Mac OS X includes a great built-in utility that helps you test existing password strength, and also generate new strong passwords. If you’re wondering if your password is secure this is a great safe way to test the quality of it, and it’s also a safe way to create new strong passwords that you know will be considered secure.
The new Notes app in OS X features a default font that is kind of hard to read and looks a bit goofy, nearly like Comic Sans. If you want a more professional looking font that’s easier on the eyes, you can easily switch the default font from “Noteworthy” to the always classic Helvetica, or another font of your choice.
Apple is airing a new iPad commercial titled “All On iPad”. As with previous iPad commercials, the advertisement focuses on what can be done with an iPad, and demonstrates a variety of actions and apps in use. The video is embedded below, and the text of the commercial is as follows:
Read it
Tweet it
Be surprised
Be productive
Make a sale
Make some lunch
Make it movie night
Play a game
Or an old favorite
Do it all more beautifully with the retina display, on iPad.
This is the 5th recent Apple ad to air, following the Martin Scorsese in a taxi iPhone 4S commercial, and the trio of hotly contested Apple Genius ads for Mac.
Need to edit or modify the hosts file on a Mac? This guide will show you exactly how to edit the hosts file in Mac OS. You’ll find hosts in Mac OS X is stored at /private/etc/hosts but it can also be accessed at the more traditional location of /etc/hosts. That said, if you’re looking to edit hosts, you’ll want to target the file located in /private/etc/ though.
We’ll walk through how to manually edit the hosts file in macOS Big Sur, MacOS Mojave, MacOS Catalina, MacOS High Sierra, MacOS Sierra, OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion, and OS X Mavericks, this will be done with the command line using the simple text editor called nano. Don’t let the command line or Terminal sound intimidating though because it’s not, we’ll make the entire process of editing a Mac hosts file super easy.
The next iPhone has been said to have a larger 4″ display for some time now, but new evidence from 9to5mac possibly confirms longstanding speculation on how that extra 0.5″ of display space may be used with the device. Rather than increasing the size of icons or adding a widget area, it appears as though the new iPhone display could accomodate a 5th layer of home screen icons.
This discovery was made through tweaking the iOS Simulator to accomodate the rumored 640×1136 display resolution of the next iPhone, which in the new iOS 6 beta 4 and Xcode release, displays the 5th row of icons, rather than the normal 4 rows of icons in prior iOS versions.
To add further support to the claim, adjusting the resolution with previous versions of the iOS Simulator does not cause the 5th row of homescreen icons to appear, suggesting a uniqueness to the 640×1136 resolution in the latest version of Xcode and iOS 6 beta.
Part leaks claiming to be of the new iPhone demonstrate a screen that is taller rather than wider.
The new iPhone is expected to be unveiled on September 12, and ship several weeks later in the Fall alongside iOS 6.
Above iPhone rendered image is from Nowherlelse.fr
Ever wondered what it would look like if you ordered 100 MacBook Pro’s? Now you know.
These neatly arranged boxes aren’t from the living room of some eccentric Howard Hughes-esque Mac fan though, they’re Kent College’s fresh batch of MacBooks for the incoming student cohort this Fall. Each new student there gets a 13″ MacBook Pro with 2.5GHz Core i5, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive as part of their 1-to-1 MacBook program, which, understandably, has been a big hit with pupils and faculty alike.
Kent College is based in Canterbury, UK has been profiled by Apple Education before for their extensive use of Macs in education.
Thanks to Oliver B. for sending this in!
Whether you’re troubleshooting app crashes, beta testing an app, or you just want to help an iOS developer out after you’ve discovered a particular bug, you can retrieve crash reports from any app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device once it has been synced to a computer.
Finding crash report data for iOS can be done outside of Xcode, assuming you backup the device to a computer anyway. The article will show you how to find the iOS crash logs in Mac OS X and a Windows PC.
Notification Center is a great addition to Mac OS X but not everyone likes it, sometimes just muting the alert sounds and turning banners and alert pop-ups off per-app is just not enough, and you may want to disable the entire notification system completely. Furthermore, if you don’t use Notifications on the Mac then you probably don’t want the menu bar icon sitting in the corner of your screen either. We’ll show you how to disable Notification Center, all alerts, and also remove the icon from the corner of the menu bar in Mac OS X.
This will also completely disable all pop-up alerts and Notification banners in Mac OS X. If you still want to receive alerts and banners, do not completely disable the notification center.
iOS 6 beta 4 has been released for developers, the update comes as build 10A5376e and is available for all iOS 6 compatible hardware.
Registered developers can download the beta update through Over The Air, or login to the Apple Dev Center and get the IPSW directly from there. Alongside the fourth beta of iOS 6 is a new developer version of Xcode and a new dev release of Apple TV software.
iOS 6 is expected to be finalized by the September 12 new iPhone release, and available for the public to download several weeks later in the Fall.
Full release notes of the latest beta can be read on 9to5mac, which includes a list of changes, bug fixes, and minor new feature additions.
Any Mac fan watching the Mars Curiosity landing last night probably noticed the abundance of glowing Apple logos on the desks of NASA engineers and scientists. Exactly how all the Macs participated in managing Curiosity from millions of miles away is unknown, but the overwhelming presence of MacBook Pro’s should tell you they played an important enough role to make any Apple fan proud.
Want to open Notification Center with a keystroke on the Mac? It can be done by setting up a custom keyboard shortcut.
Typically Notification Center of Mac OS X can be summoned either with a click of the menu bar item in the upper right corner, or a two-fingered swipe left on a trackpad, but you can also set a custom keyboard shortcut to see your notifications or alerts on the Mac.
This article will show you how to setup a custom keyboard shortcut for accessing Notification Center in Mac OS:
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Safari 6 changed the longstanding behavior of the Delete key, which used to navigate back a page when pressed but now does nothing. Instead, navigating web pages forward and backward is done through Command [ and Command ].
If you’d like to return the back-a-page navigation behavior to the Delete key within Safari, you can do so with a defaults write command.
AirDrop is probably the quickest and easiest way to transfer files between Macs these days, thanks to it’s instant ad-hoc network it lets Macs send files back and forth – without even being connected to the same network. As is, using AirDrop is easy through the Finder, but now with Mac OS X you can send files through AirDrop right out of a Quick Look window.
This offers a super fast way to AirDrop a file you are already glancing at through the Quick Look feature, here’s how it works:
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One of the most frustrating things to type on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch keyboards is an email address. Typing out a name, then tapping the “.?123” button to access special characters for the @ sign and numbers, then tapping it again to type more letters, than tapping it yet again to type a period, and again to finish off an email address, by the time you’re done you’ve shifted between the touch keyboards half a billion times. Instead of repeating that process over and over again, do yourself a favor and create a keyboard shortcut for your email address in iOS.
Having tons of screen real estate tends to aid everyones productivity, but some tasks simply demand it. Case in point; the equities trading desk of Thomas W. with dual Cinema Displays. More screen space means more charts and more information, leading to smarter trades. Here’s the Apple hardware that’s making it all happen:
Not shown is an iPad and iPhone 4S, but you can see a large Samsung HDTV to the upper left tuned into CNBC or something similar. Also, if you look carefully you’ll find the screen on the left is running Parallels with Windows 7. Is this a great Mac setup or what?
We’ve had some really great Mac setups lately from a wide variety of sources with various use cases, keep ’em coming! If you want yours featured, send in a good picture or two, a list of hardware, and a brief description of what you use the Apple gear for to osxdailycom@gmail.com
There are now a few ways to delete pictures from the iPhone; you can bulk remove photos by date, and you can delete all iPhone photos by connecting the device to a computer, but what if you need to delete a group of pictures together of your choosing, by simply forming a selection of pictures yourself from the iPhone? You can do that too and that’s what this trick covers, though removing multiple images from the iPhone with this select trick requires a lot of tapping, so while you could delete everything with it, it’s generally best for smaller groups of pictures that you don’t mind manually selecting for removal by tap.
Microsoft recently unveiled Outlook.com as a free email service, it’s primarily web based as some sort of Hotmail rebranding, but because of the new domain you can still get fairly decent email addresses if you want one.
As webmail you can obviously use any browser to check mail, but you can also use it with the Mac OS X Mail app or any other standard POP3 email client.
Setting it up is pretty easy but there can be a hiccup or two with the automated process from Mail app, so we’ll walk through the manual settings to make sure everything works.
Using an excellent third party tool called terminal-notifier, you can post alerts and messages to Notification Center directly from the command line. This has a myriad of potentially valid uses, but one fantastic use-case is along the same veins of verbally announcing when a command has completed or sending a badge alert, but instead posting the notification to OS X Mountain Lion’s Notification Center.
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