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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/osx1073-11d50.jpg" alt="OS X 10.7.3 11D50" title="osx1073-11d50" width="620" height="223" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26398" /></p> <p>Developer build Mac OS X 10.7.3 11D50 has been released to registered Mac developers, this is the sixth dev build of the next update to Mac OS X, and arrives nearly a week after the last <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7-3/">10.7.3</a> build showed up. </p> <p>With no known issues, the emphasis is still on iCloud, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. <a href="http://w…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/apple-logo.gif" alt="Apple" title="apple-logo" width="203" height="246" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26387" /> Apple has reported an absolute blowout first quarter for fiscal 2012, far exceeding any analysts expectations across the entire product lineup. Record iPhone sales, huge iPad and iPod sales, big Mac sales, giant revenues and profits, Apple is on fire. Take a look at some of these numbers:</p> <p><strong>Q1 2012 Financials:</strong></p> <ul> <li>$46.33 billion in revenue</li> <li>$13.06 billion net pr…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/file-locking-lion.jpg" alt="File locking in Mac OS X" title="file-locking-lion" width="465" height="180" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26382" /></p> <p>Mac OS X Lion introduced automatic file locking for any file that hasn’t been edited recently. You’ll have noticed this when you try and open an older file and make changes to it, a dialog box asks to duplicate the file or to manually unlock it. This is fine for files that you don’t want to accidentally Auto-Save over, but sometimes it’s just plain annoying.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stop-spotlight-indexing-time-machine.jpg" alt="Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Drives" title="stop-spotlight-indexing-time-machine" width="620" height="226" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26303" /></p> <p>The default behavior for Spotlight is to start indexing any drive as soon as it’s connected to a Mac, a task that can take a very long time with larger volumes. The problem is that for larger external backup drives and Time Machine volumes, you don’t necessarily want it indexed by Spotlight. This is particularly true if the drive gets used on …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/swipe-to-show-camera-photos.jpg" alt="Swipe left to show Photos" title="swipe-to-show-camera-photos" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26373" /></p> <p>Rather than closing out of the Camera app to view pictures you have taken on the iPhone, just <strong>swipe left</strong> from within Camera to reveal all photos contained within the camera roll. You can continuously flip through, and the standard photo options are available too, from sending as MMS or email to deleting the image.</p> </div> <p><a h…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/absinthe-a5.jpg" alt="Absinthe A5 Jailbreak" title="absinthe-a5" width="323" height="321" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26364" /> The A5 jailbreak tool Greenpois0n Absinthe has been updated to version 0.3, the third release is relatively minor but includes a few bug fixes and adds support for Linux. As before and as the name implies, the app focuses on jailbreaking A5 based hardware only, meaning the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, both of which must be running iOS 5.</p> <p>If you already are jailbroken with the Abinsthe utility, v0.3 offers no advantages to you …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/arrange-ios-icons-by-action.jpg" alt="Arrange icons by action rather than categories" title="arrange-ios-icons-by-action" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26336" /></p> <p>Can’t remember what folder you stuffed that iOS app into? If you have a ton of apps on your iPhone or iPad, try rearranging them all by their actions (or by verbs), rather than by the apps category. </p> <p>Although you’ll have to do this manually by moving apps around and renaming or creating folders yourself, it’s actually more intuitive and it’s e…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vim-ipad.jpg" alt="Vim for iPad" title="vim-ipad" width="591" height="332" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26326" /></p> <p>The powerful Vim text editor is a longstanding favorite amongst developers and sysadmins, and now it has been ported over to the iPad and iPhone. The version for iOS is full featured, including automatic indentation, visual mode, language-aware syntax highlighting, integrated scripting capabilities, macro recording and playback, place markers, multiple clipboards, and much more. </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://it…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/zoom-window.jpg" alt="Zoom window in Mac OS X" title="zoom-window" width="620" height="335" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26316" /></p> <p>Another option when <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/02/enable-screen-zoom-in-mac-os-x-lion/">enabling zoom in OS X Lion</a> is to use a smaller floating zoom window, rather than zooming into the entire screen. </p> <ul> <li>Open “System Preferences” from the  Apple menu, and click on “Universal Access”</li> <li>Click on the “Seeing” tab and under “Zoom”, click ON, an…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/apple-factory.jpeg" alt="Apple factory" title="apple-factory" width="620" height="198" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26307" /></p> <p>As recently as 2002, most of Apple’s products were manufactured in the USA. What happened? Why is nearly everything, from Macs to iPhones, made in China now? The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=2&hp">New York Times provides an in depth report</a> on Apple’s move overseas, and it’s not as simple as you might think.</p> <blockquo…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/time-machine.jpg" alt="Time Machine" title="time-machine" width="219" height="239" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26292" /> Mac OS X 10.7 Lion includes a great tool called tmutil that lets you interact with with Time Machine from the command line. It’s a powerful utility that has a ton of options and we’ve used it before to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/28/disable-time-machine-local-backups-in-mac-os-x-lion/">disable local snapshots</a>, but for the purposes here we are going to use it to compare Time Machine backups. Launch the Terminal from /Appli…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/absinthe-jailbreak1.jpg" alt="GreenPois0n Absinthe A5 Jailbreak" title="absinthe-jailbreak" width="266" height="259" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26277" /> The Greenpois0n Absinthe A5 jailbreak utility for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5 has been updated to version 0.2, and now includes a Windows release alongside the Mac OS X version. </p> <p>In addition to bringing the jailbreak to Windows PC’s, the new version aims to resolve some of the earlier <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/20/fix-error-establishing-database-a-connection-with-absinthe/">d…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/macbook-pro-iphone.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro and iPhone" title="macbook-pro-iphone" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26265" /></p> <p>Simple desks are often the best, with nothing unnecessary to distract you from getting things done. This nice nearly wireless reader submitted <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> comes to us from Roland C. Sure there’s a power cable for the iPhone and probably for the MacBook Pro too, but the rest of this is uncluttered joy. Here’s what’s featured in the shot:<…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ibooks-author-mac-os-x-10-6.jpg" alt="iBooks running on Mac OS X 10.6.8" title="ibooks-author-mac-os-x-10-6" width="620" height="360" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26253" /></p> <p>Apple’s free interactive book creation app <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/19/ibooks-author-makes-creating-interactive-ipad-books-easy/">iBooks Author</a> was just released, allowing for anyone to make multi-touch iBooks for iPad. Unfortunately it’s officially for Mac OS X 10.7 only, and if you try to install it on Snow Leopard, you’ll get an error message. W…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/absinthe-error.jpg" alt="" title="absinthe-error" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26242" /> Some users with the new Greenpois0n <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/20/absinthe-jailbreak-iphone-4s-ipad-2-download-links/">Absinthe jailbreak</a> for A5 hardware are encountering a database error when they are at the end of their jailbreak and trying to launch Absinthe on the device itself. If you see the “Error establishing a database connection” at this stage in the process, it’s easy to fix:</p> <ul> <li>Launch “S…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/absinthe-jailbreak-iphone-4s.jpg" alt="Absinthe Jailbreak for iPhone 4S" title="absinthe-jailbreak-iphone-4s" width="300" height="300" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26227" /> The newly released and highly anticipated <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/20/absinthe-jailbreak-iphone-4s-ipad-2-download-links/">Absinthe A5 jailbreak</a> is the first public jailbreak for iPhone 4S users and the first jailbreak for iPad 2 with iOS 5. If you’ve been waiting for an untethered jailbreak for either device with iOS 5, this is it, and it’s very easy to use. Absinthe…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/absinthe-jailbreak.jpg" alt="Absinthe Jailbreak" title="absinthe-jailbreak" width="266" height="259" class="alignright size-full wp-image-26221" /> The hotly anticipated jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is finally here, providing an untethered jailbreak for either A5-based device running iOS 5.0.1. Put together by the Chronic Dev Team who are known for making Greenpois0n, the utility is called Absinthe A5 and it is hot off the presses.</p> <p>Backup your iPhone or iPad before using Absinthe! This is an early release jailbreak and could have some bugs to iron …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/monitor-disk-activity-mac.jpg" alt="Monitor Disk Activity in Mac OS X" title="monitor-disk-activity-mac" width="553" height="162" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26192" /></p> <p>You can monitor disk activity in Mac OS X by using the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/15/mac-task-manager/">Activity Monitor</a> app or several command line tools. Activity Monitor is the easiest and most user friendly, but the Terminal options allow further information to be retrieved. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Watching Disk Activity with A…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/apple-ibooks-itunes-u-event.jpg" alt="Apple Education Event: iBooks and iTunes U" title="apple-ibooks-itunes-u-event" width="620" height="352" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26177" /></p> <p>Apple has posted an hour long video of todays education event held in NYC. The event saw the unveiling of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/19/ibooks-author-makes-creating-interactive-ipad-books-easy/">iBooks Author</a>, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/id490217893?mt=8">iTunes U app</a> for iOS, <a href="http://itunes.ap…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ibooks-author.jpg" alt="iBooks Author" title="ibooks-author" width="620" height="434" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26165" /></p> <p>Apple has released iBooks Author, an easy to use app for Mac OS X that lets anyone create interactive multi-touch books for the iPad, these can be published on the iBookstore or iTunes U and offered as free or paid titles.</p> <p>iBooks Author should be a big hit with both small and large publishers, teachers, and anyone else who wants to become a published eBook author. While the original aim is the education…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/itunes-10-5-3.jpg" alt="iTunes 10.5.3" title="itunes-10-5-3" width="620" height="252" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26160" /></p> <p>iTunes 10.5.3 has been released, the update includes support for the new iBooks 2 and iTunes U initiatives on iOS, and allows syncing of interactive iBooks to an iPad. The download weighs in around 100MB and overall it’s a fairly minor iTunes update, but it’s worth downloading to keep on top of things, and it may be required for the next iOS update.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Download iTunes 10.5.3</h…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/change-stacks-icon-size.jpg" alt="Change Stacks icon size" title="change-stacks-icon-size" width="620" height="264" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26151" /></p> <p>Stacks are a Dock feature added to Mac OS X a while back that let added an easy way to see the contents of Applications, Documents, Downloads, and whatever other folder placed into the Dock. </p> <p>To change the icon size of Stacks, the stack must be shown as “Grid”, this can be set with a right-click. Open the Stack and use the following keystrokes:</p> <ul> <li…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/whited00r-5.jpg" alt="Whited00r 5.1 brings iOS 5 to iPhone 3G" title="whited00r-5" width="473" height="285" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26138" /></p> <p>Have an older generation iPhone 3G or 2G? If so, you’re stuck on older legacy iOS versions with limited features and sluggish speeds. But not anymore with Whited00r, which installs a custom iOS build on the device to help bring it into the modern age. </p> <p>Whited00r 5.1 is basically an unofficial custom made iOS build that includes many of the iOS 5 features and has been optimized to r…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/osxlion-10-7-3-build-11d46.jpg" alt="OS X Lion 10.7.3 Build 11D46" title="osxlion-10-7-3-build-11d46" width="569" height="160" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26129" /></p> <p>Apple has provided another beta build of OS X Lion 10.7.3 to developers, just a week after the last build <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/10/new-os-x-10-7-3-build-11d42-released-to-developers/">11D42</a>. The areas of focus remain the same, iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari, but has no known issues and the quick turnaround for a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/login-agreement-mac.jpg" alt="User Agreement on Login in Mac OS X Lion" title="login-agreement-mac" width="620" height="393" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-26099" /></p> <p>Mac OS X Lion can display messages that require acknowledgement prior to the standard login screen appearing. For administrators, this allows a user agreement or acceptable use policy to be displayed before users can login, and for personal use it lets users include a customized message before logging into a Mac.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">How to Create & Set a …