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<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="620" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DD-2MQMNlMw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple started airing a new iPhone 4S commercial on Sunday night that emphasizes iCloud. The ad shows iCloud automatically syncing calendars, photos, apps, contacts, music, and books, between an iPhone 4S and a variety of other Apple devices, including an iPad, iMac, and MacBook Air. The commercial ends with the text “Automatic. Everywhere. iCloud.” and the iPhone 4S monicker. </p> <p>It’d be easy to mistake the TV ad for an Apple product other than the iPhone 4S, an…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/find-last-wake-time.jpg" alt="Find the last wake time" title="find-last-wake-time" width="620" height="240" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27739" /></p> <p>Although everyone should always <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/01/21/password-protect-mac/">password protect a Mac</a> to prevent unauthorized use, not everyone does. Sometimes people share general logins, be it with a roommate, sibling, spouse or whoever else. Now, if you have ever wondered if someone was using your computer while you were away, there’s actually a pretty easy method t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/imessage.jpg" alt="iMessage" title="imessage" width="180" height="175" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27721" /> iMessage is a great addition to iOS and OS X that lets you send unlimited text messages, pictures, videos, documents, and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/19/send-any-file-to-an-ios-device-from-mac-os-x-with-imessage/">even files</a>, between other iMessage users. Though you probably know at least a few people who are using iMessages, chances are good that more of your contacts have set it up and you just didn’t know about it yet. The good ne…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macbook-air-office.jpg" alt="MacBook Air office" title="macbook-air-office" width="620" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27716" /></p> <p>This classic <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac desk setup</a> comes to us from Richard, who has a range of Apple gear to get work done. Shown in the picture is:</p> <ul> <li> Macbook Air 13″ resting on a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OOYECC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&crea…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/return-call-iphone.jpg" alt="Return missed call iPhone" title="return-call-iphone" width="620" height="311" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27711" /></p> <p>Miss a phone call? Rather than tapping through to the recent call log and finding the last caller, you can immediately return a missed call by <strong>swiping to the right on the phone icon</strong> alongside the callers name, directly from the iPhone lock screen.</p> <p>You’ll need iOS 5 or later and Notifications Center must be configured to include phone alerts to do this. …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ir_black-terminal-mac-os-x.jpg" alt="IR Black Theme for Terminal in Mac OS X" title="ir_black-terminal-mac-os-x" width="620" height="394" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27699" /></p> <p>We recently covered the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/21/add-color-to-the-terminal-in-mac-os-x/">classic method of adding colors</a> to the command line by editing .bash_profile, but it turns out that Terminal in OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion both support custom ANSI colors, giving the ability to easily change the ansi color scheme through external t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iphone-contacts-icon.jpg" alt="iPhone Contacts Icon" title="iphone-contacts-icon" width="182" height="185" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27681" /> Need to quickly transfer contacts to an iPhone without using iTunes or connecting the iPhone to a computer? The easiest way to do this is by emailing a vCard file containing all the contacts to the phone, these .vcf files can be exported from many other phones, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/01/send-contacts-from-iphone/">another iPhone</a>, Address Book, Google and Gmail, Yahoo, and just about anywhere e…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mac-keyboard.jpg" alt="Mac Keyboard" title="mac-keyboard" width="620" height="291" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27662" /></p> <p>Work with text often? You can navigate, select, and manipulate text faster than ever before by remembering these twelve keyboard shortcuts. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">6 Text Navigation Shortcuts</h2> <p>The first group of keyboard shortcuts allow for quickly moving around text:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Jump to beginning of a line</strong> – Command+Left Arrow</li…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/open-drafts-ios.jpg" alt="Open recent draft in iOS" title="open-drafts-ios" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27633" /></p> <p>It’s easy to lose track of drafts in iOS’s Mail app, typically when you close one the draft gets placed into the Drafts folder, which has to be accessed by tapping back out of the Inbox and into Drafts. Those extra steps often make it easier to just compile a new mail message instead of retrieving a past draft, but as Gizmodo shows us there’s a nice little feature in iOS that allows for quick access to the m…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/android-4-ics-virtualbox.jpg" alt="Android 4 ICS VirtualBox" title="android-4-ics-virtualbox" width="620" height="483" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27637" /></p> <p>If you want to play around with Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) but don’t have an Android phone or tablet, you can download the official Android SDK, or better yet, grab a preconfigured virtual machine that will run ICS in VirtualBox. Other than providing an interesting look at the primary competitor to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a>, virtual machines are usef…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ios-86.png" alt="iOS 86" title="ios-86" width="620" height="380" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27616" /></p> <p>Remember that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/13/if-apple-made-ios-in-1986-this-is-what-it-would-look-like/">retro iOS ’86 concept</a> theme for iPhone that popped up recently? We were hoping it would become an iOS theme, and it has. To use the iOS 86 theme you’ll need to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 5.0.1, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/20/jailbreak-iphone-4s-ios-5-0-1-absinthe/">here is how to …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/apple-factory.jpg" alt="Apple products built in a Foxconn Factory" title="apple-factory" width="620" height="348" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27607" /></p> <p>If you found the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/21/why-arent-apple-products-made-in-america/">recent</a> New York Times pieces on the making of Apple products to be interesting and “<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/10/ever-wonder-where-your-apple-hardware-comes-from-listen-to-mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory/">Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory</a>” to be enlighten…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/unlock-iphone-4s.jpg" alt="unlock iPhone 4S" title="unlock-iphone-4s" width="416" height="341" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27602" /></p> <p>If you didn’t <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/12/buy-unlocked-iphone-4s-now-from-apple/">buy an unlocked iPhone 4S</a> from Apple to begin with, the phone is probably locked to its default carrier. In the USA, that is AT&T, and that means if you want to use it on another network either home or abroad it’ll need to be unlocked first.</p> <p>Currently there are no software unlocks f…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mac-wont-remember-wifi-password.jpg" alt="Mac won't remember WiFi Password fix" title="mac-wont-remember-wifi-password" width="620" height="298" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27594" /></p> <p>We recently covered how to resolve an issue when Mac OS X <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/15/fix-for-mac-os-x-not-remembering-wireless-networks/">doesn’t remember a wireless network</a>, password protected or not, and since then several readers have notified us of another separate issue: Mac OS X won’t remember a wireless network password. The netw…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/zoom-iphone-ipad.jpg" alt="Zoom for iPhone and iPad" title="zoom-iphone-ipad" width="620" height="275" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27582" /></p> <p>iOS has additional system wide zoom abilities accessible by a gesture, much like <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/02/enable-screen-zoom-in-mac-os-x-lion/">OS X’s zoom feature</a>. To use the extra zoom gestures on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, first you’ll need to enable them in iOS:</p> <ol> <li>Open Settings and tap on General</li> <li>Scroll down to “Ac…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/launchpad-snow-leopard.jpg" alt="Launchpad for Mac OS X Snow Leopard" title="launchpad-snow-leopard" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27571" /></p> <p>Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users can now add OS X Lion’s iOS-style Launchpad feature to their desktops with a free third party utility called MacLaunchPad.</p> <p>MacLaunchPad is pretty similar to the real thing, and some features are closer to the version of Launchpad that appears in OS X Mountain Lion, like the real-time app search function. You can set some customizat…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/color-terminal.jpg" alt="Color Terminal" title="color-terminal" width="620" height="355" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27563" /></p> <p>Adding colorized ls output to the Terminal in Mac OS X is a good way to make navigating around the command line a bit easier on the eyes. </p> <p>We’ll cover a customizable setting, and you can get a preview of color ls output by typing “ls -G” at the command line. The preview with ls -G will depend on the Terminals color settings and won’t necessarily represent the colors shown below, however.</p> &…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mail-body-text-preview.jpg" alt="Mail Body Text Preview" title="mail-body-text-preview" width="620" height="449" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27542" /></p> <p>Want to see more of an email than the default two lines of body text? Don’t want to see any preview of email contents, other than the subject of a message? If you’re not happy with the default setting, you can change the line count of mail previews within <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> easily:</p> <ol> <li>Tap on “Settings”</li> <li>Tap…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/vlc-2.jpg" alt="VLC 2.0" title="vlc-2" width="620" height="392" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27532" /></p> <p>VLC 2.0 has been released, the powerful video playing apps new version supports even more video and audio formats and includes limited Blu-Ray playback, in addition to providing under-the-hood improvements for faster decoding with multi-core CPU’s and GPU’s. </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">Download VLC 2.0 from VideoLan.org</a></li> </ul> <p>If you’re unfamiliar with VLC o…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/growl-to-notifications.jpg" alt="Growl to Notifications Center" title="growl-to-notifications" width="619" height="341" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27523" /></p> <p>Make <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-8/">OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion</a>‘s new Notification Center feature instantly more useful by grabbing Hiss, a free application that sends apps Growl notifications directly to Mountain Lion’s desktop notification panel. </p> <p>There’s not much more to the app than that, but nonetheless it’s a great utility and worth d…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/versions-cache.jpg" alt="OS X Versions Cache and Auto-Save" title="versions-cache" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27513" /></p> <p>Mac OS X 10.7 and later include the Versions feature and Auto-Save ability, this lets users restore back to previous editions of a file by creating a constant sequence of saved file states while they are being worked on. All around, Versions and auto-save are useful, but they can also leave traces of sensitive documents and files you may not wish to keep around. Other than the privacy implications, th…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/uninstall-xcode1.jpg" alt="Uninstall Xcode" title="uninstall-xcode" width="350" height="312" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27503" /></p> <p>Xcode is Apple’s developer suite for iOS and Mac OS X, it’s necessary if you intend to be write apps for either OS and installing it includes a number of other useful utilities other than the main IDE itself. The additional aspects include things like the Interface Builder, iPhone Simulator, Quartz Composer, Dashcode, gcc, dtrace, perl, python, ruby, and much more that has use beyond core iOS and OS X development, a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dual-boot-os-x-lion-osx-mt-lion.jpg.jpg" alt="Dual Boot OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion" title="dual-boot-os-x-lion-osx-mt-lion.jpg" width="620" height="299" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27474" /></p> <p>OS X Mountain Lion is Apple’s latest Mac operating system that is complete with a bunch of new features that iOS users will find familiar. It’s looking like a great addition to the Mac OS family, but for the time being it’s still in Developer Preview, has a fair amount of bugs, and isn’t quite ready for prime time. For those who want to explore and de…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/send-files-to-ios-from-mac-imessage.jpg" alt="Send Files to iOS from Mac with iMessage" title="send-files-to-ios-from-mac-imessage" width="620" height="359" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27482" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/set-up-imessage-on-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-with-ios-5/">iMessage in iOS</a> and the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/16/messages-for-mac-beta-download/">Messages for Mac beta</a> let you send files like movies, text, pdf, audio, and pictures between a Mac and iOS device easily. To use th…

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