Archives
An archive of older threads and posts that may or may not be removed in the future.
12217 topics in this forum
-
- 0 replies
- 431 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/oreo-macbook.jpg" alt="oreo macbook" title="oreo macbook" width="610" height="579" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6735" /></p> <p>Here’s a cool MacBook mod, a user attached a black MacBook bezel on his white MacBook, creating an Oreo MacBook. I have a white MacBook and always imagined doing this and swapping in a black keyboard too after seeing the MacBook Pro come out with their black bezels and keys. Definitely a great mod and I think it’s one of the more creative <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setups</a> around.<…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 494 views
At one point, most computer users end up needing more space to store data on their computers. We have learned from the world of netbooks and ultraportable notebooks that many of us can get along with an integrated optical drive. It’s very hard to get along when you run out of storage space though. Read the Rest @ OWC
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 432 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3DMicrosoft%2520Office%25202011%2520Mac%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Dsoftware&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/buy-office-2011-for-mac-discount1.jpg" alt="buy office 2011 for mac discount" title="buy office 2011 for mac discount" width="459" height="250" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9307" /></a><img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=ur2&a…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 660 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/determine-if-mac-needs-more-ram.jpg" alt="determine if mac needs more ram" title="determine if mac needs more ram" width="80" height="53" class="alignright size-full wp-image-9275" /> Does your Mac need more memory? How can you tell? Often when a Mac needs more RAM things will start slowing down and you’ll suffer a noticeable performance hit. </p> <p>Here’s a 3-step process of how I determine if a Mac user needs additional memory. Using this method you can determine if you need more memory for your Mac too. <span id="more-9269"></span> <strong …
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 413 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/delete-whole-words-at-a-time.jpg" alt="delete whole words at a time" title="delete whole words at a time" width="610" height="156" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8827" /></p> <p>You can delete entire typed words by holding down the Option key while you use the Delete key.</p> <p>As far as I can tell this works all over Mac OS X and in most apps, including Safari, TextEdit, Terminal, Finder, iTunes, iChat, and more.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/hHI7fuuB2R0WGUgFHMHbYw7YHMU/0/da"><img s…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 700 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/buy-parallels-6-cheap.jpg" alt="buy parallels 6 cheap" title="buy parallels 6 cheap" width="140" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-9261" /> Do you want to buy Parallels 6 for $13.99, including free shipping? This looks like a one day only deal, but what a deal it is. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">How to score Parallels 6 for $13.99</h2> <p>Here’s the deal, Parallels 5 is offered on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ffeature.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26linkCode%3D…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 431 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/white-iphone-discontinued.jpg" alt="white iphone discontinued" title="white iphone discontinued" width="610" height="264" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9251" /></p> <p>Select your iPhone, as long as it’s not white. Has the White iPhone 4 been discontinued? The device is now missing from the Apple Store’s iPhone purchase page, which has led to speculation that the white model has been discontinued entirely. </p> <p>The prevailing theory is that Spring of 2011 is close to what is typically the launch date of a new iPhone, thus Apple won’t pro…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 668 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/send-trash-file-to-original-location.jpg" alt="send trash file to original location" title="send trash file to original location" width="610" height="307" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9149" /></p> <p>You can undo a file or multiple files move to the Trash, returning them to their location prior to deletion. It’s easy:</p> <ul> <li>Open the Trash can</li> <li>Select the file(s) you want to put back in their original location</li> <li>Right-click on the file(s)</li> <li>Choose “Put Back” to send …
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 431 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/alternate-mac-os-x-names.jpg" alt="alternate mac os x names" title="alternate mac os x names" width="610" height="561" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9236" /></p> <p>Apparently Apple ran the gamut of the entire animal kingdom while deciding on a creature to brand their new operating system with. After taking a look at some of the options, they finally settled on <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/20/mac-os-x-10-7-lion-features-screen-shots-mac-os-x-meets-ios/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a>. </p> <p>OK not really, if you’ve followed Ap…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 398 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/edit-iphone-home-screen-itunes.jpg" alt="edit iphone home screen itunes" title="edit iphone home screen itunes" width="610" height="442" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8755" /></p> <p>You can change the placement of icons on your iPhone or iPod touch much faster by moving them around directly within iTunes. </p> <ul> <li>Plug your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into your Mac or PC</li> <li>Launch iTunes</li> <li>Select your iPhone</li> <li>Click on the ‘Apps’ tab within iTunes</li> <li>…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 458 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/iphone-lock-screen-bypass.jpg" alt="iphone lock screen bypass" title="iphone lock screen bypass" width="338" height="103" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9244" /></p> <p>There’s a significant security hole that effects iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS users running iOS 4.1. The hole allows a user to bypass the iPhone passcode completely and get around the lock screen, accessing user data. It’s a simple process and hardly a hack:</p> <ul> <li>Hit “Emergency Call”</li> <li>Dial ### and press the call button (any non-emergency number …
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 386 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p>A trojan horse has been discovered that affects Mac OS X users, dubbed “trojan.osx.boonana.a” or ‘Koobface.’ An infected machine will hijack users social network accounts and attempt to spread the trojan further by sending out spam messages from your username. </p> <p>Thus far the trojan has been spread through Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and eMail. Here is the method of operation: <span id="more-9222"></span> The trojan behaves like a worm, by trying to bait users on various social networks to click a link. The link asks “Is this you in this video?” and, if clicked, will send a user to another website whic…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 404 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/civilization-5-for-mac-release-date.jpg" alt="civilization 5 for mac release date" title="civilization 5 for mac release date" width="610" height="306" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9216" /></p> <p>It looks like Civilization 5 for Mac OS X will be released on November 22, this is in line with the official <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/21/civilization-5-mac-release-date/">release date scheduled loosely in “Fall 2010″</a> that was announced previously by Aspyr.</p> <p>The precise release date comes from <a href="http://w…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 585 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/itunes-full-screen-cover-flow-mode.jpg" alt="itunes full screen cover flow mode" title="itunes full screen cover flow mode" width="603" height="283" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8834" /></p> <p>If your computer doubles as your stereo, you’re not alone. Anytime I just have iTunes playing music, I like to put iTunes into fullscreen mode.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Enter iTunes Fullscreen Cover Flow Mode</h2> <p>This will make iTunes Cover Flow take up the fullscreen, which looks quite nice:</p> <ul> <li>…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 527 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ipad-couch-potato-610x457.jpg" alt="ipad couch potato" title="ipad couch potato" width="610" height="457" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7743" /></p> <p>How about a custom floating iPad stand that sits in front of your face while you’re lounging around in a lazyboy? Hmm, as if the iPad needed any help in being couch potato friendly, this comes along. I’m sort of speechless. More goofy pictures:<span id="more-7742"></span></p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ipad-couch-potato-2.jpg" alt="ipad couch …
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 653 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/white-iphone-4.jpg" alt="white iphone 4" title="white iphone 4" width="400" height="306" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9200" /></p> <p>If you have been waiting for the White iPhone 4 to be released, your wait just got longer. The Reuters news agency has confirmed with Apple that the white iPhone has been delayed again, this time to a somewhat vague release date of Spring of 2011. </p> <p>An Apple spokesperson apologized for the delay: <em>“We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone again”</em></p> &l…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 1.1k views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/apple-tops-christmas-list.jpg" alt="apple tops christmas list" title="apple tops christmas list" width="475" height="214" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9156" /></p> <p>It’s going to be an Apple Christmas. According to a new report by Duracell, Apple products are the most requested item on many kids Christmas wish-lists for 2010, overcoming toys as a the most sought after gifts by a wide margin. Not only do children want Apple gadgets, but they’re at the very top of their wish-lists. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Most Popular Christmas G…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 748 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mac-os-x-lion-zfs.png" alt="mac os x lion zfs" title="mac os x lion zfs" width="350" height="56" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9129" /></p> <p>There have long been rumors and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/14/mac-os-x-10-7-lion-ideas-what-we-know/">predictions</a> that the new version of Mac OS X will use the ZFS file system, but with each new OS release the idea falls flat. So here we are again with a new Mac OS on the horizon, the inevitable question returns: will ZFS come to Mac OS X 10.7? </p> <p>No one outside of Appl…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 411 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p>If you need to quickly hide all windows within a Mac OS X application, hit <strong>Command+H</strong> and all the apps windows will become hidden. You can then manually retrieve the windows of through the applications Dock icon.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Hide all windows <em>except</em> the currently active window</h2> <p>Another great alternative is to hide all the windows on screen except for the currently active window. To do this, hit <strong>Command+Option+H</strong> at any time. This is a great trick to help focus on the task at hand.</p> <p>I would…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 507 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/download-iphone-ipsw-firmware.jpg" alt="download iphone ipsw firmware" title="download iphone ipsw firmware" width="120" height="111" class="alignright size-full wp-image-9108" /> Wondering where you can get all the iPhone firmware files from? Here’s the direct download links for all of the iPhone IPSW firmware files from version 3.0.0 on up through 4.1.0 for iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4. Note that we are not hosting the files, they are direct links to Apple’s web servers. <span id="more-9101"></span></p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;"…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 493 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p>Wondering how the new MacBook Air 11″ and MacBook Air 13″ benchmark against the older MacBook Air and the current MacBook Pro models? Wonder no more:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/new-macbook-air-benchmarks1.gif" alt="new macbook air benchmarks" title="new macbook air benchmarks" width="590" height="512" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9091" /></p> <p>The above results are from the GeekBench program. In short, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047DVVZO?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0047D…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 453 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/apple-market-share-including-ipad.gif" alt="apple market share including ipad" title="apple market share including ipad" width="610" height="407" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8813" /></p> <p>See that graph? That’s Apple taking over the world… if you think the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad">iPad</a> counts as a PC that is. The chart represents PC Market Share in the USA (AKA <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/07/the-united-states-of-apple/">United States of Apple</a>), and includes Apple with and without the iPad c…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 439 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/flash-not-shipping-with-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="flash not shipping with mac os x" title="flash not shipping with mac os x" width="610" height="459" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9066" /></p> <p>Were you surprised when Apple decided to stop shipping Flash pre-installed with Mac OS X? I wasn’t. I posted the above screenshot <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/20/safari-maxing-out-7909-9-cpu-wtf/">last year</a> after I experienced the most epic Flash disaster my Mac had ever encountered.</p> <p>We know <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 703 views
<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/increase-font-size-safari.jpg" alt="increase font size safari" title="increase font size safari" width="610" height="270" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9060" /></p> <p>You can easily increase the font size of text displayed on webpages within Safari by hitting <strong>Command and +</strong> keys together. This increases the font size on a per-page basis, and you can reduce the font size with the opposite, Command and -. You’ll notice that if you close the browser window, the font size is changed back to its default size though. We can adjust…
Last reply by Geek, -
- 0 replies
- 717 views
I have added a new feature. It is a link directory. If you have a tech site or personal site for that matter and want to include it in our directory feel free to submit it. The only rule for submission is you have to make 3 posts in our forum. Once you make your third post you'll be able to submit your site to the Mac Forums Link Directory All link do need to be approved and I will approve them within a few hours of being submitted.
Last reply by Geek,