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The Top iOS, iPhone, and iPad Tip Collections of 2012

Dec 31, 2012 - 1 Comment
Best of 2012 iOS tip collections for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

2012 is at it’s end, and just like with our favorite Mac tip collections of the year, OSXDaily.com is looking back and gathering some of the most useful multi-trick collection posts for iOS, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch too. Again, we are aiming to give you the absolute most bang for your reading buck here … Read More

The Top Mac & Mac OS X Tip Collections of 2012

Dec 31, 2012 - Leave a Comment
Best of 2012: Tip Collections for OS X and iOS

With 2012 coming to an end, OSXDaily.com is looking back and gathering some of the most useful Mac multi-tip and trick collection posts from the year past. Yes, we post individual tips and walkthroughs every day, but we’re aiming to give you the most bang for your reading buck here by focusing on our favorite … Read More

Write & Send a Complete Email with Siri Faster Than Ever

Dec 30, 2012 - 6 Comments
Write and send a complete email with Siri

If you’ve sent emails out with Siri before, you have probably noticed that Siri will often respond to the initial email request with an inquiry about what the mail subject or body should contain, making you respond with another phrase and continue a back-and-forth dialog with Siri until the to, subject, and message fields are … Read More

Mac Setup: A Musician’s Desk

Dec 30, 2012 - 16 Comments
MacBook Pro Retina and iPad desk setup

This weeks Mac setup comes to us from Dean K., a musician who uses his Mac setup for listening to music and editing. MacBook Pro Retina 15″ 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 – 16GB RAM – 256GB SSD MacBook Air 1.6GHz Core i5 – 4GB RAM – 128GB SSD iPad 3 – 16GB LTE MacBook … Read More

A Nice & Simple Binary Clock Screen Saver for Mac OS X

Dec 29, 2012 - 25 Comments
Binary clock screen saver

Minimally styled clock screen savers are fairly popular and we’ve shared a variety of them here before, but it’s hard to get more minimal than a binary clock. The aptly named BinaryClock is just that, a free and simple binary clock screen saver for OS X that has some nice color effects that change with … Read More

How to Get Emoji Definitions on iPhone & iPad Quickly

Dec 28, 2012 - 5 Comments
Define Emoji in iOS with Speak

Did someone send an Emoji to your iPhone, iPod, or iPad and you have not the faintest of clues as to what it’s supposed to mean? With the vast array of emoji icons out there, you’re not alone, but there’s an excellent little-known feature that uses iOS text-to-speech to give a precise definition of the … Read More

How to Get Snapchat in Mac OS X (or Windows)

Dec 28, 2012 - 72 Comments
Snapchat on Mac

Snapchat is a very popular quirky picture messaging client for Android and iPhone that allows people to share pictures and have conversations that disappear after a very short time interval, after which the shared content is gone forever. The spontaneous and fleeting nature of the messages has given the app an interesting reputation that you … Read More

11 Must-Have Free Apps for New Macs

Dec 26, 2012 - 93 Comments
Evernote for Mac

Some OS X apps are so great and so universally useful that they earn the title of “must-have” on just about any Mac, and we’re bringing you an essential list of these must-have apps that also happen to be completely free. Whether you have a brand new Mac that needs some new apps and utilities … Read More

Connect & Use an External Wireless Keyboard with iPhone or iPod touch

Dec 26, 2012 - 4 Comments
iPhone syncing with an external keyboard

External wireless keyboards can be connected to and used with iPhones and iPod touches through Bluetooth. This can help when typing anything of length, particularly if you’re not as fast a typer with the virtual keyboard, and it allows you to create an immediate (albeit tiny) workstation just about anywhere. There’s also a very nice … Read More

Super Last Minute Gift Guide: App Gifting, Emailing Gift Cards, & Printable Gift Cards

Dec 24, 2012 - 3 Comments
Amazon email gift card

If you’re anything like me, you waited until the absolute last minute to get Christmas shopping done and you’ve probably already raided the gift card rack at a grocery store to stock up on last minute presents. But don’t forget to take advantage go email-friendly gift cards from Apple’s iTunes Stores, Amazon, and if you’re … Read More

Track Santa Live this Christmas with a NORAD iPhone App, Google, or Bing

Dec 24, 2012 - Leave a Comment
Santa Tracking

Christmas Eve is upon us, and that means it’s Santa tracking season! Whether you’re keeping an eye on Santa’s yearly world journey for yourself or just the little ones in your life, tracking Santa is now easier than ever. You can track Santa directly from your iPhone with an official NORAD app, use the official … Read More

New iPad Commercial “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” Now Airing

Dec 22, 2012 - 12 Comments
iPad Christmas Commercial for 2012

Apple has started running their Christmas ad for this year, and it shows off the iPad and iPad Mini with a girl playing a ukelele while singing the classic “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” song to a relative over FaceTime. The video is embedded below, and you’re likely to catch the ad airing the next … Read More

Mac Setup: Amateur Photographer’s iMac Desk

Dec 22, 2012 - 8 Comments
The iMac desk setup of an amateur photographer

This weeks Apple setup comes to us from Pierre C., who uses his Mac for amateur photography and personal use. Pierre moved back to the Mac platform after a significant hiatus with Windows, and prior to this iMac his last Apple desktop was a Mac SE! As it often goes these days, his transition was … Read More

2 Simple Tips to Get to Websites Faster in iOS

Dec 21, 2012 - 8 Comments
Show more web TLD's in iOS Safari

Have you ever wished you could visit certain websites faster while you’re on the go? Maybe you know a specific website you want to get to, but you don’t visit the site enough to have a bookmark for it on the home screen. Or maybe you’d rather just type as little as possible on the … Read More

See a List of All Wi-Fi Networks a Mac Has Previously Connected To

Dec 21, 2012 - 10 Comments
List of past wi-fi networks

Knowing which wireless networks a Mac has been connected to in the past be can be helpful for a variety of reasons, including network troubleshooting, determining where a Mac has been, if a specific wifi password is recoverable, and a myriad of other technical reasons. Searching for past networks is completely different from finding currently … Read More

Locate iPhone Ringtones & Text Tones Stored Locally Quickly

Dec 21, 2012 - 2 Comments
iPhone ringtone folder

iPhone ringtones and text tones – both of which are .m4r files – are stored in the same location in the file system, whether they were made with iTunes, bought from the iTunes Store, converted from another format with QuickTime, created from within Garageband, or whether you downloaded them from elsewhere. You can quickly locate … Read More

Stay Sane with Multiple Email Accounts on an iPhone by Using Different Apps

Dec 20, 2012 - 12 Comments
Multiple email accounts on iPhone as managed with different apps

Many of us juggle multiple email accounts these days, one for work, one for personal, one for various web signups, and whatever else. While you can easily configure the default iOS Mail app to manage multiple accounts and inboxes and flip between them yourself, another approach is to separate the mail accounts completely by using … Read More

Fix the iMessage “Waiting for Activation” Error on iPhone, iPad

Dec 20, 2012 - 19 Comments
iMessage waiting for activation

Are you seeing a “Waiting for activation” error when trying to use iMessage on iPhone or iPad? Despite setting up iMessage properly, some users occasionally encounter a “Waiting for Activation” error with iMessage, usually either upon updating to a new version of iOS or getting a new device and configuring iMessage for the first time. … Read More

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