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<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/show-recent-items-per-app.jpg" alt="Show Recent Items per application in OS X Lion" title="show-recent-items-per-app" width="620" height="127" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22917" /></p> <p>You can quickly see any apps recent items in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> by using a <strong>two-fingered double-tap</strong> on that applications icon in the Dock. </p> <p>This brings up a menu contained within Mission Control showing all of your recent items, and if you have currently opened…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/check-installed-software.jpg" alt="Check installed software updates" title="check-installed-software" width="620" height="420" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22911" /></p> <p>Forget what Software Updates you’ve installed? You can easily check in Mac OS X:</p> <ul> <li>Open “System Preferences” from the  Apple menu</li> <li>Click on “Software Update” and then choose the “Installed Software” tab</li> </ul> <p>From here you’ll see the precise installed date and time, the software update package name, and…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-hdtv.jpg" alt="Apple HDTV" title="apple-hdtv" width="620" height="404" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22897" /></p> <p>More details have emerged regarding the development of an Apple TV set. Hot off the revelation that Steve Jobs was <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/22/a-real-apple-tv-coming-steve-jobs-imagined-a-television-synced-to-icloud/">interested in creating a Apple television</a>, Bloomberg is reporting that the creator of iTunes is now working on the Apple HDTV project:</p> <blockquote><p>Apple Inc. (AAPL…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/increast-contrast-pdf-text.jpg" alt="Increase contrast of a PDF" title="increast-contrast-pdf-text" width="620" height="316" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22891" /></p> <p>With Preview you can adjust the contrast of a PDF, this makes the text sharper and darker, and for scans or dubious quality PDF’s this makes them significantly easier to read. </p> <ul> <li>Open the PDF with Preview</li> <li>From the ‘File’ menu, choose “Export”</li> <li>Click on the “Quartz Filter” drop-down menu and choose “Lightness Dec…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hide-mail-lock-screen-ios-5.jpg" alt="Hide Mail from the iOS 5 Lock Screen" title="hide-mail-lock-screen-ios-5" width="280" height="420" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22851" /> The notifications revamp of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> makes it easier than ever to see new messages and mail, but if you receive sensitive or private emails on your iPhone or iPad, you may not want them showing up on the lock screen. </p> <p>Those little email previews are easy to hide, here’s how:</p> <ul> <li>Open “Setting…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-campus-steve-jobs-portrait.jpg" alt="Apple campus during the Steve Jobs life celebration event" title="apple-campus-steve-jobs-portrait" width="620" height="347" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22881" /></p> <p>Apple has posted the full video of the Steve Jobs memorial event, held on October 19, 2011 at the Cupertino California campus of Apple. The celebration featured a variety of prominent speakers, including Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Al Gore, as well as several prominent musicians. It’s 81 minutes long and well worth watching for anyone interested …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/steve-jobs-60-minutes.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs, 60 Minutes" title="steve-jobs-60-minutes" width="620" height="350" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22870" /></p> <p>The full 60 Minutes segment on Steve Jobs, featuring official biographer Walter Isaacson, has been posted online by CBS. The segment focuses on Steve Jobs and the biography itself, which is widely <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">available for purchase&l…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/delete-photos-photostream.jpg" alt="Delete Photos from Photo Stream in iCloud" title="delete-photos-photostream" width="620" height="338" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22861" /></p> <p>If you’re <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/how-to-setup-icloud/">set up to use iCloud</a> with an iOS 5 device, you may have noticed that Photo Stream hosts your pictures online on iCloud.com and also syncs the pictures to the Photo Stream of your other devices. Apple will remove these pictures automatically after 30 days or after 1000 photos are upload…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/macbook-pro-sharp-vs-round-edges.jpg" alt="MacBook Pro Sharp vs Round Edges" title="macbook-pro-sharp-vs-round-edges" width="620" height="344" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-21530" /></p> <p>Did you hate the sharp case edging on the MacBook Pro? They’re gone in the new models, instead there is a minor rounding of the newest MacBook Pro series case edges. While this may seem insignificant it’s actually a fairly big deal for anyone who is accustomed to the previous MacBook Pro’s sharp corners, which could be downright uncomfortable after extended use.</…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tethered-jailbreak.jpg" alt="Tethered jailbreak" title="tethered-jailbreak" width="195" height="400" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22843" /> For anyone who has used the existing <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/jailbreak-ios-5-with-redsn0w/">iOS 5 jailbreak</a> methods, a new package has been added to Cydia that allows for a semi-tethered reboot. </p> <p>What the semitether means in practice is that you’ll be able to reboot an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch if you’re in a pinch without the assistance of redsn0w’s “Just Boot Tethered” opti…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/redsn0w-099b7.jpg" alt="redsn0w 0.9.9b7" title="redsn0w-099b7" width="146" height="142" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22837" /> The newest version of <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/redsn0w/">redsn0w</a> released by the iPhone Dev Team provides one of the fastest jailbreaks yet, and you’ll be finished in as little as 80 seconds. This is achieved by offloading some of the procedure to Cydia itself, which then takes longer to open on it’s first launch as the entire process is wrapped up.</p> <p>If you haven’t jailbroken yet and you don’t mind …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sweet-mac-setup.jpg" alt="Sweet Mac Setup" title="sweet-mac-setup" width="620" height="326" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22826" /></p> <p>This sweet reader submitted Mac setup comes from Nasar A. and features a little bit of everything: an Apple Cinema Display is connected to the MacBook Pro 13″ on the right, a MacBook Air 11″ sits to the left, and an iPad 2 Wi-Fi and white iPhone 4 round out the mix. </p> <p>Great Mac setup, thanks for sending this in Nasar!</p> <p>Send in your own <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-tv.jpg" alt="Apple TV" title="apple-tv" width="620" height="404" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22819" /></p> <p>In what seems to be a never-ending series of revelations from the <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">Steve Jobs biography</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451648537&camp=217145&creative=399373" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-on-tree.jpg" alt="Why Apple is called Apple" title="Why Apple is called Apple" width="619" height="328" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22802" /></p> <p>Who named Apple? Steve Jobs of course! The story behind the naming of the company has been revealed in <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">Steve Jobs’ official biography</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/private-browsing-ios-5-safari.jpg" alt="Private Browsing in Safari with iOS 5" title="private-browsing-ios-5-safari" width="620" height="252" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22784" /></p> <p>Since <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> you can now enable private browsing in Safari for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This allows you to browse the web without saving a record of browser history, cache, logins, searches, and whatever else would normally be visible by whoever comes across the iOS device. </p> <h2 style="font…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/siri.jpg" alt="Siri commercial" title="siri" width="620" height="339" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22777" /></p> <p>Apple has started to air TV commercials for the new iPhone 4S, the first of which focuses on Siri, the virtual intelligent voice assistant that is part of iOS 5 exclusive to the 4S. The ad features people asking questions to their iPhone, ranging from how to tie a bowtie to wondering about the weather, before Siri finally speaks in response to a question about needing a locksmith. </p> <p><iframe width="610" height="340" s…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/flash-led-on-call-iphone.jpg" alt="Flash the iPhones camera LED light on incoming calls or messages" title="flash-led-on-call-iphone" width="620" height="454" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22753" /></p> <p>The iPhone’s camera LED flash can be used to alert you to incoming calls, messages, and other alerts. With this feature enabled, anytime a call comes in the devices LED will flash repeatedly, even when the iPhone is on silent mode.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Enable LED Flash Alert for iPhone with iOS 5</h2> <ul> <li…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ipad-passcode.jpg" alt="Bypass the iPad 2 passcode" title="ipad-passcode" width="150" height="189" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22770" /> Well here’s a security flaw in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> that will quickly get patched: anyone with a magnet (or a Smart Cover) can bypass the iPad 2′s locked passcode screen and access whatever app was previously left open. The passcode bypass was discovered by <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/20/anyone-with-a-smart-cover-can-break-into-your-ipad-2/">9to5mac</a>, who recorded a …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/transfer-mac-apps.jpg" alt="Transfer Mac Apps to Another Mac" title="transfer-mac-apps" width="620" height="190" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22759" /></p> <p>With the addition of the Mac App Store, transferring applications from one Mac to another is made extraordinarily simple and can be done entirely through the App Store itself. This is due to the Mac App Stores licensing agreement, which allows you to download and install <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> apps on all of your personal machines, although they …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><embed src="http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf" scale="noscale" salign="lt" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" background="#333333" width="525" height="379" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" FlashVars="si=254&&contentValue=50113519&shareUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385390n" /></p> <p>Steve Jobs official biographer Walter Isaacson told <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/60minutes/main20123269.shtml">60 minutes</a> that Mr Jobs refused early cancer treatment and later regretted his decision to try alternativ…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/rename-iphone.jpg" alt="how to rename iPhone" title="rename-iphone" width="620" height="271" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22734" /></p> <p>A nice addition to iOS 5 is the ability to rename your iOS device directly on the device itself rather than <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/28/change-iphone-name/">changing the name with iTunes</a>. This works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch:</p> <ul> <li>Tap on “Settings” and then “About”</li> <li>Tap on “Name” and enter the new device name</li> </ul> …

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aurora.jpg" alt="Aurora wallpaper" title="aurora" width="620" height="387" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22728" /></p> <p>By request, here is a great 6 wallpaper pack of original variations on the classic OS X Aurora style wallpaper, each image is 2560×1600 and looks great on any Mac (or iPad). This pack was sent in to us but we can’t track down the source again, so thanks to whoever that was.</p> <p><a href="http://bazdesh.deviantart.com/art/Space-Aurora-198266581">Download them all from DeviantArt</a></p> <p><i…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple1.jpg" alt="Apple logo" title="apple" width="100" height="122" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22717" /> Steve Jobs was working on future Apple products the day before he died, according to Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. Son revealed the following story in an interview with the US Ambassador to Japan:</p> <blockquote><p>“I visited Apple for the announcement of the iPhone 4S [at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California]. When I was having a meeting with Tim Cook, he said, ‘Oh Masa, sorry I have to quit our meeting.’ I said, ‘Where are you going?’…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/imessage-syncing.jpg" alt="iMessage syncing" title="imessage-syncing" width="300" height="291" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22700" /> Now that you’ve <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/set-up-imessage-on-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-with-ios-5/">set up iMessage</a>, if you use multiple iOS devices you’ll want to be sure to sync your conversations across them all. This is supposed to happen automatically as long as the iMessage account on each iOS device is set to the same Apple ID, but it doesn’t always do so. </p> <p>If your iMessages aren’t…

<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/change-launchpad-icon-size1.jpg" alt="Change Launchpad Icon Size" title="change-launchpad-icon-size" width="620" height="305" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22691" /></p> <p>Of all the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/launchpad/">Launchpad tips</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/03/change-launchpad-folder-background-image-mac-os-x-lion/">customizations</a>, one that has been greatly desired is the ability to manually adjust the icon size of apps. A tip sent in by Rohan Agashe moves us in that direction, allowing you to c…