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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/apps-stuck-on-waiting.jpg" alt="Apps Stuck on Waiting" title="apps-stuck-on-waiting" width="620" height="262" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28534" /></p> <p>If you’re trying to install a handful of iOS apps and your entire home screen is filled with app icons labeled “Waiting…” without any of the progress bars moving, downloading, or installing, you can fix this fairly easily with the two methods below. Try the first method before going nuclear with a reboot though:</p> <ol> <li>Tap a single app icon so that it says “Paused” and then…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mac-teacher-setup.jpg" alt="Mac teacher setup" title="mac-teacher-setup" width="620" height="442" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28523" /></p> <p>This Mac setup comes to us from Barry L, a high school computer science teacher in South Carolina. The Apple gear is used to teach AP Computer Science, Computer Programming, and Computer Science Research, and the classroom is gradually converting to Macs from a bunch of Dells running Windows XP, which will then be used to teach a class on iOS development this Fall. How awesome is that?</p> <p>The h…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/os-x-mountain-lion-dp-2.png" alt="OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2" title="os-x-mountain-lion-dp-2" width="553" height="111" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28512" /></p> <p>Apple has released OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2. The new build is 12A154q, available to registered Mac developers via a redemption code exclusively through the Mac App Store. Presumably, the focus of Developer Preview 2 is bug fixes, and no new features are yet known.</p> <p>OS X Mountain Lion <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/16/os-x-10-8-mountain-l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/jailbroken-ipad-31.jpg" alt="Jailbroken iPad 3" title="jailbroken-ipad-3" width="620" height="402" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28505" /></p> <p>The new iPad 3 is barely getting into peoples hands but has already been jailbroken by renowned hacker <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/MuscleNerd/status/180708759855841280">@MuscleNerd</a> (BTW, you can <a href="http://twitter.com/osxdaily">follow us on Twitter too</a>). At this point, it’s more a proof of concept and MuscleNerd cautions it’s “<em>Just a first step, still lots of …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iso.jpg" alt="ISO" title="iso" width="125" height="151" class="alignright size-full wp-image-28494" /> You can create ISO images from any source disk or data by using the command line in Mac OS X. This isn’t too different than <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/13/burn-an-iso-image-from-the-command-line/">burning them</a> through Terminal, and you can use either the hdiutil tool or dd command. </p> <p>While the command line is generally reserved for advanced users, using it to create ISO’s isn’t too complicated and will save you the hassle of havi…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/personal-hotspot-missing.jpg" alt="Personal Hotspot missing" title="personal-hotspot-missing" width="620" height="509" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28488" /></p> <p>We’ve heard from a few <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/07/ios-5-1-download/#comment-357820">readers</a> in our <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/07/ios-5-1-download/#comment-355323">comments</a> and through emails that after updating to iOS 5.1 their Personal Hotspot disappeared on the iPhone. The reason for this is unclear, but thankfully the fix is extremel…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/old-ipad-to-new-ipad.jpg" alt="Transfer from Old iPad to New iPad" title="old-ipad-to-new-ipad" width="620" height="291" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28478" /></p> <p>So you just upgraded to a new iPad, and you want to move all of your apps, pictures, settings, and data from an old iPad to the new iPad, right? Doing this is easy, you can go the post-PC route with iCloud (recommended), or the old fashioned way with iTunes, we’ll show you both.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Transfer Data from Old to New iPad with iCloud</h2> <p&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/walmart-ipad.jpg" alt="Walmart iPads" title="walmart-ipad" width="620" height="468" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28468" /></p> <p>Walmart was listed in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/14/where-to-buy-new-ipad-3/">our “where to buy a new iPad”</a> post as a good place to get the third gen iPad, but today they sent out an email to several sites stating they will actually start selling the hotly anticipated device tonight at 12:01AM local time. This means if you want to beat the morning lines at Apple Stores and don’t want to wait a few w…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/repair-keychain-access1.jpg" alt="Repair Keychain Access to resolve apps forgetting passwords and login data" title="repair-keychain-access" width="620" height="415" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28464" /></p> <p>Is Safari no longer remembering logins and passwords? Is Mail.app asking for a password every time you launch the app and try to check or send mail, despite the fact that you’ve entered login credentials over and over? When a Mac app no longer remembers password and login data, it’s often the result of corrupted keychain files. This is easy to …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/diablo-3-screen-shot.jpg" alt="Diablo 3 Screen Shot" title="diablo-3-screen-shot" width="620" height="439" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28449" /></p> <p>Gamers rejoice! Diablo 3, the highly anticipated action role-playing game, will be released on May 15 for both Mac and PC. Blizzard Entertainment has had the game in development seemingly forever (2001!), but it appears the long wait has been worth it. Gameplay is a mixture of dungeon crawling and hack-and-slash with RPG elements, there are five different character classes each with their own skillset,…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/new-ipad1.jpg" alt="New iPad 3 Reviews Roundup" title="new-ipad" width="620" height="333" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28443" /></p> <p>Early reviews of the new third generation iPad are starting to appear and they’re all pretty much glowing. Whether you’re still trying to figure out <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/08/which-ipad-3-should-i-get/">which model to get</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/14/where-to-buy-new-ipad-3/">where to buy one</a> or you just want to pass the time until the FedEx truck arrives thi…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/remotely-sleep-mac.jpg" alt="Remotely Sleep a Mac" title="remotely-sleep-mac" width="620" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28432" /></p> <p>Ever been away from your Mac and wished you could put it to sleep remotely? Maybe you accidentally left a Mac on at home or at work, or maybe you just left a Mac running so a download could complete. You don’t have to leave it running while you’re gone though, here are two different ways you can remotely sleep a Mac. The first method uses SSH and thus requires Terminal access, and the other uses just email…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/macupdate-spring-2012-bundle.jpg" alt="MacUpdate Bundle for Spring 2012" title="macupdate-spring-2012-bundle" width="620" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28415" /></p> <p>MacUpdate has announced their Spring bundle for 2012, offering a great selection of <a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479">11 Mac apps for $49.99</a>. The price for the bundle if each app was purchased separately is $378, so buying the pack is a great way to save some money on a solid collection of Mac software. Apps included are:</p> <ul> <…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ipad-3.jpg" alt="iPad 3" title="ipad-3" width="620" height="505" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28407" /></p> <p>The new iPad will be released this Friday at 8AM. As usual with a new iPad or iPhone release, you can expect to see some pretty major lines and it’ll be tough to get your hands on one if you didn’t pre-order. Knowing who is carrying the device and where they are will increase your odds of grabbing an iPad early, though don’t be surprised if they all sell out quickly. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">iPad 3 Retailers</h2> &…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/prefer-1080p-itunes-download.jpg" alt="iTunes 1080p video content" title="prefer-1080p-itunes-download" width="620" height="457" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28394" /></p> <p>iTunes now lets you specify a preference for 1080p high definition video content from anything downloaded through the iTunes Store. The default video setting prefers 720p though, here is how to change that to true 1080p HD:</p> <ol> <li>Open iTunes and pull down the iTunes menu to “Preferences”</li> <li>Click on the “Store” tab</li> <li&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/send-video-imessage.jpg" alt="Send video message" title="send-video-imessage" width="620" height="474" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28381" /></p> <p>If you’ve ever had to explain to someone that iPhone visual voicemail does not literally mean video voicemail, you know the potential disappointment that comes with it. What the user probably envisioned was the ability to record a quick video message and leave that as a video voicemail for the recipient to watch when they receive it. But it turns out that <em>the iPhone can send video messages</em…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/play-mkv-mac.jpg" alt="Play MKV on a Mac" title="play-mkv-mac" width="605" height="358" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28365" /></p> <p>MKV files are usually high quality videos compressed within a Mastroska container format. Typically you’ll encounter these with Bluray rips or video exported from an HD stream, and you might have discovered they won’t open in a standard movie player. Not to worry though, MKV files can be played on a Mac easily, you just need to download an app or codec that supports playing the high quality video format. </p> <…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/burn-iso-command-line.jpg" alt="Burn ISO image from the command line" title="burn-iso-command-line" width="175" height="221" class="alignright size-full wp-image-28354" /> The most straight forward way to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/11/how-to-burn-an-iso-on-your-mac/">burn an ISO from a Mac is using Disk Utility</a>, but you can also burn ISO’s and disk images directly from the command line with the help of a tool called ‘dd’. </p> <p>dd can be advantageous for several reasons. For one, the command line aspect makes it easy to use through a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ipad-3-geekbench.jpg" alt="iPad 3 Benchmarks with Geekbench" title="ipad-3-geekbench" width="300" height="437" class="alignright size-full wp-image-28338" /> The iPad 3 has been benchmarked to reveal <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/07/new-ipad-3-features-specs-prices/">tech specs</a> of 1GB of RAM and an A5X 1GHz processor. The RAM is double that offered by its predecessor, and the CPU appears the same as that found in iPad 2′s A5 chip, suggesting the only major changes to the processor are in graphics capabilities. </p> <p>Benchmarks were ran …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/iphone-macro-lens.jpg" alt="iPhone Macro Lens" title="iphone-macro-lens" width="620" height="453" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28326" /></p> <p>Want a free instant macro lens for your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> camera? Carefully apply a tiny drop of water to the lens, flip the iPhone over, and voila, you can suddenly take extreme close ups of just about anything. I know that sounds a little weird, but it works, and the results are fairly impressive.</p> <p>The drop of water has to be tiny and fit …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/khan-academy-ipad.jpg" alt="Khan Academy" title="khan-academy-ipad" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28317" /></p> <p>If you like free online learning tools, you’ll enjoy Khan Academy’s new iPad app. Khan Academy is a popular educational service that aims to offer a free world-class education to anyone by way of over 3,000 video courses. These videos and lectures cover everything from biology, chemistry, physics, humanities, world history, finance, programming, computer science fundamentals, K-12 mathematics, and much more.</p&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/safari-5-1-4-update.jpg" alt="Safari 5.1.4" title="safari-5-1-4-update" width="620" height="468" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28308" /></p> <p>Apple has updated Safari to version 5.1.4, and although the version number signifies a minor release the update includes several notable performance enhancements and bug fixes. From the average end-users perspective, an 11% boost in Javascript performance and improved handling of Safari extensions will be most noticeable, though the update includes many more changes and bug fixes which are listed below.</p&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/download-soundcloud.jpg" alt="Download Mp3 from SoundCloud" title="download-soundcloud" width="620" height="344" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28291" /></p> <p>SoundCloud is a popular online music and audio sharing service where a lot of bands and musicians will post their music for others to listen to. Frequently they’ll include a download link to songs, but depending on the posters account, they often have download limits that can be quickly maxed out on popular songs. The easiest solution of course is to just buy the song, but that’s not always an op…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/emoji.jpg" alt="Emoji in Mac OS X" title="emoji" width="620" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28294" /></p> <p>Now that the Mac has native <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/20/emoji-mac-os-x-lion/">Emoji support</a>, you can set up text substitutions to automatically convert specific text to emoji when typing shorthand, abbreviations, or emoticons. Here’s how to configure the text-to-emoji conversions:</p> <ul> <li>Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu</li> <li>Choose the “Language & …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/battery.jpg" alt="iOS Battery Life" title="battery" width="620" height="312" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28282" /></p> <p>Battery life has been an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/16/ios-5-battery-life-fix-tips/">ongoing issue</a> for some iOS 5 users, particularly those with iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The recent <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/03/07/ios-5-1-download/">iOS 5.1 update</a> aimed to fix that with “improved battery life” mentioned in the release notes, but just how improved is it? With casual use since the updat…