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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="Lion default wallpaper comparison" src="/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/new-fuji-vs-old-fuji-lion.jpg" class="aligncenter" width="620" height="292" /></p> <p>Last week we posted the newest version of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/02/new-mt-fuji-wallpaper-in-mac-os-x-lion-developer-preview-2/">Fuji Mountain default wallpaper from Lion</a> Developer Preview 2. If you haven’t seen it yet, I described it as a “rather large 3200×2000 pixels” and I didn’t think much of it beyond that. </p> <p>However, one of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/02/new-mt-fuji-wallpaper-in-mac-os…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/usb-flash-key-to-ipad-300x179.jpg" alt="usb-flash-key-to-ipad" title="usb-flash-key-to-ipad" width="300" height="179" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14465" /></p> <p>With the help of the iPad Camera Connection Kit, you can fool your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> into thinking a connected USB flash drive is a camera or SD card, this lets you pull pictures from the device and onto your iPad. Cool huh?</p> <p>Here’s how to do this:</p> <ul> <li>Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/hybrid-epaper-lcd-display-ipad.gif" alt="" title="hybrid-epaper-lcd-display-ipad" width="620" height="387" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14688" /></p> <p>A new patent shows that Apple may be working on a hybrid e-Paper and LCD display for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> that can switch between the two screens as needed. The patent details a multilayered screen where the entire display or just portions of it could change to offer either the incredi…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ios-app-not-supported-this-type-of-mac.jpg" alt="" title="ios-app-not-supported-this-type-of-mac" width="500" height="242" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14640" /></p> <p>This may or may not mean anything, but one of our readers sent in a tip that you get an interesting error message when trying to launch an iOS app in Mac OS X Lion:</p> <p>“You can’t open this application (App name) because it is not supported on this type of Mac”</p> <p>Does this suggest “this type of Mac” isn’t supported but another might be? Who knows, I fou…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/redsn0w-0-9-6-rc11.jpg" alt="" title="redsn0w-0-9-6-rc11" width="150" height="148" class="alignright size-full wp-image-14676" /> Redsn0w 0.9.6rc11 jailbreak for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/25/ios-4-3-1-download/">iOS 4.3.1</a> has been released by the iPhone Dev Team. The rc11 update includes minor fixes regarding Settings choices, and also includes the option to enable boot animations.</p> <p>Redsn0w 0.9.6rc11 will <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> the following hardware running 4.3.1: iPhone 3GS, iPho…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ipad-2-finder.jpg" alt="iPad 2 Finder for Target Stores" title="iPad 2 Finder for Target Stores" width="500" height="247" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14662" /></p> <p>So you’re still looking for an iPad 2? You’re not alone. The good news is <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/11/ipad-2-availability/">availability of iPad 2</a> is easing up just a tad, the bad news is you still have to move quick if you want one. </p> <p>In addition to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/15/check-ipad-2-stock-in-your-area/">checking iPa…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/explore-angrybirds-lite.jpg" alt="" title="explore-angrybirds-lite" width="620" height="456" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14645" /></p> <p>You can find some interesting things in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> apps that you’ve downloaded, all you need to do is extract the file from its container and then you’re free to browse around like any other application package. Here is how to do this:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Extract and explore contents of iOS apps within Mac OS X</h2> <p>We’ll use i…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/uncheck-iTunes-playlist.gif" alt="uncheck-iTunes-playlist" title="uncheck-iTunes-playlist" width="525" height="213" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14388" /></p> <p>You can immediately check or uncheck all songs in an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/itunes/">iTunes</a> playlist by <strong>holding down the Command key and then clicking on the checkbox next to any song</strong>. There is no undo, and it’s universal for everything in the selected playlist, so if you have a carefully curated playlist be careful when you’re using …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/thunderbolt-to-iphone-ipad.jpg" alt="" title="thunderbolt-to-iphone-ipad" width="620" height="316" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14630" /></p> <p>Information has surfaced that suggests high speed Thunderbolt ports are coming to future iterations of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>. The first is a patent for a hybrid DisplayPort/Thunderbolt & USB 3.0 connector that was found by <a href="http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/04/appl…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/old-apple-software.jpg" alt="" title="old-apple-software" width="597" height="399" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14623" /></p> <p>Long before the days of iPhones and App Stores, Apple software came on 5.25″ floppies and… cassette tapes. Here is an example of such a relic, a super <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">retro</a> tape of Lemonade Stand, an extremely simple Apple II game that taught kids the business basics of running a lemonade stand. <span id="more-14622"></span> This is from before my time but it’s fun t…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>You can start a FaceTime call from any web browser in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> with a custom URL. You can use the following with a standard href anchor tag:</p> <ul> <li>facetime://appleid</li> <li>facetime://email@address</li> <li>facetime://phonenumber</li> </ul> <p>Once a user clicks on the properly formed FaceTime URL, FaceTime.app will launch in Mac OS X or iOS and a video call will be initiated. In both cases, you’re required to have a FaceTime compatible…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>Yesterday we showed you how to setup a basic <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/05/setup-ssh-config-fie/">SSH Config file</a>, and here’s how to make that even more useful: enable tab completion for those SSH aliases.</p> <p>Throw this into ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc</p> <div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># Add Tab-completion for SSH host aliases</span> <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">complete</span> <span style="color: #660033;">…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/macbook-air-wake-from-sleep-fix.jpg" alt="" title="macbook-air-wake-from-sleep-fix" width="500" height="278" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14608" /></p> <p>After a bit of use, my MacBook Air 11.6″ started to exhibit a strange behavior, it refused to wake from sleep. I’d open the MacBook Air, hit every key imaginable, and the Mac just stayed asleep, nothing would get it to turn on. If you’re interested in this you’re probably affected too so before I talk a bit about the problem let me show you the fix that worked for me:</p> <p><strong&g…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ipad-video-mirroring.jpg" alt="" title="ipad-video-mirroring" width="620" height="394" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14598" /></p> <p>You can enable video mirroring on the first gen iPad and iPhone 4 by using a pretty simple hack. You’ll need a few things and some patience before you get started, but it’s really not that hard to get this setup and working.</p> <p>Here are the requirements:</p> <ul> <li>Apple VGA Adapter or Apple Digital AV Adapter for mirroring</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/0…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/show-folder-sizes-mac.jpg" alt="show-folder-sizes-mac" title="show-folder-sizes-mac" width="620" height="274" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14282" /></p> <p>This should probably be enabled by default, but the standard <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> list view setting is to not display the size of folders and their contents. No big deal, this is easily changed:</p> <ul> <li>First, make sure to select list view from a Finder window</li> <li>Now open “View Options” from the View men…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>If you use SSH even somewhat often, it would benefit you to setup a basic SSH config file. If you’re curious why, would you rather type something like this:</p> <p><code>ssh -p 6851 user@servername.domain.com</code></p> <p>Or just type:</p> <p><code>ssh name</code></p> <p>I know what I’d rather do, so let’s get this working. I’m going to use nano editor because it’s user friendly.</p> <p>Launch the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">Terminal</a> and type the following:</p> <p><code>nano ~/.ssh/config…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cannot-connect-mac-app-store.jpg" alt="cannot-connect-mac-app-store" title="cannot-connect-mac-app-store" width="617" height="280" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14522" /></p> <p>If you’re trying to access the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-app-store/">Mac App Store</a> and you are getting the “Cannot Connect to App Store” error, there’s a couple simple fixes you should try. First, make sure you’re connected to the internet (duh), then:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Relaunch Mac App Store</strong> – Try this first…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/steve-wozniak-apple.jpg" alt="steve-wozniak-apple" title="steve-wozniak-apple" width="470" height="346" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14512" /></p> <p>In a recent speech, Steve Wozniak compared tablets and the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> to TVs, and suggests that the iPad is the culmination of what <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> has long wanted to create at Apple; a consumer friendly appliance for everyone. </p> <p>Here are some of the better quotes via MacWorld…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>If you want to quickly backup a site through FTP, the absolute easiest way to do this is through the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a> using the wget command.</p> <p><code>wget -r ftp://username:password@domain.com/</code></p> <p>We’ve <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/03/19/how-to-easily-mirror-an-entire-web-site-locally/">used wget to mirror a website locally</a> before, it’s a powerful tool and is a worthwhile install if you’re an advanced user and don’t have it on your Mac already. Installing wget requires you to install <a href="ht…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/jailbreak-ios-4-3-1-redsn0w.jpg" alt="jailbreak-ios-4-3-1-redsn0w" title="jailbreak-ios-4-3-1-redsn0w" width="150" height="148" class="alignright size-full wp-image-14499" /> <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/03/redsn0w-0-9-6rc9-download/">Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9</a> is the first untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak that is available for both Mac OS X and Windows. Redsn0w is one of the easier <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> tools to use, just follow the instructions and you will be jailbroken in a few minutes.</p> <p>Thi…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/redsn0w-0-9-6-rc-9-download.jpg" alt="redsn0w-0-9-6-rc-9-download" title="redsn0w-0-9-6-rc-9-download" width="540" height="242" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14493" /></p> <p>Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 has been released for download, this is the first version of Redsn0w that will perform an untethered <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> with iOS 4.3.1. Redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 is compatible with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/25/ios-4-3-1-download/">iOS 4.3.1</a> on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pwnagetool-4-3-download.jpg" alt="pwnagetool-4-3-download" title="pwnagetool-4-3-download" width="141" height="134" class="alignright size-full wp-image-14489" /> PwnageTool 4.3 has been released, this is the first <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/24/tethered-jailbreak-vs-untethered-jailbreak/">untethered jailbreak</a> available for iOS 4.3.1 and works for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 GSM, iPod Touch 4G, iPod touch 3G, iPad, and Apple TV 2. Note that PwnageTool 4.3 will currently not jailbreak iPad 2 or the Verizon iPhone, or any hardware that is not compatible …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/shade-inactive-windows-mac.jpg" alt="shade-inactive-windows-mac" title="shade-inactive-windows-mac" width="620" height="380" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14484" /></p> <p>If you get easily distracted by things sitting around in the background, HazeOver might be for you. It’s a free utility that casts a shadow on all inactive windows, in other words, any window that isn’t in the foreground will be “hazed over.” Windows actually phase in and out of the shadow so it’s a neat effect even if you aren’t using it to minimize distraction and just want some add…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="610" height="373" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tyEpaPEbjzI?rel=0&hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has started to air the first iPad 2 commercial, it’s a bit different than their past TV ads but it’s still undeniably Apple. The commercial declares “This is what we believe; technology alone is not enough” it then goes on to describe the iPad 2 a bit, but it’s real message is that while the iPad 2 is amazing, it’s the people using it that make it so special. </p> <p>The commercial kind of reminds me of the recap video tha…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/show-itunes-equalizer.jpg" alt="show-itunes-equalizer" title="show-itunes-equalizer" width="592" height="143" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14215" /></p> <p>In a somewhat hidden feature of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/itunes/">iTunes</a>, you can display a music spectrum analyzer in place of the iTunes song info. All you need to do is click on the little play icon in the song info area, it’s highlighted below with an arrow pointing to it:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/show-itunes-eq…
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