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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/show-photos-by-location-iphone.jpg" alt="Show Photos by Location on iPhone" title="show-photos-by-location-iphone" width="620" height="288" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23400" /></p> <p>The iPhone and 3G-equipped iPad include a “Places” feature in the Photos app which allow you to see pictures based on geographical location. From the iOS homescreen:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on “Photos”, then at the bottom of the Camera Roll tap onto “Places”</li> <li>Scroll and zoom on the Google Map to show pins for specific regions tagged wit…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/young-steve-jobs.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs in 1990" title="young-steve-jobs" width="620" height="409" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23392" /></p> <p>PBS/NOVA and WGBH Boston have posted a full 50 minute unedited interview with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> from the TV miniseries “Machine That Changed The World”. The clip is from 1990 and demonstrates Steve Jobs’ remarkable visionary thinking, covering a wide variety of topics and technologies well before they became parts of our daily lives (keep in mind the interne…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/macbook-pro-deck-studio.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro outdoor music studio " title="macbook-pro-deck-studio" width="620" height="472" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23364" /></p> <p>This reader submitted <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> comes from sound designer and musician Richard D, who may have one of the coolest seasonal offices I’ve seen. Ignoring the great view of the woods for a minute, the Apple gear is a MacBook Pro 15″ running Logic Studio alongside an iPad 2, in addition to a Magic Mouse and some other hard…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/chrome-task-manager.jpg" alt="The Chrome Task Manager" title="chrome-task-manager" width="620" height="258" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23385" /></p> <p>Google Chrome has a built-in Task Manager tool that lets you kill individual tabs, windows, plugins, and even extensions. This is extraordinarily helpful if you encounter a page that gets tied up, beach balls, or can’t be closed due to any number of errors. For those of us who live centered around the web, this is a must-know tip:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Using Chrome’s Task Manag…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ios-5-0-1-beta-2.png" alt="iOS 5.0.1 Beta 2" title="ios-5-0-1-beta-2" width="571" height="270" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23380" /></p> <p>Apple is working quickly to release iOS 5.0.1 to the general public, with the second beta version available to developers in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/02/ios-5-0-1-beta-resolves-battery-issues-iphone-4s-ios-5/">just two days</a>. The update aims to resolve some of the complaints about iOS 5 battery life and bring several other fixes and features to the latest release, including a security f…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/astronaut-in-apple-store.jpg" alt="Astronaut in Apple Store" title="astronaut-in-apple-store" width="620" height="413" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23302" /></p> <p>An astronaut walks into the Apple Store… it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that’s what we’re seeing here. There isn’t much context, so it could be a pre-Halloween costume or just some sort of prank to further <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/26/things-allowed-in-apple-stores-dates-dogs-darth-vader-goats-pizza-deliveries-video/">test the limits</a> of Apple Store po…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/resize-safari-full-screen-mode.jpg" alt="resize Safari windows in full screen mode" title="resize-safari-full-screen-mode" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23369" /></p> <p>Like using Safari in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Lion</a>‘s full-screen mode? You can resize the viewing pane of a full-screened Safari window by <strong>dragging the cursor to the far left or right edges, grabbing, and pulling in</strong>. This lets you reduce the white space and width of browser windows while still …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unibeast-mac-os-x-lion-hackintosh.jpg" alt="Installing OS X Lion on a Hackintosh with Unibeast" title="unibeast-mac-os-x-lion-hackintosh" width="620" height="440" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23358" /></p> <p>For those running a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/hackintosh/">Hackintosh</a> (a PC built to unofficially run Mac OS X) who haven’t upgraded to or installed Mac OS X Lion yet, your excuses to delay the 10.7 update are dwindling. The newly released Unibeast tool from the ever-resourceful TonyMacX86 makes the entire process easie…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/day-o-clock-replacement-mac.jpg" alt="Day-O Clock and Calendar Menu Bar Replacement for Mac OS X" title="day-o-clock-replacement-mac" width="550" height="297" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23352" /></p> <p>One of my longstanding peeves with Mac OS X is the lack of a pull-down calendar in the menubars default Date & Time settings. If you click on the time, instead of seeing something useful like a calendar or more date/time details, you just have options to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/27/show-analog-clock-in-the-mac-menu-bar/">set an a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/device-isnt-eligible-error.jpg" alt="Fix Device isn't eligible build iTunes error" title="device-isnt-eligible-error" width="484" height="155" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23340" /></p> <p>If you’re trying to update iOS to the latest version on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and you get an error in iTunes saying:</p> <blockquote><p>The iOS Device “Device Name” could not be updated. This device isn’t eligible for the requested build.</p></blockquote> <p>You’re encountering one the following problems: either you are …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/revert-back-to-pop-up-alerts-ios5.jpg" alt="Go back to pop-up alerts in iOS" title="revert-back-to-pop-up-alerts-ios5" width="500" height="291" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23332" /></p> <p>Many users are thrilled about the new iOS Notification Center and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/02/swipe-left-to-dismiss-new-notifications-in-ios-5/">easily dismissed alerts</a>, but some still prefer the old style of pop-up dialog notifications. </p> <p>You can enable the old pop-up alert style again, but you have to do it on a per-a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sync-files-between-macs.jpg" alt="Sync files between Macs with iCloud" title="sync-files-between-macs" width="582" height="256" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23315" /></p> <p>You can sync files across iCloud-equipped Macs by using an unofficial feature tied to a little known folder hidden in OS X. We’ll walk you through exactly how to get this set up, allowing you to sync files and folders across Macs seamlessly, but first make sure you meet some basic system requirements.</p> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ul&…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/safari-develop-menu.jpg" alt="Safari Developer menu" title="safari-develop-menu" width="620" height="354" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23285" /></p> <p>The Develop menu of Safari adds a variety of additional features to the web browser, including the inspector and error consoles, javascript debugging tools, the ability to disable various page elements, enable the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/16/safari-in-mac-os-x-lion-adds-do-not-track-support-heres-how-to-enable-it/">‘Do Not Track’ feature</a>, use WebGL acceleration, and it offers…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ios-5-0-1-beta.jpg" alt="iOS 5.0.1 beta fixes battery problems" title="ios-5-0-1-beta" width="552" height="237" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23292" /></p> <p>Apple has acknowledged battery draining issues with iOS 5 and has since released a beta version of iOS 5.0.1 to developers, indicating a public release is due soon. The update aims to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/16/ios-5-battery-life-fix-tips/">fix iOS 5 battery problems</a> without modifications of settings, bring multitasking gestures to iPad 1 without the <a href="http:/…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/locate-command-mac.jpg" alt="locate command in Mac OS X" title="locate-command-mac" width="620" height="410" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23273" /></p> <p>The locate command is very useful if you’re looking to track down every instance of a file, filetype, app, extension, things hidden deep in system folders, or just about anything else that Spotlight can’t manage. It’s extraordinarily useful for troubleshooting and even more mundane tasks like completely <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/20/uninstall-mac-applications/">uninstalling Mac apps&l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gmail-for-iphone.jpg" alt="Gmail for iPhone" title="gmail-for-iphone" width="620" height="438" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23266" /></p> <p>Google has released an official native Gmail app for iOS that runs beautifully on the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/ipad/">iPad</a>. The app is free and has all the features you’d expect in a mail client, including notifications, threaded messages, Gmails priority inbox feature, inbox search, easy photo uploading, and a g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/swipe-to-dismiss-notifications-ios-5.jpg" alt="Swipe to dismiss notifications in iOS 5" title="swipe-to-dismiss-notifications-ios-5" width="620" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23250" /></p> <p>If you want to quickly get a notification off your screen in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a>, all you need to do is <strong>swipe left across the notification</strong> and it’ll be pushed off screen. </p> <p>This may be a simple little trick, but something I wasn’t aware of until <a href="http:…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/steve-jobs-next.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs at NeXT" title="steve-jobs-next" width="518" height="389" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23257" /></p> <p>Computerworld has released their <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/692938/Video_The_Steve_Jobs_95_Interview_Unabridged">full archival footage of a 1995 interview</a> conducted with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/steve-jobs/">Steve Jobs</a> for a historical project. The video is about 75 minutes long and covers a wide variety of topics, from his childhood in the Silicon Valley, to the ea…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/rearrange-spaces-mission-control.jpg" alt="Rearrange spaces in Mission Control" title="rearrange-spaces-mission-control" width="620" height="126" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23229" /></p> <p>It’s easier than ever to rearrange your virtual desktops (Spaces) in Mission Control, all you need to do is click on a desktop and then drag and drop it to a new spot to move it. </p> <p>Moving Desktop 3 before Desktop 2 will change their orientation accordingly when you’re <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/06/switch-between-desktops-spaces-fast…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blackberry-imagination.jpg" alt="Blackberry imagines a touch hologram" title="blackberry-imagination" width="620" height="366" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23242" /></p> <p>Just like Microsoft released <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/27/microsofts-vision-of-the-future-everything-is-touch-video/">a video for their sci-fi inspired imaginative future</a>, Blackberry has jumped in with their own futuristic concept video, complete with plenty of touch screens and even touchable holograms. </p> <p>I think these are fun to watch …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/siri-mac-os-x-concept.jpg" alt="Siri for Mac OS X concept" title="siri-mac-os-x-concept" width="617" height="240" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23196" /></p> <p>A future version of Mac OS X may bring iOS favorites Siri, iMessage, and AirPlay to Apple’s Mac lineup. Assuming the features are released, it’s unclear whether they will come as an update to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, a purchase through the Mac App Store, or as part of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-8/">Mac OS X 10.8</a>.</p> <p><strong>iMessage & AirPl…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hide-youtube-safari-camera-etc-ios-5.jpg" alt="Hide YouTube, Safari, and other apps in iOS 5" title="hide-youtube-safari-camera-etc-ios-5" width="600" height="562" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23202" /></p> <p>With <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> you can hide many of the Apple default apps and their icons from appearing on the home screen of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This includes YouTube and iTunes, but also the essentials like Safari and Mail if you are opting to use third party or web apps in their place.</p&g…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30606785?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="610" height="343" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe></p> <p>How does the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-4s/">iPhone 4S’</a>s new cameras 1080p video recording stack up to a pro-level $2300 Canon 5d MKII digital camera? Surprisingly well, as is demonstrated by this video from Robino Films. Both cameras shot footage at the same time and side-by-side, with the scenes in perfect sync so that video can be paused and examined more closely.</p> <p>The settings f…

<div class="KonaBody"><p>Disappointed that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/31/mac-os-x-10-8-development-under-way/">Mac OS X 10.8 users aren’t showing up in your web logs</a>? Spoof your own visits! In the spirit of pranking and Halloween, here’s how you can mimic a Mac OS X 10.8 user agent yourself:</p> <ul> <li>Launch the Terminal</li> <li>Enter the following command, replacing “http://url.com” no the end with the web address you want to give the user agent to:</li> <p><code>curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8) AppleWebKit/535.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2 Safari/535.…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mac-os-x-10-8.jpg" alt="Mac OS X 10.8 spotted" title="mac-os-x-10-8" width="620" height="180" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23179" /></p> <p>Not surprisingly, Mac OS X 10.8 development is well under way, and some Apple employees are using the OS on a regular enough basis for them to show up in analytics logs across the Apple web. Our own OS X 10.8 usage graph is shown above, which shows a clear uptick in everyday use of the development OS over the past few months. Narrowing down for IP and location, the majority of visits are coming from Apple in Cupert…