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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/set-preview-default-pdf-viewer-mac.jpg" alt="Set the default PDF viewer in Mac OS X" title="set-preview-default-pdf-viewer-mac" width="620" height="389" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23131" /></p> <p>If you’ve downloaded Adobe Acrobat on the Mac you’ve probably discovered that it takes over <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/preview/">Preview</a> as the default PDF viewer in OS X, which is annoying because Acrobat is slow to load and a fairly bloated application. There’s little need to use Acrobat Reader as the way to view PDF files, so here’s…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/macbook-air-2011.jpg" alt="MacBook Air 2011" title="macbook-air-2011" width="620" height="219" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23167" /></p> <p>If you have a newer MacBook Air you should pay attention. Some of the MacBook Airs are shipping with Samsung displays, and some are shipping with LG displays, both are quality displays, but the LG’s default color profile is lighter and a bit flat. Most users probably won’t notice this, but if you sit a MacBook Air with a Samsung display next to one with the LG display, you can see the difference. This is easily re…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><iframe width="610" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5ba0tZ_P5cg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Apple has started to air three new iPhone 4S TV commercials. The first, titled “Siri, Snow Today”, is similar to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/21/apple-iphone-4s-ad-featuring-siri-assistant/">last Siri iPhone 4S commercial</a> and features people asking Siri a variety of questions and getting responses.</p> <p>The next commercial is titled “iCloud” and shows an iPhone 4S automatically syncing and uploading documents, changes, music, and pictur…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/steve-jobs-mona-simpson.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs & Mona Simpson" title="steve-jobs-mona-simpson" width="600" height="321" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23151" /></p> <p>Mona Simpson, an author and the biological sister of Steve Jobs, wrote a wonderful eulogy to Steve that was delivered on October 16th at a private memorial service.</p> <blockquote><p>I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him. They’re not periods of years, but of states of being. His full life. His…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/siri-on-ipod-touch.jpg" alt="Siri on iPod touch" title="siri-on-ipod-touch" width="620" height="321" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23136" /></p> <p><a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/siri/">Siri</a>, the intelligent virtual assistant that is currently exclusive to iPhone 4S, has been effectively ported to iPhone 4 and iPod touch. More importantly, it actually works this time around and there are two videos demonstrating the two devices taking voice commands and Siri reporting back.</p> <p><a href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/29/…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/unblur-launchpad-background.jpg" alt="Unblur Launchpad background Mac OS X Lion" title="unblur-launchpad-background" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22562" /></p> <p>Bored with Launchpads background? You can make some changes to it in Mac OS X Lion by changing the background images default blur effect to three other options: unblurred (shown above), black and white blur, or black and white unblurred (both shown below):</p> <ul> <li>Open Launchpad</li> <li>Hit <strong>Command+B</strong> …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/blue-sky-starfield.jpg" alt="Blue Sky Star Field wallpaper" title="blue-sky-starfield" width="620" height="421" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23053" /></p> <p>Here’s another nice background picture, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/27/close-desktop-spaces-in-mac-os-x-lions-mission-control/">by request</a>, it’s the blue sky star field wallpaper that was shown in a recent screenshot of Mission Control. This one isn’t part of a pack, but it does include the base PSD file so you can make your own variations of the blue night sky if you are …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mac-mini-ipad-setup.jpg" alt="Mac Mini Server and iPad 2" title="mac-mini-ipad-setup" width="620" height="404" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23112" /></p> <p>Another great reader submitted <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> here: this one is a decked out Mac Mini Server Quad i7 with 8GB RAM and dual 7200 RPM 500GB hard drives, connected to dual monitors, and to the right is an iPad 2 64GB model. Rounding out the desk is an iPod touch, iPod nano, MacBook Air superdrive, Beats Pro headphones, and an Apple wireless…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ipad_gestures.jpg" alt="Multitasking Gestures for iPad 1" title="ipad_gestures" width="345" height="271" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23103" /> The first generation iPad got <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a>, but it didn’t officially get multitasking gestures or display mirroring. Not a huge deal, because a <a href="http://modmyi.com/forums/ipad-jailbreaking/783541-ipad-1-gestures-display-mirroring-without-jailbreak.html">user on ModMyi figured out</a> how to enable these two features and has released a modified version of &l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/re-open-closed-browser-windows-ipad.jpg" alt="re open closed browser windows in Safari for iPad" title="re-open-closed-browser-windows-ipad" width="585" height="360" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23092" /></p> <p>You can easily re-open closed web browser windows in Safari for iOS 5 on the iPad, just <strong>tap and hold the + button</strong> that usually opens new tabs – after holding it for a second you will see a pop-up menu that shows recently closed tabs for quick recovery and access.</p> <p>If you don’t want the recently cl…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/iphone-4s-jailbreak.jpg" alt="iPhone 4S with iOS 5 jailbroken" title="iphone-4s-jailbreak" width="474" height="329" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23080" /></p> <p>An official <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5 is coming sooner than later, as evidenced by iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd posting several screenshots of the works in progress. In fact, they jailbreak has already been achieved, but there are unspecified “hurdles left” before the jailbreak will see a public release. &…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/private-eye-connections.jpg" alt="Private Eye open connections" title="private-eye-connections" width="620" height="383" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23057" /></p> <p>Private Eye is a free real-time network monitor app for Mac OS X 10.7+ that is extremely easy to use. Launching the app, you’ll start to see all open network connections, and you can then filter connections by app, monitor all open connections, or watch only incoming or outgoing transfer.</p> <p>Connections are reported by application, the time of the connection, and arguably…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img alt="" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ios-5-battery-life.jpg" title="iPhone 4S Battery Life" class="aligncenter" width="620" height="302" /></p> <p>We’ve covered a handful of tips to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/16/ios-5-battery-life-fix-tips/">increase battery life in iOS 5</a> and even for <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/17/battery-life-iphone-4s-draining-fix-by-calibrating/">the new iPhone 4S</a>, but nonetheless the complaints about battery drain are still piling up. The culprit for the 4S is almost always Location Services, and all you need to do is …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/pixelmator-screen-shot.jpg" alt="Pixelmator 2 screen shot" title="pixelmator-screen-shot" width="620" height="388" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23030" /></p> <p>Pixelmator 2 has just been released and it’s a great update to an already killer photo editing app. I’ll cut straight to the point, Pixelmator is the single best Photoshop alternative for the Mac platform at it’s price point, and <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=uO47tEUahH8&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.app…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-siri-tv.jpg" alt="Apple iTV Siri" title="apple-siri-tv" width="480" height="338" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23020" /></p> <p>Apple is working on a real television set (iTV?) that utilize the artificial intelligence agent <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/siri/">Siri</a> as the controller, according to a new report from <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/whats-really-next-for-apple-in-television/">The New York Times</a>. They go so far as to say prototypes are already underway, and that “<em>it’s not a…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ios-51.jpg" alt="Manual iOS 5 update or restore" title="ios 5" width="497" height="166" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23011" /></p> <p>Despite the relative ease of updating to iOS 5 through iTunes either directly or by IPSW, some users are still reporting problems. In some cases this is user caused (<a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/06/error-3194-fix-for-itunes/">error 3194 is easy to fix</a> as is <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/fix-error-3002-during-ios-5-update/">error 3200 & 3002</a>), but if you’re continuing …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/windows-phone.jpg" alt="Windows Phone of the Future" title="windows-phone" width="619" height="346" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-23002" /></p> <p>Microsoft has put out this interesting concept video to demonstrate what they think the future of computing will be like. The iPad influence is clear, and in short, everything is a touch screen or tablet, complete with holograms and other things that look like they belong in a sci-fi movie. The best part? There’s none of that <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/30/windows-8-vs-mac-os-x-and-ios/">ugly r…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/close-mission-control-spaces.jpg" alt="Close Desktop Spaces in Mission Control" title="close-mission-control-spaces" width="620" height="128" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22984" /></p> <p>You can quickly close desktop spaces in Mac OS X Lion’s Mission Control by <strong>holding down the Option key</strong>, this causes the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/13/enter-launchpad-jiggle-with-option-key-mac-os-x-lion/">familiar</a> iOS style (X) close symbol to appear over the spaces which can then be rapidly closed. </p> &l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p>Want to sleep in? You can quickly turn off all your alarms on the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/iphone-4s/">iPhone 4S</a> by telling Siri simply to “<em>turn off all alarms</em>“, Siri will then confirm the alarm change plus show you the alarm settings. Oversleeping due to Siri likely won’t be a valid excuse to get out of school or work for the day, so it’s best to save this one for the weekend.</p> <p>More useful during the work week, you can also tell Siri to turn on all alarms and Siri will display the scheduled alarm times:</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploa…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/steve-jobs-documentary.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs PBS Documentary" title="steve-jobs-documentary" width="465" height="315" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22979" /></p> <p>Fire up your DVR and get ready for some couch potato action next week, a documentary about Steve Jobs titled “<em>One Last Thing</em>” will air on PBS this November 2nd at 10:00 PM. The film is said to be an hour long, and will include interviews with Jobs himself, as well as his colleagues and friends. Here’s the official description:</p> <blockquote><p>ONE LAS…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tile-image-mac-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Tile a background image for wallpaper in Mac OS X Lion" title="tile-image-mac-os-x-lion" width="620" height="234" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22966" /></p> <p>Mac OS X Lion changed the way desktop background pictures are handled. In short, if the image is fit to or larger than your Macs screen resolution, it won’t tile. Likewise, the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/13/14-new-wallpapers-mac-os-x-lion-dp3/">default OS X Lion wallpapers</a> don’t have the option to tile or change how they are orientated…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/walter-isaacson.jpg" alt="Walter Isaacson" title="walter-isaacson" width="620" height="379" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22957" /></p> <p>Walter Isaacson was on Charlie Rose this week to discuss Steve Jobs and the writing of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451648537/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1451648537">his biography</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451648537&camp=217145&creative=399373" wid…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/different-spaces-wallpaper-os-x-lion.jpg" alt="Use Different Wallpapers for Spaces in Mac OS X Lion" title="different-spaces-wallpaper-os-x-lion" width="620" height="127" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22947" /></p> <p>Assigning different wallpapers to different desktop spaces is much easier in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a>, here’s the quickest way to do this:</p> <ul> <li>Enter each space individually</li> <li>Right-click on the desired background image and choose “Set Des…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/stock-ticker-ios-5-notifications.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Stock Ticker" title="stock-ticker-ios-5-notifications" width="620" height="355" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22938" /></p> <p>Don’t want to see the Stock Ticker on the iPhone or iPads Notification Center in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a>? This was one of the first questions a friend asked me after updating to iOS 5, so if the stock markets don’t play into your daily life, here’s how to remove the stocks widget:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Disable the Stoc…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-iphone-4s1.jpg" alt="Apple iPhone 4S in white" title="apple-iphone-4s" width="620" height="266" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22925" /></p> <p>Anyone can buy an unlocked iPhone 4S right now if you are willing to pay the full price of the device, meaning the lower carrier subsidized contract <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/04/iphone-4s-pricing/">4S prices</a> do not apply. The unlock applies to both the GSM and CDMA models currently being sold, available at the following price points:</p> <ul> <li>iPhone 4S 16 G…