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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/format-usb-drive-mac.jpg" alt="Format a USB Drive for use on a Mac" title="format-usb-drive-mac" width="620" height="286" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25556" /></p> <p>Connecting an external hard drive or USB flash key to a Mac will generally read and work fine as is because <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> can read other filesystem formats, including Windows MSDOS, ExFAT, and NTFS formats. That said, if you want full Mac compatibility and to get the most out of an external drive, you’ll want to format it to the…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/iphone-4s-jailbreak.jpg" alt="iPhone 4S jailbreak is coming soon" title="iphone-4s-jailbreak" width="250" height="235" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25546" /> The highly anticipated jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 is coming as soon as next week, according to a recent tweet from the hacker pod2g, who is working on the project. The <a href="https://twitter.com/pod2g/status/154278690862272512">comment</a> suggested a hurdle for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2′s A5 processor has been overcome, and stated that “<em>With some luck we could e…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/enable-trim-ssd-lion.jpg" alt="Enable TRIM SSD Support in OS X Lion" title="enable-trim-ssd-lion" width="566" height="587" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25530" /></p> <p>If you have a third party SSD you probably noticed that Mac OS X Lion probably doesn’t support TRIM on the drive. While OS X Lion supports TRIM for all Apple SSD’s, many third party SSD’s are left without trim in OS X 10.7. </p> <p>Fortunately with a free tool called TRIM Enabler, <strong>TRIM support can be added to all SSD’s running Mac OS X 10.7.2 and 10.6.8</st…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/show-dock-full-screen-app.jpg" alt="Show Dock in Full Screen Apps" title="show-dock-full-screen-app" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25523" /></p> <p>The Dock disappears whenever an app is put into Mac OS X Lion’s full screen mode, but that doesn’t mean you can’t access the Dock if you need it. To show the Dock in a full screen app, <strong>swipe twice at the bottom of the screen</strong>, the first swipe won’t show anything but the second swipe will draw the Dock upwards as usual.</p> <p>Regardless of &lt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/open-man-page-terminal.jpg" alt="open a man page from the Terminal in OS X " title="open-man-page-terminal" width="620" height="226" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25514" /></p> <p>Mac OS X Lion’s <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">Terminal</a> includes a new feature that lets you quickly access new manual pages from any existing Terminal window. <strong>Right-click on a command or process name and select “Open man Page”</strong> from the contextual menu, this will create a new terminal window with the manual pag…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/zoom-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Screen Zoom in OS X Lion" title="zoom-os-x-lion" width="619" height="263" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25503" /></p> <p>Screen zoom is a useful feature of Mac OS X that zooms into the screen where ever the cursor is located. The feature was enabled by default in prior versions of Mac OS X whenever the control key was held down, but in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X 10.7 Lion</a> it has been turned off by default and is now a feature of Universal Access. </p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2e…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/apple-wireless-keyboard-windows.jpg" alt="Apple Wireless Keyboard Helper for Windows" title="apple-wireless-keyboard-windows" width="300" height="394" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25491" /> The appropriately named “Apple Wireless Keyboard Helper” is a nice free Windows tool that restores many of the Windows-specific functions and keys that are seemingly lost when using an Apple keyboard, including the Delete key, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/13/print-screen-mac/">Print Screen</a>, CTRL+ALT+DEL, volume adjustment, function toggle, and more. </p…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/freespace-tab.jpg" alt="FreeSpace Tab" title="freespace-tab" width="311" height="229" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25479" /> FreeSpaceTab is a free utility that lets you manage hard disks and mounted volumes directly from the Mac OS X menu bar. </p> <p>With an attractive and simple GUI, you can pull the menu down to see all mounted drives and partitions, arranged by volume type (local drives, disk images, network volumes, etc) as well as free space available on each volume. Drives can ejected on a per disk basis, or mass ejected if you want to unmount e…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pwnagetool.jpg" alt="PwnageTool" title="pwnagetool" width="620" height="398" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25473" /></p> <p>If you’ve maintained old iPhone baseband in order to utilize carrier unlocks, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 and jailbreak untethered the iPhone while preserving the unlockable baseband. The procedure is done by using the newest version of PwnageTool 5.0.1, and if you’re familiar with past versions of pwnage then you should be right at home, but nonetheless we will walk through the entire process.&l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/macs.jpg" alt="Lots and lots of Macs" title="macs" width="620" height="286" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25460" /></p> <p>Typically we try to just post workstations for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setups</a>, but Rejean H sent in pictures of what amounts to a giant collection of Macs built up over the years, and we just had to post it. </p> <p>Ranging from some of the first Macs to be released, to the Macintosh Portable, Mac Classic, 20th Anniversary Mac, Power Mac 7200, 9500, Performas, eMac, G4 Cube…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/exclude-drive-from-spotlight.jpg" alt="Exclude drives and folders from Spotlight index" title="exclude-drive-from-spotlight" width="620" height="315" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25453" /></p> <p>Spotlight is a wonderful feature of Mac OS X, but sometimes you don’t want it indexing everything. Whether it’s an external backup drive, a scratch disk, or just a private folder with files you don’t want easily found, excluding drives and directories from Spotlight is easy:</p> <ul> <li>Launch System Preferences from the  Apple menu and c…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/steve-jobs-ibm-finger.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs gives IBM the Finger" title="steve-jobs-ibm-finger" width="620" height="683" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25444" /></p> <p>This is a classic picture of a young Steve Jobs giving the finger to an IBM sign in 1983, it’s been circulating again after all these years thanks to Macintosh co-creator <a href="https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts/g8dqNasKdni">Andy Hertzfeld</a> who posted the high res copy to <a href="https://plus.google.com/110005238800692664883/posts">Google+</a&gt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Seas0nPass-apple-tv-4-4-4.jpg" alt="Seas0nPass for Apple TV 4.4.4" title="Seas0nPass-apple-tv-4-4-4" width="217" height="253" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25437" /> If you’ve been holding off on the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/15/apple-posts-minor-ios-updates-for-apple-tv-and-iphone-4s/">Apple TV 2 4.4.4 update</a> for an untethered jailbreak, you can now update the device without worry. A new version of Seas0npass has been released to to untether the Apple TV’s unique iOS 4.4.4 build, the tool remains extremely easy to use and supports most of…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/clipboard-history-manager.jpg" alt="Clipboard history manager for Mac" title="clipboard-history-manager" width="475" height="296" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25417" /></p> <p>ClipMenu is an awesome free clipboard history manager for Mac OS X that keeps track of nearly anything copied into the clipboard, ranging from plain and rich text, URLs, images, even files. ClipMenu defaults to remember 20 items but can be set to whatever you want, each clipboard item is then stored for easy retrieval from the menu. Just select an item from the menu and it gets c…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="443" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-KOnfN-ZDrs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>In 1984, Apple spoofed the classic Ghostbusters song by Ray Parker Jr, and this outrageously <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/fun/">cheesy</a> video is the result. </p> <p>The video apparently played as the introduction to an Apple corporate event held in Hawaii to rally the international sales team. Instead of Ghostbusters, it’s “Blue Busters”, with Blue of course being a reference to Big Blue, or IBM. John Sculley and Steve Wozniak even make appea…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/move-app-from-applications-folder-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Move Applications out of the Applications folder in OS X Lion" title="move-app-from-applications-folder-os-x-lion" width="620" height="275" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25395" /></p> <p>Have you noticed when you try and move an application out of the /Applications folder in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> you will end up creating an alias of the app instead? This is a security feature that is new to Lion, intended to help prevent accidentally deleting o…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/untethered-redsn0w1.jpeg" alt="redsnow" title="untethered-redsn0w" width="175" height="171" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25397" /> Another day another version of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/redsn0w/">redsn0w</a> is released… Redsn0w 0.9.10b3 includes a bug fix that caused some apps to not be able to run after the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> was completed. I didn’t run into any problems on an iPhone 4, but if you did encounter any issues with apps crashing with the prior redsn0w jailbreak then you can go ahe…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/scientific-calculator-iphone.jpg" alt="Scientific Calculator for iPhone" title="scientific-calculator-iphone" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25391" /></p> <p>Need to use a scientific calculator on the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>? Instead of downloading a new app, just launch the existing Calculator app and then rotate the iPhone so that the screen orientation is horizontal. This instantly transforms the calculator app into a scientific calculator, no visit to the App Store is required.&lt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/wifi.jpg" alt="Wi-Fi" title="wifi" width="372" height="268" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25373" /></p> <p>Wi-Fi Diagnostics is an incredibly useful utility to troubleshoot and optimize any wireless network and the signal strength of computers that are connecting to it. This utility comes bundled in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> and works with all wireless routers and not only the Apple branded ones, meaning you can improve the performance of just about any wifi network by using it and making some adjustm…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/take-screenshot-ipad.jpg" alt="Take a screenshot on the iPad" title="take-screenshot-ipad" width="340" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25358" /></p> <p>Need to take a screenshot on the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>? It’s very easy: <strong>hold the Power button</strong> on the top corner <strong>and the Home button</strong> on the front bezel concurrently, you’ll know the screenshot was taken because the screen flashes white briefly. This captures the entire screen.</p> <p&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/show-disk-eject-menu.jpg" alt="Hidden disk eject menu" title="show-disk-eject-menu" width="608" height="95" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25363" /></p> <p>If you use a lot of DVD’s or CD’s on a regular basis, you may find some use enabling a hidden disk eject menu item. Once enabled, you’ll have a Finder pull down menu that lists discs, and selecting a disk from the menu ejects it:</p> <ul> <li>Hit Command+Shift+G to bring up the Go To Folder window, using the following path:</li> <p><code>/System/Library/CoreServi…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/show-ios-app-in-finder.jpg" alt="Show an iOS app in the Finder" title="show-ios-app-in-finder" width="620" height="263" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25345" /></p> <p>We recently showed you <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/15/where-ios-apps-stored-locally-in-mac-os-x-and-windows/">where iOS apps are stored locally on the computer</a>, but if you just want to quickly access that folder or get to a single app in the Mac OS X Finder, you can do so with a right-click within iTunes:</p> <ul> <li>Open iTunes and click on “A…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/remove-shadows-windows-mac.jpg" alt="Remove Shadows from Windows in Mac OS X" title="remove-shadows-windows-mac" width="620" height="319" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25337" /></p> <p>Ever wanted to remove shadows from windows, menus, and box items in Mac OS X? You can with a free tool called ShadowKiller, and it works in Mac OS X 10.7 too. All you need to do is launch the app, the screen will flicker briefly, and all on screen windows will appear shadowless. You can get the shadows back by just relaunching the app again. If you want to have the window…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/corona-untether.jpg" alt="Corona Untether for iOS 5.0.1" title="corona-untether" width="250" height="234" class="alignright size-full wp-image-25326" /> A new tool has been released that <em>untethers existing tethered jailbreaks</em> for iOS 5.0.1. This means that if you are using a tethered jailbreak right now, you can download a free package from Cydia to untether your jailbreak and never have to boot with redsn0w assistance again. The package is called Corona and it’s very easy to install.</p> <p>The current version of Corona untether is compati…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/untethered-jailbreak-ios-51.jpg" alt="How to Use Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1" title="untethered-jailbreak-ios-5" width="620" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-25319" /></p> <p>The untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak has finally arrived, and it’s extremely easy to use. We’ll walk you through the process, but before proceeding make sure you meet the following requirements:</p> <ul> <li>Compatible device: iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, iPod touch 3rd gen, iPod touch 4th gen</li> <li><a href="http://osxdaily.com…