" width="620" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16758" /></p> <p>A recent <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/31/mac-os-x-update-removes-malware-maintains-malware-definition-list/">anti-malware Mac OS X security update</a> was released that defaults to automatically downloading and maintaining an active definitions list of known Mac OS X malware threats. This list comes from Apple and is likely a ve…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mac-os-x-security-update-anti-malware.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Security Update for Anti-Malware" title="mac-os-x-security-update-anti-malware" width="591" height="234" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16747" /></p> <p>Apple has released a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> software update labeled “Security Update 2011-003″ for Mac OS X 10.6.7 that includes a native malware removal tool. </p> <p>The focus of the update is on the MacDefender malware scam and its variants, now referred to as “OSX.MacDefender.A”. O…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/dashboard-mac-patent.gif" alt="New Dashboard patent for Mac OS X" title="dashboard-mac-patent" width="620" height="415" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16729" /></p> <p>A new patent has been discovered that details a revised Dashboard system in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> that allows for multiple Dashboard environments and a new method of managing widgets. On the surface, that might not seem too exciting since Dashboard has been around for ages, but when you look at the patent diagrams, see the inventor list, …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/wwdc-2011.jpg" alt="WWDC 2011" title="wwdc-2011" width="620" height="306" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16716" /></p> <p>The usually tightlipped Apple has dropped a few bombs this morning, announcing that none other than Steve Jobs himself will unveil Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud at WWDC 2011 on June 6. Did you catch that? Apple has confirmed much of what was only speculation until now. This is an unusual move for Apple, so let’s break it down:</p> <ul> <li>Steve Jobs is healthy enough to unveil major product announcements, altho…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/airport-icon.jpg" alt="AirPort Wireless icon" title="airport-icon" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-16611" /> Sometimes the easiest fix when <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/12/22/mac-wireless-problems-guide-to-troubleshooting-airport-wireless-problems-on-your-mac/">troubleshooting an AirPort wireless connection problem</a> is to just turn AirPort on and off. Instead of using the menu item or System Preferences, we can enable and disable AirPort very quickly directly from the Mac OS X Terminal. </p> <p><strong>Tu…
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