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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ios-5-1-beta-2.jpg" alt="iOS 5.1 Beta 2" title="ios-5-1-beta-2" width="548" height="240" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24783" /></p> <p>Apple has released iOS 5.1 beta 2 to developers with a continued focus on bug fixes. A notable added feature however is the ability to delete photos from Photo Stream directly on the iOS device, as opposed to the current method of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/23/delete-pictures-from-photo-stream-icloud/">removing pictures from iCloud</a>.</p> <p>The build comes as 9B5127c and runs on the…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/hide-spotlight-icon-lion.jpg" alt="Hide the Spotlight icon in OS X Lion" title="hide-spotlight-icon-lion" width="620" height="72" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24750" /></p> <p>Whether you are <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/10/disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-lion/">disabling Spotlight</a> or just wanting to reduce menubar icon clutter, it’s possible to hide the Spotlight icon. Here’s the best part though; if you just want to hide the Spotlight menu, you can do so without disabling the search abilities from functioning in the Fi…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sort-all-my-files.jpg" alt="Sort All My Files in OS X Lion" title="sort-all-my-files" width="620" height="334" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24772" /></p> <p>“All My Files” is the all-inclusive folder in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> that includes, well, all of your files. It’s basically a smart folder that lists every user owned or created file, and by default it’s sorted by the files kind: Images, PDF’s, Documents, Music, Movies, Developer, and so on. </p> <p>You’re not limited to sort…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="600" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F7030715&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=0094ff"></iframe></p> <p>Apple has been airing <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/30/apple-airs-three-new-iphone-4s-tv-commercials-siri-icloud-and-camera/">several iPhone 4S commercials</a>, a few focus on Siri, while others center on iCloud or the new camera. Each ad shares the same background music, and what’s the tunes name? The song is <strong>Orchestral – “Goldengrove v2″ by Keith…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/macbook-desk.jpg" alt="MacBook desk" title="macbook-desk" width="620" height="365" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24742" /></p> <p>We’ve inadvertently skipped a few weeks posting <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setups</a>, but we’re back again with another reader submitted desk. Stefan sent in this shot of his wonderfully simple Mac setup, the gear includes the aluminum MacBook unibody model (released before Apple turned it into the MacBook Pro 13″), as well as the following:</p> <p>• iPhone 3Gs • Magic Mo…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/flight-control-hd-screenshots.jpg" alt="Flight Control HD screenshot" title="flight-control-hd-screenshots" width="620" height="465" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24734" /></p> <p>Looking for a couple new <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> games to play this weekend? EAGames is offering up two popular iPad games for free today, Flight Control HD and Mirrors Edge. The games couldn’t be more different, Flight Control is an air traffic control simulator and Mirrors Edge is an action side scroller, but they’re both a ton of fun and w…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/disable-spotlight-lion.jpg" alt="Disable Spotlight in OS X Lion" title="disable-spotlight-lion" width="448" height="142" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24718" /></p> <p>Completely disabling and reenabling Spotlight in Mac OS X Lion can be done with the help of the Terminal. The following command unloads the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/05/mds-mac/">Spotlight mds agent</a> from launchd, preventing the daemon from running or indexing any drives entirely.</p> <p>Open up the Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities/) and en…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ychmsJR6Rkk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has started to air a new iTunes TV ad featuring The Beatles. The commercial is called “Covers” and transitions through The Beatles catalog that is available on iTunes, with the classic Beatles song “<em>Magical Mystery Tour</em>” playing in the background of the commercial.</p> <p>This feels very much like an Apple ad, although it’s obviously targeting a slightly different demographic than the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/24/the-new-ipod…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/apple-ipad-2.jpg" alt="Apple iPad 2" title="apple-ipad-2" width="575" height="253" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24704" /></p> <p>Looking to get an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> 2 for the holidays? By far the cheapest place to buy one right now is directly through Apple’s very own online refurb store, where prices are discounted up to $100. </p> <p>If you’re thinking that refurbished gear is sketchy, think again, because Apple’s refurbished iPads all come with the exact same 1-year warranty of a brand new…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/untethered-jailbreak-ios-5.jpg" alt="Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1" title="untethered-jailbreak-ios-5" width="528" height="83" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24697" /></p> <p>An untethered iOS 5 jailbreak looks to be released soon, as indicated by a video released by the Chronic Dev Team showing off an iPod touch running such a jailbreak. Posted to Twitter by developer @<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/pod2g/status/145129035276623872">pod2g</a>, the video shown below clearly demonstrates an iOS 5 device rebooting and working nor…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/scrollbar-arrow-keyboard.jpg" alt="Keyboard as a scrollbar arrow replacement" title="scrollbar-arrow-keyboard" width="256" height="94" class="alignright size-full wp-image-24685" /> Although you can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/03/show-scroll-bars-mac-os-x-lion/">set scrollbars to always display</a> in windows, there is no option to show the actual scrollbar arrows anymore in Mac OS X Lion. A simple workaround to get used to this is to start using the keyboards up and down arrow keys instead:</p> <ul> <li>Click into the window or regi…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479"><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/macupdate-bundle-dec-2011.jpg" alt="MacUpdate Bundle - December 2011" title="macupdate-bundle-dec-2011" width="620" height="339" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24674" /></a></p> <p>MacUpdate is back with another Mac OS X application bundle, this one includes 12 great apps that would retail alone for $741, but sold as a bundle are discounted 94% to <a href="http://www.mupromo.com/?ref=9479">just $49.99</a>. The app pack includes:</p> <ul> <li><strong>TechTool Pro&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mac-caches-folder.jpg" alt="Caches folder in Mac OS X" title="mac-caches-folder" width="620" height="277" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24665" /></p> <p>The user caches folder sits in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/">~/Library/</a> and contains cache files from nearly all applications that are actively used in Mac OS X. While most apps maintain their caches reasonably well and don’t let things get out of control, some aren’t so good at it, and some apps leave behind rather large folders that s…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/app-store-rewind-2011.jpg" alt="iOS App Store Rewind for 2011" title="app-store-rewind-2011" width="620" height="190" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24660" /></p> <p>Apple has posted their annual iTunes and App Store rewind lists for 2011, naming the best music, movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, iOS apps, and Mac apps for the year. We’ll cover the best apps for iPad, iPhone, and Mac, and you can check out the rest of the winners on the iTunes or Mac App Stores:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">iTunes & iOS Apps of the Year 2011</h2&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/double-decker.jpg" alt="Double Decker Mac Setup is easily the worst ever" title="double-decker" width="550" height="396" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24634" /></p> <p>Don’t like your desk? It could be worse, you could be sharing one in the most awkwardly possible way like this ridiculous double-decker Mac setup. This has to be one of the worst ideas ever, and while it’s not quite a typical <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup picture</a> post, it’s too funny to pass up.</p> <p><em>Heads up to <a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/delete-phone-call-iphone.jpg" alt="Delete a Phone Call from iPhone Call Log with a swipe" title="delete-phone-call-iphone" width="620" height="207" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24651" /></p> <p>Since iOS 5 you can delete any single phone call from the iPhones call log with a simple swipe gesture, here’s how:</p> <ul> <li>Open “Phone” and then on “Recents”</li> <li>Tap and swipe to the left or right on the phone call you want to delete</li> <li>Select the red “Delete” button” to remove the phone from the lis…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/macbook-air-11-inch.jpg" alt="MacBook Air 11.6"" title="macbook-air-11-inch" width="561" height="310" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24639" /></p> <p>I’ve gotten in the habit of immediately putting my MacBook Air to sleep by shutting the lid, by far the easiest method if you’re on the go. Typically this works without a hitch, but today the Air didn’t sleep when shut. Because the MacBook Air has no moving hard drive or sleep light, I didn’t notice this until I went to use it again about two hours later when I found the machine to be unusually hot to the t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/new-terminal-from-folder-mac.jpg" alt="Open a New Terminal from the Selected Folder in Mac OS X" title="new-terminal-from-folder-mac" width="620" height="129" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24622" /></p> <p>If you shuffle between the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">Terminal</a> and the Mac OS X desktop often, you’ll get good use out of a Services feature which gives the ability to create a new Terminal window (or tab) from a selected folder within the Finder. You have to enable the Service inside System Prefs beforehand t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/customize-login-screen-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Customize the Login Screen of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion" title="customize-login-screen-os-x-lion" width="620" height="314" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24614" /></p> <p>We recently showed you <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/02/change-login-screen-wallpaper-os-x-lion/">how to manually change the login screen wallpaper</a>, but if you don’t want to deal with resizing images and digging around in the filesystem, you can use a free app called Loginox. </p> <p>Loginox sets new background wal…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/hide-toolbar-lion-minimal-mac-os-x-window.jpg" alt="Hide Toolbar in OS X Lion for Minimal Mac Finder windows" title="hide-toolbar-lion-minimal-mac-os-x-window" width="620" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24606" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> left behind the toolbar switch that used to sit in the upper right corner of all Finder windows as a rectangular button in favor of a cleaner appearance. That doesn’t mean you can’t hide the toolbar in OS X Lion though, it’s just done through …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/macbook-air-thunderbolt.jpg" alt="MacBook Air and Thunderbolt display" title="macbook-air-thunderbolt" width="560" height="395" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24594" /></p> <p>Future MacBook Air models are likely to be capable of supporting two external displays in addition to the built-in screen, as powered by the upcoming Intel HD Graphics 4000 integrated graphics chipset, according to a recent post on <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/06/ivy-bridge-to-bring-triple-display-support-to-macbook-air/">MacRumors</a>. The information come…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/digital-color-meter-hexadecimal.jpg" alt="Get Hexadecimal Values in Digital Color Meter for OS X Lion" title="digital-color-meter-hexadecimal" width="615" height="266" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24570" /></p> <p>A few months ago I wrote about an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/12/digital-color-meter-picker-replacement-for-mac-os-x-lion">alternative to DigitalColor Meter</a> for OS X Lion, with my main complaint being that the color picker tool removed the ability to get hexadecimal color codes. It turns out I was wrong, you <em&gt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/steve-jobs-bio-best-seller-2011.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs Biography is 2011 Best Seller" title="steve-jobs-bio-best-seller-2011" width="490" height="263" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24581" /></p> <p>The official biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is now the number one best selling book for 2011, according to Amazon.com’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2011/books?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957">best sellers list</a><img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=o…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/core-image-fun-house.jpg" alt="Core Image Fun House" title="core-image-fun-house" width="620" height="390" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24575" /></p> <p><em>Here’s another tip from Keir Thomas, author of <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu">Mac Kung Fu</a>, a new book with over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for Mac OS X Lion. It’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934356824/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1934356824">availabl…

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