Articles tagged with: Mac OS X
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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.
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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 …
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Apple Seeded Mac OS X 10.6.8 build 10K540 t registered developers last night. The new version comes with some bug fixes over previous version and improve the overall performance of the operating system.
Recall that the update weigh around 454MB, it is only intended for developers who need to test 4 specific areas of the operating system: AirPort, Graphics Drivers, Mac, App Store, Networking, VPN, and QuickTime.
Mac OS X lion is also scheduled around July so we can expect a software update for existing Mac OS X Snow leopard users.
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Apple just released the very first developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 build 10K521, short after two months of the public release of Mac OS X 10.6.7. Apparently, 10.6.8 is the last update before the arrival of Mac OS X 10.7 aka Mac OS X Lion.
The download is available as a combo (1.01 GB) and as the Delta Update (508.11 MB). The update is marked with “no known issues” and the release notes need to focus on:
AirPort
Graphics Driver
Mac App Store
Networking
QuickTime
VPN
We can expect a public release of OS X 10.6.8 …
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Imagine a Mac with a monitor capable of displaying images of 3200×2000 pixel resolution. According to the latest discoveries in the second version preview of OS X Lion, that was released recently, higher resolution icons and wallpapers were found. 3200 × 2000 resolution is much higher than any screen by Apple, till the date, recall that current gen iMac 27″ has a resolution of2560 × 1440 pixels). OSXDaily already suspect few days ago, that Lion would support the HiDPi (high pixel density) because of some lines of code found in …
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As expected, Apple has released the seventh major upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The update can be downloaded now (313MB) from the updates section on your Mac, or via direct download from Apple. This update is designed to solve general problems, improve performance of certain sectors of the operating system and, above all, aims to solve the problems encountered in the MacBook Pro early 2011.
Update for Mac OS X 10.6.7 MacBook Pro is recommended for all MacBook Pro models released in early 2011. It includes general operating system …
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AirPrint is a feature for compatible wireless printer on the Mac, but Apple withdrawn AirPrint support from Mac OS X 10.6.5 at the last moment, may be due to some patent problems. Thanks to Steven Troughton-Smith, who figured out how to activate AirPrint with latest Mac Update. Following are the DIY instructions to turn it back on, so you can enjoy wireless printing from all your compatible iDevices using iOS 4.2.
1). Download Mac OS X 10.6.5 (beta) build 10H542 from torrent or other file sharing sites. We need to extract …
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It’s an obvious hint for those who are using Mac from ages, but for someone who just migrated from Windows will Google a third party app like Nero or Power ISO to burn .ISO or Image files in Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard. Mac OS X has a inbuilt Disk Utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. Disk Utility is able to create, convert, compress and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or—for CD/DVD …
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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 …
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Earlier we published how to Reset the Administrator Account Password in Mac OS X. But if you know your Admin password and you need to change or reset the user level password in Mac OS X follow the simple steps given below. More generally we can say that If the original administrator password is known, that administrator account may be used to reset the passwords of other administrator accounts using the steps described below. These steps are for Mac OS X 10.3.X, 10.4.X, 10.5.X. You might need to do this, …

