A little known trick allows users to rotate the Mac screen, thereby allowing a display to run in a vertical 90 degree orientation, or even in a flipped mode. Display rotation is possible on any monitor connected to any Mac, whether that’s an external display or even on the the primary built-in screens of a … Read More

Update 2: Redsn0w 0.9.7b5 has just been released and it fixes the Bluetooth issues. Update: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 download is now available, it is recommended to use that instead. The Dev Team has just released another public beta version of the untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. Redsn0w 0.9.7b3 aims to resolve some of the bugs from the … Read More

As the 2010 comes to a close, several prominent tech writers are declaring the iPad the best product of the year. Walt Mossberg has declared the iPad the “best product of 2010” saying: For a 1.0 product, the iPad was amazing. With the new iOS 4.2 operating system and its huge selection of apps, the … Read More

Think you’ve seen it all? Think again, because now there are iPad games designed for cats. Yes, you read that right. Hiccup Inc is an iOS developer that is creating iPad games for cats, and their first title, the appropriately named “Games for Cats” is hilarious because cats actually play the game. Well, play as … Read More

Update 2: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 download is now available and no longer requires usbmux to jailbreak. Update: redsn0w 0.9.7b3 has been released and provides further stability, it is recommended to use the latest beta version. Redsn0w 0.9.7b2 has just been released into the public redsn0w untethered jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 beta test program. The latest beta resolves … Read More

Update 3: Redsn0w 0.9.7b4 is now available and no longer requires usbmux to initiate the jailbreak. Update 2: redsn0w 0.9.7b3 download is now available and provides further stability. Update: A newer and more stable Redsn0w 0.9.7b2 has just been released, it is recommended for beta testers to use that version instead. The latest version of … Read More

The MacBook Air is tiny and very notebook like as is, but one MacBook Air owner decided to take that idea one step further and create a composition notebook skin for his MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is beautiful as is, but I kind of like the topsheet and bottomsheet cover idea, I can’t say … Read More

Merry Christmas from OSXDaily.com! Things will be a bit slow around here today, but: Check out a geeky Christmas concert of an all iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch band performing Christmas songs. If you got an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch for Christmas, you’ll need to download iTunes 10.1 before you grab the iOS 4.2.1 … Read More

Everyone suspects that the Verizon iPhone release date will be soon, but just how soon is anyones guess. Some say the CES expo at January, and others say at a later release date. And then there is Skype, who has a prominently featured Verizon logo next to their own logo on a page about making … Read More

It must be Christmas! Somewhere behind that stack of ten iPads is a guy carrying them all… just don’t trip! Thanks to Brad for sending this in via Flickr.

The iPhone Dev Team is looking for beta testers to try out the new untethered redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. Requirements for the beta program are as follows: You will need a Mac Your iPhone must not be unlocked or need the ultrasn0w unlock for iOS 4.2.1 You have a copy of iOS 4.2b3 IPSW … Read More

Setting your Mac up to print to a Windows print server with Active Directory is pretty straight forward, but it’s really annoying that your network credentials aren’t stored which causes the login popup screen to display. Looking for a solution to this, I came across a post at TheAppleBlog, and the author had the exact … Read More

If you’re anything like me, you waited until the last minute to start Christmas shopping. Yea, it’s stressful and the choices are a bit more limited, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t find some good gifts. Here are a few last minute Christmas gift ideas: Amazon Gift Cards – You can get them in … Read More

Hidden is theft tracking software for Mac OS X that works to help you recover your stolen MacBook Pro (or MacBook Air, MacBook, and any other Mac OS X machine really). It works by laying dormant on your Mac until you visit the Hidden website and mark your computer as stolen, this then activates the … Read More

The popular iPhone web browser SkyFire is now available for iPad, this means that iPad owners can now watch Flash video directly on the device by using the Safari alternative. How the SkyFire Flash player works is kind of interesting, on a page with Flash you tap on a video icon in the corner of … Read More

Apple has released an update to the iOS Remote app and it offers some pretty significant feature updates, but perhaps most significantly is AirPlay support. This means that using Remote you can now stream videos from iTunes on a computer (Mac OS X or Windows) to an Apple TV. Features of Remote 2.1 are: AirPlay … Read More

How does an SSD stand up against a stock MacBook Pro hard drive? Watch the video and it speaks for itself. 48 applications are launched simultaneously, with the SSD all the apps launch in an amazing 18 seconds. The stock spinning drive? A laggard 198 seconds to launch the exact same app. This video shows … Read More

PatentlyApple is at it again, this time they discovered a patent for automatically updating Mac OS X menu items. The idea is somewhat simple; given items in pull down menus would be actively updating, and text or data would scroll in that menu item. The concept is not limited to pulldown menus, as PatentlyApple describes: … Read More