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Hide Email Previews from the Lock Screen of iPhone, iPad, iPod touch 27 Aug 2013 | 04:32 am
New email arrivals display a small preview of the message itself on the lock screen of iOS devices, which shows the sender, the subject, and part of the actual email message body. Because emails can c...
Copy Music Directly to iPhone / iPod Without Adding to the Computer iTunes Library 27 Aug 2013 | 12:44 am
Got a song, podcast, or another audio track that you want to copy directly to your iPhone, but don’t want to add to your computers general iTunes library? You can skip adding the song to the computer ...
Convert a Blu-Ray or DVD to MKV Easily in Mac OS X with MakeMKV 26 Aug 2013 | 02:41 am
We’ve covered a handful of the best MKV player apps for the Mac before, but what if you have a Blu-Ray disc, DVD, or ISO that you want to make your own MKV file out of? Creating a watchable MKV file o...
Record the Screen as an Animated GIF in Mac OS X 24 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
LICEcap is a screen recording app that captures a portion of the Mac OS X (or Windows) desktop and saves it directly as an animated GIF. Incredibly simple to use, the apps functionality should be fami...
Unlock an iOS Device Directly with an External Keyboard 23 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Did you know that you can unlock an iOS device using an external keyboard, without ever having to touch the screen or hardware buttons on the device itself? There really isn’t a whole lot to this, the...
Start a Web Search in a GUI Browser from the Command Line 23 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
With the help of a simple command line function, you can quickly initiate a web search in your GUI web browser of choice right from the Terminal app. We’ll cover a few examples, demonstrating searchin...
OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 6 Released 22 Aug 2013 | 04:56 am
Apple has released the 6th developer preview of OS X Mavericks to Mac developers. No new features are expected in the new build, as typically these updates focus on bug fixes and minor refinements. T...
Erase Free Space on a Mac Hard Drive with OS X Disk Utility to Prevent File Recovery 22 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
The Mac OS X Disk Utility app provides an ability to erase free space on traditional hard drives, which overwrites vacant disk space on the drive to prevent any potential recovery of deleted files (th...
Find & Replace Text in Multiple Documents from the Command Line 21 Aug 2013 | 03:35 am
If you’re comfortable with the command line and ever in a situation where you need to find and replace a word, phrase, URL, or character across a group of multiple text documents, perl does the job qu...
Use iPhone & Maps to Find Where You Parked the Car 20 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
Visiting a new city, or maybe just a part of town you’re unfamiliar with? If you’re concerned you may forget where you parked your car (or bike, mule, horse, chariot, whatever), just pull out your iPh...
