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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/safari-icon.jpg" alt="Safari icon" title="safari-icon" width="500" height="492" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29072" /></p> <p>Safari is the fast and lean default web browser bundled with Mac OS X. You probably already know a shortcut or two, but there are tons of shortcuts in Safari worth remembering that can really improve your experience browsing the web. We’ll cover 31 different keystrokes, they are grouped into different sections based on use case, and we’ve also included a few multi-touch gestures for those of us with multitouch capable Macs.</…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ipad-external-hidpi-display.jpg" alt="iPad as an External HIDPI Display with a MacBook Air" title="ipad-external-hidpi-display" width="620" height="289" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29056" /></p> <p>Your iPad 3 can now act as a stunningly high quality HIDPI display for a Mac or PC with the help of a great iOS app called Air Display. A completely wireless solution, Air Display takes advantage of OS X Lion and Mountain Lion HIDPI display mode to turn the new iPad’s 2048×1536 display into an ultra-crisp 1024×768 retina display. Setting up Air Display to t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/app-store-no-credit-card.jpg" alt="Use App Store without credit card" title="app-store-no-credit-card" width="620" height="225" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29047" /></p> <p>Signing up to use the App Store requires a credit card, right? Wrong. We showed you how to use <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/17/create-an-itunes-account-without-a-credit-card/">iTunes without a credit card</a>, and it turns out you can do the same thing with the iOS and Mac App Store. This is a perfect solution for setting up an iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Mac for a k…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/safari-desktop-picture.jpg" alt="Safari Desktop Picture file location " title="safari-desktop-picture" width="620" height="194" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29034" /></p> <p>Have you ever set a desktop wallpaper <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/16/set-mac-os-x-desktop-background-wallpaper-from-any-image-in-safari/">from Safari</a>, only to wish you had saved the file directly so you could access it later or do something else with it? As long as the desktop picture is still set, you can retrieve the original wallpaper image file easily:&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ipad-plunger-stand.jpeg" alt="iPad plunger stand" title="ipad-plunger-stand" width="600" height="443" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29019" /></p> <p>Beautiful. Alluring. Gorgeous. Perfection. Amazing. Exemplary. Smart. Revolutionary. Stunning. It’s everything you could dream of and more. This amazing <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> stand will be the envy of everyone who sees it, because who doesn’t want a toilet plunger resting on their desk? Featuring a handsome wooden handle and a ravishing lightly used black rubber c…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/typing-tips-ipad.jpg" alt="Typing tips for iPad" title="typing-tips-ipad" width="620" height="238" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29007" /></p> <p>I love the iPad but I really hate typing on it. Though touch screens are magnificent for some tasks, frankly typing just isn’t one of them. Maybe it’s my hands and fingers fault or maybe I’m just a grouchy old school tactile typer, but I struggle to get in any kind of real workflow that involves typing more than a sentence or two on touch screens. I’m probably not the only one to feel this way, so here are six…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/minimalist-apple-desk.jpg" alt="Minimalist Apple desk setup" title="minimalist-apple-desk" width="620" height="365" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29004" /></p> <p>Developer John R. sent in this beautifully simple Mac setup, featuring a very clean desk area with some great Apple gear. The hardware is used primarily for iOS development and web development and design, and consists of the following:</p> <p> • MacBook Air 11″ 1.6Ghz i5 4GB RAM 64GB SSD (2011) • Thunderbolt Display 27″ (2011) • iPad 3rd gen (2012) 64GB Wi-Fi & 4G LTE with…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/view-source-ipad-iphone.jpg" alt="View Source on an iPad or iPhone" title="view-source-ipad-iphone" width="620" height="330" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28996" style="border:1px solid #ddd;" /></p> <p>Ever wanted to view source of a webpage from an iPad or iPhone? Unfortunately, mobile Safari doesn’t include the feature on it’s own, but with the help of a custom bookmarklet you can view source of any web page right in iOS. This awesome tip comes from <a href="http://ole.michelsen.dk/blog/view-source-on-the-ipad-and-iphone/">Michelsen.dk</a&gt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/email-multiple-photos-ios.jpg" alt="Email Multiple Photos from iOS" title="email-multiple-photos-ios" width="620" height="177" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28990" /></p> <p>Sending out multiple photos at the same time from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is easy and intuitive, here’s how to do it:</p> <ol> <li>Open the Photos app</li> <li>Tap the arrow icon in the lower left corner</li> <li>Tap to select each photo you wish to send, you will see a red check appear in the corner of each picture</li> &l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dock-activity-monitor.jpg" alt="Dock Activity Monitor in Mac OS X" title="dock-activity-monitor" width="620" height="209" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28982" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/15/mac-task-manager/">Activity Monitor</a> can be used for more than just managing tasks and killing processes, it can also turn the Mac OS X Dock into a live system monitor where you can keep an eye on processor usage, CPU history, network activity, disk activity, or RAM use. </p> <ol> <li>Launch Activity Monitor, foun…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lock-screen-mac-command-line.jpg" alt="Lock the Mac OS X Screen from the Command Line" title="lock-screen-mac-command-line" width="620" height="150" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28960" /></p> <p>With the help of a buried menu item, we can lock the Mac OS X screen right from the Terminal. This does not log a user out, it just brings up the standard Mac OS X <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/17/lock-screen-mac/">lock screen and login window</a>, requiring a valid user and password before the Mac can be used again. </p> <p>Open…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/retina-apple-touch-icon.jpg" alt="Retina Apple Touch Icon" title="retina-apple-touch-icon" width="620" height="241" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28947" /></p> <p>Web developers and website owners pay attention: you need to set a retina-ready iOS bookmark icon. Called an Apple Touch Icon, these custom images become the icon that is displayed on a users home screen when they bookmark a website on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Without a custom apple-touch-icon set, users will get a boring and often ugly thumbnail of the web page itself, and without usin…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/set-lock-screen-message.jpg" alt="Set a Lock Screen Message for Returning a Lost iPad" title="set-lock-screen-message" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28940" /></p> <p>If you’re worried about losing an iPad or iPhone, you can greatly assist the chances of getting the iOS device returned to you by setting a custom “If Found” message as the lock screens wallpaper. This only takes a minute or two to set up:</p> <ol> <li>Use a drawing app (<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812" tar…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/itunes-10-6-11.jpg" alt="iTunes 10.6.1 update" title="itunes-10-6-1" width="589" height="498" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28933" /></p> <p>iTunes 10.6.1 has been released, the minor update includes a variety of bug fixes but otherwise provides no new features. The official list of changes is as follows:</p> <blockquote><p>• Fixes several issues that may cause iTunes to unexpectedly quit while playing videos, changing artwork size in Grid view, and syncing photos to devices. • Addresses an issue where some iTunes interface elements …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/change-login-name1.jpg" alt="Change the Login Name in Mac OS X" title="change-login-name" width="620" height="332" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28918" /></p> <p>Want to change a user name that appears at the login screen of Mac OS X? It’s very easy to do:</p> <ol> <li>Open System Preferences and click on “Users & Groups”</li> <li>Select the users name you wish to change from the left side</li> <li>Look for “Full Name” on the right side options and click in the box, enter the administrator password to au…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/how-many-apple-products.gif" alt="How many Apple products American households own" title="how-many-apple-products" width="500" height="340" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28924" /></p> <p>50% of households in the USA own at least one Apple product, and 10% of those without intend to buy an Apple product sometime in the next year. This finding and others were discovered by a recent <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/46857053">CNBC</a> poll, which revealed some other fascinating statistics on the ubiquity of Apple gear in the United States.</p&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/personal-hotspot.jpg" alt="Personal Hotspot" title="personal-hotspot" width="620" height="373" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28903" /></p> <p>Personal Hotspot is one of the best features of an iPhone and iPad, allowing you to share the devices 3G or 4G LTE internet connection with up to five other connected devices through wi-fi, be them Macs, iPads, iPods, or PC’s. Personal Hotspot may be a mobile users and telecommuters dream, but tethering an internet connection can also eat through the expensive hotspot data plans extremely fast. Avoid overage char…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dock-animation-speed.jpg" alt="Change the Dock Animation Speed" title="dock-animation-speed" width="620" height="89" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28895" /></p> <p>Automatically <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/10/hide-and-show-the-dock/">hiding</a> the Dock is one of the more useful features you can enable if you work on a Mac with limited screen space. That experience can be improved by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/27/remove-auto-hide-dock-delay-mac-os-x/">removing the auto-hide delay from the Dock</a> in OS X, whic…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mac-keyboard-symbols.jpg" alt="Mac Keyboard Symbols" title="mac-keyboard-symbols" width="620" height="338" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28878" /></p> <p>Ever wondered what those Mac keyboard symbols mean and what they translate to? You see them on a lot of Mac keyboards and on plenty of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/keyboard-shortcuts/">keyboard shortcut lists</a>, looking like strange glyphs (⌥), shapes (⇪), and bugs splattered on windshields (⌘). They can be fairly confusing, which is why we at OSXDaily.com always try to manually write…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ibooks-themes.jpg" alt="iBooks themes" title="ibooks-themes" width="620" height="266" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28870" /></p> <p>The iBooks app includes three different color themes that can be used at different times of day to improve the reading experience. Accessing the themes is easy:</p> <ul> <li>Launch iBooks and open a book</li> <li>Tap the “aA” button at the top of the screen and tap on “Theme” to show the three choices; Normal, Sepia, and Night</li> </ul> <p><strong>Normal</stron…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ubuntu-linux-virtual-machine.jpg" alt="Ubuntu Linux in a Virtual Machine with VirtualBox" title="ubuntu-linux-virtual-machine" width="620" height="476" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28861" /></p> <p>If you want to experiment with Linux without dual booting and potentially impacting your main operating system, the best way to do so is with virtualization. Virtualization allows you to run Linux directly atop your primary OS, whether it’s Mac OS X or Windows, in a separate virtual machine, with practically no potential for error. It’s completely free and f…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dock-mac-os-x-speed.jpg" alt="Hidden Dock in Mac OS X displays faster" title="dock-mac-os-x-speed" width="620" height="89" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28850" /></p> <p>If you use a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/10/hide-and-show-the-dock/">hidden Dock</a> in Mac OS X, you can speed up the time it takes to show the Dock with a defaults write command. This command removes the delay from when a cursor is hovered near the Dock location and to when it’s displayed, it doesn’t change the animation speed of the dock sliding in and out itself…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/picture-frame-ipad.png" alt="Picture Frame for iPad" title="picture-frame-ipad" width="619" height="189" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28839" /></p> <p>Picture Frame is a great feature of iOS on iPad that turns the device into a rotating gallery of images. The iPad Picture Frame app defaults to flipping through all images contained in the Photos camera roll album, but you can improve the experience by creating a custom photo album and setting that as the only source for the gallery, here’s how:</p> <ol> <li>Tap on “Photos” to open th…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/top-sites-safari.jpg" alt="Top Sites in Safari" title="top-sites-safari" width="620" height="397" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28829" /></p> <p>New windows and tabs in Safari default to displaying a 3×4 grid of “Top Sites”, representing the web sites you visit the most often. This can make for a nice home page, but sometimes it will display sites you don’t want showing up, and it can also slow down Safari on older computers. For those that use Safari as their <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2007/04/06/change-the-default-web-browser-in-mac-os-x/">def…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ios-retina-icon-1.jpg" alt="iOS Retina icon template 1" title="ios-retina-icon-1" width="620" height="379" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28732" /></p> <p>It’s rare that app developers and web developers double as graphic designers, leaving some apps and websites to include fairly hideous iOS icons. As we’ve said before, icons matter, however superficial they may be, so instead of shipping an app or site with an ugly icon do yourself a favor and download this do-it-yourself retina icon kit. </p> <p>The DIY template from KillerIcons comes as …