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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ipad-3-rumors.jpg" alt="iPad 3 Rumors" title="ipad-3-rumors" width="236" height="308" class="alignright size-full wp-image-24094" /> Apple will release an iPad 3 with a retina display running at 2048×1536 resolution next year, and the production of the IPS QXGA display is already underway by Samsung, Sharp, and LGD, according to a new report. Citing a confident analyst from DisplaySearch, <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57329257-64/production-starts-for-ipad-3-qxga-display-analyst/">CNET</a> quotes “<em>It’s happening–QXGA, 2048×1536. Panel pro…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/itunes-match-icons.gif" alt="iTunes Match icons explained" title="itunes-match-icons" width="620" height="224" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24077" /></p> <p>If you signed up for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/itunes-match/">iTunes Match</a> and you’re seeing some peculiar icons in your music library alongside track names, don’t miss this chart put together <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4124">by Apple</a> that explains what each icon means, helping you troubleshoot the problem.</p> <p>The icons include: &l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ipad-2-kid-fort.jpg" alt="iPad 2 Kid Fort" title="ipad-2-kid-fort" width="620" height="336" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24081" /></p> <p>Apple started airing a new iPad 2 commercial titled “Love” last night, it follows the same theme set by <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ipad-2-commercial/">past iPad 2 ads</a> closely, and shows a variety of people using the device in different ways. Here’s the text:</p> <blockquote><p>For some, it’s a lifelong passion. For others, it’s something discovered yesterday. We all have thing…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/select-text-in-quicklook.jpg" alt="Select Text within QuickLook Windows" title="select-text-in-quicklook" width="620" height="250" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24067" /></p> <p>Quick Look is one of the better little features of Mac OS X, but a new hidden option in OS X Lion makes QuickLook even better by allowing you to select and copy text directly from the windows. </p> <p>This awesome tip was sent in by Keir Thomas, the author of <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu">a new book called Mac Kung Fu</a> and the …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/apple-logo.gif" alt="Apple Logo" title="apple-logo" width="80" height="98" class="alignright size-full wp-image-24059" /> Apple will overtake HP as the worlds top PC vendor by mid-2012, thanks to tremendous iPad growth and increasingly strong Mac sales. </p> <p>Currently, HP holds the top spot at 16% of the PC market, but Apple is already sitting very closely behind at 15%, and the anticipated release of iPad 3 early next year could very well be the product that pushes Apple into the lead. This data comes from research firm <a href="http://www.canalys.com/ne…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/itunes-album-art-dock-icon.jpg" alt="iTunes Album Art Dock Icon" title="itunes-album-art-dock-icon" width="583" height="191" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24052" /></p> <p>For the music lovers out there, DockArt takes the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/19/show-a-now-playing-itunes-notification-in-the-os-x-dock/">“Now Playing” notification</a> concept a step further and actually replaces the iTunes Dock icon with the currently playing albums cover art. It’s a free iTunes plugin that is compatible with iTunes 10.4 or later, but has been …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hide-preference-panels.jpg" alt="Hide System Preferences Mac OS X" title="hide-preference-panels" width="620" height="256" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24034" /></p> <p>You can hide unwanted System Preferences from appearing in the control panel without actually <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/02/remove-a-system-preference-pane-in-mac-os-x/">removing them</a>. This is a helpful distinction for setting up other user accounts or just for hiding System Prefs you never access and no longer need:</p> <ul> <li>Open “Syste…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/make-blocked-calls-iphone.jpg" alt="Always Make Blocked Calls from iPhone" title="make-blocked-calls-iphone" width="620" height="248" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24041" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> can be set to always hide the dialing phones number from the recipients caller ID’s. This works by initiating every phone call with the prefix *67 to force the number to appear as “Blocked” on the receiving caller ID. This is helpful for making anonymous phone calls, or if you just want to be sent to so…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/show-location-of-wallpaper.jpg" alt="Show current wallpaper location on the Mac OS X desktop" title="show-location-of-wallpaper" width="620" height="203" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24023" /></p> <p>Ever set a desktop background picture and have no idea where the original wallpaper image is stored? Or maybe you’ve wondered where that default background image is stored so you can share it with your iOS device? Me too, and using a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/defaults-write/">defaults write</a> debug command, you can display the full pat…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/apple-logo-bw.jpg" alt="Apple Logo" title="apple-logo-bw" width="620" height="246" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24013" /></p> <p>Greg Joswiak is a Vice President of Marketing at Apple who focuses on promoting the iOS lineup. After working at Apple for 20 years, he has come up with four lessons that can help explain Apple’s incredible success. Shared at a recent speech in Cambridge, they are quoted below from <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/11/18/four-keys-to-apples-success/">Wall Street Journal</a>:</p> <blockquote…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/now-playing-itunes-dock.jpg" alt="Now Playing iTunes Dock notification " title="now-playing-itunes-dock" width="620" height="156" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-24004" /></p> <p>Using a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/defaults-write/">defaults write command</a>, the iTunes Dock icon can be set to display a “Now Playing” song and artist pop-up that transitions in and out and music starts. It’s a nice addition, particularly if you’re playing songs from a shared network playlist and have iTunes hidden in the background. </p> <h2 style…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/stanford-university.jpg" alt="Stanford University" title="stanford-university" width="620" height="174" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23993" /></p> <p>Stanford University is on a roll lately offering a wide variety of free online courses to anyone, either through iTunes U on topics <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/developing-apps-for-ios-5-free-online-class-stanford/">like iOS 5 Development</a>, or through self-contained courses conducted entirely from the web that are free to enroll in. The latter is the case here, with Stanford offe…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/awesome-mac-setup.jpg" alt="Awesome Mac Setup" title="awesome-mac-setup" width="620" height="228" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23987" /></p> <p>Our readers have some of the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">best setups</a> and workstations out there. Case in point, this drool-worthy Mac setup is heavy on the Apple gear but crosses platforms for testing purposes. </p> <p>From left to right there is: MacBook Pro 15″, iMac 27″ connected to a center Dell 22″ display but switches to a Dell Optiplex GX520 Windows ma…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/iconsettings-easy-access-to-settings-without-jb.jpg" alt="IconSettings is like SBSettings for iPhone and iPad" title="iconsettings-easy-access-to-settings-without-jb" width="600" height="383" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23977" /></p> <p>Using iOS folders and some bookmarks, anyone can mimic the quick iOS Settings access of the popular jailbreak tweak SBSettings – minus the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a>. It’s simple and you don’t have to install anything but a few shortcuts:</p> <ul> <li>Laun…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/message-from-the-icloud.jpg" alt="A message from iCloud" title="message-from-the-icloud" width="620" height="194" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23964" /></p> <p>With iCloud and the “Find My iPhone” feature, you can send messages to your remote Apple gear. These come through in the form of a pop-up window in Mac OS X and a notification in iOS 5, and while there’s a variety of uses for this, it’s also a fun way to send a quick message to someone using your hardware, be it a loved one or a thief. You can also choose to play a pinging sound with the notific…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/rid-old-mobileme-icon.jpg" alt="Get rid of the old MobileMe icon" title="rid-old-mobileme-icon" width="620" height="70" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23954" /></p> <p>After you’ve made the transition to iCloud from MobileMe, the option to remove the old and now obsolete MobileMe menu bar icon disappears. It’s easy to get rid of though, as Tony R shows us in this tip he sent in:</p> <ul> <li>Hold down the Command key and click and hold on the old MobileMe icon, then just drag it out of the menubar</li> </ul> <p>The…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ipad-guy.jpg" alt="Typical iPad Dude " title="ipad-guy" width="200" height="236" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23943" /> What do you think the profile of an average <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a> owner would be like? Would you guess that the most likely individual to buy an iPad was a male who owns pets and plays video games, who might be a business traveling doctor or scientist that takes vitamins and prefers organic food? </p> <p>Yup, all those things are more likely to be true of iPad owners, and they also tend to be…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unlocked-iphone-4s1.jpg" alt="Unlocked iPhone 4S" title="unlocked-iphone-4s" width="456" height="345" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23930" /></p> <p>If you didn’t already <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/12/buy-unlocked-iphone-4s-now-from-apple/">buy an unlocked iPhone 4S from Apple</a> or take advantage of Sprint and Verizons 90 day unlock request, you can apparently unlock the 4S’s GSM SIM card slot yourself by taking advantage of a strange bug in iOS 5 and how the iPhone 4S handles the Edge network. </p> <p>Here’s what y…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/kindle-fire.jpg" alt="Kindle Fire" title="kindle-fire" width="470" height="240" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23920" /></p> <p>The Kindle Fire is the hottest Android tablet out there, and while it’s no iPad 2, it’s a hot little item either as a Christmas gift or just a cheap tablet for slothing about the house. For $199 it’s hard to beat, but today only you can save $10 through a special promotion between Amazon and MasterCard bringing the price to just $189. The only catch is that you need a MasterCard credit or debit card (tip: you can create a Master…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-vm-in-osx-lion.jpg.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Snow Leopard running in a virtual machine on top of OS X Lion" title="mac-os-x-snow-leopard-vm-in-osx-lion.jpg" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23888" /></p> <p>We showed you how to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/16/run-mac-os-x-lion-in-virtual-machine-on-snow-leopard/">run OS X Lion in a virtual machine</a> on top of Snow Leopard, but it seems everyone wanted to know the opposite of that: how to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in a VM on top of Mac OS X …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ishred-ipad-snowboard.jpg" alt="iShred" title="ishred-ipad-snowboard" width="620" height="354" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23904" /></p> <p>For those of us in the northern hemisphere, ski and snowboard season is upon us, and while it seems like everyone on the mountain has an iPod or iPhone, the guys at <a href="http://www.signalsnowboards.com/blog/ett-ishred">Signal Snowboards</a> took the Apple love a step further with the iShred. Yup, the the iShred, it’s a snowboard built to honor <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Ste…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/holiday_gifts.jpg" alt="Holiday Gifts" title="holiday_gifts" width="365" height="250" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23873" /></p> <p>Shopping for kids holiday gifts is notoriously difficult, the last thing you want to do is buy them something they don’t want, or worse yet, something that isn’t “cool”. Thankfully kids are getting easier to shop for (for us geeks anyway), because what do they want? Gadgets, and lots of them. Dominating the top of the most desired electronic gifts are three Apple products: the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Here’s the full …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/option-return-search-itunes-store.jpg" alt="Option Return searches the iTunes Store" title="option-return-search-itunes-store" width="620" height="322" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23866" /></p> <p>You can quickly search the iTunes Store and iOS App Store from anywhere within iTunes, all you have to do is <strong>hold down the Option key while hitting Return</strong> in the standard search box. </p> <p>That’s really all there is to it, with Option+Return you search all purchasable content through the online stores whether its a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/minecraft-iphone.jpg" alt="Minecraft for iPhone" title="minecraft-iphone" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23856" /></p> <p>The highly anticipated official version of Minecraft for iPhone and iPad has been released to the iOS App Store. For those who don’t know, Minecraft is a virtual sandbox building game with a focus on creating your own worlds and structures that are subject to in-game physics. Thanks to basic electrical circuits and logic gates, some extremely elaborate creations can be built in your own virtual world, it’s kin…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/skyrim-for-mac-port.jpg" alt="Skyrim for Mac Port" title="skyrim-for-mac-port" width="620" height="253" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23846" /></p> <p>For the truly dedicated, you can now run Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim directly in Mac OS X thanks to the Porting Team’s unofficial Mac port of the freakishly popular game. The game is played either through a Cider wrapper or Wineskin, the latter being easier but the former apparently having better performance, but in both cases you’ll need to own a Windows copy of the game to get it working (frankly the game i…