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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/clamshell-mode-macbook-air.jpg" alt="Clamshell Mode with MacBook Air" title="clamshell-mode-macbook-air" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27213" /></p> <p>Using a portable Mac with the lid closed is frequently called clamshell mode, and using clamshell has been made easier than ever since the introduction of Mac OS X Lion. There are actually two different methods, the first is for using a MacBook closed lid with or without external input devices attached, and the second is for using clamshell mode with a wireless device like a Blue…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/retro-iphone-ui.jpg" alt="Retro iOS UI on iPhone" title="retro-iphone-ui" width="620" height="427" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27198" /></p> <p>What would iPhone’s iOS look like had it been made in 1986? Maybe this, and it looks awesome in that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">retro</a> sort of way. This is just concept art from a few designers who posted their ideas to <a href="http://repponen.livejournal.com/80856.html">LiveJournal</a>, but I know I’m not the only one secretly hoping that someone will make a jail…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ocz-ssd.jpg" alt="OCZ SSD" title="ocz-ssd" width="517" height="308" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27190" /></a><img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></p> <p>If you’re looking to upgrade a Macs hard drive to an SSD, Amazon is featuring a great deal on an ultrafast OCZ Technolog…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ical-debug-menu.jpg" alt="iCal Debug Menu" title="ical-debug-menu" width="620" height="346" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27184" /></p> <p>iCal has a hidden debug menu with 24 additional options and features that can be accessed with the help of a defaults write command. </p> <ul> <li>Quit out of iCal and then launch the Terminal</li> <li>Enter the following command:</li> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1</code></p> <li>Open iCal again to find the “Debug” menu…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/remove-finder-from-mac-os-x-app-switcher.jpg" alt="Remove Finder from App Switcher in Mac OS X" title="remove-finder-from-mac-os-x-app-switcher" width="484" height="260" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27165" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/17/secrets-of-the-command-tab-mac-application-switcher/">Command+Tab application switcher</a> gets a lot use by many Mac OS X power users, and by default it will include the Finder in the apps to be able to switch to and from. If you’d rather limit the App Switcher to only swap between op…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mouse-pointer-in-screen-shot.jpg" alt="Mouse Pointer visible in a screen shot" title="mouse-pointer-in-screen-shot" width="620" height="335" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27147" /></p> <p>If you’ve ever taken a screen shot in Mac OS X you’ll notice the cursor is nowhere to be found, even if you’re taking a screenshot of something like a menu in use. By using Grab, you can take screen shots showing the mouse pointer though, and it’s even somewhat customizable. </p> <ul> <li>Launch Grab, located within the Applications Utilities folder…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mobile-compatibility-lab.jpg" alt="Lots of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Androids" title="mobile-compatibility-lab" width="620" height="436" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27131" /></p> <p>Have you ever wondered how an iOS developer tests for application compatibility with the myriad of devices and versions of iOS out there? This picture from <a href="http://david-smith.org/blog/2011/12/03/my-2011-compatibility-lab/">developer David Smith</a> gives us an idea, as you can see it takes a lot of hardware. Four iPads, four iPod Touchs, four iPhones,…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/save-photo-stream-images-mac.jpg" alt="Save Photo Stream Images to a folder in Mac OS X" title="save-photo-stream-images-mac" width="620" height="299" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27115" /></p> <p>Photo Stream is a nice feature of iCloud that pushes all of your pictures automatically to your other iOS devices and your Mac with iPhoto or Aperture. If you haven’t used it before, this means if you take a picture on your iPhone, it will automatically show up in the Photo Stream on your iPad, and also in iPhoto on your Mac. Oddly, there isn’t an option to c…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/wallpaperlog-ios.jpg" alt="WallpaperLog for iOS" title="wallpaperlog-ios" width="620" height="439" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27105" /></p> <p>A new free app will soon be available on the Cydia store that puts an active Console log as the background wallpaper of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, giving you an overview of all low level events going on with iOS on the device. </p> <p>WallpaperLog will be a free download on Cydia. Of course, to use and access the Cydia store you will need to have a jailbroken iOS device. Nowadays that isn’t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macbook-pro-desk.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro Desk" title="macbook-pro-desk" width="620" height="339" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26827" /></p> <p>This nice and clean Mac setup comes from reader Jason Y. and is used for graphic design and photo editing. Rather than going with the defacto Apple keyboard and mouse, Jason chose a wireless mouse and solar keyboard from Logitech, making it stand out a bit from the pack. Hardware shown in this setup consists of the following gear:</p> <ul> <li>Macbook Pro 13″ 2011 model with i5 CPU and 8GB RAM&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/launchpad-transition.jpg" alt="Launchpad Transition in Mac OS X Lion" title="launchpad-transition" width="620" height="339" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27094" /></p> <p>Launchpad shows a fading transition anytime it is opened or closed, making for a nice effect over whatever is in the background. It’s pleasant looking, but if you don’t like it you can disable the fading with a few defaults write commands. You can also choose to disable only half of the transition, either for showing or hiding Launchpad.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Di…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macbook-pro-lineup-2012.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro Lineup in 2012 maybe" title="macbook-pro-lineup-2012" width="620" height="98" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27078" /></p> <p>The entire MacBook Pro lineup will be redesigned “radically” this year to more closely resemble the MacBook Air, according to a new report from <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/10/apple_to_disrupt_notebook_space_with_radically_redesigned_macbook_pros.html">AppleInsider</a>. Citing a source who says “they’re all going to look like MacBook Airs,” AppleInsid…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/closed-macbook-air.jpg" alt="Closed MacBook Air" title="closed-macbook-air" width="620" height="109" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27067" /></p> <p>With traditional <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/15/how-to-use-a-macbook-or-macbook-pro-with-the-lid-closed-and-hooked-to-an-external-monitor/">clamshell mode</a> for a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Macbook, an external display, mouse, and keyboard must be attached in order to maintain the running closed-lid clamshell state. Thanks to a third party kernel extension called NoSleep we can now r…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ipad-3-vs-other-resolutions.jpg" alt="iPad 3 vs other resolutions" title="ipad-3-vs-other-resolutions" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27052" style="border:1px solid #333;" /></p> <p>Assuming iPad 3 (or whatever the next iPad is called) gets the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/09/ipad-3-release-set-for-march/">much rumored</a> and highly anticipated ‘retina’ treatment, the screens resolution would come in at a whopping 2048×1536 pixels. That’s an enormous amount of pixels for a screen that isn’t even 10″, and to h…

<div class="KonaBody"><p>Apple has started to air two new iPhone 4S commercials that focus on Siri. The first ad is titled “Road Trip” and features a young couple winging a road trip with the help of Siri. The second ad is titled “Rock God” and features a teenagers journey with music, aided by none other than Siri. Both follow the same recurring theme as past <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-4s-commercial/">iPhone 4S commercials</a> and have the same <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/11/background-music-from-the-iphone-4s-commercial/">background tune</a>. You can watch both of them below.</p> <p><iframe width="…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gmail1.jpg" alt="Gmail as the default email client" title="gmail" width="445" height="150" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27043" /></p> <p>Clicking an email link in a web browser defaults to launching Mail.app, which is great if you use Mail but not so great if you use webmail services like Gmail. This is fairly easy to resolve, though you’ll have to configure it separately on a per-browser basis, with different methods for Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Set Gmail as Default Email Client in Chrome and Op…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="620" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ScHTwrvkOXA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Want to see every Apple design ever released in 30 seconds of cheesy video? Of course you do. You’ll see everything from the Apple I to the QuickTake Camera to the LC III and of course modern gear like the iPhone and iPad. It looks like all the bases of Apple’s <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/apple-history/">historical</a> releases are covered here, although I’m not so sure the sock looking things at the end are genuine Apple gear.</p> <p><strong>…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ipad-3-looks-like-ipad-2.jpg" alt="iPad 3 looks like an iPad 2" title="ipad-3-looks-like-ipad-2" width="620" height="64" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-27021" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipad-3/">iPad 3</a> will be announced in the first week of March and likely go on sale soon after, according to a new report from the <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120209/apple-to-announce-ipad-3-first-week-in-march/">Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD</a>. Typically well connected and the source of most accurate leaks from App…

<div class="KonaBody"><p>An alternative to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/05/check-sha1-checksum-in-mac-os-x/">checking a SHA1 hash with shasum</a> is to use openssl. Yes, the same openssl utility used to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/30/encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-openssl/">encrypt files</a> can be used to verify the validity of files. </p> <p>The syntax is quite similar to the shasum command, but you do need to specify ‘sha1′ as the specific algorithm:</p> <p><code>openssl sha1 /path/to/filename</code></p> <p>To verify a file on the desktop, the command would look like…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/restore-iphone-or-ipad.jpg" alt="Restore an iPhone or iPad" title="restore-iphone-or-ipad" width="570" height="289" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26993" /></p> <p>Restoring an iPhone or iPad to it’s default factory settings is easy whether you are restoring as a troubleshooting step or just preparing to transfer ownership of the hardware. You can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/17/reset-iphone-factory-settings/">reset the iPhone on the the device itself</a>, but if the device is unresponsive, stuck on a boot loop, or otherwise needs to …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spectacle-resizes-windows-mac.jpg" alt="Spectacle organizes and resizes windows in Mac OS X" title="spectacle-resizes-windows-mac" width="620" height="409" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26976" /></p> <p>Spectacle is a free utility for Mac OS X that helps you quickly and easily organize and resize windows, without using the mouse. Apps like this make it much easier to view multiple documents alongside one another and can help to boost productivity, particularly after you remember the keystrokes to throw windows around the screen.</p> <p>Want…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/repair-disk-disk-utility.jpg" alt="Repair Disk with Disk Utility " title="repair-disk-disk-utility" width="601" height="375" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26968" /></p> <p>If you have tried to repair the boot volume before in Mac OS X before, you’ll undoubtedly have found the “Repair Disk” option is grey and unavailable within the Disk Utility tool. While this is still the case while booted in OS X Lion, you <em>can</em> repair the Mac OS X boot disk thanks to Lion’s Recovery Partition, preventing the need from using an external boot drive t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/disable-javascript.jpg" alt="Disable Javascript" title="disable-javascript" width="620" height="277" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26962" /></p> <p>Need to re-enable or disable Javascript in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox? Most modern web browsers make it very easy to toggle on or off, and while it’s almost always recommended to keep javascript enabled, there are cases where developers and other users need to turn it off.</p> <p><strong>Safari:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Open Safari Preferences</li> <li>C…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/macbook-efi-firmware-update.jpg" alt="MacBook EFI Firmware Update" title="macbook-efi-firmware-update" width="620" height="207" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26955" /></p> <p>Apple has released firmware updates for 2010 model year MacBook Air, iMac, and MacBook Pro. The EFI update brings OS X Lion Internet Recovery, which is accessible by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/03/how-to-boot-into-os-x-lions-recovery-hd-partition/">booting into Recovery mode</a> and allows a user to reinstall OS X Lion, to each Mac from 2010.</p> <p&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hidpi-cursor-mac.jpg" alt="HiDPI Cursor in Mac OS X 10.7.3" title="hidpi-cursor-mac" width="316" height="132" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26942" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/01/mac-os-x-10-7-3-released-download-links/">Mac OS X 10.7.3</a> added several new high-dpi interface elements, giving another hint that Apple may be working towards releasing Macs with ‘retina’ displays. </p> <p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/06/high-dpi">DaringFireball</a> points out that it’s possible the…