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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/google-reader-theme.jpg" alt="Google Reader Mac OS X Lion Theme" title="google-reader-theme" width="620" height="412" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23619" /></p> <p>Google recently revamped their popular RSS aggregator (<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/osxdaily">subscribe to our feed</a> while you’re at it) Google Reader with a new look, if you’re not thrilled about the new appearance you can apply a theme to make G Reader look similar to a native OS X 10.7 application. You’ll need to be using a newer version of the Chrome browser or Fir…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sort-app-notifications-by-time.jpg" alt="Sort iOS app notifications by time of arrival" title="sort-app-notifications-by-time" width="620" height="503" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23613" /></p> <p>If you get a ton of alerts or use the iOS Notification Center as a queuing system, sorting them by most recent event is preferential to grouping them by app. Here’s how to sort notifications based on their time of arrival:</p> <ul> <li>Open “Settings” and tap on “Notifications”</li> <li>Under “Sort By” tap on “By Time”</li…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/fieldrunners.jpg" alt="Fieldrunners HD " title="fieldrunners" width="620" height="440" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23565" /></p> <p>Fieldrunners is a very popular tower defense game for iOS and Android, it usually costs between $3-$8 depending on the version, but guess what? You can download and play it for free using nothing but the Chrome web browser and Google’s web store.</p> <p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lkpikhjbfbffdblahfidklcohlaeabak">Head over to the Chrome web store to start playing</a></p&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ota-update.jpg" alt="iOS OTA update" title="ota-update" width="620" height="90" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23597" /></p> <p>Over-the-Air (OTA) updates are one of the better refinements to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a> as part of the whole “post-PC” thing, they bring delta software updates directly to your devices, making for quicker updates and using less bandwidth (a delta update means only the differences between the iOS versions are sent, preventing a much larger package from being transferred iTunes or Apple). </p&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/change-siri-voice.jpg" alt="Change Siri's voice" title="change-siri-voice" width="580" height="290" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23593" /></p> <p>Siri’s gender and voice is different based on the region, with a female voice for USA and Australian users, and a male voice in the UK. Regardless of which location you’re in or where you bought the iPhone 4S, you can change the gender of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/siri/">Siri</a> yourself just by switching the language settings.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Changing Siri’s …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ios-5-download1.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Download via OTA Update" title="ios-5-download" width="620" height="381" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23580" /></p> <p>iOS 5.0.1 has been released to the public, the update addresses the battery problems that were associated with iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S, but also brings multitasking gestures to the iPad 1 and resolves several other bugs and issues. The update comes as build 9A405 and is highly recommended for all iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users running the newest <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p>Does anyone like CAPS LOCK? It’s the most obnoxious key on the keyboard and seems to have an increasingly tiny place in the modern world of computing, enough that Google’s Chrome OS <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/11/googles-cr-48-chrome-laptop-is-a-macbook-lookalike/">notebooks</a> (are they still around?) abandoned the key completely. </p> <p>Here’s how you can disable a Mac Caps Lock key:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/disable-caps-lock-mac.jpg" alt="Disable Caps Lock key on a Mac" title="disable-caps-lock-mac" width="620" height="306" class="aligncenter …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/auto-correct-bar.jpg" alt="autocorrect suggestion bar in iOS" title="auto-correct-bar" width="550" height="231" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23551" /></p> <p>A hidden autocorrect suggestion bar has been uncovered in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios/">iOS</a>, and with a bit of patience you can enable it yourself with any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5+. The discovery was made by iOS developer <a href="http://sonnydickson.posterous.com/ios-5-hides-an-android-like-autocorrect-keybo">Sonny Dickson</a>, who provides t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/show-full-file-name-mac.jpg" alt="Show full file and folder names on the Mac desktop" title="show-full-file-name-mac" width="521" height="271" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23542" /></p> <p>Have you ever noticed that some files and folders display truncated names when they’re placed on the Mac OS X Desktop? A file or folder named anything over a certain character limit will be shortened with a series of three periods, something like “Mobile Documents Sync” will display as “Mobile Do…ync” and so on. One of our readers ran into this when setting up <a …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ipad-split-keyboard.jpg" alt="iPad split keyboard" title="ipad-split-keyboard" width="616" height="474" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23531" /></p> <p>The split keyboard is one of the most under appreciated features that iOS 5 brought to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>, it makes typing while holding the device significantly easier in both landscape and portrait mode by allowing you to use thumbs rather than setting the iPad flat and trying to type like a normal keyboard.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.1em;"&gt…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/java-for-osx-lion.jpg" alt="Java for Mac OS X Lion Update 1" title="java-for-osx-lion" width="600" height="189" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23524" /></p> <p>Apple has pushed out a Java update for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> 10.7 and 10.6 users, the download weighs in between 65-75 MB and includes a variety of performance enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates. No reboot is required for installing the update.</p> <p>You can grab the update from the  Apple menu’s “Software Update” or thr…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/delete-music-iphone.jpg" alt="Delete Music from iPhone" title="delete-music-iphone" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23518" /></p> <p>You can now delete songs directly from the Music app in iOS 5 on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, without having to re-sync to iTunes:</p> <ul> <li>Launch the Music app (used to be called iPod)</li> <li>Tap through to any song, and slide sideways on the track name to bring up a red “Delete” button, tap that to delete the song</li> </ul> <p>That’s …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/share-calendar-icloud.jpg" alt="Share Calendars with anyone else through iCloud" title="share-calendar-icloud" width="562" height="314" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23512" /></p> <p>Using iCloud, sharing a Calendar from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac OS X iCal with anyone else is now easier than ever. It’s a straight forward process that requires iCloud, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/how-to-setup-icloud/">set it up</a> if you haven’t already and get sharing, here’s how:</p> <ul> <li>Go to <a href="http://icloud.c…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/green-aurora.jpg" alt="Green Aurora" title="green-aurora" width="620" height="418" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23504" /></p> <p>Looking for a few more gorgeous wallpapers for your desktop? This pack of colorful aurora themed images should do the trick, with two variations of each image, one with a Windows 7ish aurora stripey look and the other a blurred faint aurora more reminiscent of OS X. They all look great, and with the 2560×1600 resolution they should fit just about any screen size you’re working with.</p> <p><a href="http://bazd…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/apple-store-easypay.jpg" alt="Apple Store EasyPay" title="apple-store-easypay" width="620" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23497" /></p> <p>If you’re in a hurry, visiting a busy Apple Store for a quick purchase can be the worst part of the experience. With all the store reps tied up with other customers, you can just sit around waiting aimlessly to buy something you already know you want. Apple’s newly updated Store app aims to reduce that wait time, by allowing you to pre-order Apple products for quick in-store pickup, and with some other it…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/create-new-app-space-mission-control.jpg" alt="Create a new Desktop from an App via Mission Control" title="create-new-app-space-mission-control" width="620" height="266" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23485" /></p> <p>Using <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mission-control/">Mission Control</a>, you can quickly create a new Desktop Space just by grabbing an app, dragging the window into the corner, and letting it go on the “+” plus icon.</p> <p>After dragging windows around, you’ll continue to stay in Mission Control, which lets …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/panorama-camera-iphone.jpg" alt="Panoramic camera mode on iPhone" title="panorama-camera-iphone" width="620" height="431" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23490" /></p> <p>A hidden panoramic photo mode has been discovered in currently shipping builds of iOS 5 by an iPhone developer. The panorama option is enabled by adjusting a plist file in the Camera.app, but making modifications to plist files in iOS requires a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a>. </p> <p>After the com.apple.mobileslideshow.plist file has …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/invert-ios-screen.jpg" alt="Invert iPhone or iPad Screen" title="invert-ios-screen" width="620" height="558" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23472" /></p> <p>If you’re like me you end up reading a fair amount while <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/12/iphone-fail-in-bed/">laying in bed</a> using an iOS device. If you read in the dark, you can give your eyes a rest by turning on a little known Accessibility feature that inverts the display of the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to show white text against a black background rather than the defaul…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/firefox-8.jpg" alt="Firefox 8" title="firefox-8" width="620" height="326" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23461" /></p> <p>In the never-ending quest to make version numbers irrelevant, Firefox 8 has been released. Technically it’s not supposed to be out until tomorrow, but as with past <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/firefox/">Firefox</a> releases, the download was pushed early to the Mozilla public FTP servers and is widely available for anyone to pick up for each supported platform (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/untethered-jailbreak1.jpeg" alt="Untethered jailbreak" title="untethered-jailbreak" width="150" height="308" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23452" /> Exciting news for those who like to jailbreak the iPhone and iPad, a Dev Team member has discovered a bug that will allow for an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak. No time estimate has been given by @pod2g, but he cautioned on Twitter not to expect a release soon, although he is actively working on the jailbreak. </p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/jailbreak-ios-5-with-redsn0w/">There is a jailbre…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/debug-menu-safari.jpg" alt="Debug menu in Safari" title="debug-menu-safari" width="620" height="358" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23442" /></p> <p>Safari has a hidden “Debug” menu that offers some additional features for debugging the browser, including stress and load tests, sampling, javascript error logging, the ability to intentionally crash a page, and more. Intended for Safari developers, the Debug menu is different from the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/03/enable-the-develop-menu-in-safari/">Developer menu</a>, which is geared…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lion-wifi-problem-fix.jpg" alt="Lion WiFi Problems Resolved" title="lion-wifi-problem-fix" width="620" height="178" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23434" /></p> <p>We’ve published a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/wifi-dropping-in-os-x-lion-fixes/">variety of fixes for wireless connections dropping in Lion</a>, and even a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/mac-wi-fi-dropping-use-a-simple-keepalive-bash-script-to-maintain-wireless-connection/">keepalive script that helps</a> many users maintain a connection in some of …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/icloud-backup.jpg" alt="Backup to iCloud" title="icloud-backup" width="200" height="193" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23425" /> Once you have <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/how-to-setup-icloud/">iCloud set up</a>, it becomes easier than ever to keep recent backups of your iPhone and iPad, the backup starts automatically any time the device is connected to a power source and the synced computer is turned on and connected to the same wifi network. </p> <p>Automatic backups are great but if you want to be absolutely certain you have th…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/iphone-clock.jpg" alt="iPhone Clock" title="iphone-clock" width="225" height="225" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23417" /> We’ve received quite a few questions about the iPhone’s clock and if it will update automatically for Daylight Savings Time, the answer is: <strong>Yes, the iPhone automatically changes time</strong> to be correct with your time zone. So does the iPad, iPod touch, and Mac OS X. <em>You do not need to change the time manually,</em> it will “fall back” on it’s own.</p> <p>Most of the questions about daylight sav…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sync-itunes-android-mac.jpg" alt="Sync iTunes with Android in Mac OS X" title="sync-itunes-android-mac" width="620" height="332" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23408" /></p> <p>WinAmp, the longstanding Windows music player, has come to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> platform and brings a few great features for Android users, most notably iTunes music syncing and library sharing, and Wi-Fi syncing. This means you can take any existing iTunes playlist and sync it directly to an <a href="http://osxdaily.com/…