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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/apple-backlit-keyboard-setting.png" alt="Apple Backlit Keyboard Setting from 2011 iMac" title="apple-backlit-keyboard-setting" width="485" height="208" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15605" /></p> <p>The brand new updated iMacs for 2011 include a seemingly out of place setting in the Keyboard System Preferences: Keyboard Illumination. That’s right, despite being a desktop machine that ships with the same familiar keyboards we all currently know, the new iMac includes the same keyboard illumination option that MacBook Pro’s do. Does this <a href="http:…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Mac-custom-toolbar-folders.jpg" alt="Mac Finder custom toolbar folders" title="Mac-custom-toolbar-folders" width="619" height="312" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15568" /></p> <p>This is a neat trick I accidentally discovered: you can drag folders into any <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> Finder window toolbar and it will stick allowing for easy access. </p> <p>Additionally, if you drag some of your core ~/ directories into the toolbar they’ll stay in place with custom icons like you can see in the s…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="377" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Um4gLMZDXkA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has released a new iPad 2 commercial titled “If You Asked” and it follows well in the footsteps of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/03/ipad-2-commercial-we-believe/">“We Believe”</a> TV ad that first launched with the device. The audio of the commercial says:</p> <blockquote><p>If you ask a parent, they might call it intuitive… if you ask a musician, they might call it inspiring… to a doctor, it’s groundbreaking… to a CEO, it’s powerf…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ipad-facebook-feed.jpg" alt="iPad Facebook Feed Stream" title="ipad-facebook-feed" width="620" height="376" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15587" /></p> <p>Are you addicted to the Facebook news feed? You can turn your iPad into an automatically updating Facebook news stream thanks to a free little web app called FNews. Featuring a simple and minimalist interface with attractive typography and large text, the webapp is perfect to sit on an otherwise idle iPad (or iPhone too) and give you constant updates from the world of Facebook. </p> <p>&l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/google-chrome-canary-mac.jpg" alt="Google Chrome Canary for Mac" title="google-chrome-canary-mac" width="588" height="178" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15576" /></p> <p>Want to help test Chrome development releases and be on the absolute cutting edge of web browser development? Try out the newly released Google Chrome Canary for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, which Google says is aimed at the “bravest” of Chrome users. </p> <p>Chrome Canary installs as a separate app to the stable Chrome builds, …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/memtest-for-mac.jpg" alt="MemTest for Mac" title="memtest-for-mac" width="610" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15556" /></p> <p>If you have recently <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/29/does-your-mac-need-more-memory-how-to-know-if-you-need-a-ram-upgrade/">upgraded your Mac RAM</a> or are experiencing strange system crashes, it’s a good idea to test your memory modules integrity using a free tool called memtest. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Download MemTest for Mac for Free</h2> <p>Memtest is from…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/delete-apps-mac-lion-easier.jpg" alt="Lion makes uninstalling apps easier in Mac OS X" title="delete-apps-mac-lion-easier" width="395" height="210" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15541" /></p> <p>Uninstalling apps from Mac OS X is set to get even easier in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Lion</a>, thanks to usability cues taken from iOS. Using Launchpad, you’ll be able to just click and hold on an icon to cause the familiar icon jiggle and “X” to appear, click the X and the app will delete.</p> <p>One quirk thoug…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/portal-2-sale.jpg" alt="Portal 2 Sale" title="portal-2-sale" width="260" height="350" class="alignright size-full wp-image-15530" /> <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/19/portal-2-for-mac/">Portal 2</a> is arguably the most popular game on the market right now, and if you have the patience to wait a few days for the game to arrive you can buy the game from Amazon at a 40% discount <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I0JIQW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B002I0JIQW">fo…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>This is somewhat tasteless humor that pokes fun at recent world events and the somewhat overblown <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/20/track-iphone-location-iphone-tracker/">iPhone tracking thing</a>.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/iphone-tracking-bin-laden-joke.jpg" alt="iPhone tracking Osama Bin Laden joke" title="iphone-tracking-bin-laden-joke" width="620" height="1006" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15523" /></p> <p>Apple has since come forward and announced a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/27/iphone-tracking-bug-software-fix-coming/">…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/change-terminal-appearance-inspector.jpg" alt="Change Terminal Appearance with Inspector" title="change-terminal-appearance-inspector" width="620" height="324" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15510" /></p> <p>You can quickly change the appearance of any <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">Terminal</a> window by using the Inspector tool. With Terminal.app launched and at least one window open, hit <strong>Command+i</strong> to bring up the Inspector utility, then click on the “Settings” tab. Here you’ll see a list o…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/timed-screen-shot-mac.jpg" alt="Timed Screen Shot in Mac OS X" title="timed-screen-shot-mac" width="471" height="246" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15461" /></p> <p>You can take time delayed screenshots in Mac OS X by using the Grab utility or the Terminal. Grab and Terminal are bundled with every Mac in your /Applications/Utilities/ directory, find them there or launch it with Spotlight (Command+Space). We’ll cover Grab first because it’s more user friendly and doesn’t involve the command line.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.1em;">Timed Screen…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/four-eared-cat-ipad-engraving-error.jpg" alt="Four eared cat iPad 2 engraving error" title="four-eared-cat-ipad-engraving-error" width="615" height="707" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15497" /></p> <p>Thinking about engraving your new <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> with some custom ASCII art? Watch out, you might end up with a few extra appendages on your ASCII drawings.</p> <p>This cat:</p> <p><code>^---^ = ' . ' =</code></p> <p>turned into this mutant four eared cat…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/verizon-iphone-4-2-7-untether.jpg" alt="Untether Verizon iPhone iOS 4.2.7 Tool" title="verizon-iphone-4-2-7-untether" width="300" height="304" class="alignright size-full wp-image-15490" /> Verizon iPhone 4 users can now untether their iOS 4.2.7 <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> thanks to a new Verizon Untether tool available on Cydia. All you need to do is install the package from Cydia on a currently tethered phone and it will become untethered, it’s very easy:</p> <ul> <li>Launch Cydia and add the following rep: ht…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/apple-product-feedback.jpg" alt="Apple product feedback" title="apple-product-feedback" width="567" height="227" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15471" /></p> <p>Dying to let Apple know how you feel about the iPhone? Do you have a great idea on how to make the MacBook Pro even better? Do you know of a way to improve the efficiency of a product? Stop keeping this stuff to yourself, you can give Apple feedback directly about products, and they actually encourage it!</p> <p>Head on over to <a href="http://www.apple.com/feedback/">Apple.co…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/lots-of-macbook-pro-macbook-air.jpg" alt="MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs" title="MacBook Insanity" width="620" height="477" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15345" /></p> <p>If you dream of Mac laptops you’ll like this one. From the looks of things, there’s a MacBook Pro 15″, MacBook Air 13″, MacBook Pro 13″, MacBook Air 11″, and a mystery Mac behind the the top two (maybe another MacBook Air 13?). All these Macs belong to <a href="http://log.maniacalrage.net/post/4580416254/macbook-insanity-view-bigger-at-flickr-this">Garrett Murray of ManiacalRage&l…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mac-lion-reading-list.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion Reading List feature" title="mac-lion-reading-list" width="492" height="283" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15477" /></p> <p>Apple looks to be developing a new bookmarking feature in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> that allows users to select web content for reading later. The feature is called Reading List and appears to behave much like Instapaper and ReadItLater, but is currently disabled in Lion Developer Builds of Safari. </p> <p><a href="htt…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mac-os-x-lion-dev-preview-2-update-2.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion Dev Preview 2 Update 2" title="mac-os-x-lion-dev-preview-2-update-2" width="620" height="287" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15455" /></p> <p>A nondescript update to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> Developer Preview 2 has been released to developers via Software Update. The description is only that it is “recommended for all users running Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 2″ and likely focuses on bug fixes and feature refinements.</p> <p>…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/apple-phone-patent-1985.gif" alt="Apple phone patent from 1985" title="apple-phone-patent-1985" width="604" height="347" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15449" /></p> <p>Long before the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, there was… an Apple phone? I don’t know if this is real, if it was actually patented by Apple Inc, or if it was ever produced, but it certainly looks like someones brilliant high-tech idea from 1985. Who wouldn’t want to be talking into a flip apple phone? </p> <p>For more <a href="http:…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="377" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hSePkhbpZIE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines wondering why you should <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you’re probably not alone. There’s plenty of reasons, but the video above lets us hear a few directly from Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, of Cydia fame. His main pitch is that <strong>jailbreaking gives you the freedom to do things outside of the normal scope of applications</strong>, including:</p> …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>Much like you can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/22/monitor-mac-os-x-filesystem-usage-access-with-opensnoop/">monitor Mac OS X filesystem usage</a> through the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a>, you can also discover what apps are currently using your internet connection.</p> <p>Here are two ways to do this, the first provides easy to read output and will print names of applications and processes that are connecting to the outside world:</p> <p><code>lsof -nPi | cut -f 1 -d " "| uniq | tail -n +2</code></p> <p>Running t…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/reveal-location-of-item-in-mac-finder.jpg" alt="Reveal Finder location of item from Open and Save dialog box" title="reveal-location-of-item-in-mac-finder" width="551" height="392" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15401" /></p> <p>You can instantly reveal the location of any item in the Finder from an Open and Save dialog box by <strong>selecting the item and then hitting Command+R</strong>. Regardless of the app, this will immediately switch to the Finder and open the containing folder of the item you selected. Try it out, this is much faster …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sync-ipad-iphone-same-time.jpg" alt="Sync iPhone and iPad at the same time with a single cable" title="sync-ipad-iphone-same-time" width="600" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15417" /></p> <p>The more iOS devices you get, the more sync and charger cables you have laying around, and the more you feel the pinch of only having so many USB ports. If you want to sync your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>, you have to unplug your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, if you want to s…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/South-Park-HUMANCENTiPAD1.jpg" alt="South Park HumancentiPad Episode" title="South-Park-HUMANCENTiPAD" width="620" height="323" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15413" /></p> <p>Apple and the iPad got a good roasting last night on the South Park season opener, the episode is called HumancentiPad and it’s full of crass humor. The episode rips on Apple, the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/27/iphone-tracking-bug-software-fix-coming/">iPhone tracking controversy</a>, the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>, Apple …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/super-mario-brothers-clone-iphone.jpg" alt="Super Mario Brothers rip-off" title="super-mario-brothers-clone-iphone" width="480" height="360" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15394" /></p> <p>This won’t last long. A blatant rip-off of Super Mario Brothers has appeared for sale on the iOS App Store. Other than having slightly renamed characters, the game (called 莫尼诺拯救总动员 which translates roughly to “The Save Monino Story”), is practically identical to Super Mario Brothers. Here’s the ridiculous description:</p> <blockquote><p>The protagoni…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/show-only-active-apps-mac-dock.jpg" alt="Show active apps only in Mac OS X Dock" title="show-only-active-apps-mac-dock" width="619" height="143" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15337" /></p> <p>Here’s a great trick if you prefer a minimalist <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> desktop and Dock: set the Dock to only display currently active apps. Launch the Terminal and enter the following command:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool TRUE</code></p> <p>Now …
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