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New MacBook Pro Coming Next Month at WWDC: Retina Display, Thinner, SSD

May 14, 2012 - 14 Comments
MacBook Pro

Apple will release a new thinner MacBook Pro next month at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), according to a report from Bloomberg. With a thinner design, the new MacBook Pro is expected to feature “high-definition screens like those on the iPhone and iPad” commonly referred to as a Retina display, and also include SSD … Read More

How to Save Images from Safari or Mail Onto the iPad & iPhone

May 14, 2012 - 52 Comments

Saving pictures from websites or emails on to the iPad or iPhone is very easy once you learn how. This may be a bit of a beginners tip, but after fielding the question multiple times from relatives and even seeing it popup in comments on wallpaper posts, there are clearly a fair amount of people … Read More

Prevent Beachballs & Slow Downs in Mac OS X When External Hard Drive is Attached

May 14, 2012 - 21 Comments
Disable Sleep Hard disk when possible to prevent drive access slow downs

Many Mac users have an external hard disk for Time Machine backups or other media storage purposes, and if you leave it connected to the Mac all the time you’ve probably noticed an annoying side effect: the drive will spin down when it’s not in use, only to be spun up again unnecessarily at random … Read More

Use IPCC Files with iOS Devices by Enabling Carrier Testing Mode in iTunes

May 13, 2012 - 15 Comments

iTunes carrier testing mode allows you to manually load signed .ipcc carrier files onto an iPhone or cellular iPad, these .ipcc files contain various carrier settings pertaining to voice mail, MMS and SMS, Personal Hotspot, APN settings, and other network-specific preferences. If you’ve used an iPhone on T-Mobile or even as a prepaid phone you … Read More

Set a System Preferences Keyboard Shortcut in Mac OS X

May 13, 2012 - 6 Comments
System Preferences Hotkey

If you find yourself adjusting things in System Preferences often enough, it’s helpful to create a universal keyboard shortcut to quickly launch into the control panels on the Mac. Here is how to do that in Mac OS X:

8 Ways to Keep a Mac Cool in Hot Weather

May 12, 2012 - 43 Comments
ways to keep a Mac cool in intense heat

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, summer is fast approaching and that can often mean extreme heat which pushes the temperature limits beyond what any computer is intended to operate in. In fact, Apple specifies ambient operating temperatures for most Macs as between 50° and 95° fahrenheit, this means that anything above 95° … Read More

Mac Setups: iMac, MacBook Air, and Beyond

May 12, 2012 - 4 Comments
Mac Setup with an iMac, Galaxy Tab, iPad, and more

Most Apple fans own several iProducts since it’s so easy to go from a Mac to an iPad to an iPhone, but Fabiano F. has a setup that goes beyond Apple gear and branches into other mobile platforms, including Palm, Android, and even a Kindle. Hardware shown from left to right is: iPhone 4S Palm … Read More

Batch Rotate a Group of Images with Preview for Mac OS X

May 11, 2012 - 6 Comments
Batch rotate a group of images with Preview for Mac OS X

If you have a group of pictures which are orientated incorrectly that you need rotated either clockwise or counterclockwise, you can do that in Mac OS X without any third party apps. Bulk rotation of images can be accomplished quickly with the help of the bundled Preview app, we’ll show you how to use the … Read More

Make Mac OS X Speak (or Sing) the Output of Any Command Line Task

May 11, 2012 - 2 Comments
Speak the output of a command line task

Along the lines of vocally announcing task completion within the command line, you can also have Mac OS X speak the output of any executed command.

Change the Font Size of Web Pages in Safari for iOS with Bookmarklets

May 11, 2012 - 37 Comments
Change font size on Safari for iPad with bookmarklets

Everyone has run into a webpage where the font size is unbearably small on an iOS device, typically a reverse pinch gesture will make the text legible but on some pages that have a fixed width you then have to scroll sideways in addition to up and down. You can sort of get around that … Read More

Redsn0w 0.9.11b1 Allows for Downgrading iOS 5.1 to 5.0.1

May 11, 2012 - 6 Comments
Redsn0w 0.9.11b1 allows for downgrading iOS

Unhappy with iOS 5.1 and tethered booting a jailbroken device? A new version of the redsn0w jailbreak utility allows users to downgrade their iOS hardware from iOS 5.1 to iOS 5.0.1, allowing for a return to an untethered jailbreak with the previous iOS version. Perhaps most significantly, the redsnow assisted downgrade works on all A5-equipped … Read More

9 Gorgeous Retina Resolution Wallpapers to Dress Up the iPad

May 10, 2012 - 7 Comments
9 Retina Wallpapers for iPad

Everyone loves a good wallpaper to beautify their desktop or homescreen. We try to post some of the nicer ones we find and to continue that tradition we’re sharing 9 more absolutely gorgeous wallpapers that have been sized for the new iPads retina display. Even if you don’t have a new iPad, the resolution of … Read More

How to Stop an App Downloading in iOS

May 10, 2012 - 7 Comments
Stop an App Download in iOS

If you’ve ever started to accidentally download an app of something on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, or you just decide you want to stop an app download for some other reason, you can pause and stop downloads onto iOS devices that come from the App Store. This tutorial will detail how to stop a … Read More

Disable Elastic (Rubber Band) Scrolling in Mac OS X

May 10, 2012 - 17 Comments
Disable Elastic Scrolling in Mac OS X

Ever since Mac OS X 10.7, the Mac has included the same elastic over-scrolling that exists in the iOS world. Frequently called “rubberband scrolling”, it kicks in as an overscrolling effect that runs out of the scrollable region revealing the linen background before snapping back into the scrollable region. Scroll up quickly with or without … Read More

Mac OS X 10.7.4 Update is Available [Direct Download Links]

May 9, 2012 - 22 Comments
OS X 10.7.4 Update

Mac OS X 10.7.4 Update has been released by Apple, the update includes bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all OS X Lion users to install. Two of the most significant changes are a fix to a restoring windows bug and a patch for a potential security issue with FileVault passwords, though … Read More

Download iOS Updates Once for Installing on Multiple Devices

May 9, 2012 - 13 Comments
Download a Single IPSW File for Upgrading Multiple Devices

If you have several iPhones, iPads, or iPods that need updating to the latest version of iOS, you can use a nice trick to save some bandwidth and download a single iOS update file to apply to multiple devices from either Mac OS X or Windows. This is a perfect solution for a family that … Read More

Yes, You Can Upgrade a Mac with Snow Leopard Directly to OS X Mountain Lion

May 9, 2012 - 13 Comments
Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion

Mac OS X Snow Leopard can be upgraded directly to OS X Mountain Lion, assuming the final release maintains the same capacity as the currently available developer previews. To perform the direct upgrade as it stands today, users will need to have created an OS X Mountain Lion USB installer from which to boot off … Read More

2 Ways to Access Yesterdays Files & Recent Work on a Mac

May 9, 2012 - 3 Comments
Find Yesterdays Files and Work in Mac OS X

By using Mac OS X Smart Folders, anyone can quickly access all files they were working on yesterday without caring about where they were stored or what folders they reside in. There are two ways to set this up, the first will utilize a quick modification to “All My Files” and the second will be … Read More

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