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Senin, 30 September 2013

configd: Fixing High CPU Usage Problems with the configd Process in Mac OS X osxdailynews.blogspot.com

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osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® configd: Fixing High CPU Usage Problems with the configd Process in Mac OS X

configd is a system configuration daemon that runs behind Mac OS X, most users will never notice or see the core OS X process running in the background of their Macs. With that said, configd can sometimes act up and cause unusual CPU spikes and fan activity making your Mac sound like a wind tunnel. Odd configd behavior is easily diagnosed by launching Activity Monitor, sorting by the “% CPU” option, and seeing the ‘configd’ root user process sitting at the top taking up somewhere between 20-95% CPU. If that behavior lasts for a minute or so it’s usually not a big deal, temporary spikes can be normal so just let it run and ignore it, but there are times where configd can go inexplicably errant and it’ll sit around 50% CPU utilization or more for hours for no obvious reason – that is what we’re looking to resolve here.


Fix configd gone wild in Mac OS X


Resolve configd High CPU Usage with Force Relaunch via Terminal


We’re going to forcibly relaunch configd by giving it a swift kick in the pants using the all-powerful ‘killall’ command. Because configd is a system process, it will instantly relaunch once it has been killed, and in every instance where configd is going crazy with processor utilization this trick solves the problem.


Launch Terminal (sitting within /Applications/Utilities/ as usual) and type the following command:


sudo killall configd


You’ll need to enter an administrator password to execute the command as super user, thus the sudo prefix. Running the command without sudo is ineffective because the process is owned by root (super user).


If you kept Activity Monitor open and sorted by CPU, you’ll find ‘configd’ disappears and when it relaunches it’s no longer sitting at the top of the list and no longer eating up inordinate amounts of CPU. Searching for the process should now find it consuming somewhere between 0% and 1% of CPU.


Resolve configd problems in Mac OS X


If you still have problems with configd after using the killall command, jump to the bottom of this article to learn more about troubleshooting configd issues.


Dealing with configd without Terminal


If you aren’t comfortable with the command line, there are two other options:



  1. Quit all running Mac applications, which you can do manually or by using this self-made app to quit everything in OS X

  2. Reboot the Mac


Rebooting the Mac has the same effect as killing the configd process directly, though it’s obviously a bit more intrusive to your workflow. Quitting every application can help if the configd error is caused by an apps errant behavior, more on that in a moment.


Diagnosing specific configd problems and learning about configd


Apple officially describes configd as follows:


The configd daemon is responsible for many configuration aspects of the local system. configd maintains data reflecting the desired and current state of the system, provides notifications to applications when this data changes, and hosts a number of configuration agents in the form of loadable bundles.


That excerpt is taken from the manual page on configd, which can be accessed by typing the following into terminal:


man configd


You can read that directly on your Mac through the command line, or through the web using the Developer Library link here.


If you want to attempt to diagnose why configd went crazy in the first place, you can look around in the following two locations for configd bundles and plist files, which may provide some hints as to what is going wrong and why:


/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/


Another option is to choose to re-run configd in verbose mode with the following command:


sudo /usr/libexec/configd -v


This will export verbose information to the OS X System Console, which can be read either from the Console app or through the command line as well. Comparing that information to what is found in the aforementioned system directories can be very helpful in diagnosing a precise cause.


General experience has shown that some apps and processes cause configd issues more often than others, some of which may include Java and Java based services like CrashPlan, certain printers where there are unresolved printing errors, and improper network configurations where a network connection is repeatedly attempting and failing. This is why sometimes quitting all apps is effective at resolving the issue, because it may end the failing repetition which is causing configd to go haywire, and in some cases where killing configd doesn’t solve the problem then removing the culprits plist file can resolve the issue once and for all. Your individual experiences and results may vary.


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Dismiss Notifications Instantly in iOS 7 with a Swipe osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® Dismiss Notifications Instantly in iOS 7 with a Swipe

Notifications can be both extremely useful and persistently obnoxious, depending on what they are for and when they come across your screen. For the times when they’re on the obnoxious end of the spectrum, in your way of doing something on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be happy to discover that now post iOS 7 you have a super-simple method of quickly dismissing notifications that you don’t want on the screen any longer.


All you need to do is swipe up on the notification to make it instantly go away.


Dismiss Notifications instantly with a swipe up


Using the upward swiping gesture makes the notification banner disappear immediately, there is no longer a lengthy forced delay before it rolls off the top of the screen. You’ve probably already noticed this, but if you do decide to leave it alone, the normal delay will make the notification go away eventually as usual.


Regardless of whether you dismiss a notification with the gesture or let it go away on it’s own, you’ll find them all accessible as usual in Notification Center, which can be accessed anytime and from anywhere with a swipe down gesture from the very top of the screen.


This is one of several new gestures that have been introduced to iOS with the release of 7, perhaps the most significant being a similar upward swipe to quit apps from the multitasking screen.


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How to Quit Apps in iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® How to Quit Apps in iOS 7

Quit running apps in iOS 7 Quitting out of running apps post iOS 7 is a bit different than it was before, but once you get the hang of using the new multitasking screen, you’ll find the change is for the better. Not only can you use this to close out of a single app, but with a simple multitouch gesture you can also quit out of multiple apps at the same time.


Regular readers will recall that included this trick as one of the four essential tips for learning some of the major changes made in iOS 7, but we still get so many questions about it that we think it’s worthy of it’s own post. Let’s get right to it:


Quit a Single App in iOS 7



  • Double-tap the Home button on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to summon the multitasking screen

  • Swipe up on an apps preview panel to push it off of the screen to quit an app

  • Repeat as necessary for closing other apps


Quit apps in iOS 7 with a swipe up gesture


Quitting Multiple Apps in iOS 7



  • Double-tap the Home button to bring up the app switcher as usual

  • Place your fingers onto multiple app preview panels and swipe up on them together, pushing them off screen to quit

  • Repeat to quit all running apps on an iOS 7 device


Quit multiple apps in iOS 7 with multitouch


The multitouch gesture works with all iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices that are running iOS 7. You can quit up to three apps at a time this way, or just two at a time if you find that easier, makign this the fastest way to quickly cycle through and close out of all running apps on any iOS device.


The video below demonstrates quitting both single apps using the normal swipe up, and closing out of multiple apps at a time using the multitouch trick.


This trick will quit out of any running app, but it’s worth mentioning that it is not the same as using the traditional “force quit” trick, which has been baked into iOS since the beginning and which remains the same post iOS 7. For most use cases, using the standard method mentioned above is more than enough to exit out of apps if it’s needed, and the true force quit method should only be used when an app is frozen on screen thereby rendering the entire device unusable.


Older versions of iOS did include multitouch support for closing multiple apps as well, but the touch targets were much smaller making it a lot harder to accomplish.


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List All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store via Command Line osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® List All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store via Command Line

List Mac App Store apps from the Terminal A handy terminal command will show a list of all apps installed on a Mac that have come exclusively from the Mac App Store. This can be helpful for a variety of reasons, like when building a list of apps you may want to replace from outside the official App Store channels if you’re migrating machines, or if you’re working on a remote Mac through SSH and are trying to figure out what apps are missing. You could piece together such a list manually as well by reviewing the Purchase History within the App Store, but that listing also displays items that are not actively installed on a Mac, making it much less useful.


These tricks use the command line and Terminal, making them a bit more advanced. Nonetheless, since you’re just copy and pasting a command string into the terminal, even novice users can follow along if they’re interested in learning a bit more about the Terminal. For the unfamiliar, Terminal.app is always found in /Applications/Utilities/


Show All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store


Copy and paste the following command into the Terminal:

find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |\sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'


Sample output may look something like this (shortened for the purpose of this article):

GarageBand.app

iMovie.app

Install OS X Mountain Lion.app

iPhoto.app

Pixelmator.app

Pocket.app

Skitch.app

Textual.app

TextWrangler.app

The Unarchiver.app

TweetDeck.app

Twitter.app

WriteRoom.app

Xcode.app


You may find it more useful to send the results into a text file, which is easily done by adding “> appstorelist.txt” to the end of the command like so:


find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |\sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##' > macapps.txt


This command will include apps that have been downloaded but since hidden as well.


Such an app list could then be compared easily to a list on another machine to see which apps may need to be installed.


Show All Applications in OS X


To see all apps installed in the OS X applications folder you can simply list the directory with the ls command. This is probably pretty obvious to most who would be using the command line, but we’ll cover it anyway for those who are new or less familiar with the Terminal:


ls /Applications/


This shows everything sitting in the /Applications directory, which includes every single user installed app as well as what came from the Mac App Store.


If you wanted to save such a list to a text file as well, for comparison purposes or otherwise, you could either redirect it to a txt document from the terminal:


ls /Applications/ > allmacapps.txt


Alternatively, without using the command line you could use this trick to save the list to a file directly from the Finder too.


Heads up to CommandLineFu for the sed-based trick.


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Sabtu, 28 September 2013

How to Quit Apps in iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

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osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® How to Quit Apps in iOS 7

Quit running apps in iOS 7 Quitting out of running apps post iOS 7 is a bit different than it was before, but once you get the hang of using the new multitasking screen, you’ll find the change is for the better. Not only can you use this to close out of a single app, but with a simple multitouch gesture you can also quit out of multiple apps at the same time.


Regular readers will recall that included this trick as one of the four essential tips for learning some of the major changes made in iOS 7, but we still get so many questions about it that we think it’s worthy of it’s own post. Let’s get right to it:


Quit a Single App in iOS 7



  • Double-tap the Home button on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to summon the multitasking screen

  • Swipe up on an apps preview panel to push it off of the screen to quit an app

  • Repeat as necessary for closing other apps


Quit apps in iOS 7 with a swipe up gesture


Quitting Multiple Apps in iOS 7



  • Double-tap the Home button to bring up the app switcher as usual

  • Place your fingers onto multiple app preview panels and swipe up on them together, pushing them off screen to quit

  • Repeat to quit all running apps on an iOS 7 device


Quit multiple apps in iOS 7 with multitouch


The multitouch gesture works with all iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices that are running iOS 7. You can quit up to three apps at a time this way, or just two at a time if you find that easier, makign this the fastest way to quickly cycle through and close out of all running apps on any iOS device.


The video below demonstrates quitting both single apps using the normal swipe up, and closing out of multiple apps at a time using the multitouch trick.


This trick will quit out of any running app, but it’s worth mentioning that it is not the same as using the traditional “force quit” trick, which has been baked into iOS since the beginning and which remains the same post iOS 7. For most use cases, using the standard method mentioned above is more than enough to exit out of apps if it’s needed, and the true force quit method should only be used when an app is frozen on screen thereby rendering the entire device unusable.


Older versions of iOS did include multitouch support for closing multiple apps as well, but the touch targets were much smaller making it a lot harder to accomplish.


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List All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store via Command Line osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® List All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store via Command Line

List Mac App Store apps from the Terminal A handy terminal command will show a list of all apps installed on a Mac that have come exclusively from the Mac App Store. This can be helpful for a variety of reasons, like when building a list of apps you may want to replace from outside the official App Store channels if you’re migrating machines, or if you’re working on a remote Mac through SSH and are trying to figure out what apps are missing. You could piece together such a list manually as well by reviewing the Purchase History within the App Store, but that listing also displays items that are not actively installed on a Mac, making it much less useful.


These tricks use the command line and Terminal, making them a bit more advanced. Nonetheless, since you’re just copy and pasting a command string into the terminal, even novice users can follow along if they’re interested in learning a bit more about the Terminal. For the unfamiliar, Terminal.app is always found in /Applications/Utilities/


Show All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store


Copy and paste the following command into the Terminal:

find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |\sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'


Sample output may look something like this (shortened for the purpose of this article):

GarageBand.app

iMovie.app

Install OS X Mountain Lion.app

iPhoto.app

Pixelmator.app

Pocket.app

Skitch.app

Textual.app

TextWrangler.app

The Unarchiver.app

TweetDeck.app

Twitter.app

WriteRoom.app

Xcode.app


You may find it more useful to send the results into a text file, which is easily done by adding “> appstorelist.txt” to the end of the command like so:


find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |\sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##' > macapps.txt


This command will include apps that have been downloaded but since hidden as well.


Such an app list could then be compared easily to a list on another machine to see which apps may need to be installed.


Show All Applications in OS X


To see all apps installed in the OS X applications folder you can simply list the directory with the ls command. This is probably pretty obvious to most who would be using the command line, but we’ll cover it anyway for those who are new or less familiar with the Terminal:


ls /Applications/


This shows everything sitting in the /Applications directory, which includes every single user installed app as well as what came from the Mac App Store.


If you wanted to save such a list to a text file as well, for comparison purposes or otherwise, you could either redirect it to a txt document from the terminal:


ls /Applications/ > allmacapps.txt


Alternatively, without using the command line you could use this trick to save the list to a file directly from the Finder too.


Heads up to CommandLineFu for the sed-based trick.


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How to Delete Messages in iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® How to Delete Messages in iOS 7

the Messages icon The Messages app received a significant makeover post iOS 7, and like many other elements of iOS some of it’s functionality changed as well. Many users have noticed that the behavior to delete messages has changed, leading some to believe the deletion feature was removed from Messages entirely (it wasn’t). Let’s review how to remove segments of message threads in iOS 7, and also how to delete an entire message conversation from the app completely.


Removing a message works the same for iMessages, multimedia messages, and for standard SMS text messages. To prevent any mistakes, you may want to adjust the setting to show full names within Messages before modifying or removing them.


Delete Individual Segments of a Messages



  • Open the messages conversation, then tap and hold on any text or image within the message dialog

  • Choose “More” from the pop-up menu, then tap on the messages to delete so that a checkbox appears next to them

  • Tap the Trash icon in the corner, then confirm the message deletion by choosing “Delete Message”


Delete parts of messages in iOS 7


The primary difference between how this works now post iOS 7 versus Messages prior to iOS 7 is the removal of the “Edit” button, which has now be transformed into part of either the tap-and-hold trick mentioned above, or as a gesture which we’ll cover next.


If you’d prefer to delete an entire message thread, you can do that too, which is actually much easier than removing parts of a conversation.


Delete an Entire Messages Conversation



  • Open Messages app and from the primary message screen, swipe left on the entire conversation to delete

  • Tap the red “Delete” button to instsantly remove the entire message conversation


Delete an entire message from iOS 7


Unlike removing segments of conversations, deleting the entire conversation has no confirmation, so be sure you want to delete the entire thread before continuing.


The removal of buttons is widespread throughout iOS after the 7.0 release, and like in many places there has been a move to gestures instead, whether it’s quitting out of apps, unlocking the screen, deleting emails and messages, or searching spotlight.


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Jumat, 27 September 2013

How to Delete Messages in iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

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osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® How to Delete Messages in iOS 7

the Messages icon The Messages app received a significant makeover post iOS 7, and like many other elements of iOS some of it’s functionality changed as well. Many users have noticed that the behavior to delete messages has changed, leading some to believe the deletion feature was removed from Messages entirely (it wasn’t). Let’s review how to remove segments of message threads in iOS 7, and also how to delete an entire message conversation from the app completely.


Removing a message works the same for iMessages, multimedia messages, and for standard SMS text messages.


Delete Individual Segments of a Messages



  • Open the messages conversation, then tap and hold on any text or image within the message dialog

  • Choose “More” from the pop-up menu, then tap on the messages to delete so that a checkbox appears next to them

  • Tap the Trash icon in the corner, then confirm the message deletion by choosing “Delete Message”


Delete parts of messages in iOS 7


The primary difference between how this works now post iOS 7 versus Messages prior to iOS 7 is the removal of the “Edit” button, which has now be transformed into part of either the tap-and-hold trick mentioned above, or as a gesture which we’ll cover next.


If you’d prefer to delete an entire message thread, you can do that too, which is actually much easier than removing parts of a conversation.


Delete an Entire Messages Conversation



  • Open Messages app and from the primary message screen, swipe left on the entire conversation to delete

  • Tap the red “Delete” button to instsantly remove the entire message conversation


Delete an entire message from iOS 7


Unlike removing segments of conversations, deleting the entire conversation has no confirmation, so be sure you want to delete the entire thread before continuing.


The removal of buttons is widespread throughout iOS after the 7.0 release, and like in many places there has been a move to gestures instead, whether it’s quitting apps, unlocking the screen, deleting emails and messages, or searching spotlight.


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Kamis, 26 September 2013

iOS 7.0.2 Update Available with Bug Fixes [Direct Download Links] osxdailynews.blogspot.com

Written By Unknown; About: iOS 7.0.2 Update Available with Bug Fixes [Direct Download Links] osxdailynews.blogspot.com on Kamis, 26 September 2013

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® iOS 7.0.2 Update Available with Bug Fixes [Direct Download Links]

Apple has released iOS 7.0.2 for compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch keyboards, a minor update that apps that is primarily a security release. The update resolves a series of bugs that could have potentially allowed someone to bypass the lock screen passcode on iOS 7 devices, and it also reincludes Greek keyboard support for passcode entry.


iOS 7.0.2 Update OTA


The update is recommended for all iOS 7 users to install because of the security bug fix. The brief release notes contained within the OTA update are as follows:



• Fixes bugs that could allow someone to bypass the Lock Screen passcode

• Reintroduces a Greek keyboard option for passcode entry



The build number for iOS 7.0.2 is 11A501.


Download iOS 7.0.2 with OTA


iOS 7.0.2 is a very small download and is quickly obtained through OTA. You will need to be on a wi-fi network to be able to use Over The Air updates:



  • Open “Settings” and go to “Software Update”, choose “Download and Install”


Once installed, the device will reboot and be running the latest version.


Users can also install the update through iTunes, either letting iTunes update a compatible device automatically upon connection, or by using the firmware files listed below. Note that using IPSW is typically considered more advanced and not the best solution for most users.


iOS 7.0.2 IPSW Direct Download Links


These IPSW files are hosted on Apple’s servers and are intended for manual installation through iTunes.


You may want to right-click and choose “Save As” when attempting to download the direct firmware files, note they should always save with a “.ipsw” file extension.


It is unlikely such a minor release addresses any of the perceived performance or battery life issues that some iOS 7 users have experienced, but we’ll let you know if we notice any meaningful improvements in either department.


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iOS 7.0.2 Update Available with Bug Fixes [Direct Download Links] osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® iOS 7.0.2 Update Available with Bug Fixes [Direct Download Links]

Apple has released iOS 7.0.2 for compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch keyboards, a minor update that apps that is primarily a security release. The update resolves a series of bugs that could have potentially allowed someone to bypass the lock screen passcode on iOS 7 devices, and it also reincludes Greek keyboard support for passcode entry.


iOS 7.0.2 Update OTA


The update is recommended for all iOS 7 users to install because of the security bug fix. The brief release notes contained within the OTA update are as follows:



• Fixes bugs that could allow someone to bypass the Lock Screen passcode

• Reintroduces a Greek keyboard option for passcode entry



The build number for iOS 7.0.2 is 11A501.


Download iOS 7.0.2 with OTA


iOS 7.0.2 is a very small download and is quickly obtained through OTA. You will need to be on a wi-fi network to be able to use Over The Air updates:



  • Open “Settings” and go to “Software Update”, choose “Download and Install”


Once installed, the device will reboot and be running the latest version.


Users can also install the update through iTunes, either letting iTunes update a compatible device automatically upon connection, or by using the firmware files listed below. Note that using IPSW is typically considered more advanced and not the best solution for most users.


iOS 7.0.2 IPSW Direct Download Links


These IPSW files are hosted on Apple’s servers and are intended for manual installation through iTunes.


You may want to right-click and choose “Save As” when attempting to download the direct firmware files, note they should always save with a “.ipsw” file extension.


It is unlikely such a minor release addresses any of the perceived performance or battery life issues that some iOS 7 users have experienced, but we’ll let you know if we notice any meaningful improvements in either department.


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Shoot Photos in Burst Mode with the iPhone Camera osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® Shoot Photos in Burst Mode with the iPhone Camera

iPhone burst mode camera


Continuous burst mode is a camera feature that rapidly takes a bunch of photos in sequence. It’s a new camera feature that has been toted with the iPhone 5S, but lesser known is that all iPhone models get a variation of this burst mode on their cameras too thanks to the iOS 7 software update. Burst mode is excellent for snapping action shots of sports, animals, people, or activities, and it works impressively well on the iPhone 5 and 4S, though it’s a bit slower on the iPhone 4. There is no obvious indicator that the burst photo feature even exists in iOS 7′s Camera app, but it’s extremely easy to use and there is basically nothing to it.


Rapidly Shoot Multiple Photos with Burst Mode



  • Open the Camera as usual, then tap and hold on the shutter button to start shooting bursts

  • Continue holding the shutter button for as long as you want to rapidly snap pictures, let go when finished


Burst mode photos are stored alongside one another in the Camera Roll, accessible through the Photos app. The grouping makes it easy to send them on to others or perform other tasks with the burst pictures.


Some General Burst Mode Camera Tips


Burst mode camera on the iPhone



  • Try to focus before the first shot is taken, using focus lock and exposure lock will maintain those settings throughout the burst captures

  • Burst mode is best used in bright lighting conditions, or with silhouetted objects against bright backgrounds, like birds flying in the sky

  • Composition can be difficult when objects are moving, enabling the grid lines for Camera app can be helpful

  • Some blurry shots will be captured, avoid dim lighting when possible for best results


There is probably some limit to how many photos you can take, but whatever that limit is appears to be very high, and I racked up 25+ photos in continuous fashion very quickly without any slow down in saving the pictures.


Burst mode works very well on the iPhone 5 and shoots with tremendous speed, it works pretty well on the iPhone 4S, and it even works on the iPhone 4, though performance is much slower on the 4 and there is about a half-second delay between photo snaps. For now, the iPhone 5S works best of course, because it has a faster A7 processor and thus burst mode shoots even faster, and the 5S also offers real-time analysis suggestions for what images to save or toss, which does a good job of reducing blurred images. Other devices just save all the photos, and you have to pick out the ones you want yourself



Burst photos grouped together in Camera Roll


(Excuse the boring sample pictures, there was a bug crawling around on the ground, I swear!)


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Adjust iTunes Radio Stations to Play Hits, a Variety, or Discovery osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® Adjust iTunes Radio Stations to Play Hits, a Variety, or Discovery

iTunes Radio The iTunes Radio music service offers a great way to listen to your favorite songs and also find new music, and with some minor adjustments you can tune any station to prefer either the hits, wander more into discovery, or a mixture of the both. These three tuning settings are named appropriately, and can be described loosely as the following:



  • Hits – the most popular songs from the genre, think greatest hits collections, top 40, etc

  • Variety – a mixture of Hits and Discovery, a nice in-between choice if you’re looking to find new music but also hear the familiar classics

  • Discovery – pure discovery, you’ll get a few hits but this will often wander pretty far into the depths of a genre, behaving a bit like Pandora. Don’t be surprised if your station goes way off the deep end after a few hours with this setting, which may be good or bad depending on your musical preferences


These settings adjustments can be made any time for any radio station, and though it’s easy to do it’s been largely overlooked by nearly everyone we’ve come across who uses iTunes Radio.


Tuning iTunes Radio on the Desktop in OS X


We’re focusing on the Mac version for obvious reasons, but of course this would work in Windows too so long as you have a recent version with iTunes Radio support:



  • From iTunes, go to the “Radio” tab and select any station to reveal more details of that station

  • Adjust the “Tune this station” slider to: Hits, Variety, or Discovery

  • Further adjust the station by adding an artist or song under the “Play more like this” section


iTunes Radio station tuning


While you’re adjusting the tuning settings, you can also flip a switch to prefer album versions of songs by toggling the Explicit setting, which as the name implies also allows song with adult language into the music stream. That can be a good setting for musicphiles who want the original versions of songs, but probably not what you want to set for a kids station.


Mobile iTunes Radio in iOS


Adjusting station preferences is the same on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Recall that iTunes Radio requires iOS 7 to be installed in order to use:



  • From the Music app, go to “Radio” as usual

  • Select any radio station to see the currently playing song, then tap the (i) button to get more info about that station

  • Adjust “Tune This Station” to Hits, Variety, or Discovery


Adjust iTunes Radio song discovery


The changes are immediately active for the next song in the playlist, and you can always go back and adjust them again if you don’t like what starts to play.


For iTunes Radio on both iOS and OS X, you can also further adjust a station on a song-by-song basis, by choosing to either “Play More Like This” (the star) if you like a song or song type, or “Never Play This Song” (the x) if you never want to hear that song or something like it again.


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Rabu, 25 September 2013

Shoot Photos in Burst Mode with the iPhone Camera osxdailynews.blogspot.com

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osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® Shoot Photos in Burst Mode with the iPhone Camera

iPhone burst mode camera


Continuous burst mode is a camera feature that rapidly takes a bunch of photos in sequence. It’s a new camera feature that has been toted with the iPhone 5S, but lesser known is that all iPhone models get a variation of this burst mode on their cameras too thanks to the iOS 7 software update. Burst mode is excellent for snapping action shots of sports, animals, people, or activities, and it works impressively well on the iPhone 5 and 4S, though it’s a bit slower on the iPhone 4. There is no obvious indicator that the burst photo feature even exists in iOS 7′s Camera app, but it’s extremely easy to use and there is basically nothing to it.


Rapidly Shoot Multiple Photos with Burst Mode



  • Open the Camera as usual, then tap and hold on the shutter button to start shooting bursts

  • Continue holding the shutter button for as long as you want to rapidly snap pictures, let go when finished


Burst mode photos are stored alongside one another in the Camera Roll, accessible through the Photos app. The grouping makes it easy to send them on to others or perform other tasks with the burst pictures.


Some General Burst Mode Camera Tips


Burst mode camera on the iPhone



  • Try to focus before the first shot is taken, using focus lock and exposure lock will maintain those settings throughout the burst captures

  • Burst mode is best used in bright lighting conditions, or with silhouetted objects against bright backgrounds, like birds flying in the sky

  • Composition can be difficult when objects are moving, enabling the grid lines for Camera app can be helpful

  • Some blurry shots will be captured, avoid dim lighting when possible for best results


There is probably some limit to how many photos you can take, but whatever that limit is appears to be very high, and I racked up 25+ photos in continuous fashion very quickly without any slow down in saving the pictures.


Burst mode works very well on the iPhone 5 and shoots with tremendous speed, it works pretty well on the iPhone 4S, and it even works on the iPhone 4, though performance is much slower on the 4 and there is about a half-second delay between photo snaps. For now, the iPhone 5S works best of course, because it has a faster A7 processor and thus burst mode shoots even faster, and the 5S also offers real-time analysis suggestions for what images to save or toss, which does a good job of reducing blurred images. Other devices just save all the photos, and you have to pick out the ones you want yourself



Burst photos grouped together in Camera Roll


(Excuse the boring sample pictures, there was a bug crawling around on the ground, I swear!)


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Adjust iTunes Radio Stations to Play Hits, a Variety, or Discovery osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® Adjust iTunes Radio Stations to Play Hits, a Variety, or Discovery

iTunes Radio The iTunes Radio music service offers a great way to listen to your favorite songs and also find new music, and with some minor adjustments you can tune any station to prefer either the hits, wander more into discovery, or a mixture of the both. These three tuning settings are named appropriately, and can be described loosely as the following:



  • Hits – the most popular songs from the genre, think greatest hits collections, top 40, etc

  • Variety – a mixture of Hits and Discovery, a nice in-between choice if you’re looking to find new music but also hear the familiar classics

  • Discovery – pure discovery, you’ll get a few hits but this will often wander pretty far into the depths of a genre, behaving a bit like Pandora. Don’t be surprised if your station goes way off the deep end after a few hours with this setting, which may be good or bad depending on your musical preferences


These settings adjustments can be made any time for any radio station, and though it’s easy to do it’s been largely overlooked by nearly everyone we’ve come across who uses iTunes Radio.


Tuning iTunes Radio on the Desktop in OS X


We’re focusing on the Mac version for obvious reasons, but of course this would work in Windows too so long as you have a recent version with iTunes Radio support:



  • From iTunes, go to the “Radio” tab and select any station to reveal more details of that station

  • Adjust the “Tune this station” slider to: Hits, Variety, or Discovery

  • Further adjust the station by adding an artist or song under the “Play more like this” section


iTunes Radio station tuning


While you’re adjusting the tuning settings, you can also flip a switch to prefer album versions of songs by toggling the Explicit setting, which as the name implies also allows song with adult language into the music stream. That can be a good setting for musicphiles who want the original versions of songs, but probably not what you want to set for a kids station.


Mobile iTunes Radio in iOS


Adjusting station preferences is the same on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Recall that iTunes Radio requires iOS 7 to be installed in order to use:



  • From the Music app, go to “Radio” as usual

  • Select any radio station to see the currently playing song, then tap the (i) button to get more info about that station

  • Adjust “Tune This Station” to Hits, Variety, or Discovery


Adjust iTunes Radio song discovery


The changes are immediately active for the next song in the playlist, and you can always go back and adjust them again if you don’t like what starts to play.


For iTunes Radio on both iOS and OS X, you can also further adjust a station on a song-by-song basis, by choosing to either “Play More Like This” (the star) if you like a song or song type, or “Never Play This Song” (the x) if you never want to hear that song or something like it again.


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5 Command Key Tricks for OS X to Improve Your Mac Workflow osxdailynews.blogspot.com

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Command key tricks for OS X


The Mac command key, sitting alongside the spacebar and containing that funky looking icon logo, is commonly used for initiating keyboard shortcuts throughout OS X. But that command key also has some nice usability tricks up its sleeve that are lesser known and underutilized, many of which can help with your general workflow throughout OS X and the Finder. Here are five particularly handy tips that use the command key.


1: Open Sidebar Items in a New Window with Command+Click


Hold down the Command key and click on any sidebar shortcut item within the Finder Sidebar to open it within it’s own new window.


Open Finder sidebar items in a new window


This works with any sidebar item, whether it’s under Favorites, Shared, or Devices, and is extremely useful when you need to copy or move files around within the File system. It’s also much faster than opening a new window and then navigating around to locations.


2: Move Windows in the Background with Command+Drag


Need to reveal something in the background, but don’t want to lose the focus of your primary window or app? No problem, just hold down the Command key and drag the background windows titlebar… you’ll be able to move the window around without changing focus, and without interfering with whatevers going on in the foreground.


Hold down the command key to drag background windows without losing focus of the foreground


This is little-known trick that has been around for a while, and it’s surprisingly useful.


3: Reveal a Dock Item in the Finder with Command+Click


Wondering where that Dock item is stored in the OS X Finder? Just Command+Click to find out, you’ll instantly jump to the items respective location within Mac OS X.


Jump a Dock items location with Command clicking


This includes apps, folders, documents – whatever is stored within the OS X Dock if you hold down the Command key while clicking it, it will jump to it’s respective location in the Finder.


4: Open a Spotlight Result in Finder with Command+Return


Similar to the Dock tip, if you hold down the Command key when selecting something from the Spotlight menu it will instantly jump to that files location in the Finder, rather than launching the file/app.


Open Spotlight search results in the Finder


This makes for a great quick workflow to instantly locate files for modifications: hit Command+Spacebar, search for your item, and hit Command+Return to open the Finder window containing the document in question.


5: Selecting Files That Aren’t Next To Each Other


Holding down the Command key lets you select files that are not next to each other. We covered this one recently in a thorough walkthrough on the various ways of selecting multiple files within Finder, but it’s worth repeating since it’s an overlooked feature that should get more use.


Select files that are not alongside one another with a Command click


You can also use this one in reverse to unselect files too.


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How to Turn On the Camera Grid in iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® How to Turn On the Camera Grid in iOS 7

The optional Camera grid overlays lines atop the viewing screen when shooting pictures on an iPhone and iPad. Dividing the screen into equal parts, it helps to take better pictures by making it simple to follow the longstanding “rule of thirds”, with the basic idea being to align compositional elements to the grid, lining up things like the horizon or buildings to the lines in the grid.


Camera Grid in iOS 7


Many users have discovered there is no longer a toggle in the Camera app, but rest assured the grid still does exist in Camera app for iOS 7 and you can still turn it on, but for you now must do so from the Settings app instead:



  • Open Settings and go to “Photos & Camera”

  • Look for the Camera section and switch the toggle for “Grid” to ON (or OFF if you want to disable it)


Toggling the Camera grid in iOS 7


Going back to the Camera app you’ll find the grid has returned. Recall that you can now get to Camera quickly from the Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.


Now that it’s contained within the Settings app, it’s probably easier to just leave enabled all the time if you actually like to use it. Personally, I prefer the approach used in iOS 6 and before where the grid settings toggle was directly in the Camera app, making it easy to switch on and off as needed.


And no, the grid does not overlay itself on finished photos.


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Selasa, 24 September 2013

5 Command Key Tricks for OS X to Improve Your Mac Workflow osxdailynews.blogspot.com

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Command key tricks for OS X


The Mac command key, sitting alongside the spacebar and containing that funky looking icon logo, is commonly used for initiating keyboard shortcuts throughout OS X. But that command key also has some nice usability tricks up its sleeve that are lesser known and underutilized, many of which can help with your general workflow throughout OS X and the Finder. Here are five particularly handy tips that use the command key.


1: Open Sidebar Items in a New Window with Command+Click


Hold down the Command key and click on any sidebar shortcut item within the Finder Sidebar to open it within it’s own new window.


Open Finder sidebar items in a new window


This works with any sidebar item, whether it’s under Favorites, Shared, or Devices, and is extremely useful when you need to copy or move files around within the File system. It’s also much faster than opening a new window and then navigating around to locations.


2: Move Windows in the Background with Command+Drag


Need to reveal something in the background, but don’t want to lose the focus of your primary window or app? No problem, just hold down the Command key and drag the background windows titlebar… you’ll be able to move the window around without changing focus, and without interfering with whatevers going on in the foreground.


Hold down the command key to drag background windows without losing focus of the foreground


This is little-known trick that has been around for a while, and it’s surprisingly useful.


3: Reveal a Dock Item in the Finder with Command+Click


Wondering where that Dock item is stored in the OS X Finder? Just Command+Click to find out, you’ll instantly jump to the items respective location within Mac OS X.


Jump a Dock items location with Command clicking


This includes apps, folders, documents – whatever is stored within the OS X Dock if you hold down the Command key while clicking it, it will jump to it’s respective location in the Finder.


4: Open a Spotlight Result in Finder with Command+Return


Similar to the Dock tip, if you hold down the Command key when selecting something from the Spotlight menu it will instantly jump to that files location in the Finder, rather than launching the file/app.


Open Spotlight search results in the Finder


This makes for a great quick workflow to instantly locate files for modifications: hit Command+Spacebar, search for your item, and hit Command+Return to open the Finder window containing the document in question.


5: Selecting Files That Aren’t Next To Each Other


Holding down the Command key lets you select files that are not next to each other. We covered this one recently in a thorough walkthrough on the various ways of selecting multiple files within Finder, but it’s worth repeating since it’s an overlooked feature that should get more use.


Select files that are not alongside one another with a Command click


You can also use this one in reverse to unselect files too.


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How to Turn On the Camera Grid in iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® How to Turn On the Camera Grid in iOS 7

The optional Camera grid overlays lines atop the viewing screen when shooting pictures on an iPhone and iPad. Dividing the screen into equal parts, it helps to take better pictures by making it simple to follow the longstanding “rule of thirds”, with the basic idea being to align compositional elements to the grid, lining up things like the horizon or buildings to the lines in the grid.


Camera Grid in iOS 7


Many users have discovered there is no longer a toggle in the Camera app, but rest assured the grid still does exist in Camera app for iOS 7 and you can still turn it on, but for you now must do so from the Settings app instead:



  • Open Settings and go to “Photos & Camera”

  • Look for the Camera section and switch the toggle for “Grid” to ON (or OFF if you want to disable it)


Toggling the Camera grid in iOS 7


Going back to the Camera app you’ll find the grid has returned. Recall that you can now get to Camera quickly from the Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.


Now that it’s contained within the Settings app, it’s probably easier to just leave enabled all the time if you actually like to use it. Personally, I prefer the approach used in iOS 6 and before where the grid settings toggle was directly in the Camera app, making it easy to switch on and off as needed.


And no, the grid does not overlay itself on finished photos.


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Fix iMessage and FaceTime Activation Errors with iOS 7 osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® Fix iMessage and FaceTime Activation Errors with iOS 7

Some iOS 7 users have reported problems activating iMessage and FaceTime on their freshly updated iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Some of the initial activation errors were probably due to immense simultaneous demand being placed on Apple servers, but since some people are still experiencing this problem after the initial iOS 7 release rush, we think it’s worth addressing.


Most of iMessage and FaceTime activation errors are one or both of the following; either a device gets stuck on “Waiting for activation…” or you get stuck with a lovingly vague popup that says “An error occurred during activation. Try again.” which looks like this:


Fixing an iMessage Activation error


That is exactly the kind of error message we’re looking to resolve here, so follow the steps in order and you should be able to get your services functioning again in short order.


1: Confirm Apple ID is Set for iMessages & FaceTime


Is your email address configured properly? Is your phone number included in the list? Here’s how you can make sure:


iMessages



  • Open Settings > Messages > iMessage > Check if “Apple ID” is your email address and that phone numbers are stored below

  • Tap on “Apple ID: email@address” to sign out or change accounts if necessary


FaceTime



  • Open Settings > FaceTime > Be sure “Apple ID” is set to the proper address and that phone and email numbers are correctly entered


If that stuff looks good, try toggling the services off and on again.


2: Toggle Both Services OFF & ON


After making changes to the Apple ID, you’ll want to toggle the settings off and on again:



  • Settings > Messages > OFF, wait a few seconds, then toggle back ON

  • Settings > FaceTime > OFF, wait, then turn back ON


Still getting the Activation error? Try resetting your network settings next.


3: Reset Network Settings


Note that you will have to re-enter your stored wi-fi passwords by doing this:



  • Go to “Settings” > General > Reset > choose “Reset Network Settings”


If you have a passcode set you will need to enter it before resetting. When finished, join your primary wi-fi network again and check messages and/or FaceTime to see if it’s working. Send an iMessage to someone who also uses iMessage and it should go through. This is a tried and true trick that has worked since iMessage was first introduced.


For FaceTime, you may want to attempt to initiate an audio call before a video call. Audio calls are lower bandwidth than video and we’ve seen a few reports of this causing both to work.


4: Reboot


Turn the iPhone or iPad on and off again. All you need to do is hold down the Power button, slide to power off, then power it back on.


Once you’re booted up again, try sending an iMessage or initiating a FaceTime call, everything should be working as expected.


Still Not Working? Restore


In particularly stubborn situations you may need to restore iOS from a backup. You can also try resetting the device to defaults, setting it up as new, activate iMessage and FaceTime through your Apple ID, then restore from a backup once you have confirmed it works – we have received an email from a user stating that particular sequence to be effective when everything else didn’t work. Restoring takes a little while, but so long as you back up first it’s not too bad, and if you go through official channels an contact AppleCare about continuous iMessage activation issues they will probably recommend you restore from a backup after performing a variety of other tricks.


Finally, you may find that using a new Apple ID also resolves some of the issues, but considering how much stuff is tied to an Apple ID this is really not recommended.


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For most people, updating to iOS 7 has been trouble free, but now that we’ve fixed your iMessage and FaceTime errors, you can go about addressing battery life issues with iOS 7 and resolving any speed problems. If you are experiencing a persistent problem with iOS 7, let us know on Twitter, Facebook, email, or Google+, and we just may be able to resolve it.


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If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up osxdailynews.blogspot.com

osxdailynews.blogspot.com ® If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up

Speed up iOS 7


Most users are satisfied with iOS 7 performance, but some iPhone and iPad owners have discovered the major update has impacted the speed of their devices. If you feel like iOS 7 has made your hardware slower than it was before the update, there are some changes you can make that will likely speed things up a bit. These tricks will make the biggest difference on older device hardware running iOS 7, so if your device feels a bit sluggish after updating take a moment to make a few settings adjustments. The first few tricks may also boost your battery life too…


Use “Increase Contrast” to Eliminate Transparency & Blur Effects


The widespread transparencies, blurs, and fancy overlays throughout iOS 7 look fantastic, but on older hardware they can also make devices run slower by using up system resources.



  • Open Settings and go to “General” then to “Accessibility”

  • Choose “Increase Contrast” and toggle it to ON


Increase Contrast stops transparency effects


This makes the Notification Center, Control Center, folders, and some other UI elements a bit less attractive since it takes away the eye candy, removing the transparent effects and changing their respective backgrounds to a solid color. If you notice any sort of lag with opening the aforementioned features, you’ll notice a nice speed boost by turning the contrast on.


Note that some hardware doesn’t support as many transparencies to begin with, but you can still toggle the setting to reduce it further.


Turn Off Background App Refresh


This feature lets apps update in the background, and while it’s handy, it also slows down older iOS devices and is one of the biggest battery draining elements of iOS 7 with devices we’ve used it on… so sorry Background App Refresh, you have to go:



  • From “Settings”, go to “General” and choose “Background App Refresh”

  • Switch “Background App Refresh” to the OFF position


Turn off Background App Refresh


Turning this off basically means that apps will only refresh once they are active, which is the same behavior that existed prior to iOS 7 anyway. Toggling this setting has a noticeable impact on iPhone 4 performance in particular.


Turn On Motion Reduction


Like most other eye candy, the snazzy motion effects in iOS 7 are pleasant to look at but can tax system resources a bit. Thus, turning the feature off will reduce the system load and can speed up performance on some hardware:



  • Back in Settings, head over to “General” and then on to “Accessibility”

  • Select “Reduce Motion” and flip the toggle so that it’s ON


Turn On Reduce Motion Effects


Note that some older iPhone and iPad models won’t even have this setting available to them, because it’s turned OFF by default. If you don’t see the “Reduce Motion” setting in your Accessibility panel, it’s because it is not supported on your device – likely for performance reasons.


Lose Automatic Updates & Downloads


The reason for turning this off is simple: anything running in the background uses system resources to do so, the same theory behind disabling Background App Refresh. Turn off Automatic Downloads and Updates for everything:



  • Go to Settings and then to “iTunes & App Store”

  • Choose “Automatic Downloads” and toggle everything to OFF


Turn off background activity and downloads to help performance


Turning these settings off means you will have to manually update your apps through the App Store, and you will also need to manually download songs and apps on this particular device if you started downloading the same apps on other iOS devices. Three useful features indeed, but ones that aren’t hard to live without in the name of better device performance.


Consider a Complete Restore to Factory Defaults


A bit extreme, but sometimes you can boost performance on virtually any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch simply by clearing off everything and resetting it to factory default settings. Be sure to back up your device before you do this, and then you can restore from a backup when it’s finished, or just start with a clean slate.


Admittedly this is a pain in the rear, but there is a long history of positive reports ever since the earliest days of iOS (and OS X or Windows for that matter…) of wiping everything out and clean installing an operating system.


For extreme cases this may resolve some lingering performance issues, but for most users we would not recommend this simply because it’s a nuisance.


Update to iOS 7.1 (or Whatever) When It Arrives


iOS 7 is a major update and there are some bugs and performance issues that shipped with the first release. This is why we recommended some users hold off on the first 7.0 release, since history has long informed us that initial releasees of major updates are often buggy and can impact performance in a negative way. Whether you’re waiting to update or not, be sure to jump on the iOS update releases when they come out, as it will almost certainly contain significant improvements and bug fixes, refining the iOS 7 experience considerably.


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