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The Photos app for Mac allows users to quickly see EXIF metadata of any image contained within the applications library. For those who aren’t familiar, EXIF data is raw information about the picture file, containing details about the camera and settings used to take the picture, the aperture, ISO, shutter speed, and you’ll also find ... Read More http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=2R_SnNHr3uY:FSd8mC95S80:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=2R_SnNHr3uY:FSd8mC95S80:gIN9vFwOqvQ http:/…

The Apple Watch allows users to take a screen shot of what they see on the face of the device by using a similar mechanism to capture screen shots on an iPhone or iPad; you press two buttons at the same time. For the Apple Watch, the buttons to press to take a screenshot are ... Read More http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=s_aU1mXEdBU:TG8Dy0FUa1w:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=s_aU1mXEdBU:TG8Dy0FUa1w:gIN9vFwOqvQ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/s_aU1mXEdBU Continu…

The iPhone language is set during the initial setup of the device, defaulting to wherever region it was sold. But if you would like to change the language used on iPhone, you can do so at any time without resetting the device back to factory defaults, instead you’ll just need to turn to the settings ... Read More http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=PkaVY0owM0w:vU-5-IgS5I8:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=PkaVY0owM0w:vU-5-IgS5I8:gIN9vFwOqvQ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/…

iCloud Drive supports direct file transfers from the Mac, meaning you can take just about any file, folder, document, or item stored in OS X, and copy it over to iCloud Drive, where it will be stored and accessible by your other Macs and iOS devices using the same Apple ID. Using iCloud Drive this ... Read More http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=W-36gPJJOCc:ZtXPPMoemzY:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=W-36gPJJOCc:ZtXPPMoemzY:gIN9vFwOqvQ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4…

This weeks featured Mac workstation is the snazzy custom setup of Axel D., who has a swivel-arm mounted iMac and some great audio gear to round out a beautiful and clean desk. Let’s jump right in to learn more: What hardware makes up your Mac setup? iMac 27″ (late 2013) – 3.2GHZ Core i5 CPU, 32GB RAM, 1.5TB Fusion Drive, mounted on an adjustable arm Sound routed via toslink cable through a Sony HAP-S1 Hi Resolution Audio Player system powering KEF C1 speakers mounted on stands I made myself from galvanized pipe LG DVD Burner Logitech Bluetooth K811 Keyboard Apple Magic trackpad Anker USB 3.0 4 port hub Epson Artisan 730 printer B&W P3 Headphones Audio…

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/starbuck50/get%20windows%2010_zps3vjw5z9s.jpg How To: Using the Get Windows 10 reservation system Just before Microsoft officially announced that Windows 10 will launch on July 29th, Windows 7 and 8.1 users began to notice a new icon in their Notification Area. This Get Windows 10 notification is the tool for reserving your free upgrade for the new operating system and according to the Windows 10 FAQ page there is an advantage to clicking the icon and reserving your copy today if you intend to upgrade. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v708/starbuck50/notification_zpsgeyrgxso.jpg If you reserve your copy through this syst…

Below is a list of free online schools where you can learn such skills and help give back to the community. It is important to note that there is a lot of work and learning involved, but as long as you have the desire and are in it for the long haul, you will be able to get through it. It is preferable to have some knowledge of malware but it is not essential. The training is a steady progress so you wont be dropped into the deep end straight away. How long it takes to graduate is entirely up to you and the time you can devote to it. Some will take 12 months.... others a couple of years. But the time factor is unimportant. None of the schools will rush you .... yo…

If your neighbours have a wireless network the chances are that they are broadcasting on the same frequency as you. This is normally OK - but sometimes it can cause a problem .......especially if there are lots using the same frequency. The router actually uses channels. Think of this like radio channels on your car stereo system. If you are getting interference on a radio station you simply change station. You can do this with your router too. Most routers are set to Channel 6 as a default. To check which networks are in your area do the following: ( we need to get to a Command Prompt ) Start ....type in ....cmd.....right click on the cmd.exe that shows …

Update 11 Feb 2015 Windows-7 used to be available for public download on servers owned by Digital River, Microsoft's service provider for e-commerce. As of February 2015, these downloads have been pulled. "Free" access to the OS disk images is somewhat limited now, but a few options remain. The available downloads are now from Micro$oft own site - click here However, you may find that OEM installations ( De11 / HP etc ) are not readily available as a download. If this is the case then you will need to contact M-Soft - see here There is bound to be a fee involved if you require M-Soft to send you a disk. I will leave the tutorial and links below for the time be…

You have surely seen these notifications during the installation of a program that ask you to install a toolbar. The first specimens of this species may have been useful and popular, but nowadays there is a real deluge of senseless and annoying toolbars that breaks down onto the Internet user community. The reason behind all this is very often economy-related. This article will lay out what toolbars are and why there are so many of them by now. The word toolbar is derived from "tool" and thus supposed to help you. A toolbar is like a tool kit for your browser that is always at hand to provide easy access to general and frequently used functions. The basic idea behind i…

Without using iCloud, the iPhone, iPad, and iPod backups can take up a lot of local disk space on a computer. If you’ve moved the iPhone/iPad to sync with a new computer, sold an iOS device, or just want to potentially free up some disk space, you can easily delete these backups directly from iTunes. Launch iTunes and open iTunes Preferences Click the “Devices” tab to find the backup list Select the backup(s) you wish to delete and click “Delete Backup” This only removes the backups that are stored locally on the computer and it will not impact iCloud backups, which won’t even show up in the list. It’s generally a good idea to leave the most recent backup intac…

It can be helpful to configure Mac OS X to automatically mount shared network drives, this is particularly true for those of us who regularly connect to a network drive for file sharing or backups. Setting up automatic network drive connections in OS X is a two-step process, you must mount the drive, then you add it to your automatic login items. This should work flawlessly in most versions of OS X, but we’ll cover an alternative approach that uses Automator to mount a network drive automatically on login as well. 1) Mounting the Network Drive If you’re already familiar with mapping a network drive in Mac OS X you can skip the first part of this and go straight…

http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/keyboard-ios.jpg Dictation on the iPad and iPhone converts your words into text, it can make typing in iOS easier but it’s also easy to accidentally activate with an inadvertent touch. For a variety of reasons you may want to either turn it on or off, and if you don’t use Dictation it’s simple to disable which also hides the little microphone button from appearing on the keyboard. How to Enable or Disable Dictation in iOS Typically Dictation is turned ON by default, but sometimes upgraded iOS doesn’t have the feature on. The instructions are the same either way, it’s just a matter of what the switch is set to: …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mac-security-cam.jpg" alt="Set up a Mac Security Cam and Watch the Live Video Feed Remotely from an iPhone or iPad" title="mac-security-cam" width="620" height="433" class="alignright size-full wp-image-29877" /></p> <p>If you’ve ever wished you could check up on your house while you’re away, wish no more because we have a simple solution. We are going to configure a Mac as a home security camera that will open a live video stream on demand which can be watched remotely from anywhere via an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or another Mac. If this sounds potentiall…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/apple-mail-icon.jpeg" alt="Apple mail icon" title="apple-mail-icon" width="140" height="140" class="alignright size-full wp-image-29866" /> Ever noticed that when you copy an email address from OS X Mail app and paste it elsewhere that you get the addressees full name as well as their email address? Try it yourself by right-clicking on someones email address like someonesname@domain.com and copy it, then paste it elsewhere and it will show up as “Someones Name <someonesname@domain.com>“, which can be fairly annoying if you just want an address.</p> <p&gt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ipad-charger-beer-opener.jpg" alt="iPad charger beer opener" title="ipad-charger-beer-opener" width="620" height="496" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29859" /></p> <p>The next time you’re in desperate need to crack open a beer bottle, reach for your iPad power adapter. Say what? Well, apparently it can double as a bottle opener, not that we’d recommend that. This may be the ultimate Apple-geek party trick and I’m sure college students the world over are rejoicing in their dorms right now at this <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/stupid/">excitin…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/macbook-air-11.jpg" alt="Maximize productivity on small screens like the MacBook Air 11" " title="macbook-air-11" width="620" height="353" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29840" /></p> <p>Many people equate productivity with screen size and assume it’s difficult to get much work done on a small screen. That simply isn’t true, I use a MacBook Air with the 11″ display and use the following tips to stay focused and maximize productivity with the small screen.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Hide Inactive Apps</strong> – Use Command+O…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/change-mac-address-os-x.jpg" alt="Generate and set random MAC address in OS X " title="change-mac-address-os-x" width="620" height="152" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29832" /></p> <p>We’ve shown you how to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/10/random-mac-address-generator/">generate MAC addresses randomly</a> and then how to go about <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/01/change-mac-address-os-x/">changing a MAC address in OS X</a> Lion and OS X Mountain Lion, but why have those be two separate actions? Using the command …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/os-x-mountain-lion.jpg" alt="OS X Mountain Lion icon" title="os-x-mountain-lion" width="580" height="407" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29821" /></p> <p>Apple has issued an update to OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3. The new build comes as 12A193i and is available through Software Update, which in turn downloads through the Mac App Store, making the update available to all developers with OS X Mountain Lion DP3 currently installed.</p> <p>Noticeable changes in the new OS X 10.8 build are to Mission Control, Messages, System Prefer…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rearrange-full-screen-apps-mac.jpg" alt="Rearrange placement of full screen apps in Mac OS X" title="rearrange-full-screen-apps-mac" width="620" height="109" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29812" /></p> <p>Full Screen apps in Mac OS X are managed by Mission Control, this means that if <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/06/switch-between-desktops-spaces-faster-in-os-x-lion-with-control-keys/">switch beween</a> or gesture swipe from one full screen app to a desktop or another app, it follows the order of desktops and apps shown at the top…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/dual-browser-windows-ipad.jpg" alt="Dual Browser windows on iPad" title="dual-browser-windows-ipad" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29800" style="border:1px solid #ddd;"/></p> <p>If you’ve ever tried to do web research with concurrent browser windows from the iPad, you’ve probably found yourself either opening tons of Safari tabs, emailing yourself lots of links, dumping things into Pocket or a similar app, or just giving up and getting on a Mac laptop. A better solution is an iOS app called Dual Browser, which as you may have…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/stop-auto-syncing-itunes.jpg" alt="Stop Auto Syncing in iTunes" title="stop-auto-syncing-itunes" width="530" height="93" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29789" /></p> <p>Each time you connect an iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer, iTunes launches and immediately begins to automatically sync all content between the iOS device and the connected computer. If you’re annoyed with the auto-syncing aspect or you just want to disable it on an auxiliary Mac, here is how to do so:</p> <ol> <li>Launch iTunes and open “Preferences” from the i…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/rotate-photos-iphone.jpg" alt="Rotate photos on iPhone and iPad" title="rotate-photos-iphone" width="620" height="441" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29779" /></p> <p>Did you take a great picture but your iPhone camera orientation was upside-down or sideways? If so, it’s easy to correct it and rotate photos directly on the iPhone or iPad without any additional app downloads. You’ll need iOS 5 or later to use the simple rotation adjustments feature.</p> <ol> <li>From the Photos app, tap on the photo you want to rotate</li> &…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/join-songs-itunes-play-together.jpg" alt="Join Songs in iTunes to Play Together as a Gapless Group" title="join-songs-itunes-play-together" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29773" /></p> <p>Do you want to join a group of songs together in iTunes to play together as a compilation, even when iTunes (or an iPhone, iPad, or iPod) is set to shuffle through a music collection? It’s easy, here is how to set this up:</p> <ul> <li>Open iTunes and select the songs you want to join together as a group with gapless play…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/open-terminal-faster.jpg" alt="Open Terminal faster by specifying a login shell" title="open-terminal-faster" width="620" height="138" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29767" /></p> <p>Whenever a new Terminal window is launched, a variety of system logs are read to provide information on the last login. One way to speed up launching a new terminal window is to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/06/speed-up-a-slow-terminal-by-clearing-log-files/">delete those .asl log files</a>, but you can achieve a substantial speed boost by simply setti…