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iOS 7 Beta 1 Now Available for Developer Download

Jun 10, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iOS 7 Beta 1 Download

The first developer release of iOS 7 has arrived and is now available to download. iOS 7 beta 1 has a build number of 11A4372q, and can be installed onto any compatible iOS device, including iPhone 4, 4S, 5 and newer, iPad mini, and iPod touch 5th gen. Currently, iOS 7 beta does not yet … Read More

Get the Default OS X Mavericks Wave Wallpaper

Jun 10, 2013 - Leave a Comment
OS X Mavericks default wallpaper

OS X Mavericks (10.9) will be out later this year, but you don’t have to wait that long to get the sweet new wave wallpaper that will be the default desktop background on future Macs and OS X releases.

iOS 7 Supported Devices & Compatible Feature List

Jun 10, 2013 - 3 Comments
iOS 7 Screen Shot

Obviously iOS 7 looks incredible enough that virtually every single iPhone, iPad, and iPod owner on the planet is going to want to run the amazing new iOS on their devices… leading to the big question on everyones minds being, what devices does iOS 7 support? And what new features work on which device? The … Read More

iOS 7 Features & Screen Shots [Gallery]

Jun 10, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iOS 7 control center

iOS 7 is the most significant update to iOS since the original iPhone debuted, and Apple executives are describing installing iOS 7 as “like getting an entirely new phone”. Packed with tons of features and a beautiful new interface, with tons of animated interface elements that respond to movement of the device and provide a … Read More

New MacBook Air Announced, Includes All Day Battery Life

Jun 10, 2013 - Leave a Comment
New MacBook Air

Apple announced a significant MacBook Air update today at WWDC alongside the all new Mac Pro, and the new Air includes dramatic battery life that lasts all day.

Amazing New Mac Pro Announced, Due Later This Year

Jun 10, 2013 - Leave a Comment
New Mac Pro

Apple gave a sneak peak of the all new Mac Pro at WWDC 2013, setting very high expectations for the release later in the year. Professional users will be extremely excited with the new Mac Pro, which looks like something out of the future that has been somehow transported to our era, and the specs … Read More

OS X Mavericks is the Next Feature-Packed Mac OS: Release Date Set for Fall

Jun 10, 2013 - Leave a Comment
OS X Mavericks announced

The next version of the Mac operating system, OS X 10.9, is officially labeled as OS X Mavericks. Mavericks, named after an epic surfing spot in northern California, has a lot of new features, but also represents a change in naming conventions away from the familiar cat themes. In future versions of OS X will … Read More

Secure Remove Files & Directories from Mac OS X with the Command Line

Jun 9, 2013 - 5 Comments
Terminal logo

Need to securely delete a file, group of files, or an entire directory, insuring that it’s quite literally never recoverable by any known possible means? You can do this easily from the command line with the help of an incredibly powerful tool called srm. srm, as you may have guessed, stands for ‘secure removal’, and … Read More

How to Change the Keyboard Layout in iOS: AZERTY, QWERTZ, QWERTY, Dvorak

Jun 9, 2013 - Leave a Comment
AZERTY in iOS

Though most of us are accustomed to the default QWERTY keyboard layout, iOS does provide options to toggle between QWERTY, AZERTY, and QWERTZ. The latter two options are generally used in Europe, but you can enable them on any iPad or iPhone regardless of which region you’re in, the only requirement is that a Latin … Read More

Get Detailed Weather Information with Siri: Temperature, Forecasts, Humidity, Dew Point, Barometer, & Wind Speed

Jun 8, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Get Weather and forecast from Siri

Just about everyone knows that you can get basic weather details, temperature, and forecasts through Siri just by summoning the virtual assistant and then asking one of a few basic questions:

Watch Network Traffic in Mac OS X via Command Line with nettop

Jun 7, 2013 - 8 Comments
Nettop network activity

Mac OS X includes an excellent command line network utility called “nettop” that allows users to monitor all network activity, traffic, and routes from a Mac to the outside world, both through local (LAN) and wide area (WAN) connections. If you’re unfamiliar with networking tools like this, you can think of nettop as a network … Read More

Use the Mac Finder Sidebar for Quick File Drag & Drop App Launches

Jun 6, 2013 - 1 Comment
Drag and drop files into sidebar apps

The Finder window sidebar can hold apps and function as an application launcher, making it an excellent place to keep apps that are almost exclusively used alongside the file system, or for apps that are reliant on general filesystem access, but that aren’t necessarily used enough to warrant a place in the Mac Dock when … Read More

What To Do When an iPhone Won’t Turn On

Jun 6, 2013 - 262 Comments
What to do when an iPhone won't turn on

Many of us have found a situation where an iPhone just won’t turn on. Pressing the power button causes literally nothing to happen, the iPhone just displays a black screen. Fortunately, this is usually just a simple problem to resolve, because either iOS has suffered an unusually severe crash and needs the device to be … Read More

Control What Apps Have Access to Contacts Information in iOS

Jun 5, 2013 - 1 Comment
Control what apps have access to Contacts in iOS

Have you ever noticed how some apps will have information pulled from your iOS Contacts list, like peoples names, numbers, and contact information? Or, contrarily, how some apps should have access to your address book, but don’t, and are then feature limited? Though this happens by choice, it’s fairly easy to overlook these settings during … Read More

iTunes 11.0.4 Released with Bug Fixes

Jun 5, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iTunes 11.0.4

iTunes 11.0.4 has been released, the update is fairly minor and focuses on fixing a few prominent bugs. Notably, a bug that caused users to have to frequently re-login to the iTunes Store has been squashed, and the update also resolves an issue that caused iTunes to quit after switching between wired and wireless syncing … Read More

OS X 10.8.4 Update Released for Mac: Wi-Fi Improvements, Fixes iMessages Displaying Out Of Order, Safari 6.0.5, etc

Jun 4, 2013 - Leave a Comment
OS X 10.8.4 Update

Mac users can now update to OS X 10.8.4. The software update includes a new version of Safari versioned as 6.0.5, but otherwise focuses primarily on bug fixes. The most notable bug resolution resolves the problem for when iMessages displayed some messages out of order of when they were sent and received, which has been … Read More

How to Change an Icon in Mac OS X

Jun 4, 2013 - 14 Comments
Change an Icon on the Mac

You can change the icon of just about any file, folder, volume, or application in Mac OS X. This is an easy way to customize the appearance of items in the file system, and it can be a fun way to add a customized look to the desktop and home folder on a Mac. It … Read More

8 of the Best Tricks for Mail App in Mac OS X

Jun 3, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Change how often Mail checks for new messages

Use Mail app in Mac OS X to handle your email? Then this collection of some of the best tips you’ll find for Mail app in OS X is for you. We’ll cover some of the greatest tricks out there, including how to get new mail faster, see more messages at once, send attachments faster, … Read More

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