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OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 7 Released by Apple

Sep 3, 2013 - Leave a Comment
OS X Mavericks logo

Apple has released OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 7 to individuals registered with the Mac Developer program. The update includes bug fixes and inches Mavericks ever closer to the final Golden Master (GM) build. Developers running Mavericks DP6 will find the update available now in the Mac App Store, accessible through Software Update, and weighs … Read More

Use Bookmarks in iBooks App for iOS to Quickly Access Saved Pages

Sep 3, 2013 - 1 Comment
Access a bookmark set in iBooks for iOS

For those who read within the iBooks app of iOS, digital bookmarks are a very useful feature that work much like bookmarks do in a real paper book; you set a bookmark on a page, and you then have easy access for future reference, whether to find where you left off reading or to quickly … Read More

New iPhone Models Incoming: Apple Sends Invites for September 10 Event

Sep 3, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Apple invite for September 10

Apple has sent out invitations to a September 10 event hosted at their Cupertino Campus, confirming the widely anticipated launch day of the next iPhone models. The invite, shown above, features many overlapping brightly colored flat and transparent circles, in an apparent reference to the expected colorful iPhone 5C models and the vibrant iOS 7 … Read More

6 Steps to Prepare an iPhone for Sale the Right Way

Sep 2, 2013 - 13 Comments
Prepare an iPhone for sale

With new iPhone models just around the corner, many existing iPhone owners may be thinking about upgrading and selling their existing devices to jump to new models. But before putting your iPhone on the market or trading it in, be sure to prepare it for sale the right way by backing it up, clearing out … Read More

How to Back Up iPhone Photos to DropBox Automatically

Aug 31, 2013 - 1 Comment
Back up iPhone photos to Dropbox

Did you know you can set iPhone photos to automatically backup to Dropbox? You can really never have too many backups of your most important files, and since our iPhone photos and pictures often fall into the ‘very important’ category, having an automatic backup solution directly from your iPhone can be a good idea. Yes, … Read More

Test Read & Write Speed of an External Drive or USB Flash Key

Aug 31, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Xbench disk test for external drive

If you need to know the disk performance of an external drive, you can easily go about testing the read and write speed of any such drive by using several third party apps. We’ll cover two, the first is aptly named Disk Speed Test, and the second is called Xbench. Either will work to determine … Read More

How to Refresh Finder Windows in Mac OS X

Aug 30, 2013 - 7 Comments
Refresh Finder window contents

Wondering how to refresh a Finder window in Mac OS? There is no refresh button or keyboard shortcut for the Mac OS X Finder, something which can become a nuisance when a folder window or directory does not refresh contents after something has changed. That may be a fairly rare occurrence with a Mac built-in … Read More

See What Processes Are Running in the Background of iOS

Aug 29, 2013 - 2 Comments
Task Manager in iOS

iOS does not have an Activity Monitor or task manager the way that desktop Macs do within OS X, but if you’d like to see what apps and processes are running in the background of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can do so using a few different methods. For most users, simply showing … Read More

9 Magnificent Wallpapers to Spruce Up Your Desktop & Home Screen Backgrounds

Aug 29, 2013 - 1 Comment
Cone nebula wallpaper

It’s time for another roundup of beautiful wallpapers for your computers and iDevices. There’s no particular theme with this roundup, just some great images of scenery and distant space, each of which makes for fantastic background pictures. As usual, these are all offered in high-res HD glory, so whether you’re sporting a 27″ display with … Read More

How to Block All Incoming Network Connections in Mac OS X

Aug 28, 2013 - 3 Comments
Block all incoming connections in Mac OS X with this firewall option

The Mac OS X Firewall provides an optional ability to block all incoming network connections , offering a significant security boost to Macs that are located in untrusted networks or hostile network environments.

How to Sync Gmail / Google Contacts with iOS on iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch

Aug 27, 2013 - 1 Comment

You can easily configure Google / Gmail contacts to sync with an iOS device like an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This transfers all Google Contact details onto the iOS device, in addition to keeping all contacts in sync, meaning any changes made in one service will carry over to the other nearly instantaneously. This … Read More

How to Remove Attachments from Mail in Mac OS X

Aug 27, 2013 - 1 Comment
Remove attachments from email in Mac OS X

Removing attachments from an email or everything in Mail app can be useful for a variety of reasons, from ditching a file that is no longer relevant to an email thread, to lowering the file transfer size when sending/replying to a message, or for more extreme cases for individuals with smaller hard drives, for reducing … Read More

Hide Email Previews from the Lock Screen of iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

Aug 26, 2013 - 3 Comments
Hide email previews from the lock screen of iOS devices

New email arrivals display a small preview of the message itself on the lock screen of iOS devices, which shows the sender, the subject, and part of the actual email message body. Because emails can contain some very private and/or personal details, you may wish to hide those email message previews from showing up on … Read More

Copy Music Directly to iPhone / iPod Without Adding to the Computer iTunes Library

Aug 26, 2013 - 17 Comments
iTunes icon

Got a song, podcast, or another audio track that you want to copy directly to your iPhone, but don’t want to add to your computers general iTunes library? You can skip adding the song to the computer iTunes library completely by using a simple but little known trick, letting you directly transfer music and audio … Read More

Convert a Blu-Ray or DVD to MKV Easily in Mac OS X with MakeMKV

Aug 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Convert a Blu-Ray Disc to MKV format

We’ve covered a handful of the best MKV player apps for the Mac before, but what if you have a Blu-Ray disc, DVD, or ISO that you want to make your own MKV file out of? Creating a watchable MKV file on your computer from a Blu-Ray or DVD is commonly called ‘ripping’, and that’s … Read More

Record the Screen as an Animated GIF in Mac OS X

Aug 23, 2013 - 2 Comments
Screen recording to an animated gif

LICEcap is a screen recording app that captures a portion of the Mac OS X (or Windows) desktop and saves it directly as an animated GIF. Incredibly simple to use, the apps functionality should be familiar enough to anyone who has used screen recording with QuickTime before, except that rather than a movie being exported, … Read More

Unlock an iOS Device Directly from an External Keyboard

Aug 22, 2013 - 2 Comments
Unlock an iOS device directly from an external keyboard

Did you know that you can unlock an iPad or iPhone using an external keyboard, without ever having to touch the screen or hardware buttons on the device itself? This trick is particularly great for unlocking an iPad with an external keyboard, but it works with iPhone and iPod touch too.

Start a Web Search in a GUI Browser from the Command Line

Aug 22, 2013 - 3 Comments
Search the web from the command line

With the help of a simple command line function, you can quickly initiate a web search in your GUI web browser of choice right from the Terminal app. We’ll cover a few examples, demonstrating searching the web with Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Wikipedia, and using a variety of different web browsers, including Chrome, Safari, and … Read More

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