6 Tips to Improve Typing on the iPad

Mar 31, 2012 - 20 Comments
Typing tips for iPad

Typing on the iPad can be natural for some users, but unnatural or difficult for others. If you’re in the latter camp, you will appreciate this collection of typing tips for iPad which can help improve your typing on the device. Personally I love the iPad but I really hate typing on it. Though touch … Read More

How to “View Source” from Safari on an iPad or iPhone

Mar 30, 2012 - 24 Comments
View Source on an iPad or iPhone

Ever wanted to view source of a webpage from an iPad or iPhone? Unfortunately, mobile Safari doesn’t include the feature on it’s own and does not yet have a mobile web inspector toolkit built-in, but with the help of a custom bookmarklet you can view source of any web page right in iOS and iPadOS. … Read More

Send Multiple Photos from an iPhone or iPad

Mar 30, 2012 - 32 Comments
Send Multiple Photos from an iPhone or iPad

Sending out multiple photos at the same time from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is easy and intuitive. This basically means you can send out a group of pictures without having to constantly go back and forth from the Photos app. It’s a piece of cake to do with iOS, and here’s how to … Read More

Watch System Activity and CPU Usage from the Mac OS X Dock

Mar 30, 2012 - 9 Comments
Enable the Dock Activity Monitor in Mac OS X

Activity Monitor can be used for more than just managing tasks and killing processes, it can also turn the Mac OS X Dock into a live system monitor where you can keep an eye on processor usage, CPU history, network activity, disk activity, or RAM use.

10 Tips to Reduce iPhone & iPad Personal Hotspot Data Usage

Mar 28, 2012 - 16 Comments
Personal Hotspot

Personal Hotspot is one of the best features of an iPhone and iPad, allowing you to share the devices 3G or 4G LTE internet connection with up to five other connected devices through wi-fi, be them Macs, iPads, iPods, or PC’s. Personal Hotspot may be a mobile users and telecommuters dream, but tethering an internet … Read More

Change the Animation Speed of Hiding & Displaying the Mac OS X Dock

Mar 28, 2012 - 8 Comments
Change the Dock Animation Speed

Automatically hiding the Dock is one of the more useful features you can enable if you work on a Mac with limited screen space. That experience can be improved by removing the auto-hide delay from the Dock in OS X, which reduces the delay from when a mouse is hovered near the Dock to when … Read More

Making Sense of Mac Keyboard Symbols

Mar 27, 2012 - 55 Comments
Mac Keyboard Symbols

Ever wondered what those Mac keyboard symbols mean and what they translate to? You see them on a lot of Mac keyboards and on plenty of keyboard shortcut lists, looking like strange glyphs (⌥), shapes (⇪), and bugs splattered on windshields (⌘). They can be fairly confusing, which is why we at OSXDaily.com always try … Read More

Remove the Auto-Hiding Dock Delay in Mac OS X

Mar 27, 2012 - 40 Comments
Hidden Dock in Mac OS X displays faster

Want to access the Dock faster on the Mac? If you use a hidden Dock in Mac OS X, you can speed up the time it takes to show the Dock with a defaults write command. This command removes the delay from when a cursor is hovered near the Dock location and to when the … Read More

Improve iPad Picture Frame with a Custom Photo Album

Mar 26, 2012 - 9 Comments
Create album for iPad Picture Frame

Picture Frame is a great feature of iOS on iPad that turns the device into a rotating gallery of images. The iPad Picture Frame app defaults to flipping through all images contained in the Photos camera roll album, but you can improve the experience by creating a custom photo album and setting that as the … Read More

Disable “Top Sites” in Safari for Mac OS X

Mar 26, 2012 - 8 Comments
Top Sites in Safari

New windows and tabs in Safari default to displaying a 3×4 grid of “Top Sites”, representing the web sites you visit the most often with Safari. This can make for a nice home page, but sometimes it will display sites you don’t want showing up, and it can also slow down Safari on older computers. … Read More

How to “Find On Page” on an iPhone with Safari on iOS 6 and iOS 5

Mar 26, 2012 - 8 Comments
Find on Page in Safari for iPhone

It’s easy to find text on a page with a desktop browser, with just a keyboard shortcut you’ll have a search field. This is a bit different in the world of smaller mobile screens though, and if you need to find text on a current web page with Safari for iPhone or iPod touch you’ll … Read More

13 Beautiful High Resolution Retina Wallpapers for the New iPad

Mar 24, 2012 - 11 Comments
Spring leaves wallpaper

Looking for some gorgeous high resolution images for your new iPad? Here are a handful of gorgeous retina wallpapers, each measuring 2048×2048 pixels. Click on any of the images below for a full sized version, though some of the links go to InterfaceLift and the iPad 2048×2048 version must be selected manually from their drop-down … Read More

Solution to the iPad 3 Heat Problem [Humor]

Mar 23, 2012 - 13 Comments
iPad 3 in the snow

If your iPad 3 is getting too hot to handle, the solution is to use the iPad outdoors in three feet of snow. Three feet of snow is required because there is a direct correlation between the iPad generation and the amount of snow required to cool the device, thus iPad 3 requires 3 feet … Read More

Convert MKV to M4V for Free with Subler

Mar 23, 2012 - 25 Comments
MKV to M4V

If you have MKV movie files you’ve probably noticed they can’t be played on an iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, or a variety of other players. Not to worry though, because MKV video can be easily converted to the compatible M4V format using a free tool called Subler. If you want to get technical, this isn’t … Read More

Run Windows & Microsoft Office on the iPad for Free with OnLive Desktop

Mar 22, 2012 - 17 Comments
Windows on iPad with OnLive Desktop

Want to run Windows 7 right on an iPad? OnLive Desktop does exactly that, letting you access a cloud-based Windows 7 PC directly from iOS. Complete with the full Microsoft Office 2010 suite, you can use Word, Excel, and Powerpoint with full touch controls, and believe it or not it’s actually really fast and fluid. … Read More

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta Released as Free Download

Mar 22, 2012 - 18 Comments
Adobe Photoshop CS6

A free public beta of Photoshop CS6 has been released by Adobe. The beta features some pretty major changes to Photoshop, including a new graphics engine that dramatically speeds up performance of some tools and an all new darkened user interface. In terms of features, Photoshop CS6 includes a new content-aware patch, blur gallery, type … Read More

6 Tips to Maximize iPad Battery Life

Mar 21, 2012 - 11 Comments
iOS battery

The iPad battery is advertised to last 10 hours and that number really isn’t exaggerated, the battery life is phenomenal. No adjustments are needed to get 8-10 hours of use out of the iPad, but if you want to squeeze the absolute longest amount of battery use possible, you can adjust a few settings to … Read More

How to Send a Mass Text Message from iPhone

Mar 20, 2012 - 21 Comments
Send a Mass Text Message from iPhone

Do you have an event, announcement, or statement you want to broadcast to a group of people? You can easily send out a mass text message to multiple recipients from the iPhone Messages app. The group text will work regardless of whether the contacts you are sending to have iMessage or SMS text messaging, though … Read More

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