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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pull-to-refresh-mac.jpg" alt="Pull to Refresh in Mac OS X" title="pull-to-refresh-mac" width="620" height="145" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24556" /></p> <p>iOS popularized the pull-to-refresh gesture, where pulling down and releasing on browser and app windows causes them to refresh their contents. With the help of a browser extension, we can bring the same pull to refresh feature to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7</a> in either the Chrome or Safari web browsers:</p> <ul> <li><a href="…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/quick-sleep-display.jpg" alt="Quick Sleep the Display of a Mac with Hot Corners" title="quick-sleep-display" width="620" height="243" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24549" /></p> <p>You can quickly sleep the display of a Mac or immediately start a screen saver by setting up Hot Corners, which are activated just by sliding your cursor into the specified corners of the screen. </p> <p>Setting up Hot Corners has been moved in Mac OS X Lion as part of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mission-control/">Mission Control</a>, here’s how …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ios-version-names-ski-resorts.jpg" alt="iOS versions named after ski resorts" title="ios-version-names-ski-resorts" width="620" height="444" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24543" /></p> <p>Fitting news as the Northern Hemisphere approaches winter and ski season, it has been discovered that Apple internally identifies iOS versions with code names based on ski resorts. The current list of iOS versions and their mountain code names is printed below, courtesy of <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/05/apples_secret_ios_code_names_inspired_…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/select-startup-disk-desktop.jpg" alt="Select Startup disk on the Desktop" title="select-startup-disk-desktop" width="620" height="93" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24531" /></p> <p>Want to quickly find and select your boot disk amidst a variety of other internal and external drives? Just hit <strong>Command+Shift+↑</strong> (Command + Shift + Up Arrow) to immediately choose the startup drive on the Mac OS X desktop from anywhere in the Finder.</p> <p>This command is what the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/28/quickly-go-…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/finder-path-bar.png" alt="Finder Path Bar from the Home Folder" title="finder-path-bar" width="457" height="93" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24521" /></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">ava…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="443" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/e_MfM4j09ME?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>In 1991, astronauts took a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">Macintosh Portable</a> aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-43, amongst other things, it became the first computer to send an email in space. A slightly less historical aspect is this fairly entertaining video clip from that mission, demonstrating the Macintosh Portable’s disk ejection system, which works perhaps a little too well in zero gravity. </p> <blockquote><p>“…We’ve got a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/firebug-ipad.jpg" alt="Firebug on iPad" title="firebug-ipad" width="620" height="376" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24502" /></p> <p>Firebug is an extremely popular web development tool that allows a user to inspect and modify page elements in real time, be it HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. It’s most known for being a plugin for the Firefox browser, but thanks to Firebug Lite and a little bookmarklet hack, you can run Firebug Lite directly in Safari on <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a>.</p> <p>Using Firebug in iOS is eas…

If you receive, and recognise phishing and scam attempts for what they are, firstly congratulations for being wise enough to know they are a scam. Do not click on any link provided, no matter how tempting that may be, some automatically dump malware as soon as they are opened. However, before deleting them, forward them on to "Action Fraud". This is a website set up by the police/government anti fraud unit. There they give an address to forward these phishing and scam mails to so they can be analysed, hopefully to be able to get a hook into the criminals responsible. Have a look here at the Action Fraud site= http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud Read …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/os-x-1073-11d24.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.7.3 11D24" title="os-x-1073-11d24" width="560" height="179" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24493" /></p> <p>Apple has posted the second beta of Mac OS X 10.7.3 for developers, available now from the Mac Dev Center. The focus is on Spotlight, Safari, iCloud Document Storage (does not seem like the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/03/sync-files-between-macs-with-icloud/">hidden iCloud file sync feature</a> is coming anytime soon), Address Book, iCal, and Mail, and no known issues exist with the current …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/change-login-wallpaper-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Change the login wallpaper in Mac OS X Lion" title="change-login-wallpaper-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24479" /></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&c…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/empty-trash-warning.jpg" alt="Empty Trash warning in Mac OS X" title="empty-trash-warning" width="534" height="160" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24471" /></p> <p>Tired of having to approve the Trash being emptied in Mac OS X? You can either <strong>hold down the Option key</strong> when emptying the trashcan, or you can turn off the Trash warning dialog window completely in Finder preferences:</p> <ul> <li>From the desktop, click on the “Finder” menu and choose “Preferences”</li> <li>Click on the “Advanced” …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/disable-carrier-iq-iphone.jpg" alt="Disable Carrier IQ on iPhone" title="disable-carrier-iq-iphone" width="270" height="199" class="alignright size-full wp-image-24462" /> If you’ve been following the Carrier IQ brouhaha and <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/111201/p51#a111201p51">ensuing fallout</a>, you might be interested to know that it’s very easy to <strong>disable the Carrier IQ service</strong>, logging, and reporting on iPhone or any other iOS device:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on “Settings”</li> <li>Go to “General” and…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/secure-keyboard-entry.jpg" alt="Secure Keyboard Entry in Mac OS X Terminal" title="secure-keyboard-entry" width="604" height="277" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24448" /></p> <p>If you are using a public Mac or are just concerned about things like <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/01/free-keylogger-for-mac-os-x-logkext/">keyloggers</a> and other potentially unauthorized access to your keystrokes, you can enable a feature in Mac OS X <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/command-line/">Terminal</a> app that secures keyboard entry an…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/full-size-preview-mission-control.jpg" alt="Full Size Window Preview in Mission Control" title="full-size-preview-mission-control" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24441" /></p> <p><em>Here’s another great tip from Keir Thomas, author of the <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu">new book Mac Kung Fu</a>, which contains over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for Mac OS X Lion:</em></p> <p>Mission Control in OS X Lion groups together thumbnail previews of windows from the same app.…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kYfNvmF0Bqw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>This short clip of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> sharing his thoughts on life is well worth watching. Taken from a 1995 interview when Jobs was still working at NeXT, he reflects on some important lessons and simple facts about life and the world around us. Here’s a great inspirational quote:</p> <blockquote><p>“Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people who were no smarter than you”</p><…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ipad-iphone-christmas-ornaments.jpg" alt="iPad and iPhone Christmas Ornaments" title="ipad-iphone-christmas-ornaments" width="620" height="452" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24423" /></p> <p>The Holiday season is here, and what better way to bring the Holiday Apple cheer to your home than some iPhone and iPad ornaments hanging on your tree. Sure, you can buy some of these from an <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/64178965/iphone-4-and-ipad-christmas-ornaments">Etsy store</a> that <a href="http://www.mactrast.com/2011/12/iphone-and-ipad…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/save-as-lion-export.jpg" alt="Save As in Mac OS X Lion with Export" title="save-as-lion-export" width="449" height="240" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24411" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">OS X Lion</a> ditched the longstanding “Save As” feature, something that many Mac users have become accustomed to using over the years. Replacing “Save As” are two different features, Duplicate and Export, neither of which work quite the same, and neither of which are attached to a keyboard shortcut, but we can create our own ke…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mouse-spring-gesture-dock.jpg" alt="Mouse Spring gesture from the OS X Dock" title="mouse-spring-gesture-dock" width="171" height="320" class="alignright size-full wp-image-24403" /> <em>Here’s another awesome tip from Keir Thomas, the author of a new book called <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu">Mac Kung Fu</a>, which contains over 300 tips and tricks for OS X Lion. He’s the same guy who discovered the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/19/show-a-now-playing-itunes-notification-in-the-os-x-dock/">iTunes “Now Playing” notificati…

<div class="KonaBody"><p> If you already signed up for a few of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/19/10-amazing-free-online-computer-science-classes-from-stanford-university/">10 free online Computer Science classes from Stanford University</a>, get ready to pack your self-learning schedule even further, because three professors from Stanford University and University of California Berkeley are teaming to offer a new free online course on <a href="http://www.security-class.org/">Computer Security</a>, starting in February 2012.</p> <p> The class is a budding hackers dream, aiming to teach you how to design secure sys…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/safari-5-1-2-download.jpg" alt="Safari 5.1.2 is available to download" title="safari-5-1-2-download" width="520" height="176" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24381" /></p> <p>Safari 5.1.2 has been released, and if it sounds like just another minor update to put off, it’s not, it improves overall stability and resolves some of the annoying memory management issues that existed in the prior versions of the browser. Also fixed is the flashing page issue, and a problem with displaying PDF’s within web pages.</p> <p>You can <strong>update th…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/always-send-mail-plain-text.jpg" alt="Always send Mail as Plain Text" title="always-send-mail-plain-text" width="620" height="225" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24373" /></p> <p>To avoid any font face irregularities and size oddities when sending emails across platforms (from <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> Mail app to Windows Outlook, for example), it can be a good idea to use the ‘Plain Text’ format for all email correspondence. Setting Mail composition to default as Plain Text in Mail.app is easy enough:</…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/use-socks-proxy-mac.jpg" alt="Setup and use a SOCKS Proxy in Mac OS X" title="use-socks-proxy-mac" width="620" height="286" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24367" /></p> <p>A wide variety of websites and online services are region restricted to the USA: Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, annual credit reports, some banks, the list is significant. Region restrictions are generally something you don’t notice until you need to access a website from outside the USA, and then they’re a huge pain. We’ll show you <strong>how to get around region restrictions securely…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/windows-phone-iphone.jpg" alt="Windows phone demo on the iPhone" title="windows-phone-iphone" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24351" /></p> <p>The smartphone discussion is typically focused around iPhone and Android, but Microsoft is still cooking up it’s own unique smartphone OS: Windows Phone 7. Now thanks to an HTML5 demo, the curious can try out a basic Windows Phone 7.5 experience directly on your <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>. </p> <p>Open up Safari and throw in the follow…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/scroll-without-inertia.jpg" alt="Disable inertia scrolling in OS X Lion" title="scroll-without-inertia" width="620" height="302" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24326" /></p> <p>Flick down with two fingers on a trackpad or Magic Mouse in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> and you’ll experience inertial scrolling, where after your finger has stopped moving the page continues to scroll in the intended direction until it slowly stops. This fluid and natural scrolling experience comes from the iOS world, and while i…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/iphone-5-references.jpg" alt="iPhone 5,1 reference in iOS 5 beta 1" title="iphone-5-references" width="454" height="225" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24340" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/28/ios-5-1-beta-1-released-to-developers/">iOS 5.1 beta 1</a> continues to spill the beans for Apple <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/29/unreleased-apple-tv-j33-found-in-ios-5-1-beta/">product ID’s</a>, with the latest find being a direct reference to Apple’s next-generation iPhone, referenced as “iPhone 5,1″, and two unrele…