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View Only Unread Messages in a Gmail Inbox with 2 Simple Tricks

Jun 30, 2013 - 90 Comments
Gmail logo

Gmail is an excellent mail client, but one feature that has always felt missing was a simple sorting ability to view only the unread email messages residing in an inbox. It turns out you can show only the unread messages with Gmail though, you just have to use either a simple search operator to reveal … Read More

How to Use Personal Hotspot on iPhone / iPad to Share Its Internet Connection

Jun 28, 2013 - 1 Comment
Enable the iPhone Personal Hotspot

Personal Hotspot allows you to turn an iPhone or cellular equipped iPad into a wireless router, thereby sharing the devices internet connection with other Mac, Windows PC, iOS, Android, or any other capable hardware that connects to the hotspot. Often called “internet tethering” or simply Wi-Fi Hotspot, this is an excellent feature for telecommuters and … Read More

9 High-Resolution Space Wallpapers

Jun 28, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Carina Nebula

It’s time for a new wallpaper roundup, so we’re bringing you nine high-resolution space themed images. These pictures are all large enough that they should look great on just about any screen size, whether its a desktop Mac, PC, iPhone, or a retina iPad. Click through the images or links to get to the full … Read More

Use Mono Audio When One Side of iPhone Headphones & Speakers Stop Working

Jun 27, 2013 - 11 Comments

The famous white Apple earbuds are great, but anyone who has had any pair of headphones and heavily used them for a long time knows they can damage over time, and sometimes you’ll wind up with a set that no longer plays sound out of both ear pieces. The problem with this is that many … Read More

How to Tell Which Model an iPhone Is

Jun 27, 2013 - 13 Comments
Identify an iPhone by model number

Though most iPhone owners know what which model they have, not everyone does, and sometimes you’ll come across an iPhone and have no idea what it is. This is usually because some iPhone models share the same enclosure, and because of that it can be very hard to differentiate them just by a first glance. … Read More

Mirror Displays on the Mac with a Keyboard Shortcut

Jun 27, 2013 - 27 Comments
Mac keyboard shortcut for Display Mirroring

Ever needed to quickly mirror a Mac display, switching another screen from an extended desktop to the mirrored image of what’s on the primary screen? Sure, you can visit the System Preference Display panel and fumble around in settings, but there is a much easier and faster way to toggle display mirroring with just a … Read More

Recover a Lost Encrypted Backup Password for an iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch

Jun 26, 2013 - 33 Comments
Recover a lost iPhone encrypted backup password

iOS devices can use an optional encrypted backup feature that protects all backups with a strong encryption layer and password, meaning those backups are both unusable and unreadable without that password. If you chose to encrypt the backups of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with such a password and then somehow forgot the password … Read More

How to Turn Off Government Emergency Alerts on iPhone

Jun 26, 2013 - 13 Comments
Emergency alert on an iPhone

The iPhone includes FCC & FEMA alerts on all major US carriers, known as Wireless Emergency Alerts. This translates into two basic types of alerts; AMBER alerts for abductions, and general emergency alerts issued by national, state, and local governments. Both of these alert types are free to receive, fairly severe, and also pretty rare, … Read More

Migrate RSS Feeds from Google Reader to Feedly or Pulse

Jun 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Feedly RSS reader

Alright faithful OSXDaily readers, listen up: 11,471 of you are STILL using Google Reader to access our RSS feed, but Reader is scheduled to end on July 1. While that is a huge improvement from the 40,000+ that were a few months ago… that’s still too many of our wonderful readers to have not migrated … Read More

OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 2 Released for Developer Download

Jun 24, 2013 - Leave a Comment
OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 2

Apple has released OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 2 to registered developers. The update to the existing OS X 10.9 beta is versioned as 13A497d and is recommended for all users who are currently running the first version of OS X Mavericks Developer Preview. OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 2 can be downloaded immediately through … Read More

The 6 Most Annoying iPhone Settings & How to Fix Them

Jun 24, 2013 - 5 Comments
Turn off repeating text message alerts on iPhone

The iPhone is easily one of the best pieces of technology ever invented, but let’s just go ahead and admit that nothing is perfect. There are a few default settings on the iPhone that are just plain annoying, but within just a minute or two you can fix all of that with a handful of … Read More

iOS 7 Beta 2 Available for Download Now, Includes iPad & iPad Mini Support

Jun 24, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iOS 7 Beta 2

The second beta of iOS 7 is now available to download for registered developers. Arriving as build 11A4400F, this update includes many bug fixes and improvements to the beta release, and is available for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th gen, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, and iPad Mini. This is … Read More

How to Boot a Mac from an External Drive or Alternate Startup Disk

Jun 22, 2013 - 23 Comments
Boot a Mac from an External Drive

Certain situations require a Mac to be booted from an external boot volume, rather than the primary startup disk. There are plenty of reasons for booting from external volumes, whether it’s to troubleshoot problems, repair disks, partition, format everything, update, or even reinstall Mac OS X. We’ll cover the two easiest ways to do this, … Read More

Turn Off Automatic Video Playing in Instagram & Save Cell Data Bandwidth

Jun 21, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Instagram settings

Instagram, the popular photo sharing app for iOS, recently added video support that allows users to post filtered videos to their picture collections. Browsing through an Instagram feed now results in quite a few videos that auto-play by default, an aspect which can be pretty obnoxious if you want to keep quiet. Perhaps worse than … Read More

How to Enable & Use the Virtual Keyboard in Mac OS X

Jun 21, 2013 - 30 Comments
Enable the virtual keyboard input in Mac OS X

The Virtual Keyboard feature of Mac OS X is exactly what it sounds like, it’s a software-based keyboard that can be used as an auxiliary onscreen keyboard to type anything on a Mac. These virtual keys are pressable by clicking on them with a cursor, rather than tapping the physical keys on a hardware keyboard. … Read More

3 Best Free Video Converter Apps for Mac OS X

Jun 20, 2013 - 9 Comments
Miro converts video in Mac OS X with ease

There are tons of video converter apps out there for the Mac, many of which are free, and some are paid but priced all too high. We’re cutting through the chafe and giving you three of the best video converter apps that are completely free. Each app also sits at a different complexity and skill … Read More

Unlock iPhone in 30 Minutes: Unlocking is Faster than Ever with AT&T

Jun 20, 2013 - 33 Comments
Fast unlocking an iPhone through AT&T for free

Unlocking an iPhone through AT&T is now lightning fast, and in some cases you’ll have an unlocked iPhone in under 30 minutes. I recently had the chance to experience this directly while writing this article on checking the unlock status of devices, and was impressively surprised by the result. From filling out the initial unlock … Read More

Quickly Copy a File or Folder Path to the Clipboard in Mac OS X

Jun 19, 2013 - 63 Comments
Create a "Copy Path" Service in Mac OS X

There are a few ways to retrieve a file or folders full path from Mac OS X, and we’ll cover the two easiest methods here, and also a third option that utilizes a Service to instantly copy any path to the clipboard. First, we’ll use the Get Info panel to pull any items complete path, … Read More

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