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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/install-lion-vmware-over-snow-leopard.jpg" alt="Install Lion in a VM over Snow Leopard" title="install-lion-vmware-over-snow-leopard" width="616" height="432" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23832" /></p> <p>If you don’t want to deal with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/12/how-to-install-dual-boot-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-and-10-6-snow-leopard/">dual booting between Lion and Snow Leopard</a>, another option is to run Mac OS X Lion in a virtual machine atop an older 10.6 Snow Leopard installation. This is not supposed to work with 10.6 without a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/steve-jobs-lsd.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs, LSD, and Albert Hoffman" title="steve-jobs-lsd" width="620" height="474" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23822" /></p> <p>The late <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> has always been unapologetic about his usage of LSD, openly proclaiming his experiences with the drug were some of the “most important things I have done in my life” and even criticizing Bill Gates for not indulging in the substance. Those statements didn’t go unnoticed by Albert Hofman, the man who created LSD in a Sw…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ipad-2-kindle-fire.jpg" alt="iPad 2 and Kindle Fire" title="ipad-2-kindle-fire" width="600" height="337" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23812" /></p> <p>The Kindle Fire is out, but if you’re like me you’ve sat on the sidelines to wait for reviews and videos of performance before pulling the buy trigger. Those are starting to appear now, and while it’s obvious the iPad 2 blows the Kindle Fire away in speed and overall utility, the Fire holds up reasonably well considering <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p>Rather than rearranging all of the System Preferences to be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/12/find-system-preferences-easier-in-mac-os-x-by-sorting-alphabetically/">sorted alphabetically</a>, you can access a quick pull-down menu of all the panels that is sorted by name.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pull-down-preference-list.jpg" alt="Pull Down System Preferences list" title="pull-down-preference-list" width="620" height="651" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23803" /></p> <p>Try it yourself, access System Preferences from the  Apple menu, then &…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/type2phone.jpg" alt="Type2Phone" title="type2phone" width="620" height="184" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23793" /></p> <p>If you don’t have a spare Bluetooth keyboard to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/06/03/use-a-bluetooth-keyboard-with-the-ipad/">connect to</a> an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch with, why not use a Mac? This seems like a no brainer of an idea, but until the Mac app Type2Phone came along, I haven’t heard of any such solution. The app works by pairing a Mac to the iOS device (technically it works with Androids too), which is…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/os-x-lion-10-7-3.jpg" alt="Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 developer build" title="os-x-lion-10-7-3" width="587" height="136" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23785" /></p> <p>Apple has seeded the first release of Mac OS X 10.7.3 to developers, the build is 11D16 and focuses on iCloud document storage, in addition to changes to Address Book, iCal, and Mail. </p> <p>The update weighs in at 633MB and is downloadable through the Mac Developer Center to registered devs for both OS X Lion Client and Server. Apple recommends that users install the update only …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/disk-permissions-lion.jpg" alt="Repair User Permissions in OS X Lion" title="disk-permissions-lion" width="169" height="73" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23775" /> In <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>, repairing permissions from the Disk Utility app doesn’t repair the users file permissions, oddly this has to be done separately on a per-user basis. If you’re running into problems with Spotlight not finding documents or folders, or if you’re having other issues that can usually be fixed with a permissions repair, this can r…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/iphone-and-ipad-ipod.jpg" alt="iPhone, iPad, and iPod" title="iphone-and-ipad-ipod" width="500" height="346" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23763" /></p> <p>If your iPad or iPhone is running slow after updating to iOS 5 you’re not alone, for many the update has made their device feel sluggish, with taps taking longer to register, stalls between swipes, and just a general noticeable decrease in performance. This seems to effect all iOS devices too, indicating it’s not necessarily a hardware issue but a software one.</p> <p>There are two solut…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/stanford-ios-apps-course.jpg" alt="Stanford University Developing Apps for iOS 5" title="stanford-ios-apps-course" width="620" height="204" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23757" /></p> <p>Stanford University’s School of Engineering has released full HD videos and slides of their Fall 2011 “Developing Apps for iOS” course. The lectures and lessons for CS193P are focused on iOS 5 and downloadable for free from iTunes University, offering a great look at beginning iOS development through the eyes of a world class engineering school.</p> <ul> &…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/macbook-air-15.jpg" alt="MacBook Air 15"" title="macbook-air-15" width="620" height="354" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23748" /></p> <p>Component suppliers have informed <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111114PD216.html">DigiTimes</a> that Apple is already gathering pieces to a 15″ ultra-thin notebook that is set to debut as early as the second quarter of 2012. </p> <p>While DigiTimes cautions they don’t know if the new laptop is a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, Apple openly promotes the current MacBook Air lineup as “the…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/create-ram-disk-mac-tmpdsk.jpg" alt="Make a RAM Disk easily with TmpDisk for Mac OS X" title="create-ram-disk-mac-tmpdsk" width="620" height="339" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23741" /></p> <p>If you want to quickly make a RAM disk for use on your Mac, you could <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/23/create-a-ram-disk-in-mac-os-x/">create one manually</a> through the command line, or you can make it even easier by downloading TmpDisk for Mac OS X. The open source application uses a menu bar item to quickly make ramdisks from anywhere and o…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/use-airdrop-mac.jpg" alt="Use AirDrop in Mac OS X" title="use-airdrop-mac" width="620" height="310" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23730" /></p> <p>Using AirDrop is the quickest way to transfer files between two Macs, even if they’re not on the same network or if there is no Wi-Fi network available to connect to. This is done by creating an instant Ad-Hoc network between the Macs, and there is practically no configuration required. For those who have never used AirDrop before or who have ran into problems with it, here’s how to move files between Macs th…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/itunes-match1.jpg" alt="iTunes Match" title="itunes-match" width="620" height="387" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23721" /></p> <p>iTunes Match has been launched in the USA by Apple with the release of iTunes 10.5.1. The Match service costs $24.99 a year to store your entire music library within iCloud allowing you to stream it to any iOS 5+ iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, or Windows PC, regardless of where your music has come from. This means music that you have ripped from your own CD’s, gathered over the course of time, downloaded from the web, or bought fr…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/add-remove-apps-notification-center.jpg" alt="Add or Remove Apps in Notification Center" title="add-remove-apps-notification-center" width="300" height="450" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23714" /> You can quickly add or remove any items from Notification Center in iOS through the central system settings. This isn’t the same method as disabling an item <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/25/remove-stock-ticker-widget-from-ios-notification-center/">like the stock ticker</a>, but it’s faster if you want to adjust several apps at once.</p> <ul>…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/national-geographic-wallpapers.jpg" alt="National Geographic wallpapers" title="national-geographic-wallpapers" width="620" height="402" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23706" /></p> <p>The entries into the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest make for some spectacular wallpapers, one of which was <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/13/hold-shift-key-to-use-launchpad-in-slow-motion/">shown in a recent tip</a> screenshot and requested. You can find them split between TheAtlantic and National Geographic:</p> <p><a href="http:/…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/itunes-match.jpg" alt="iTunes Match" title="itunes-match" width="488" height="272" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23691" /></p> <p>The public release of iTunes Match seems to be approaching quickly as a third beta of iTunes 10.5.1 is made available to developers. The new beta focuses on iTunes Match and includes stability and performance improvements directly related to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/icloud/">iCloud</a> service. Despite Apple missing their originally planned “end of October” release date for Match, <a href="http://9t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/shift-slow-motion-launchpad.jpg" alt="Hold Shift for Slow Motion in Launchpad" title="shift-slow-motion-launchpad" width="620" height="379" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23684" /></p> <p>Like most of the other transition effects in Mac OS X, you can hold down the shift key to force the animation to render in slow motion. In the case with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/launchpad/">Launchpad</a>, this will cause the app icons to slowly rise out of the background, or for the Launchpad screens to very slowly switch between one another.</p&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unlocked-iphone-4s.jpg" alt="Unlocked iPhone 4S" title="unlocked-iphone-4s" width="620" height="338" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23676" /></p> <p>The unlocked iPhone 4S is now officially available for purchase through Apple through their website and in Apple Stores. An unlocked iPhone is sold at a high price due to the lack of a contract subsidy, but the major advantage is that the phone can be used on any compatible GSM network through the purchase of a microsim card. In the USA, this means an unlocked iPhone would work with T-Mobile, AT&T, and s…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/stop-spaces-rearranging.jpg" alt="Stop Spaces from Rearranging Themselves in OS X" title="stop-spaces-rearranging" width="620" height="219" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23671" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/mac-os-x-10-7-2-download/">Mac OS X 10.7.2 update</a> brought with it an unusual change to Mission Control’s behavior, where desktops/spaces will automatically rearrange themselves based on how recently they’ve been used or accessed. If you’ve set your spaces to be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/01/move-de…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sort-system-preferences-by-name.jpg" alt="Sort System Preferences by Name Alphabetically" title="sort-system-preferences-by-name" width="620" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23663" /></p> <p>Mac System Preferences are grouped by categories: Personal, Hardware, Internet & Wireless, System, and Other. For most of us this is intuitive and easy enough to navigate, but if you’ve ever had to provide tech support over the phone to a Mac newbie you’ve probably encountered some confusion or delay as a user stares blankly at a screen full of icons.…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imac-macbook-pro-ipad.jpg" alt="iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad, and lots of iPhones" title="imac-macbook-pro-ipad" width="620" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23658" /></p> <p>This reader submitted <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> features an iMac 21″, MacBook Pro 15″, white iPad 2, a handful of iPhones, the wireless keyboard, mouse, and Magic Trackpad, and a Time Capsule for backing it all up. Great Mac setup, thanks for sending this in Tom!</p> <p>You can send us your own Mac setups at osxda…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/skyrim-mac.jpg" alt="Skyrim on a Mac" title="skyrim-mac" width="620" height="420" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23647" /></p> <p>Will Elder Scrolls V Skyrim run decent on your Mac? If your Mac is relatively new (2009 models and up) the answer is <em>probably</em>, but before you go jumping into Bootcamp, installing Windows on another partition, and buying the game, let’s check to be certain that it will run on your hardware, and run at an acceptable rate for that matter.</p> <p>First up, here are the general Skyrim system specs …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="iOS Battery Life" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ios-5-battery-life.jpg" title="iOS Battery Life" class="aligncenter" width="620" height="302" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/10/ios-5-0-1-released-download-links/">iOS 5.0.1 update</a> apparently didn’t resolve every battery issue after all, and some iPhone and iPad users continue to report issues after the update.</p> <p>The good news is that Apple is aware of the battery issues, and has provided <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111111/apple-we-continue-to-investigate-iphone-battery-issues/…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/redsnow.jpeg" alt="redsnow logo" title="redsnow" width="125" height="122" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23631" /> iOS 5.0.1 with its bug and battery fixes can be jailbroken using the latest version of the redsn0w tool. For now, this is still a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/24/tethered-jailbreak-vs-untethered-jailbreak/">tethered jailbreak</a>, but the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/23/get-a-semi-tethered-ios-5-jailbreak/">semi-tether from Cydia</a> works.</p> <p>If you don’t like the tethered boot process, hold out fo…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/classilla-browser-for-mac-os-9.jpg" alt="Classilla browser for Mac OS 9" title="classilla-browser-for-mac-os-9" width="620" height="466" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23466" /></p> <p>Have an old Mac running OS 9 laying around the closet? <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/retro/">Dust it off</a> and bring it into the modern age (of the web at least) with Classilla, an open source port of Mozilla, the same underpinnings of Firefox. It’s a work in progress so don’t expect it to be perfect, but alongside iCab it’s probably the best web brow…