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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/xbmc-on-appletv2.jpg" alt="xbmc on appletv2" title="xbmc on appletv2" width="610" height="343" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11984" /></p> <p>The excellent media center software XBMC has finally come to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/apple-tv/">Apple TV 2</a>, but beyond being a great media center, if you’re wondering why else you should care I’ll sum it up in one word: 1080p. Yes, using XBMC, you can unleash 1080p video playback on the $99 Apple TV2… the playback suffers from occasional choppiness on uncompressed bluray video, but h…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/password-protect-mac.jpg" alt="password protect mac" title="password protect mac" width="200" height="208" class="alignright size-full wp-image-11899" /> There are several steps to password protect a Mac, we’ll cover the essentials so that if someone is to turn on your Mac, wake it from a screensaver, or wake from sleep, they will be required to enter a password in order to use the computer.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Password protect system boot</h2> <p>This will require a password on system boot before anyone can use the Mac</p> <…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="610" height="373" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FlN3BgsV1nc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe></p> <p>The first <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/verizon-iphone/">Verizon iPhone</a> commercial has been released. The commercial is intriguing and features several clocks ticking before the message “To our millions of customers, who never stopped believing this day would come… Thank you” before finally flashing the Apple iPhone 4 logo, the Verizon swoosh, and the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/1…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/magic-mouse-touch-screen.jpg" alt="magic-mouse-touch-screen" title="magic-mouse-touch-screen" width="605" height="419" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11956" /></p> <p>Two new patents have surfaced that may provide a look into the future of Mac input devices. </p> <p>The first is for a Magic Mouse that has an integrated touch screen, which could adjust to display things like virtual buttons, keys, menus, text, and video. The patent application shows a diagram of the Magic Mouse displaying a virtual numeric keypad, but when you consider the Ma…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/show-mac-print-history.jpg" alt="show mac print history" title="show mac print history" width="594" height="247" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11845" /></p> <p>You can check your entire print history in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> by accessing the browser based CUPS utility. Here’s how:</p> <ul> <li>Launch your favorite web browser (I like Safari and Chrome)</li> <li>In the address bar type in: http://localhost:631</li> <li>Click on “Jobs” in the menu</li> …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ios-4-3-beta2-download.jpg" alt="ios 4-3-beta2-download" title="ios 4-3-beta2-download" width="578" height="167" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11946" /></p> <p>iOS 4.3 Beta 2 has just been made available for download as build 8F5153d. Just as the previous release of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> 4.3 beta, this release supports iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 3G and 4G. Older iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G models are left behind and not supported for the update.</p> <p>On the developer download site, …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/buy-starbucks-with-iphone.jpg" alt="buy starbucks with iphone" title="buy starbucks with iphone" width="610" height="429" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11924" /></p> <p>Welcome to the future, where your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> merges with your wallet…. You can now buy anything at Starbucks with your iPhone (or iPod touch), thanks to the Starbucks Card Mobile app. The app works by linking to a Starbucks gift card account, and when the app is launched it displays a barcode that can be scanned by the barista, m…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/airview-airplay-stream-iphone-to-iphone.jpg" alt="airview airplay stream iphone to iphone" title="airview airplay stream iphone to iphone" width="610" height="423" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11920" /></p> <p>AirView is a great new app that lets you stream any AirPlay video from one iOS device to another, or even stream from iTunes to an iOS device. AirView does this by accessing the AirPlay feature in iOS 4.2 to essentially turn any <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipod-touch/"…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mac-dock-spacer.jpg" alt="mac dock spacer" title="mac dock spacer" width="417" height="71" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11839" /></p> <p>You can add blank spacers to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> Dock by issuing a defaults write command in the Terminal, you can see the effect in the screenshot above with the space between the Firefox icon and iChat icon.</p> <p>To get a spacer paste the following command into the Terminal:</p> <p><code style="font-size:0.9em;">defaults writ…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/white-iphone-4-available-date-bestbuy4.jpg" alt="white iphone 4 available date bestbuy" title="white iphone 4 available date bestbuy" width="610" height="249" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11914" /></p> <p>Apple has publicly announced the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/26/white-iphone-4-release-date-spring-2011/">white iPhone 4 release date will be Spring</a> of this year, but if recent Best Buy inventory is to be believed, we may be seeing the elusive white iPhone 4 sooner.</p> <p>The image above comes from <a href="ht…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/apple-remote-control-mischief.jpg" alt="apple remote control mischief" title="apple remote control mischief" width="400" height="209" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11849" /></p> <p>I recently published a guide on <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/15/disable-apple-remote/">how to disable the Apple Remote Control</a>, and one of our readers wrote in with a good prank that demonstrates why you’d want to turn off the remote or at least pair one to your specific Mac:</p> <blockquote><p>Want to know why you should turn off th…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/lock-mac-screen.jpg" alt="lock mac screen" title="lock mac screen" width="497" height="278" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11885" /></p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Lock your Mac Screen</h2> <p>The absolute fastest and easiest way to lock the screen in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> is with a simple keyboard shortcut: <strong>Control+Shift+Eject</strong></p> <p>Hit that key combination and your Mac screen will go dark. This also locks the Mac screen, requiring a user to ent…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/app-store-expense-monitor.jpg" alt="app store expense monitor" title="app store expense monitor" width="608" height="290" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11873" /></p> <p>If you’ve ever wondered what your spending habits and expenses on the iTunes App Store have been, check out this free app from iOS developer WetFish. Appropriately named App Store Expense Monitor keeps a tab on all your iTunes App Store downloads and purchases and gathers them in an easy to sort app, the expenses can then be exported as either a CSV file or XML file for use elsewhere.<…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/steve-jobs-apple.jpg" alt="steve jobs apple" title="steve jobs apple" width="610" height="320" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11866" /></p> <p>Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is going on medical leave for an undetermined amount of time. Here is the email that Steve sent to his fellow Apple employees regarding the matter:</p> <blockquote><p>Team,</p> <p>At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for t…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/auto-accept-facetime-calls.jpg" alt="auto accept facetime calls" title="auto accept facetime calls" width="535" height="304" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11681" /></p> <p>You can set FaceTime to automatically accept incoming FaceTime calls from approved phone numbers or email addresses. You’ll need to have <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/20/facetime-for-mac-beta-download/">FaceTime for Mac</a> installed, and then use the Terminal and the defaults command:</p> <p><strong>Auto-accept FaceTime calls from a specified ema…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mac-app-store-install-updates.jpg" alt="mac app store install updates" title="mac app store install updates" width="610" height="290" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11860" /></p> <p>When an update is available for any apps installed through the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-app-store/">Mac App Store</a>, you will see the “Updates” icon light up blue and have a number on it, signifying the number of software updates that are available.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mac-app-store-updates.…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ipad-2-prices-leak.gif" alt="ipad 2 prices leak" title="ipad 2 prices leak" width="586" height="491" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11855" /></p> <p>There are <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/29/ipad-2-rumors-dual-core-cpu-usb-anti-glare-screen-cdma-gsm-version-etc/">so many iPad 2 rumors</a> floating around right now that they’re barely worth paying attention to, but here’s one that actually has a shred of evidence to back it up: the possible iPad 2 pricing structure.</p> <p>Best Buy temporarily added, and has since removed,…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/reset-iphone-passcode.jpg" alt="reset iphone passcode" title="reset iphone passcode" width="160" height="240" class="alignright size-full wp-image-11658" /> If you forgot your iPhone passcode you can bypass the lock screen completely and reset the passcode by using <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/08/iphone-recovery-mode/">iPhone recovery mode</a>. </p> <p><strong>Warning:</strong> This will require you to restore your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipod-to…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/disable-the-apple-remote.jpg" alt="disable the apple remote" title="disable the apple remote" width="443" height="232" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11832" /></p> <p>The Apple Remote Control used to be bundled with all new Macs, but unless the remote is paired specifically to your Mac a single remote can control multiple Macs at the same time. This is annoying if you’re trying to control a single Mac with the remote and suddenly FrontRow is activated on all other infrared capable <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> …
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/apple-mice.jpg" alt="apple mice" title="apple mice" width="610" height="457" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7209" /></p> <p>I just came across this picture on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/damianward/3561799981/">Flickr</a> and I think it’s a cool tribute to all the years of the Apple mouse. It’s missing the latest creations like the Magic Trackpad and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TLTGM6?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002TLTGM6">Magic Mouse</a&g…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tweet-from-finder-mac.jpg" alt="tweet from finder mac" title="tweet from finder mac" width="610" height="361" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11828" /></p> <p>The Twitter for Mac client has a great feature that lets you send tweets from just about anywhere in Mac OS X, including the Finder. I’ve tested this out in the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> Finder, iTunes, Chrome, Safari, iChat, TextEdit, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">Terminal</a>, and can confirm that this works all ove…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p>You can turn off the internal MacBook Pro screen and still use the computer as long as it’s hooked up to an external display, and no you don’t have to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/15/how-to-use-a-macbook-or-macbook-pro-with-the-lid-closed-and-hooked-to-an-external-monitor/">use it in clamshell mode</a> to achieve this. Here are two ways to keep your Mac laptop with the lid open but the internal display turned off:</p> <p><strong>Method 1) Turn Down the Brightness:</strong> You’ll first want to gather all the windows from the internal display and drag them to the external monitor. You’ll als…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/solar-powered-mac-iphone-ipad.gif" alt="solar powered mac iphone ipad" title="solar powered mac iphone ipad" width="610" height="319" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11817" /></p> <p>Apple was recently awarded a patent for solar powered portable devices, which could pave the way for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac/">Macs</a>, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhones</a>, and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPads</a> running on a solar supplemented power source. The patent, which is A…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/polaroid-iphone-sticker.jpg" alt="polaroid iphone sticker" title="polaroid iphone sticker" width="610" height="311" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11773" /></p> <p>If you’re a fan of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">retro</a> picture apps that have invaded the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, you’ll probably like this sticker which makes your iPhone look like an old Polaroid camera. Stick this on the back of your iPhone 4 and pair it with Instagram or Hipstamatic and you can pretend you’r…
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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/software-update-command-line-mac.gif" alt="software-update-command-line-mac" title="software-update-command-line-mac" width="531" height="209" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11677" /></p> <p>You can check for available updates, ignore packages, and install any or all <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> Software Updates directly from the command line.</p> <p>To get a list of available software updates, type the following command:</p> <p><code>softwareupdate -l</code></p> &l…
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