Apple seeded Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 to developers, registered developers can download the first beta of Mac OS X 10.7.3 build 11D16. The new version improves the operating system, but the main changes have taken place for icloud, Mail, iCal and Address Book.

People familiar with the first external build of the forthcoming update — labeled OS X Lion 10.7.3 build 11D16 — say the Mac maker has requested developers to focus their evaluation efforts on iCal calendars, Mail, Address Book and iCloud’s document storage.

Seed Notes :

OS X 10.7.3 build 11D16 Lion Seed Notes. OS X 10.7.3 Update Lion year update to OS X is Lion 10.7.

Known Issues

• None

Focus Areas

• icloud document storage
• Address book
• iCal
• Mail

Via AppleInsider

LockScreen 2, an application for Mac OS X that brings users to unlock the Mac using the slide to unlock method implemented by Apple in its iDevice.  LockScreen enables the unlock procedure by simply pulling the slider on the screen using the keyboard or trackpad. Once configured the application, we can set the key combinations that can be pressed in quick succession to move the slider from side to side, move that leads to a release as well but we can use the multitouch trackpad.

LockScreen 2 is a great way to bring the experience of iOS on your Mac and the below mentioned video explains the all. This application has been approved by Apple in Mac App Store and price is $1.99

Lock Screen is available through the Apple Mac App Store for $1.99.

Windows 7 the new operating system by Microsoft is considered a huge success, which is used to cover the mistakes of Vista. Vista users are rushing to upgrade their systems in order to get free from all the troubles and headaches.

You’re a Mac user and you’ve been hearing about all the the new features Windows 7 offers, and just can’t wait to get your hands on it. Unfortunately, you discovered that the current version of BootCamp does not support Windows 7. However, Apple has finally after failing their first deadline, released an update to BootCamp that brings the necessary drivers to support Windows 7.

The new update is of version 3.1, which supports both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. The file size of the 32-bit version is 380.73MB while that of the 64-bit is 274.58MB.

Furthermore, Apple has also managed to fix a couple of bugs through this update which addresses issues with the Apple track pad. Nonetheless, support for Apple’s Magic Mouse and Wireless keyboard is now available.

Apple has also made available a utility tool “Boot Camp Utility for Windows 7 Upgrade“, which allows users with Vista installed to be able to upgrade to Windows 7 safely by unmounting the read-only Macintosh volume from Vista.

Now Mac users can get the best of both worlds, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard.

I can’t imagine using any computer without having multitouch gestures, which is one of the many reasons I am in love with my MacBook Pro.
Have you ever thought of how amazing it would be, if you can use these gestures with any application you want? Well, you can with the help of this guide and ofcourse “MultiClutch”.

Before beginning, download “MultiClutch” from here.

Step 1:

i ) Open up “MultiClutch.prefPane”, it will prompt you to install.
ii ) Choose “Install For All Users” and press “Install”.

Step 2:

Type in your password to allow MultiClutch to be installed.

Step 3:

Now if MultiClutch did not open, you can find it in “System Preferences”, under the “Other” category.

Step 4:

If You are using “Snow Leopard” Then this warning might appear. Just press “OK”. Otherwise continue to Step 5.

Step 5:

Infront of you, a window similar to the one below must be available.

Step 6:

Lets Add our first application to the list. How about we start with “Mail”.
Press the “+” at the bottom left corner.

Step 7:

From the “Applications” Folder, Choose “Mail” and press “Open”

Step 8:

You Should now have a similar window to the one below.

Step 9:

Now select “Mail” from the left pane, then press the “+” from the bottom right corner, to add the desired gestures.

Step 10:

You can add as much gestures as you want. For “Mail” I will be adding 4 Gestures, So hit the “+” 3 more times. You should have something quite similar to the picture below.

Step 11:

Press on the 2 arrows to the right of the gesture’s name, a drop down menu should appear. Then choose the gesture you desire. I am going to assign them as following.

1 ) “Rotate Left”        —–    “Command + BackSpace” to delete a message
2 ) “Rotate Right”     —–    “Command + Shift + U”
3 ) “Zoom In”             —–    “Command + O”
4 ) “Zoom Out”          —–    “Command + W”

Step 12:

If you noticed under the “Key Command” I have assigned different shortcuts. For example:

“Command + W” is for closing the current window
“Command + BackSpace” to delete a message
“Command + Shift + U” is to mark messages as read or unread
“Command + O” to open the message

Each application has its own shortcuts, however the first one I mentioned is almost the same for all applications.

Now how can you figure out the shortcuts? For example in the Mail application, If you go to the top bar menu, select Message, then Mark You will find the option Mark As Unread or Read with the shortcut command next to it. This is the command you need to input in MultiClutch.

Step 13:

Finally if you have configured your Mail application as I did, the this is how the final screen should look like.

Step 14:

Now quit Mail application and reopen it, try to use the gestures that we just implemented.

Note: Some Applications May Not Work.

If you need any further assistance let me know.

After a hard day at work, just about to listen to your music iTunes surprises you with an error “The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file”. What are you going to do in this case? With four simple steps, you can get back to your music.

Step 1:

Open up “Finder” and browse to /Music/iTunes

Step 2:

Find the “iTunes Library” File and move it to your desktop.

Step 3:

Launch iTunes, Your library should be empty. Then Exit iTunes (Command+q). A new “iTunes Library” file should now be created in the iTunes folder in Music/iTunes/.

Step 4:

Restore the “iTunes Library” file from your desktop by dragging it back to the iTunes folder in Music/iTunes/ and Press Replace on the notification window.

You have now completed all the steps. You may launch iTunes, hopefully getting rid of the “Locked iTunes Library File” error.

The Mac Sale announces the availability of their latest Mac software bundle, which contains the following great apps. Mac Sale 2 offers almost $500.00 worth of quality software for just $49.99, The Mac Sale provides incredible value to the Mac OS X users. The sale includes Crossover Games to run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Another useful utility is Mac Journal, Macjournal used to blog on Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, MobileMe, or many more.

The following apps are included in the 2nd Mac Sale:

• Crossover Games ($25.99) – Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC.
• Picturesque ($29.95) – Picturesque is a simple app with a simple goal: to make images more beautiful.
• HoudahGeo ($30) – With HoudahGeo you may “pin” photos to locations where they were taken.
• MacJournal ($39.95) – MacJournal organizes all your important information and helps chronicle your life faster and easier than ever before.
• Morph Age Regular ($59.95) – Morph Age is an application for morphing/warping images and movies on Mac OS X, such as faces, and save the result to a QuickTime movie.
• Opacity Express ($39.99) – Opacity is an editor for screen graphics designed exclusively for Mac OS X.
• Searchlight ($39) – Search and access all your Mac’s files remotely via your iPhone or any web browser.
• Vinoteka ($29.90) – Vinoteka is a brand new wine cellar management software for Mac.
• Stone iMaginator ($99) – This is the ideal partner for any digital camera, allowing your creativity behind the lens to continue unhindered on your Mac
• Stor ($16.99) – Stor is the new and easy to use MySQL editor from The Escapers.

Get your bundle @ TheMacSale 2

iChat is a bundled instant messaging software application for Mac OS X Leopard. iChat supports audio, video and screen-sharing capabilities as well as text messaging. If you are so concerned about your conversation and you need to make it secure, MobileMe can solve your problem by encrypting your session and data you share with your buddy. In short by securing your iChat, all text, audio, video, or data transferred in the chat is encrypted. To use this safeguard, you and your chat buddy must both have MobileMe memberships and enable Secure Chat. When both you and your chat buddy have MobileMe Secure iChat enabled and you start a chat, a lock icon appears in the upper-right corner of the iChat window. Text, audio and video are encrypted on your computer, sent across the Internet encrypted, and are not decrypted until they reach your buddy’s computer. If you haven’t set these settings initially follow the process and encrypt your chat.

1. First of all verify that you have configured Mac OS X for MobileMe by selecting opening System in Preferences >> MobileMe. Your current account status and storage settings should be displayed if your account is set up correctly.
2. If MobileMe is configured, open iChat via the Dock or in the Applications folder.
3. From the iChat menu, choose Preferences.
4. Click Accounts.
5. Click the MobileMe account you want to secure. (If your MobileMe account does not appear in the iChat Accounts Preferences, you can add it by clicking the + icon in the lower left corner of the iChat Accounts preferences and following the onscreen instructions.)
6. Click Security.
7. Click Enable.

Follow the same process on your buddy Mac and if all goes well you’ll see, a lock icon appears in the upper-right corner of the iChat window.

Another Beta testing days starts for Leopard. Restless folks of OS X developement team released first beta test release of Mac OS X 10.5.8 build 9L16 to developers. In the first build Apple asks developers to focus on key areas including AirPort, ColorSync, AppKit, AddressBook, Safari and USB. Seed Notes of build 9L16 (published by WorldofApple) reveals a quick known issue dozens of area to improve and a comprehensive list of  fixed issue. For details take a look at the seed notes given below.

Known Issues :
For some Mac Pros (early 2009) with USB audio device attached, built-in audio is missing in System Preferences after reboot.

Issues fixed in previous seeds :
Resolved issue with changelogs and iDisk syncing
Issue with CalDAV and meeting mismatches fixed
Fixed memory leak issue with CoreData Framework Issue with iCal Synchronization and time syncing resolved
Resolved issue with Image RAW and CEmbeddedTIFFThumbnail
Fixed issue with SearchKit and Safari history searches
Issue with AFP Server and TimeMachine syncing fixed
Issue with HICocoaView and parent window positioning resolved
HICocoaView Shift-Tab focus issue in NSForm views fixed

In Mac OS X if you want to burn an AVI movie to DVD with a separate subtitle file (like .srt) then you need to properly encode the movie and then mux the subtitles over it. It takes a long time you can save yourself a lot of time by installing the excellent Perian QuickTime plug-in. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. If you open a .avi (or .mkv for that matter) in QuickTime, Quick Look, or any other program that will call the Perian codec through QuickTime — and you have a subtitle file present in the same folder as the .avi file — you’ll see that Perian will show the subtitles automatically. You can also use this in Toast, etc. and burn an AVI with subtitles in one shot.

Perian enables QuickTime-based playback tools access to more file formats and codecs. The code is available under the LGPL like.

Earlier we published How to Change or Reset user’s password in Mac OS X and How to Reset the Administrator Account Password in Mac OS X. But these method needs to you logged in to OS X or you must have a OS X Installation disc. But what to do if you don’t have an OS X CD or don’t evem know the Admin password. Here we have two simple tricks based on the loop holes of Mac OS X to hack your Mac user account by changing it’s password with simple command lines. In first method we used  single user mode exploit all you have to do is just power the Mac and enter in Single User mode by –S command in advanced options. So if you think your Mac is the most secured OS please take a look at the steps given below.

Hack 1 Single User Mode :

1. Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
2. Type fsck -fy
3. Type mount -uw /
4. Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
5. Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password,  replace “username” with the targeted user and “password” with the password you wants. 
6. Reboot

The following trick is not resetting the OS X password, that is called creating a new account and taking over someone else’s computer with a fresh start. Removing the AppleSetupDone file will just trick OS X into thinking its the first time its been powered up, and take you through registration process. To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal perform the following commands.

Hack 2 Fooling OS X with Registration Process :

1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
   • mount -uw /
   • rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
   • shutdown -h now
4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!

To Avoid these types of hack remember to block single user mode by setting a firmware password and don’t forget the password