The new version of Google Maps for iOS is here! You can head over to the App Store and get it right now!

The interface has a very Google+ like experience and the actual navigation system emulates the simplified interface trend that Apple Maps has continued. The result is a simplified experience with directions that actually get you to where you want to go. And…the best part is public transportation which is back on iOS devices in a mobile app!

If you are having issues downloading the app, I would suggest first visiting this link on your computer to download the app. Then on your iOS device, I would search for a Google product, scroll down to the bottom where it says “Developer Info” and then scroll down to the bottom of that to download “Google Maps”.

Hope you are able to download the app and enjoy the newly added Google Maps app. I know I will be using this a lot in the upcoming holiday season!

Hope that alleviates any concerns you were having over your iPhone. Let us know in the comments if you know of any other weird issues on your phones.

The new iMacs have finally started shipping meaning they should also be in the Apple Stores now for you to visit. One thing to note about the new iMacs is that the box has changed from the perennial rectangular suitcase-like box. The box is now horizontal. Anyways, enough about the box, here is a rundown of the new iMac.

The all new 21.5 inch iMac comes in two different base models. The $1299 model sports a 2.7 Ghz quad-core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM by default. The $1499 version comes with the same plus a 2.9 Ghz processor instead. Both come with a 1 TB hard drive with the latter being offered as a hybrid drive. The lower model comes with Nvidia GeForce 640M while the second comes with the 650M, a slight difference. All this packaged into the slimmest iMac yet!

The 27 inch models have not yet started shipping. Are you going to purchase one of these shiny new ones or wait for the 27 inches to come out? Let us know in the comments below!

A lot of reports have surfaced on the internet concerning issues with the “Slide to Unlock” part of the home screen on iPad 3s being frozen. It mainly happens when you restart your iPad, you go to unlock it and you can’t do anything on the screen. Normally, people would suggest just to restart your iPad, but then the same issue happens again and again because the restart is what triggers the error.

Fortunately for us, there are several “workarounds” that people have come up with. However, the simplest thing you should test first is upgrading from iOS 6.0 to iOS 6.0.1. The update for iOS seems to fix this major issue.

If you are already on iOS 6.0.1, there isn’t an official fix. However, you can always set the timeout for the lock screen to a very short time so that the screen automatically sleeps. Then you can simply press the home button and the “Slide to Unlock” works as normal. Annoying, but hey, what else can you don until Apple releases an update?

If you have any other suggestions, please leave them in the comments below!

If you have any questions about this method, please post below!

If you have any questions, feel free to post below!

Many people are experiencing a substantial drop in battery performance on their iPhone 5 and iPhone 4s. There are many culprits to this issue that may or may not be able to be identified and/or solved. Here are a list of suggestions that I have gathered to try and solve this very annoying problem Apple has created for us.

(Note: These are all software fixes that are presented below. Your issue may very well be a hardware issue that must be dealt with by taking your device directly to Apple to see if they can do anything about it.)

Step 1) Try resetting your Network connectivity. To do this go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This will reconnect with your carrier (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint) and hopefully alleviate any connection issues.

Step 2) Disable Bluetooth: Settings > General > Bluetooth > “OFF.” Bluetooth can sometimes try and connect to various hardware that will cause a substantial decrease in battery life.

Step 3) Disable unwanted notifications & apps: Settings > Notifications > Turn OFF for anything you don’t need or use anymore. A rogue app may be constantly trying to connect to a website or server.

Step 4) Disable Location Service: Settings > Location Services > Disable selectively for services you don’t use or need.

Step 5) Disable Timezone Adjustment: Tap on Settings > Location Services > System Services > Setting Time Zone to “OFF.”

Step 6) Disable Ping: Settings > General > Restrictions > Enable Restrictions > Ping > OFF. Who uses Ping anyway?

Step 7) Disable Diagnostic & Usage Reports: Tap on “Settings” > General > About > Diagnostic & Usage > Don’t Send. Apple set this up to collect “Anonymous” information. Turn this off to improve battery life because your iDevice won’t be connecting to Apple’s servers every five minutes.

Step 8) Disable Email accounts by heading to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Account Name > Delete Account. Once done, reset network settings (Step 1), then reboot your device and re-add your accounts back from Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.

Step 9) Make sure you are running the latest version of iOS. As of the time of this writing, the latest version is 6.0.1.

Step 10) Backup your iPhone and do a complete restore (guide here). You can either set up your iPhone as a new device for complete freedom from previous bugs, or you can risk the battery issue again by restoring from a backup. Your choice.

Step 11) Setting your mail accounts to Fetch. Go to Settings > Mail, Calendar, Contacts > Fetch new data > Turn off Push and set fetch to manually. Then click on Advanced and set all accounts to Fetch.

Step 12) Calibrate the battery by letting it run down completely to zero, then charging it all the way up to 100%.

Step 13) Set your brightness down to 50%. Also, turn Auto Brightness to OFF, keep the brightness to one level, the auto up and down is draining additional power.

Step 14) If you are running on a 4s and seldom use Siri, or just want to use her less often, Settings > General > Siri = Turn off Raise to Speak.

Please post any other solutions you have found in the comments below. Also, feel free to rant about battery performance because the more we lash out at Apple by creating these support forums, the more press they will receive about the issue.

So, if your computer is running a little slower these days, check your desktop to see if you can remove all or most of those files.

The new iPad Mini launched this Friday at local Apple Stores. Although the brick-and-mortar stores were not met with large lines of anticipation for the new product, the iPad Mini sold out very quickly online, namely, the white iPad sold out within 20 minutes!

The new iPad Mini has a 7.9” screen with a starting price of $329. With a bezel that is a mere 7.2mm thick, this is the thinnest iPad yet. For now, the iPad Mini will not feature the retina display; however, it does feature the dual-core A5 chip that the iPad retina also has.

Are you picking up an iPad Mini? Let us know in the comments!

If you have any questions, feel free to post in the comments below!

Step 1) Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Fetch New Data and make sure it is set to Push.

Step 2) Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > click on your Exchange account > click on Days to Sync > change it to a different setting (something different from what you have now, you can change it back later).

Step 3) Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > click Show > change to a different value (again, something other than what you have now).

Step 4) Reboot your iOS 6 device.

Step 5) Test out Exchange by sending yourself an email. Push should be working and you should be able to send and receive emails from your account now!

Let me know if this helped you and also let me know if it did not help you! Comments and questions are always welcome so feel free to leave them below!

iPhone Battery Problems

Step 1) Shutdown your computer and restart, sometimes the Time Machine drive can have an issue and it won’t be able to fix itself until after a reboot. Try this first.

Step 2) Remove the drive through System Preferences > Time Machine and then readd the device. As long as you don’t wipe the device of all its data, your save points will still be there.

Step 3) Run Repair Permissions through Disk Utility on the Time Machine device. You can also try running Disk Repair, also under Disk Utility.

Step 4) Under System Preferences > Energy Saver > disable the “Put hard disks to sleep when possible” box. This option has fixed the issue for most people.

Step 5) If none of these steps worked for you, the only thing left I can recommend is a reformat and set the disk up as new again.

Let me know if there are any other things you have tried to do to get your Time Machine working again. These issues shouldn’t be happening, but the fact of the matter is that they are. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them below in the comments box!

Step 1) Under Settings > Bluetooth, first try toggling the On/Off switch (yes, this is trivial, but this has fixed a few problems)

Step 2) Again, under Settings > Bluetooth, remove the device that is having issues and then re-add it. Sometimes this can be an issue because you restored your iPhone from iOS 5 and the bluetooth settings didn’t translate through the upgrade.

Step 3) Make your other device (not running iOS 6) attempt to pair first, and keep your iPhone’s bluetooth off. Then, once the other device has sent out it’s request signal, turn on your iPhone’s bluetooth. Sometimes it runs into problems where it is unable to search around for a new bluetooth device and this step attempts to fix that issue.

Step 4) Lastly, make sure the device you are trying to connect to is compatible with bluetooth 4.0. Like I said before, Apple introduced using the newer standard in the iPhone 5 and caused many devices that only worked with bluetooth 2.1, to not function correctly with the iPhone 5. If this is the case, sorry, you need to buy a new device (or if it’s a car, look into buying a new receiver).

Let me know if these steps helped you in the comments below!

If you’ve been having problems with getting this new feature to work, follow the steps below to troubleshoot your problem.

Step 1) Log out and log back into iMessage on your iPhone. You can do this through Settings > Messages > iMessage, slide it to off. Wait a few seconds, then slide back to on. Then tap on Send & Receive click on your Apple ID at the top, then click Sign out. Again, wait a few seconds, and then sign in again.

Step 2) If that doesn’t work, a simple restart of your computer may also do the trick! Your Apple ID settings on your phone and your computer need to sync up, so restarting your computer will do this for you.

If either of these methods above worked for you, I’d like to hear all about it in the comments below! If they didn’t, what ended up working for you? Let us know in the comments!

If you have any questions about the Podcasts or Music apps, please leave a comment below!

Well known iOS jailbreaker, chpwn, posted an image about a week ago of the iPhone 5 running iOS 6 with Cydia on the home screen. We all know what that means, yep, the iPhone 5 running iOS 6 was jailbroken! However, don’t get your hopes up just yet. This is just proof of concept, the actual jailbreak hasn’t been released to the public and probably won’t be until the release of iOS 6.0.1 because they usually wait for Apple to make bug fixes before proceeding with the jailbreak. So sit back and watch the show, soon you’ll be able to have your iPhone 5 running a jailbroken version of iOS 6!

If you have any questions or speculations about when the iOS 6 jailbreak is coming out, leave a comment below!

One of the new features of iOS 6 is the new sharing feature which quickly allows you to share any content you desire with anyone, at the push of a button. Apple has designed the new interface to make sharing easier than ever and has also given us the methods (Facebook and Twitter) to do so easily. You can now select from the following: Mail, Message, Twitter, Facebook, copy, Add yo Favorites. All of these options used to be in a list like dialog that would pop up and it would be very inconvenient to do so. Now with the modal that pops up over the content that you are viewing, you can easily select from one of the 6 choices and share your content with everyone!

Has the new sharing feature made sharing easier for you on your iOS 6 device? If so, leave a comment below! If not, let us know why in the comments below!

Google has updated their iOS version of their popular Gmail app. The app now fills up the entire screen on iPhone 5s and still provides the same great interface to interact with your email accounts. Consequently, you can now view more content on your device and the awkward black bars that plagued the top and bottom of this app are now gone.

If you have any questions or concerns about the update, feel free to leave a comment below!

In what seems to be a new feature of iOS 6, Apple now provides a “Do Not Disturb” mode for iOS devices which allows you to not be alerted visually or by vibration of any email, phone call, or text message that you might receive. However, it does still act as an alarm. This feature may be welcome for people who would like to go to sleep without being distracted every five minutes with notifications, but it is also unwelcome for many people in business because they expect their phones to remain silent for the duration of a meeting. Regardless, this new feature is a welcome one, especially personally for me because me old “dumb phone” had this feature and I was worried my new iPhone 5 would be lacking.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below!

Step 1) On your iOS device, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account… > Other > Add CardDAV Account

Step 2) Enter in your information for your account. The server you should use is “google.com”, your username is your entire email address including the @gmail.com part. Your password fills the password field, unless you use 2-step verification, in which case you must use an application specific password.

Step 3) Click Next and it should verify your information and set up CardDAV for you. There may not be a noticeable difference now, but there are many possibilities with using an open source protocol such as CardDAV.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below!

If you have used the new feature called Passbook on iOS 6, you may have noticed that there are not many cards that can have in Passbook. This makes the app really limited and you cannot use it to its full potential. That’s where Passsource.com comes and saves the day! Pass Source allows you to create cards that integrate perfectly with iOS6’s Passbook. Now you can use it to store things like your Starbucks Cards, American Express, coupons, and more! Check it out!

If you have any questions about Passbook or Pass Source, feel free to leave a comment below!

What do you guys think of this move by Apple? Will this suffice until they can fix their Maps app in a later release? Let us know in the comments below!

Apple provides an indispensable tool, Disk Utility, to allow users to easily clone their Mac hard drives or volumes. Disk Utility uses a simple, three-step process to create a hard drive clone:

• Boot your Mac using the OS X Installation disc. Keep pressing the ‘C’ key to get to the welcome screen and then select ‘Disk Utility’ from the ‘Utilities’ menu.
• In the Disk Utility interface, select the ‘Restore’ tab and provide the source and destination drives. Uncheck the ‘Erase Destination’ check box at the bottom.
• Click ‘Restore’ to clone the source drive onto the destination drive. Now, restart the computer and boot from the newly cloned drive. If the boot process completes without any problems, then the cloning was successful.

Disk Utility is a safe bet to clone one’s critical Mac OS X volumes. However, this tool has many downsides. It cannot be used to schedule cloning tasks in case one forgets to perform backups on a regular basis. Moreover, it does not allow users to resize volumes on the destination drive for full utilization of available disk space.

There is a range of commercial third-party Mac hard disk cloning tools available in the market. These utilities do a better job of cloning Mac hard disks and provide a plethora of advanced options. They can help users resize volumes on the destination drive according to their storage needs. With the help of these tools, users can automate the cloning process and schedule it to run on specified days and times. In addition, users can take snapshots of their hard drives or any specific region of the drives. These programs are compatible with the latest Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and all lower versions.

About the Author: Stuart Bell is a Mac user who believes in making life better with latest and most useful Mac technology, and wishes to share ideas and research on Mac utilities that clone and optimize Mac drives.

I googled for solutions and found several threads:

• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4311667
• https://discussions.apple.com/message/19629512
• https://discussions.apple.com/message/19625125
• …

There are some suggestions which worked to some users but no widely confirmed solution.

My router is a TimeMachine box (Airport Extreme). Here are the steps which worked for me:

1. Used AirPort Utily on my Mac to restart the router
2. in iOS 6: Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings
3. in iOS 6: Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings

Then wifi started to operate properly.

Also I noticed I lost an option for personal hotspot in my Settings menu, but that may be only effect of losing my settings. It can be probably re-enabled somewhere deeper in the Networking Settings.

Step 1) Open up Google Chrome and go to Preferences. Click on Advanced Preferences as shown in the picture above.

Step 2) Scroll down to the Privacy heading and click on Content Settings as shown above.

Step 3) Under Plug-ins, click on Disable Individual Plug-ins.

Step 4) Lastly, find the Java plugin and click on the Disable link, as shown above.

You have just disabled Java. You may need Java to run some web applets or applications but for now, it is best to leave it blocked. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them below!

What they did right:

I’m going to start off the review with the features that made this experience enjoyable and the reasons why I would use it again.

Installation

Installation was fairly straightforward. I found the app on the Mac App Store, downloaded it and let the app store take care of the installation. Here’s a screenshot of the window that appears when you launch the app:

This part of the application runs on the computer with the screen that you would like to add to your main display. For me, this ran on my laptop.

On my desktop, the following screenshot is the app that I had to install. Installation was again, easy. However, it was a little confusing to figure out which app ran on which computer (client/server). This may have been because I did not fully read the documentation, but usually software is intuitive enough to figure out without reading.

Usability

Once installed, the app ran with ease. I has able to hook up my MacBook Pro wirelessly to my Mac Mini and use its display in addition to the two that I already have on my mini. Here is a screenshot of my Display Preferences once the app had added the wireless display.

I simply moved the window around to wherever my display was positioned and it acted as if my monitor was wired in. I am very pleased because there is almost no lag at all.

One request for a future update:

I love everything that I was able to do with Air Display. However, there is one feature that I tested out and did not turn out the way I expected. I tried plugging in a second monitor to my MacBook Pro, this is where things got interesting. To reiterate, my current setup because two monitors on my Mac Mini and two on my MacBook Pro (including its built-in display). I thought I would be able to use both of the additional displays with Air Display; however, I was not able to. In addition, the second display (which is larger than my MacBook Pro’s screen) was only able to run a window of the Air Display app. In other words, I was not able to utilize the entire display anymore, I was limited to the resolution of my native laptop’s display.

I tried many ways to get around this problem, closing my laptop display, entering full screen mode, etc. and nothing was able to make it work. Regardless, I am still pleased with the product and I will use it occasionally if I am in need for some extra desktop space. Overall, I would give it a 4 out of 5 review.

If you use Air Display, what do you think of it? Keep in mind that my review is solely based off of the computer to computer version of Air Display. I have heard additional stories of success with the Computer to iPad version of the app. Let us know in the comments below what you feel about the app!

I did a quick googling and realized that the problem is missing “Recovery HD” partition on my disk. Since Lion, OS X installers create Recovery HD partition immediatelly after the main system partition. It is a small (650MB) bootable partition that can be used for various system troubleshooting scenarios (for example when you encript your disk with FileVault and forget the login password).

How to recreate lost recovery partition easily?

I found several articles about the topic, but all methods seemed to be pretty complex and/or time consuming. There must be an easier way! What about fooling OS X installer into creating Recovery HD partition for us?

Here is an easy solution which took me less than 10 minutes. Let’s say you want to restore Recovery HD partition for your system partition called “OSX” running Lion.

Prerequisities:

1. installation disk for Lion (or “Install Mac OS X Lion” app, downloaded from the App Store)
2. at least 8 GB of free space on your “OSX” partition (needed for a clean OS X installation)
3. your “OSX” partition is formatted with resizeable filesystem (Journaled HFS+ is fine)

Steps:

1. use Disk Utility.app to: 1. shrink OSX partion by 8 GB (or more) 2. insert new OSX 2 partition immediately after OSX (I used the small “+” button under Partition Layout) 3. make sure both partitions have format: Journaled HFS+ (JHFS+)

2. start installing Lion on newly created OSX 2 partition
   1. let computer reboot first time to finish copying
   2. during second reboot hold Option key and boot into old OSX (we don’t need to finish OSX 2 installation)
3. merge OSX 2 into OSX via command-line:

~ ➔ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OSX                     175.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS OSX 2                   75.0 GB    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4
~ ➔ diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ not disk0s2 disk0s3
Merging partitions into a new partition
     Start partition: disk0s2 OSX
     Finish partition: disk0s3 OSX 2
Started partitioning on disk0
Merging partitions
Waiting for the disks to reappear
Growing disk
Finished partitioning on disk0
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OSX                     250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4

In step 3 you have to use diskutil list to read identifiers of OSX and OSX 2 partitions. If you did all right, you must see OSX, OSX 2 and Recovery HD in this exact order somewhere in the list. By executingdiskutil mergePartitions you merge OSX 2 into OSX (and lose content of the newly created partition OSX 2). You have to end up with OSX immediatelly followed by Recovery HD.

Notes

1. Forget using Disk Utility.app in step 3. You cannot delete OSX 2 via Disk Utility and resize OSX to eat the gap. Disk Utility is smart enough and deteling partition deletes also hidden Recovery HD partition which immediatelly follows.

2. The same method should work with Mountain Lion (not tested)

3. The same method should work in more complex scenarios. You get the idea.

Disclaimer

I’m not responsible for anything you do to your data. Always do proper backups!

Hope this helped.

iStat Pro, the popular widget to monitor your computer by iSlayer has been deprecated by the company. They stated in a tweet that they will not be continuing development and support for Mountain Lion. Lucky for us, there is a simple fix that you can execute yourself on Mountain Lion to make the great extension work again! All you have to do is add a space to two different lines in some code. Ready to dive in?

Step 1) Right off the bat, we can download the widget from here.

Step 2) Extract the widget and then double click on it to install. It will show up on your dashboard and you can view it as normal. However, take a close look at the process tab. You may need to enable it by clicking on the “i” and then going to the “Sections” tab and turning on “Processes.” You will notice that the processes tab is broken. Want to fix it? Keep reading on!

Step 3) In order to fix this small bug, we’re going to have to open up some code. Grab your favorite text editor (I personally use TextMate) and navigate to the ~/Library/Widgets folder where you will find the iStat widget.

Step 4) Right click on the widget and press “Show Package Contents”

Step 5) Find the two files, Tall.js and Wide.js. In Tall.js, we will navigate to lines 548 and 550. Find the section that looks exactly like what is shown below:

if(p.v("processes_sort_mode") == 'cpu')
	widget.system('ps -arcwwwxo "pid %cpu command" | egrep "PID|$1" | grep -v grep | ' + exclude + ' head -7 | tail -6 | awk \'{print "<pid>"$1"</pid><cpu>"$2"</cpu><name>"$3,$4,$5"</name></item>"}\'', function(data){ _self.updateProcessesOut(data);});
else
	widget.system('ps -amcwwwxo "pid rss command"  | egrep "PID|$1" | grep -v grep | ' + exclude + ' head -7 | tail -6 | awk \'{print "<pid>"$1"</pid><cpu>"$2"</cpu><name>"$3,$4,$5"</name></item>"}\'', function(data){ _self.updateProcessesOut(data);});
}

Notice the two parts that read: egrep "PID|$1"

Simply add a space between the pipe and the dollar sign as follows: egrep "PID| $1"

That’s it! Make those two changes and then save the file. For the Wide.js, the same two lines can be found at 609 and 611 (make the same changes).

Step 6) After you have successfully made the changes to the code, open up a Terminal window (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and type in: killall Dock

Now you should have a functioning iStat Pro installation that works on Mountain Lion! Great!

If you have any questions about the process or you are stuck on a particular step, leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as I can!

Step 1) Open the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.

Step 2) Select the Photo Stream tab. In the upper right hand corner, click on the arrow button.

Step 3) Begin selecting pictures from your Photo Stream that you would like to save. A blue check mark will appear in the bottom right of each picture that is selected.

Step 4) Click on “Save” in the top right corner when you have finished selecting all of your pictures. This will save the selected photos to your Camera Roll which is local on your device.

Now you can save and view these photos later on your iOS device! If you have any questions, please leave a comment below!

Step 1) Open up System Preferences in one of three ways either through the Apple Menu > System Preferences, using Spotlight and searching for it, or by clicking on it in your Dock.

Step 2) Under View, click Customize. This will make a bunch of checkmarks appear next to each of the preference panes.

Step 3) Uncheck the ones that you don’t want to show up anymore. Don’t worry, you aren’t removing them, just hiding them. You can still access them by searching in the top right hand corner of the System Preferences window.

Step 4) If you ever want to add those panes back, simply recheck them under View > Customize and your preferences will return.

I hope this tip helped you out! Please leave a comment below with suggestions for future articles or a comment about this one if you found it confusing or not helpful.

Tired of annoying hard tabs instead of soft tabs in TextMate 2? Here is a simple tutorial on how to fix that and we will also teach you how to set the default tab size.

Open TextMate 2 and go to Preferences. Click on the Variables tab and all you have to do is add a few new variables. To set the default tab size, make a new variable called “tabSize” and set it to whatever you want (I always do 2). Then, make a second variable called “softTabs” and set that to “true” (if and only if you want soft tabs of course).

That’s it! If you have any questions, please leave a comment below!

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder 

Type in your Administrative password and the command should fix your internet problems! Hopefully your internet connection problems are gone now and you can enjoy the internet! If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below!

Apple has not publicly released the installation files necessary to enable Power Nap on the MacBook Air (late 2010) however, they do have the files freely available online! Downloading one of the following packages will allow you to enable the power nap setting under Energy Saver in System Preferences. Simply downlod the file and follow the on-screen instructions.

Note: Install these at your own risk, there might be a reason why Apple has not publicly pushed out these updates to all MacBook Air users. This works on the MacBook Air Late 2010 only.

Late 2010, 11” MacBook Air
Late 2010, 13” MacBook Air

If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below!

Here is a quick guide on how to download YouTube videos on Mountain Lion using Safari 6! Many of you have been requesting this article, so here it is! Sorry for the delay!

Step 1) Go to Kwizzu.com and click on the “Install” button at the bottom. For this step, make sure you are in Safari or else it will download for your other browser.

Step 2) After the Safari Extension is installed, you can simply go to any YouTube video as you normally would.

Step 3) Right below the video, on the right side of the “Share” button, there will now be a “Download” button that will allow you to select which format you would like to download the video in. It could not get any simpler than this! If you need help with this step, take a look at the screenshot above, it should be able to help you!

If you have any questions about the process described above, please leave a question in the comments below and I will be sure to answer them!

1) Go here to download the latest files that you need in order to enable AirPrint.

2) Double click on the “AirPrint_Installer.exe” application and then click on “Install AirPrint Service”.

3) Run the “AirPrint iOS 5 FIX - 32Bit.reg” or “AirPrint iOS 5 FIX - 64Bit.reg” (depending on what type of os you have installed) to install the current version for iOS 5.

4) Again, open “AirPrint_Installer.exe” and double check that “Service Startup” is set to “Auto” and click “Start”.

5) Restart your computer, you are almost done.

NOTE: You may need to enable the guest account on your computer by going to Control Panel > User Accounts > Manage Another Account > Turn the Guest Account on. In the AirPrint_Installer.exe, you may need to choose the guest account that you just enabled. Click “Enable Guest Account” and then click “Update.” Again, you have to restart.

If you have any questions about this process, please post in the comments below!

The above screenshot is of the leather skin in the Calendar and Contacts apps that Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.7, Lion. Since then, many people have disputed over the look and feel of those two apps. Some people like the idea that the Calendar and Contacts app (or previously known as the iCal and Address Book apps) have changed appearance to emulate the appearance of real-world planners or day trackers. On the other hand, there are others who believe that because it is a digital product, the nuances of having a leather bound book to keep track of events should not be emulated in the digital world. Regardless of where you stand, if you would like to get rid of the brown leather skin and change it back to the old aluminum skin for the Calendar or Contacts app, then follow the steps below.

1) First, download one of these .dmgs for the app that you want to re-skin.
Calendar Skin
Contacts Skin

2) Make a copy of the Calendar and Contacts app on your computer. Copy and paste these files to another directory to keep safe in case you want to revert back to the leather version.

3) Install the .dmgs and they will replace the images over the apps. Note: this does not remove/change the brown font. The brown font is now on top of the aluminum skin which some people may find weird.

4) If you would like to restore the original leather theme, simply delete the edited versions of the apps and copy the original versions that you had backed up earlier, back into the ~/Applications directory.

If you have any questions about the process or how it works, please leave a comment below!

Questions, comments? Post them in the section below!

You can check out the official website for Mountain Tweaks here.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments below!

I have had a few requests both in the comments of the “Get Your Mac Ready for Mountain Lion” and via email. Here is a tutorial on how to create a USB Mountain Lion Installer key so that you can install it a lot faster on the other Macs that are associated with your Apple ID.

1) Go to the Mac App Store and download Mountain Lion for $19.99. After it has finished downloading, DO NOT continue following the dialogs to install Mountain Lion.

2) Open up Finder and navigate to your Applications and find the Install OS X Mountain Lion.app. Right click on it and select “Show Package Contents” Here is a screenshot:

3) After that, navigate to Contents > SharedSupport and find the InstallESD.dmg. That is the file that you are looking for. Copy this to a new location such as your Desktop so we can easily copy this onto a USB key.

4) Now for the disk imaging part. Open up Disk Utility and drag the InstallESD.dmg from your Desktop to Disk Utility in the left hand side bar. Here’s a screenshot:

5) After that, click on the InstallESD.dmg in the left sidebar, click the Restore tab and then follow the diagram above to drag the correct items into the correct fields. For me, the NO NAME USB key is the one that I am using for my install. (However, that was just for an example, you need at least an 8GB USB key).

6) Now, click Restore in the bottom right corner and there you go! You now have a USB Mountain Lion installer key.

If you have any questions, please post in the comments below. I will be sure to help you out as soon as possible!

Early this morning, Apple released the newest version of OS X, Mountain Lion. This update rings in at $19.99 and is available now from the Mac App Store for an easy-to-install download. Mountain Lion features over 200+ updates including new apps such as Notes, Reminders, and a new feature called Notifications. Here are some other articles we have written about Mountain Lion:

Get Your Mac Ready For Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion Release Date

If you have already downloaded Mountain Lion, what is your favorite feature so far?

If you have any questions about the post above, please leave a comment!

Have you ever restored your iOS device from iTunes and then realized that you had to sign in to every single app, the app store itself, all your email accounts, and even iCloud? Well, a new hint has been submitted by reader Michael Ball that allows you to work around this issue. In iTunes, select your device and then select the “Encrypt Local Backup” option from the main sync screen. All you have to do is set your password and now if you restore from this backup, your passwords for everything will come along with it! Great isn’t it? Here’s a screenshot for those of you having trouble finding the right checkbox.

If you have any questions about this method, please leave a comment below!

In this iteration, Apple has included updates to several aspects that define the user experience.

• First, the Maps app has been updated to include roadwork, accidents, etc. built right into the Maps app.
• The first hints of public transportation (a much missed feature) are now included in the Maps app. So far, they have added the MTA Subway in New York City and the CTA and Metra in Chicago. Hopefully, they can continue moving west with this before the actual update rolls out.
• The Maps app has also seen the inclusion of turn-by-turn directions as well as traffic information for select users. In addition, satellite imagery has also been spotted to show up on some devices.
• The auto-brightness feature has been updated to increment gradually instead of all at once.
• The reading list in Safari now shows when it is syncing between devices.
• Safari now includes images for the bookmarks, history, and reading list icons instead of just text labels.
• iMessage on the iPad now allows you to add phone numbers for more synchronized messaging across multiple devices.
• 3D maps and models are starting to appear in select cities.
• New settings for the Maps app as well as some new icons have appeared throughout the OS.
• YouTube audio issues have been resolved.
• Apps seem to crash less, Safari seems snappier (these things usually happen with updates)

So, there you have it. We are one step closed to the actual release of iOS 6. If you can’t wait until the actual release of these features, you can buy a developer account for $99/year and get access to all the betas including the GM version of Mountain Lion. However, if you still can’t wait, you can download the new iOS 6 Beta 3 from imzdl’s website here.

Hope you guys enjoy the new features of iOS 6! If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below! Also, let’s discuss your favorite features of iOS 6 so far!

Again at the Apple rumor mill, recent posts have suggested that the Mac App Store will be updated on the night of the 25th of July. What does this mean? It means Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion will be coming to the App Store and recent rumors point to the 25th as the official release date for the new 10.8 software. Mountain Lion will be a downloadable update from the App Store weighing in around 4GB. You need to have Lion in order to update so Snow Leopard users will have to upgrade twice, once to Lion and another time to Mountain Lion. Luckily, the process is relatively simple and won’t require much work on the user’s side.

The price is set for Mountain Lion to be released as a $19.99 update. Will you purchase? Let’s talk about it in the comments below!

Both are credible sources, but do you believe them?

Let’s start a discussion in the comments below! I, for one, believe that Apple will indeed come out with this speculated iPad becuase there is a large enough market for such a device. What do you think?

The new Safari 6 Developer Preview that was available for developers shortly after the WWDC conference includes many new features from Safari 5.1 and 5.2. The move to Mountain Lion also means that Safari 6 is closer to the iOS version of Mobile Safari than ever before. Features such as iPad style tabs, iOS style expose tab navigation, and tabs that sync between iOS and Safari 6 are all welcome features being added to this version. Be aware that this is a developer preview so crashing will occur often and it is best to stay on Safari 5.2 which can be found here.

Anyways, if you want to give the new Safari 6 Developer Preview a try, you can download it from here. No guarantees of how well it will run on your system.

If you have any questions about the upcoming features of Mountain Lion, iOS 6, or Safari 6, please leave a comment below and I will do my best to answer your questions!

Lion Tweaks has been updated to version 2.0.1 to support Mountain Lion! Lion Tweaks is the popular software developed by Frederik Wiker and is available for download here. It allows you to tweak settings in Lion and Mountain Lion that were removed from Snow Leopard. Features such as: changing the iCal leather to aluminum, coloring the finder sidebar, and enabling airdrop on older hardware are all available using this product. You can also do things such as: show the user library folder, enable the 2D dock, and enable TRIM support on Lion.

EDIT: It seems that Lion Tweaks is not changing the skins on iCal/Calendar or Contacts/Address Book. Here is a quick fix for that.

If you have any questions about the tweaks listed in Lion Tweaks 2.0.1, please leave a comment below! Happy tweaking!

First, some things we have to consider. We can take one of two routes, either we can install the Mountain Lion update over out existing Lion install which is quick and easy and the Mac App Store makes this fairly easy. Option two involves completely wiping out hard drives, reformatting, and then installing the operating system from scratch. Why do this, you ask? The second option de-clutters your computer entirely so you are sure that it is as fast as it can possibly be within the limitations of your hardware. However, the downside is that it takes longer, requires more technical know-how, and can be frustrating depending on what you want to do. We’ll start with the easier, but less rewarding method first.

Option 1) Installing Mountain Lion over Lion using the Mac App Store.

Step 1) Over time, we accumulate a lot of random software, files, and downloads that are no longer necessary. The first thing I like to do when updating my system is clearing out my downloads folder of everything that I don’t need and only keeping the essentials. Then I like to clean up my Dropbox which houses all of my current projects and important documents. Over time, those files get messy so I like to reorganize my folder structure into something neater (which I may post later). Lastly, I like to uninstall apps that are unnecessarily cluttering my system. You can either do this by using the built-in uninstaller if the application has one, sometimes you can just remove the app from the Applications folder, or sometimes you have to get inventive and use a tool such as one of the ones listed here curtesy of Lifehacker.

Step 2) Now that all of my important files are sorted, all the clutter is gone, and the pointless apps that I have downloaded have disappeared, it is time to backup. Backing up is extremely important when installing the operating system as an update because you never know when something might break. Always take precaution and make two backups if you really don’t trust hardware. I just use Time Machine for my backups because it is built in and gets the job done (wirelessly, which I might also write about later).

Step 3) Finally, your Mac is ready to be promoted from just regular Lion to Mountain Lion. First, head on over to the Mac App Store and search for ‘Mountain Lion.’ Purchase and download the update (will set you back $20). Afterwards, the installer may prompt you telling you it is shutting down and will install the update then.

Option 2) Reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling Mountain Lion from scratch.

Step 1) Just so you know, this is my preferred option. This is because I can have a clear conscious knowing that the software on my system is from a fresh install and the older versions aren’t still clinging onto the depths of my hard drive without me knowing about it. The first thing I do here is BACKUP. This is the most important step of this process because you are wiping all of your data. Make two backups if you can and three if you are extremely paranoid and somehow have that much extra space.

Step 2) Write down a list of apps that you use on a regular basis. This step is also important because you only want to install the ones that are necessary. Don’t install that app that you used only once and it didn’t even work. Chances are you will never use that app again so there is no point in cluttering up your system again. Also, make sure you have a easily accessible copy of all of your ‘non-disposable’ data. This includes your Music, Pictures, Video, and documents. All of these things are content created/harnessed by you, the user, and replacing these items is a lot harder than re-downloading a binary installer.

Step 3) Okay here is the fun part. Pay for and download the update for Mac OS X from the Mac App Store and save it to your computer. I will post a later guide once Mountain Lion comes out about how to remove the .dmg from the file so that you can make your own installer USB key. (EDIT: Here is the guide that you have been asking for!) Shoot me an email if Mountain Lion is out and this article is not yet written. The basic idea around this is that you are trying to find the InstallESD.dmg file that was also found in the Lion update. Then, using Disk Utility, you mount the disk and load the contents onto a USB flash drive to use to install.

Step 4) After making your USB key from step number 3, you are now going to shut down your computer, insert the USB key, then reboot while holding down the Alt/Option key on your keyboard. This will allow you to boot into the USB drive. When the screen pops up, select the yellow device which represents the USB key and then follow the instructions to install Mountain Lion.

Whichever method you chose, you will inevitably end with a nice install of Mountain Lion. If you have any questions about the features in Mountain Lion or anything about this post including the process by which you can install, please leave a comment below and I will answer you as quickly and promptly as I can!

Apple has recently pushed out the Gold Master developer version of OS X Mountain Lion to developers. That means we can be expecting the Mountain Lion official release shortly hereafter. When the new Mountain Lion comes out, it will cost only $20 and will be available via the Mac App Store.

If you can’t wait, you can download the GM version from here.

What feature are you looking forward to most in OS X Mountain Lion? Leave a comment below and let’s discuss!

Step 1) Open up Terminal by going to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

Step 2) Type in the following command: sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps; DELETE from groups WHERE title<>’’; DELETE from items WHERE rowid>2;”; Killall Dock

This command essentially erases the entire database for Launchpad. Yay, now Launchpad is…empty? That’s not useful. Read on!

Step 3) To add apps back to Launchpad, all you need to do is drag apps onto the Launchpad dock icon. Yep, it’s that simple!

Step 4) If for some reason you would like to go back to the old Launchpad with an icon for every single app on your Mac, then enter the command below which will rebuild the database: rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; killall Dock

If you have any questions about the code listed above, please leave a comment below!

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below!

Here is a simple keystroke that would allow you to change the volume without making a sound. Simply hold down the Shift key when you are adjusting your volume with the F11 and F12 keys and you can change the volume all you want without making a sound.

Check out this other article that I wrote about volume control on your Mac here.

Hope this tips saves you some embarrassment in a quiet place. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below!

Try holding down both the Option and the Shift keys along with either F1, F2, F11, or F12. You will notice that the white bar that normally increases by one will actually only increase by a quarter of a square now. This is because you have just unlocked finer control over your Mac’s brightness and volume settings!

This has been tested on Mac OS X Lion and has previously worked on other versions of Mac OS X. If I remember correctly, the increments used to be in halves but are now in quarters. I guess Apple has granted us more control over the settings of our system.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments below.

Step 1) Open up System Preferences and go to Security & Privacy in the top row.

Step 2) Click on General and also the Lock in the bottom left of the screen.

Step 3) Enter in your administrator password so that you can edit the settings in this pane.

Step 4) Check the box next to “Show a message when the screen is locked” and then type your message into the box below it.

Step 5) Click the lock again in the bottom left corner so that no one else can edit it.

That’s it! Now you can test this by locking your computer (press Control + Shift + Eject if you are using an Apple keyboard) and you should see your message written on the screen. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Your feedback is very helpful!

Did you know that the option above existed on iOS (specifically the iPad)?

Well to enable this option, first, go to Settings > General > Keyboard and turn on Split Keyboard. Then you simply open any application that makes use of the iPad keyboard. Touch and hold on the bottom right icon (the picture of the keyboard) until two options appear. They are: Undock or Split. Split does what it says, it splits the keyboard making it easier to type with your thumbs similar to how you use the iPhone. You can also access this mode by pressing and holding on the “G” and “H” keys in the center of the keyboard and then making a “pulling apart” motion which gives the illusion that you are actually “splitting” the keyboard.

The other option, Undock, moves the iPad keyboard to the center of the screen. If there was something showing where the keyboard normally is, you normally wouldn’t be able to see it. However, with the Undock option, you can now see what’s below the keyboard and type at the same time! Pretty useful if you ask me.

If you have any comments or questions about this tip, please leave them in the comments and I will be sure to answer them as swiftly and promptly as possible!

Some other additions that have speculation surrounding the release of iOS 6 besides the Maps application include: Siri for the iPad, further iCloud integration, Facebook integration similar to Twitter’s current integration, Airplay mirroring similar to what we’ve seen in the Mountain Lion developer previews, and automatic updates to iOS apps from the App Store.

Other hardware rumors include:

• An update to the Mac Pro for the first time in years. New hardware means better Hackintosh in the following months.
• The Macbook Pro may receive an upgrade to its display, upping the resolution to Retina standards.
• The Macbook Pro may also receive USB 3.0 as a nice addition to the growing Thunderbolt ports.
• Ivy Bridge for both the Macbook Pro and the iMac are also plausible as well as quad-core processing by default.

There are also continual rumors of the new iPhone with a larger (taller) screen, a 7-inch iPad dubbed by many the “iPad Mini”, as well as the oft rumored iTV. All of these products are expected to launch this year, however, it is unknown how many will be revealed at WWDC starting on Monday. We can only hope and wait.

Let’s discuss the most wanted and least wanted features and hardware in the comments below. I will actively respond with my opinion to anyone who comments!

Step 1) Go here to learn all about the new release of Python. Then, find the downloads section to download the latest release for Mac. (Or just click here.)

Step 2) Double click on the installer and follow the instructions for installing Python 3.2.3 on your Mac.

Step 3) Now, when you open up terminal and type in “python”, version 2.7 still appears. To open the version you just installed, type “python3” and this will open the latest version of Python 3.x.x.

Step 4) To streamline this process even further, you can add an alias for “python3” and call it “python” so that no matter what, Python 3.x.x will always open whether you type “python” or “python3.” To do this, open up Terminal.

Step 5) At the command prompt, if you are comfortable with VIM, type: vim ~/.bash_profile If not, type: open ~/.bash_profile And this will open up the file in your default text editor. Add the following line to the file and save: alias python=”python3”

Step 6) That’s it! Now when you type “python” into Terminal, Python 3.x.x will open by default!

Happy programming!

Step 1) Make a backup of your iOS device using iTunes by plugging it in, selecting it under devices and pressing “Back up.”

Step 2) Now, on your iOS device, go to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings (Don’t worry, you’ll get all your data back as soon as the jailbreak is done. This step is to make the jailbreak go faster!)

Step 3) Download Absinthe from one of the following locations:

• Mac
• Windows
• Linux

Step 4) Open Absinthe with your iOS device still plugged in via USB.

Step 5) Click the “Jailbreak” button. (Folks, it can not get easier than this.)

Step 6) Once the jailbreak has finished completely, go back to iTunes and restore your device from the backup that you made earlier. To do this, right click on your device in iTunes and click “Restore from backup” (See how much faster this was? Trust me on this one.)

You are now jailbroken on iOS 5.1.1! Congratulations! If you have any questions about the process, please ask them in the comments below.

Step 1) Plug in your device into your computer and open iTunes.

Step 2) Select your device under Devices in the sidebar on the left.

Step 3a) Navigate to the Music tab and deselect the Voice Memos Playlist.

Step 3b) Alternatively, you can simply delete this playlist from iTunes on the left sidebar, however, the playlist might come back in the future and cause this problem again.

Step 4) Press the Sync button in the bottom right and your iPhone should now sync without a problem!

If you have any questions about the process or any comments to make, please post them in the comments below!

If you manage to find another way of doing this, please post in the comments below!

The latest update to the Developer Preview version of Mountain Lion enables Automatic App downloads similar to iOS. All you have to do is buy and download an app on any of your Macs and it will download to any other Mac that is logged in to the same Apple ID.

This may be a welcome feature for some users who have multiple Macs, however, the question arises, will Apple force you to download updates without your consent? Hopefully this will be an option. Post your thoughts in the comments below.

This hack will allow your dock to be clean and organized. You can always use CMD + Tab to view open applications.

If you have any questions about this hack, please post in the comments below!

What is your favorite web browser and why? Please post in the comment below and let’s have a discussion!

Today, Apple released a new update for the Apple TV, 5.0.1. This update included a few bug fixes and also enables HD iTunes previews among other things. Both second and third generations can update to this new version, however, stay away if you are waiting for the jailbreak. Updating may break the possibility of jailbreaking.

To update, simply power up your Apple TV and the screen above should pop up for you to download immediately. If it doesn’t then go under Settings to install the update.

If you have any questions, please post in the comments below!

To update, simply click on the Apple Menu in the top left of your screen and select Software Update. The window will look something like this:

Proceed to install the update. This update includes the following (taken from the Apple website here.) and weighs in at 729.6 MB:

• Resolve an issue in which the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled.
• Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards.
• Addresses permission issues that may be caused if you use the Get Info inspector function “Apply to enclosed items…” on your home directory. For more information, see this article.
• Improve Internet sharing of PPPoE connections.
• Improve using a proxy auto-configuration (PAC) file.
• Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to an SMB server.
• Improve printing to an SMB print queue.
• Improve performance when connecting to a WebDAV server.
• Enable automatic login for NIS accounts.
• Include RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras.
• Improve the reliability of binding and logging into Active Directory accounts.
• The OS X Lion v10.7.4 Update includes Safari 5.1.6, which contains stability improvements.

As always, update with caution. Although unlikely, some apps might not work with the new update. If you have any questions, please post in the comments below!

Included in this update are improved HDR options for photos taken using the Lock Screen. Also, AirPlay reliability has been improved. The oft talked about issue “Unable to purchase” alert has now been solved. Lastly, Apple has improved syncing between Safari Bookmarks and Reading List between Mac OS X Lion and iOS.

Small update, can be downloaded directly from Apple by plugging your device into your computer and selecting Update or you can simply go to Settings > Software Update on your device.

Alternatively, you can simply press the key combination CMD-Option-Escape to pull up this menu. Once you have the menu open, simple select the application and click Force Quit.

That’s it! If you have any questions, just post them in the comments below!

Step 1) Shutdown the computer and unplug its power cord.

Step 2) Hold down the CMD-Option-P-R set of keys all at once and turn on your computer.

Step 3) Wait until the computer restarts and you hear the startup noise a second time (usually at full volume).

Step 4) Let go of the keys that you were holding, you have now successfully reset your PRAM and NVRAM!

If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to leave a comment!

Step 1) Open QuickTime Player on your Mac (Applications > QuickTime Player).

Step 2) Click on File > New Screen Recording (or alternatively press CMD-Control-N).

Step 3) Press the gray button (with the red in the middle) to begin recording your screen. You can select many options by pressing the gray triangle on the right side of the screen.

Step 4) To stop the recording, simply press on the grey button (now with a black square in the middle) and your recording will instantly open for your viewing. The capture that you just recorded will be placed in your Movies folder at ~/Movies

Step 5) You can edit the video using Mac OS X’s built in iMovie or other movie editing software that you choose!

If you have any questions about this process, please post in the comments below!

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A sample .DS_Store file for those who may not know what they look like:

Step 1) If you would like to see .DS_Store files, download and use TotalFinder which has a very easy method for viewing hidden files. There are other methods involving Terminal, but TotalFinder makes it easy (it’s a preference and even has a keyboard shortcut!).

Step 2) Navigate to your repo using Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal). This first command will remove any and all .DS_Store files from your repo. Simply enter:

find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm --ignore-unmatch

Step 3) Now we will create a global exclusion list (you can skip this step if you already have one set up). To do this, enter the command:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

Step 4) Now, we must add the pesky .DS_Store file to our newly created global exclusion list, named .gitignore (assuming you don’t want any .DS_Store files in any repos that you may own). To do this, simply use this command:

echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore

This will add an entry to your .gitignore file that tells your git repo to ignore any file called .DS_Store. This is exactly what we want.

Commit these changes and push to your repo. To our surprise, all .DS_Store files have been removed! Congratulations! Now our repos are clean, free from clutter, and more professional.

Also, if you often navigate through Finder with hidden files on, I would recommend the tool called Asepsis a product of BinaryAge. Asepsis redirects the creation of .DS_Store files to a special folder that you seldom interact with. All the properties of folders are still retained, they are just placed in a different, well-hidden directory.

If you have any questions about this process or would like me to explain something more in depth, please feel free to leave a comment below!

All you have to do is open up Terminal by going to Applications > Utilities > Terminal. At the prompt, type in the following command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

and then run:

killall SystemUIServer

This will change the format of your screenshots from the default “png” to “jpg”; the last parameter can be changed. Your options include jpg, png, tiff, or even pict.

To change back to default, simply type:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png

Hope this helps! Post any questions in the comments below and I will be sure to answer them.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/to/screenshots

A common place to switch the screenshot location to might look something like this:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/Screenshots

This will place the screenshots into a folder called Screenshots in your Pictures folder in your Home folder. Be sure to create the folder structure before you actually try and take a screenshot.

To apply these changes, again in Terminal, type:

killall SystemUIServer

And, to change it back to the default desktop location, simply type in:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/

UPDATE: New post on how to change the file type of your screenshots here!

That’s it! Hope this hint has helpful, post any questions or concerns in the comments below.

Hope this tip helped you! Please leave any questions, comments, or concerns in the comments below!

This was a quick tip! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below!

Good tip to know! If you have any questions please post in the comments below.

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If for some reason iMessage is acting strangely, one of the things you can try to do to alleviate this problem is to clear out your chat history. Large logs can cause iMessage to slow to a crawl. Here are the steps to fix this problem:

Step 1) Quit iMessage on your Mac.

Step 2) Open Finder and press CMD+Shift+G or by navigating to Go > Go To Folder…

Step 3) In the dialog, type in ~/Library/Messages/

Step 4) There should be at least three files as shown in the screenshot below. We are going to delete the files chat.db chat.db-shm and chat.db-wal

Step 5) After you have successfully deleted those three files, you can now open iMessage again and it will be similar to a brand new installation! Now you do not have to worry about long conversations slowing iMessage down.

There is also an alternative way to accomplish this by using Terminal under Applications > Utilities > Terminal. Type in the command: rm -r ~/Library/Messages/chat.* This will effectively do the same thing.

If you have any questions about the process, please post in the comments below!

To download the free beta, simply go here. Installation is pretty standard so no problems there.

Here is the startup screen when you first open the app:

After you enter in your credentials for iMessage and any other chat clients, you may now begin to use the application!

This is a screenshot of the main window. This is where the messages show up (one unified window) with the newest conversation on top. Messages received on an iDevice including the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch while you are away will be updated when you return on your Mac so you can always stay up-to-date with the latest in your conversations. This provides a convenient way to respond to messages normally sent to your phone.

If you have any questions about new features with iMessage or as Apple calls it, Messages Beta, please leave a comment below and I will respond promptly!

Follow-up discussion involving iMessage and <a href=/how-to-clear-imessage-history-on-mac-os-x/>clearing chat history</a>.

1) Check your sound settings by going to System Preferences > Sound.

2) After that, select Output at the top and you will most likely see that your output device is “Digital Output” even though you do not even have a digital output device plugged in.

3) To fix this problem, simply grab a pair of headphones or anything with an audio jack. Insert it into the headphones jack on your Macbook Pro and then slowly remove it.

4) Keep the Sound Preferences open to check to see if the “Digital Output” has switched back to the normal “Internal Speakers.”

5) Keep plugging and unplugging your headphones into the audio jack until the preference changes back.

Note: Some people have a visible red light coming out of the audio port signaling that the digital output is selected. This is also an indicator that you need to fix your sound settings. Another note, some people have also had success with a USB headset, however, I personally have not tried this method.

If you have any questions about the process, feel free to comment below!

There is a built in screenshot keyboard shortcut, CMD-Shift-3, that can take full screen shots, but there is also a CMD-Shift-4 that allows you to define the size of the shot. This is the tool we are looking for. With it, you can drag a box around the object you are measuring. However, when you get to the end of the box, do not let go to take the shot, but rather hold it so that you can view the pixel sizes.

There are also a few other apps that can help you in the process, however, for something that is quick and easy, the built in screenshot command is just what we need.

If you have any questions or concerns, post them in the comments below and I will get back to you as soon as possible!

Hope this helps!

If you only want to securely delete once, you have two other options. You can pull up Finder and click on Secure Empty Trash. Alternatively, you can hold down CMD and right-click on your trash bin to select the option to securely delete. The reason why you might want to do this is because secure empty trash is a slow operation that must write and rewrite data 8 times. This process can be quite slow and most of the time you will not need this much security. Therefore, you should select one of the options listed above to complete this operation on a one time basis.

If you use the popular sync application Dropbox, you probably are dying for some free extra storage! If you haven’t heard of this amazing service, sign up here! Luckily for you, Dropbox offers the referral program which can earn you 250 MB of free space if you have a regular account and 500 MB if you have a .edu address associated with your account. Learn more here.

In this thread, you can submit your Dropbox referral link in the comments below. This way, all of us can benefit and receive free storage!

Hope you found this interesting and helpful! Post in the comments below if you have something to say!

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Step 1) Open Applescript Editor under Applications > Utilities.

Step 2) Copy and paste this code into the app:

delay 5
tell application "Finder"
  set desktop picture to POSIX file "/Users/YourUsernameHere/PathToFile.png"
end tell

Step 3) The reason that there is a “delay 5” at the beginning of the file is so that you can quickly switch to the Dashboard space.

Step 4) After you have edited your Applescript in the editor, press the run button or press “CMD + R” to run the applescript. Quickly switch from your current space to the Dashboard space within the time limit you have set.

Step 5) If all goes well, there should be zero errors when executing the applescript and your background for the Dashboard space should now be changed!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or leave your question in the comments box below. Cheers!

Step 1) Open iCal located in the Applications folder.

Step 2) Go to iCal Preferences by pressing “CMD + ,” or by clicking iCal > Preferences.

Step 3) Select Accounts and press the plus symbol in the bottom left corner.

Step 4) Under Account Type, select Google.

Step 5) Enter in your Google credentials. If you have two-step verification set up on your account, follow the link above in order to get an application specific password for iCal.

Step 6) Press Create and your Google Calendar should start syncing. You can select the interval at which you wish the account to sync on the Accounts section of iCal Preferences.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below! I will be happy to answer them.

Here is a screenshot, to get to this menu, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > on the left hand sidebar, select Mission Control. To change the shortcuts, simply double click on them and they will become highlighted. Then tap on the keys you would like to switch them to.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please post in the comments below!

Here is the code to enter into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock

This enables a “new list view” for folders in the dock. The cool thing about this feature is that it is customizable. You can manipulate the icons as well as use Quick Look from inside the list view by pressing the spacebar key while holding your mouse over the icon.

Here are some screenshots of the hidden view:

After pressing CMD + to make the text bigger:

And after pressing CMD + several times in order to max out the font size:

To undo this feature and restore the normal list view, simply enter this command into Terminal. defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool NO && killall Dock

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below!

There are several new features in the CS6 version of Photoshop including a new interface, Camera Raw 7 plugin, and a noticeable performance increase because Photoshop CS6 will use Adobe’s new Mercury Graphics Engine with uses the GPU instead of relying primarily on the CPU.

To download the beta and start using Photoshop CS6 today, either select your version below, or follow the link here for more information.

• <a href="http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/photoshopcs6/photoshopcs6_p1_mac_032112.dmg".>Mac Download</a>
• Windows Download

Step 1) Insert a blank disc into your computer’s optical drive located on the side of your computer.

Step 2) Open Disk Utility located in Applications > Utilities or found by using Spotlight by pressing CMD-Spacebar.

Step 3) Select File > Open Disk Image and navigate to the ISO that you want to burn. On the left side of Disk Utility, you should now see the ISO that you want to burn. Select it and click the Burn button at the top of Disk Utility in the toolbar. Follow the instructions to burn the disk!

If you have any questions or would like screenshots, please post in the comments below!

Step 1) iCloud bookmark syncing initially uses a lot of resources when trying to accomplish the first sync. To fix this issue, simply go to Settings > iCloud and toggling Bookmarks from “On” to “Off.” After a few minutes, go back in Settings and switch the toggle back to “On.” Your bookmarks should still be synced and Safari should stop crashing as frequently.

Step 2) Sometimes the app needs to be completely terminated, you can accomplish this by closing Safari, double tapping the home button and tapping and holding on Safari. Click the icon in the top left corner to officially terminate Safari and all of its active processes.

Step 3) For a few users, upgrading to the newest iOS version can also solve your problem. Go to Settings > General > Software Update to initiate the upgrade.

Step 4) Turn off all iCloud syncing by going to Settings > iCloud and tapping “Delete Account” at the bottom of the screen. If this fixes your problem, feel free to try and re-add your iCloud account, however, your mileage may vary.

Step 5) If none of these solutions work, you will have to restore your device following this guide here. It is a good idea to set up your iDevice as new in order to avoid the crashing problem from reappearing.

Step 1) Apple has a service called iCloud that includes a feature called Photo Stream which will store and sync your 1,000 most recent photos. On your iPad, simply go to Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream and turn on Photo Stream. This will automatically sync your photos with iPhoto and Aperture on your computer as long as you are signed into iCloud.

Step 2) If you opt out of iCloud, you can always just plug in your iPad to sync photos.

Step 2a) If you own a Mac, and you are also an iPhoto/Aperture user, simply open iPhoto/Aperture, connect your iPad, and it will appear under Devices and a popup should open asking you to sync photos.

If you are not an iPhoto user, you can just simply connect your iPad to your computer through USB, and open Image Capture. Your iPad should show up under Devices and you can select the images and import them to a folder or into an application.

Step 2b) On a PC (Windows) simply plug in your iPad, click on the Start Menu and select Computer. Scroll down to your devices and find your iPad. Open it up and find a folder called DCIM, this is your pictures folder. Drag and drop the contents of this folder to your photo application and now your photos are transferred!

And that’s it! You should now have your photos copied from your device to your computer. If you have any questions about these methods listed above or any other techniques that you can use, please post in the comments below, I am more than happy to help.

Questions or requests? Post them in the comments below!

Step 1) Open Terminal under Applications > Utilities > Terminal, or by pressing CMD + Spacebar and typing in Terminal.

Step 2) Copy and paste this line of code into Terminal to enable the debug menu.

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

That’s it! You now have the debug menu enabled! If at any time you want to revert back to Safari without the debug mode on, simply use the same code and change the one at the very end to a zero.

Questions? Leave them in the comments below!

Using Safari, it is very easy to download YouTube videos straight from the browser, no extensions, add-ons, or external websites necessary.

Step 1) Open the YouTube video that you want to download.

Step 2) Open Safari’s Activity Window by pressing Command-Option-A or by selecting Window in the menu bar and then selecting Activity. You should see this window below.

Step 3) Find the tab for the YouTube video that you are watching and expand it.

Step 4) Scroll down until you find an element whose size is over 1 MB, typically it will be around 10 MB depending on the quality and length of the video.

Step 5) Hold down Option and double click on the video and it will begin downloading!

Step 6) Enjoy your video! It will be in your downloads folder as a flash video file with a .flv file extension. You can play this file in VLC or QuickTime provided that you have Perian installed.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments below.

Step 1) On your iDevice, go to the Settings App.

Step 2) Select Wi-Fi.

Step 3) Select the network that you are currently connected to and click on the blue and white arrow on the right of that network.

Step 4) Click on DNS and change the current value to 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

Step 5) Open Safari and go to any website just to make sure the settings are working.

Step 6) Now, go to Settings > Software Update and you should now be able to download the iOS 5.1 update!

Another attempt at a solution, under Settings > General > Date & Time, make sure that Set Automatically is turned to “ON.”

Hope this solves your problem and you are able to download iOS 5.1. To learn more about the new features in iOS 5.1, go here.

One of Apple’s biggest features included in the update was Japanese language support for Siri. Other major featrues include being able to delete photos from Photo Stream, improved face detection, multiple iTunes Match improvements, the new Camera Button on the lockscreen, location services that are improved, a new camera app for the iPad, as well as podcast control on the iPad. Lastly, although not openly claimed by Apple, the iPhone battery issues that were plaguing both the iPhone 4 and the 4S have seemed to have improved. If your battery life seems worse, a full restore is recommended.

Here is a breakdown of the features, one-by-one:

Japanese Language Siri Support

Siri is now available for Japanese users. This feature was, in fact, the only major feature announced with the update, and is a significant addition with future languages soon to be implemented.

Delete Photos from Photo Stream

This update allows you to delete photos from your iCloud Photo Stream directly from any device running iOS 5.1. This is useful because there may be some pictures that you only want on one device and some that you want to sync over all of your devices. This feature has also been included in iPhoto for Mac, iCloud, and the Apple TV.

Improved Face Detection

With the iOS 5.1 update comes a feature that is often suggested, face detection. As with any other camera, a green box now shows up around things the camera app thinks are faces.

iTunes Match Improvements

There have been various improvements to the iOS 5.1 version of iTunes Match on various iDevices. Genius Playlists and Genius Mixes can now be made and synced via iTunes Match. If these features are not working correctly for you, you may need to turn on/off the iTunes Match option.

New Camera Button

With the iOS 5.1 update, the camera button is now directly located on the lockscreen. Now you can simply flick up to access the camera without a password instead of double tapping the home button and touching the camera button. This feature is nice for quick shots of an action event that you would normally have missed by unlcoking your iPhone and then finding the camera app. Props to Apple for such a nice interface.

Location Services Improved

Now, there are three different indicators that can show up in your status bar for location services. A description of each of these icons can now be found under Settings > Location Services. This will help users know exactly what apps are using their location actively and will also notify you if any apps are using it in the background.

New iPad Camera App

Now, when you rotate your iPad, the controls follow you and align correctly on the bottom. The camera shutter button has also moved to the right side making it easier to access if you are holding your iPad by its side.

Podcast Control on the iPad

There are now iPad-specific controls for podcasts including changing the playback speed, rewinding for 30 seconds at a time, and other podcast control support that had been lacking on the iPad.

4G Network Indicator

Apple has also updated the network indicator to now say 4G instead of the previous 3G for AT&T iPhones. This update has caused much controversy concerning whether or not it is actually 3G or 4G. If you happen to be in range of the HSPA+ network from AT&T, your indicator will show the 4G icon. Some people do not consider HSPA+ to be true 4G but apparently Apple does.

Improved Battery Life

The battery life story of iOS 5 continues with iOS 5.1. In previous beta versions, it was reported that the battery life had been improved. We will actually see if this holds true for the actual release of 5.1 as we give users time to test these claims. If you are having battery problems, check out our in-depth article with tips to fix these issues located here.

Step 1) Open iTunes and select your device on the left sidebar.

Step 2) Go to the Apps section.

Step 3) Select “Sync Apps.”

Step 4) Check the apps you want to add to your iDevice.

Step 5) Select “apply” in the bottom right hand corner.

Step 6) The apps that you just selected should now be enabled to drag onto your device!

Example: 40.748342, -73.984606

Another entry mode you can use is Deg Min Sec with spaces. For example: 40 46 49 -73 58 08 will put you in Central Park.

There are several ways to accomplish this simple feature in the Maps App. However, if you are looking to find your coordinates, use the Compass app and look at the bottom in the center. There you will find a set of numbers which are actually your coordinates.

Step 1) Go to Settings > General > About. The tidbit of information you are looking for is actually called the “Wi-Fi address” on your device. Use that identifier for whatever network device that may need it.

That was easy! Hope this helps you guys!

Here is a screenshot to show you what to uncheck:

Step 1) Open System Preferences (dock icon or spotlight)

Step 2) Click Mission Control in the top row.

Step 3) Uncheck the box labeled “Show dashboard as a space”

On the Mac, they are located here: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup Which you can easily navigate to if on Finder, you press CMD-Shift-G (Go to folder).

On the PC, the backups are located here: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\SyncServices\Local

Hope this helps!

Stay tuned and discuss the new iPad in the comments below!

Step 1) On your device, go to Settings > Music > iTunes Match.

Step 2) Turn iTunes Match to “OFF.”

Step 3) Wait about 5 minutes, then open the music app and confirm that no music is showing up there.

Step 4) Go back to Settings > Music > iTunes Match and turn iTunes Match back to “ON.”

Step 5) Wait for iTunes Match to sync and your playlist should now be there.

Annoying but that’s the fix!

Safari now includes an omnibar

Safari now has an omnibar, a similar feature that Chrome has had for a while, that combines the search and the address bar together. In addition, autocomplete on the omnibar includes bookmarks, recent history, and in addition, it syncs with Safari on iOS.

Safari now has tabs that fill up the whole tab bar

A new feature that for some is undesirable is the behavior that results in the tab bar when you have only one or even two tabs open. With only one tab open and the tab bar showing, the one tab fills up the entire space and ends up becoming a second title bar. This is a waste of space. Even for two tabs, it still looks off because now the tabs are half the size of the screen, still too large. Hopefully, Apple will fix this “issue” before the actual release comes out. We will see.

Safari has removed RSS functionality

Hopefully, this feature is also restored to Safari. I know a few people who used Safari as their main RSS reader, and in the new beta, this functionality has been removed. There is no screenshot of this feature because the feature is nonexistent at the moment.

Here is another post about Safari 5.2 Beta that also includes a download link for update 2 if you are so inclined.

EDIT: For update 3, check out this post here for another download link!

Post in the comments below with more features that you have found (added or removed) and discuss the recent advancements of Safari!

“There was an error downloading your purchased music. An unknown error occurred (-50).”

Step 1) If you have any of the following, you will have to configure them to allow certain domains through. * Firewalls * Web Accelerators * Ad Filters * Virus Protection Software

Step 2) Follow the documentation from each of the listed applications to fix the issue. Allow these domains to go through to iTunes: * itunes.apple.com * ax.itunes.apple.com * albert.apple.com * gs.apple.com

If you are receiving this error because of this message: “Error (-50)” when downloading purchased videos, then delete the cached video files of the download, and start the download again from the beginning; this will resolve this issue.

Step 1) Uninstall the iBooks app and accept when it asks you if you want to remove your data.

Step 2) Reinstall iBooks by using iTunes on your computer.

Step 3) Open iBooks on your device and scroll to the bottom where you will tap “Sign Out.”

Step 4) Close the app, and you should now be able to access the App Store on your phone.

Step 5) If the iBooks solution did not work, go to iTunes and sync and back up your phone.

Step 6) Restore your iPhone using this guide here.

Step 7) Set the phone up as a new device to be sure that the problem will go away, or restore from a backup if you are feeling confident about this solution.

Step 8) If the restore option did not work for you, try going to the Settings app and down to Store and clicking on “Sign Out.”

Step 9) Open the App Store app and at the bottom, click “Sign In.”

Step 10) Change your router’s band to “compatible with N, b, and g mode.” Sometimes single band routers have trouble supporting different devices on different bands.

Step 11) Lastly, try going to Settings > General > Restrictions.

Step 12) Enable restrictions. Wait 5 seconds. Disable restrictions.

Step 13) Apple recently made it so that passwords must include a capital letter and a number; if yours does not, I would recommend trying to change that using iTunes on your computer. Then follow the steps above to sign out and sign back in on your iPhone.

If none of these solutions worked for you, post in the comments below and I will keep searching for a solution. Otherwise, if any of these did work for you, post below so we can know which methods work best!

Step 1) Make sure that your iPhone is not syncing contacts with Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, or Yahoo!.

Step 2) Plug iPhone in to computer and turn off contact syncing. Unplug, and then sync again.

Step 3) Unplug your iPhone again and quit all instances of Address book, iTunes, iCal etc.. on your Mac.

Step 4) Go to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook and move all the contents of that folder with the exception of the Metadata folder to your desktop (in case you need to restore them).

Step 5) Open iSync from your Applications, go to Preferences, and click reset Sync History.

Step 6) Reopen Address Book.

Step 7) Connect iPhone to iTunes and set up your iPhone to sync contacts as you please.

To do this, follow these instructions below:

Step 1) Open up the Photos app or whichever app you have an attachment to send in.

Step 2) Click the button in the bottom left that has an arrow inside a square.

Step 3) Click “Email Photo.”

Step 4) Continue filling out the rest of the email message as you normally would!

Step 1) Open the Settings app.

Step 2) Go to General then Date & Time.

Step 3) Set Automatically to Yes. If it is already marked as Yes then continue reading.

Step 4) Your network may need to be reset so that your carrier (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon) can push you the correct time. To fix this, go under the Settings app again.

Step 5) Go to General, Reset, and press Reset Network.

Step 6) This should fix most problems, but if not, the last solution involves setting your time manually.

Step 7) Open the Settings app and go back under General and then Date & Time.

Step 8) Turn off Set Automatically and then set your Time Zone and the correct time under manual setting.

FOR MAC OS X

Step 1) Quit iTunes and any other open applications so only Finder is open.

Step 2) Choose Go > Go to Folder (Or you can simply press CMD-Shift-G)

Step 3) Type /Users/Shared/SC Info and click Go.

Step 4) If Finder is not already set to column view, set it by choosing View > as Columns.

Step 5) Select the SC Info folder and move it to the Trash by choosing File > Move to Trash.

Step 6) Open iTunes and choose Store > Check for available downloads.

Step 7) After your rental finishes downloading, choose Store > Authorize.

Step 8)Enter your account name and password, then click the Authorize button.

FOR WINDOWS XP

Step 1) Open My Computer from the desktop or Start Menu.

Step 2) From the Tools menu, choose Folder Options.

Step 3) Click View tab.

Step 4) In the “Advanced settings” pane under “Hidden files and folders,” make sure that the “Show hidden files and folders” option is selected.

Step 5) Click OK.

Step 6) Navigate to the following location by either typing it into the address bar, copying and pasting it into the address bar, or clicking through the folder hierarchy listed:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\

Step 7) Right-click the SC Info folder shown and on the shortcut menu, choose Delete.

Step 8) Restart the computer.

Step 9) Open iTunes and choose Store > Check for available downloads.

Step 10) After your rental finishes downloading, choose Store > Authorize.

Step 11) Enter your account name and password, then click the Authorize button.

FOR WINDOWS VISTA AND WINDOWS 7

Step 1) From the Start menu, choose Computer.

Step 2) From the Organize menu, choose Folder and Search Options.

Step 3) Click the View tab.

Step 4) In the “Advanced settings” pane under “Hidden files and folders,” make sure that the “Show hidden files and folders” option is selected.

Step 5) Click OK.

Step 6) Navigate to the following location by either typing it into the address bar, copying and pasting it into the address bar, or clicking through the folder hierarchy listed:

C:\ProgramData\Apple Computer\iTunes

Step 7) Right-click the SC Info folder shown and from the shortcut menu, choose Delete.

Step 8) Restart the computer.

Step 9) Open iTunes and choose Store > Check for available downloads.

Step 10) After your rental finishes downloading, choose Store > Authorize.

Step 11) Enter your account name and password, then click the Authorize button.

Before you begin, make sure that you are running the latest version of iTunes and the latest version of Windows. Also, if you run into any problems regarding the Absinthe app crashing unexpectedly, restart your computer. If that fails, try starting your computer in Safe Mode. Lastly, run the application in Administrator mode by right clicking on the app and select “Run in Administrator Mode.”

Step 1) Download Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe from here.

Step 2) Remove your password from your device by going to Settings > General > Passcode Lock and Turn Passcode Off.

Step 3) Plug in your device and back it up using iTunes.

Step 4) Open Absinthe with your device plugged in. You should see this screen; when you do, press Jailbreak.

Step 5) Unplug your device and open the Absinthe app on your home screen. A black screen will appear and restart your phone. If your device pops up with a white screen and says “Error establishing a database connection” follow step 5a.

Step 5a) Go to Settings, turn on VPN and wait. VPN should error, and then it will reboot like normal. If it does not, rerun Absinthe.

Step 6) If you are waiting for an unlock, do not jailbreak and restore iOS 5.0 to your 4s using this guide here.

Post comments below if you are having problems jailbreaking! I will respond as quickly as I can!

Make sure you are running the latest version of iOS (5.0.1).

Step 1) Hook up your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad to your computer.

Step 2) Open iTunes (if it is not already open) and go to the music tab.

Step 3) Uncheck “Sync Music.” This will effectively remove all music from your iPhone in an attempt to fix the Music App issues.

Step 4) After iTunes removes all of your music, unplug and replug your iPhone into the computer and go back to the Music tab.

Step 5) Recheck “Sync Music” and apply the changes to fix your Music App.

For slow Music App response on iOS 5, try resetting your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. To do this, simply press and hold both the sleep button (at the top) and the Home button (the circular button at the bottom). Holding them for about 8-10 seconds will reset the iDevice and you should see the Apple logo. This will resolve many issues with the Music App.

Here is another observation made by many people on the Apple Discussion boards: larger cover art (approximately 3000x3000px) will also cause the music app to hang and often freeze.

If there are particular songs that are causing problems for the iOS Music app, simply converting them in iTunes usually fixes the problem. To do this, select the song in iTunes, right click on it and select “Create MP3 Version” or “Create AAC Version” (depending on your settings).

Some people are complaining about sorting in the new iOS 5 music app, this can be fixed by editing your tags in iTunes. Editing the fields “Sort Artists” and “Sort Album” will often fix sorting problems.

As a last resort, you can restore your iPhone either from a backup, or simply to factory settings. This will for sure fix your problem but you will have to resync everything to your iPhone. Very annoying.

In conclusion, it seems that the iPhone Music app in iOS 5 is very buggy and unstable.

Step 1) Download iExplorer here and select your version.

Step 2) Open iExplorer and navigate to your Voice Memos folder called “Recordings” on your iPod Touch or iPhone.

Step 3) Copy that file to your desktop by dragging it.

Step 4) If the file has the extension .mov, change it to .m4a in order to actually listen to the file. This is a bug in iOS that causes the Voice Memos app to append the wrong file extension.

Step 5) You should be able to import this file in iTunes now and change the Kind to Voice Memos.

Tonight, the App Store officially hit the 25 billion downloads milestone. For many, this was an opportunity to win a $10,000 USD iTunes gift card if you were the lucky person who downloaded the 25 billionth. We should know in a few days who exactly won the prize and I’m sure in the near future, we will be talking about the next milestone that Apple will hit, soon after the iPad 3 comes out.

If you are trying to sign into FaceTime using your Apple ID and it says “Could not sign in. Please check your network connection and try again,” try these simple tips to fix the problem.

Step 1) On your iDevice, go to the Settings App.

Step 2) Select Wi-Fi.

Step 3) Select the network that you are currently connected to and click on the blue and white arrow on the right of that network.

Step 4) Click on DNS and change the current value to 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

Step 5) Open Safari and go to any website just to make sure the settings are working.

Step 6) Open up FaceTime and you should now be able to register!

Also, make sure that iMessage is not disabled in the restrictions section under Settings. iMessage and FaceTime are linked and disabling one will in fact disable the other.

Another attempt at a solution, under Settings > General > Date & Time, make sure that Set Automatically is turned to “ON.”

If you are still experiencing problems, you will have to reset your iDevice and setup as a new device. Cumbersome, but it works.

Step 1) Download iExplorer from here and install the correct version (Mac/PC).

Step 2) Open iExplorer and iTunes and plug in your device.

Step 3) On iExplorer, find the device that you want to download your music from. Click the arrow next to iPod or whatever your device is named. Then click the arrow next to Media > iTunes_Control > Music.

Step 4) Select the Music folder and copy it to your desktop.

Step 5) Now drag the Music folder from your desktop to iTunes to get your music back!

Step 1) Download this app, MacDropHide made by Sebastian H, a member of the Dropbox team.

Step 2) Unzip the app and drag and drop it into your Applications folder.

Step 3) Open the app, it will give you a brief warning and then ask if you would like the icon to disappear. Click yes.

Step 4) To restore the icon back to its rightful place, simply reopen the app and it will give you the option to bring the icon back, simply say yes.

And that’s all there is to it! Post in the comments below if you have any questions.

Step 1) Download Dropbox if you haven’t already installed it. (Use this link here and you will receive 250MB of extra space!)

Step 2) After installing and setting up Dropbox, take note of the directory that your Dropbox folder is located in. (Usually, the Dropbox folder is in your home directory)

Step 3) Now we are going to create a cron job. If you have never used a cron job before, here is a Wikipedia entry on what it is used for.

Step 4) Open your favorite text editor and create a new file called “cron.txt” From the examples on the Wikipedia article, we will need to fill in the five fields the distinguish the timing of the cron job and the last field which contains the specified command that runs at that time.

Step 5) The first column of the cron job is the minutes column taking in a value from 00-59 and represents the actual minute that you want the job to run at. For example, 00 means the job will run on the hour, every hour; 04 means that it runs every hour in the fourth minute such as 1:04, 2:04, etc. You can enter multiple values separated by a comma or a range of numbers by using a hyphen. Besides inputting in a specific number, you can also enter * to signifiy a wild card which in this case would run every minute.

Step 6) Fill in the last four columns that are used to set up the frequency of the job. After the minutes column, the rest of the columns are: hour (00-23), day of the month (01-31), month of the year (01-12), day of the week (0-7) zero and sever both signify Sunday. For my file, I used 0,30 * * * * which means my command will run on the hour and on the half hour, every hour of every day for the whole year.

Step 7) The last column of the cron job is the command. This can be whatever command you want, but for the purposes of this article, I will provide the code that I used to find my IP address.

curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org | sed 's/[a-zA-Z/<> :]//g' > ~/Dropbox/ip.txt

In my example above, I am saving a file called “ip.txt” in the root of my Dropbox folder that is located in my home directory.

Step 8) Finally, note the directory of where you saved this file. Open Terminal, located in Applications > Utilities > Terminal, or you can use Spotlight to find it. Using the command “cd” (change directory) navigate to the directory that you saved the “cron.txt” file to.

Step 9) Still in Terminal, run the command: crontab cron.txt

Step 10) To check to make sure that this worked, run the command crontab -l and your file should show its contents.

Step 11) Now, you must wait for the specified time to come, but when it does, there will be a file called “ip.txt” in your Dropbox folder that will automatically sync with the Internet that you can view from anywhere!

Step 12) Now you can always know your home IP address. Happy SSH’ing!

Here is my file that you can use as a sample. Download (Save link as)

Post in the comments below if you have any questions about this technique.

Step 1) Hard reset your phone by holding down the home and the sleep/wake button at the same time until you see the Apple logo appear.

Step 2) If that didn’t work, you will have to restore your iPhone using this guide here. Be sure to set up your iPhone as a new phone, if you set it up from a backup, you will inevitably have the same problems.

Step 1) Try your iTunes Store password first. This is most commonly the password to restore your backup.

Step 2) Try your 4 digit unlock code for your device. If you have a more complex unlock code involving characters and such, try that too.

Step 3) Try 0000 as the password, sometimes the default password is in fact, 0000.

Step 4) Sometimes, the password can be a really old iTunes password that you set a long time ago but have since changed it. The original password is sometimes your backup password. This may be a bug in iTunes but try it and see if it works.

Step 5) If you are using a Mac, you can try using the Keychain method. First, open Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access.app. Second, in the search dialog, search for “iPhone Backup.” Third, double click on the most recent entry for “iPhone Backup.” Fourth, at the bottom of the dialogue box, click “Show password” and type in the administrative password for the computer. This will reveal your iTunes backup password!

Step 6) If you are using Windows, the only thing left to try will be to change your iTunes password on your actual account to access the iTunes Store. Then on the backup password dialogue, try the old password and the newly set password.

Step 7) Try your Windows Administrator password. This is a common solution. Also, even more common is to try the Windows administrator password that you used when you first set up your computer or when you first set up your iPhone.

Step 8) If you have managed to attempt all the steps and nothing has worked, it seems like you will have to restore and set up the phone as a new one.

Here is a rundown of some new features and features that have been removed.

Download link for update 2 here.

EDIT: For update 3, check out this description here and there will also be a download link there.

Step 1) Restart your iPhone by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake button at the same time.

Step 2) Use the phone until the battery runs down to 0% and shuts itself off. Then charge it all the way up to 100%. This will calibrate the battery, but only do this about once a month.

Step 3) When the charging icon changes to fully charged and it is not at 100% yet, simply unplugging the device and then replugging it in will allow it to charge up to 100%.

Step 4) Restore your iPhone using this guide here.

Step 5) Finally, sometimes with new hardware, it takes a few days/weeks to correctly calibrate the battery. You should notice that after a few weeks, the battery readouts will be more accurate and be charged fully up to 100%.

Step 1) After updating your device, sometimes you have to reenter your password in order for your mail to start working. To do this, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars ? click on your Yahoo! account > Account > enter in your password where it asks for it. This should allow your email to be pushed to your iPhone.

Step 2) Set the mail app to show only the last 50 recent messages by going to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Scroll down to Show > change to 50 Recent Messages. Restart phone by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake button at the same time.

Step 3) Delete the Yahoo! Account and then re-add it. Sometimes the settings and server information gets messed up when you restore from a backup.

Step 4) On the web interface for Yahoo! Mail, make a test folder and move the emails into this folder one-by-one. Sometimes there is one email that is causing the push to malfunction and once you find this email, the issue with push Yahoo! mail should be fixed.

Step 5) Go on to your Yahoo! mail with another computer, change your password, then log on and log off with the new password to make sure it works. Go back to your iPhone and change the settings to the new password.

Step 1) Hard reset your phone. To do this, simply press and hold the sleep/wake button and the home button at the same time until the Apple logo appears. This solution is very simple and fixes most instances of this issue.

Step 2) There may be a problem with iMessage on the new iOS 5. Go to Settings > Messages. Turn off iMessage. Reboot your phone (using the method above). Test to see if the problem is gone. Send a text to yourself and quickly press the home button to make sure you are not receiving the overlapping alert. Go Back into Settings > Messages. Turn iMessage back On. Send another text to yourself to clarify that the issue is gone.

Step 3) There might also be a problem with the way notifications are handled on the lock screen. Open Settings > Notifications > click on Messages > change “View in Lock Screen” to OFF. This will eliminate the double alert problem.

Step 4) If the problem still exists, you will have to restore your phone (guide here). However, do not choose to restore from a backup as the problem will still exist. Set up your iPhone as a new phone and then test out the notifications to see if they still double.

UPDATE: Reader, Kenneth Wu has pointed out that in Settings > Notifications > Messages > Repeat Alert, you can set the number of times that you would like to be notified of the same alert. Simply set this to Never if you would only like to hear your alert once. Thanks for pointing that out, Kenneth!

Step 1) Restart your iPod by holding down the home and the sleep/wake button at the same time until the Apple logo appears.

Step 2) If that does not work, you will have to put your iPod in DFU mode by following the guide here.

Step 3) After putting your iPod in DFU mode, you will actually have to restore it back to factory settings. The instructions for this process can be found here.

Hope this helps you guys!

Step 1) Select your device in iTunes and go to the “Apps” tab. Uncheck “sync apps,” then press the sync button in the bottom right corner.

Step 2) After it is done syncing, go back to the “Apps” tab of your device in iTunes and recheck “sync apps.” Then proceed to sync.

Step 3) If that did not fix the problem, repeat those steps on the Music tab and the Movies/TV Shows tab.

Step 4) Last but not least, if those solutions did not solve your problem, then you will have to initiate a restore on your device. To do this, follow the guide posted here. This will fix all problems associated with the “Other” data on your device.

Before you begin, make sure that you are running the latest version of iTunes and the latest version of Mac OS X. Also, if you run into any problems regarding the Absinthe app crashing unexpectedly, restart your computer. If that also does not work, then restart your computer in Safe Mode by holding down the Shift key right when you turn on your Mac.

Step 1) Download Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe from here.

Step 2) Remove your password from your device by going to Settings > General > Passcode Lock and Turn Passcode Off.

Step 3) Plug in your device and back it up using iTunes.

Step 4) Open Absinthe with your device plugged in. You should see this screen, press Jailbreak.

Step 5) Unplug your device and open the Absinthe app on your home screen. A black screen will appear and restart your phone. If your device pops up with a white screen and says, “Error establishing a database connection” follow step 5a.

Step 5a) Go to Settings, turn on VPN and wait. VPN should error and then it will reboot like normal. If it does not, rerun Absinthe.

Step 6) If you are waiting for an unlock, do not jailbreak and restore iOS 5.0 to your 4s using this guide here.

If you are having issues, @planetbeing just posted this on Twitter. Give it a try!

Running Absinthe from Terminal seems to fix issues for some people: cd to where the app is and ./Absinthe.app/Contents/MacOS/Absinthe

Post a comment below if you have any trouble!

UPDATE: Windows version out. Guide here.

Step 1) Plug in your iDevice into your computer using the USB cable.

Step 2) Press and hold the sleep/wake button and the home button simultaneously. Continue holding until the screen turns black and keep holding until the Apple logo reappears.

Step 3) If this does not work and the iDevice is still frozen on the Apple boot screen, follow the instructions here on how to put your iDevice into DFU mode and then from there, restore your iDevice using the guide here.

Step 1) Go to Settings > Phone Menu > Turn SIM PIN off. It will ask you for the PUK code which you can get online through your AT&T account. After you enter in the PUK code, go back to settings and turn the SIM Pin off.

Step 2) After you turn off the SIM Pin, turn on airplane mode and wait 15 seconds.

Step 3) Reset network settings by going to General > Reset Settings > Reset Network Settings.

Step 4) Upgrading to iOS 5.0.1 may have actually fried your SIM card. Try and get a new micro sim from AT&T by going into the store and asking them to test your SIM card. This has worked for a small percentage of people.

Step 5) After getting a new micro SIM card, download the latest 5.0.1 from iTunes it you have not already. Restore your phone as a new phone using this guide here.

Step 6) Again follow Step 1 to turn off the SIM Pin.

Step 7) Go to Settings > Carrier > Automatic and turn it off. Then select your network manually.

Leave a comment below if you are having trouble!

To alleviate this problem, follow the steps below:

1. Make sure you are using the latest version of iTunes. You can download the latest version here.
2. If you are using the latest version, try uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version of iTunes.
3. Make sure that your hosts file does not contain any entries pointing to servers other than gs.apple.com.
   On Windows, the hosts file can be found here: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
   On OSX, the hosts file can be found here: /private/etc/hosts.
4. The host file content varies by operating system.

For Windows XP, the standard hosts file should look something like:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

For Windows Vista, it should look like:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

For Windows 7, it should look like:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

The “#” lines represent comments and have no effect. The localhost entries allow the computer to refer to itself. The 3194 problem can arise if there are entries that point to an update server other than gs.apple.com.

If your host files look similar but are not exactly the same, you should backup and delete/add the lines that are unnecessary. You can use Notepad or TextEdit but make sure that you do not save the file with a .txt extension. Reboot your computer and try to update iOS or whatever else caused the error to occur.

Let us know in the comments below if you have any questions!

(Note: These are all software fixes that are presented below. Your issue may very well be a hardware issue that must be dealt with by taking your device directly to Apple to see if they can do anything about it.)

Step 1) Try resetting your Network connectivity. To do this go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This will reconnect with your carrier (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint) and hopefully alleviate any connection issues.

Step 2) Disable Bluetooth: Settings > General > Bluetooth > “OFF.” Bluetooth can sometimes try and connect to various hardware that will cause a substantial decrease in battery life.

Step 3) Disable unwanted notifications & apps: Settings > Notifications > Turn OFF for anything you don’t need or use anymore. A rogue app may be constantly trying to connect to a website or server.

Step 4) Disable Location Service: Settings > Location Services > Disable selectively for services you don’t use or need.

Step 5) Disable Timezone Adjustment: Tap on Settings > Location Services > System Services > Setting Time Zone to “OFF.”

Step 6) Disable Ping: Settings > General > Restrictions > Enable Restrictions > Ping > OFF. Who uses Ping anyway?

Step 7) Disable Diagnostic & Usage Reports: Tap on “Settings” > General > About > Diagnostic & Usage > Don’t Send. Apple set this up to collect “Anonymous” information. Turn this off to improve battery life because your iDevice won’t be connecting to Apple’s servers every five minutes.

Step 8) Disable Email accounts by heading to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Account Name > Delete Account. Once done, reset network settings (Step 1), then reboot your device and re-add your accounts back from Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.

Step 9) Make sure you are running the latest version of iOS. As of the time of this writing, the latest version is 5.0.1.

Step 10) Backup your iPhone and do a complete restore (guide here). You can either set up your iPhone as a new device for complete freedom from previous bugs, or you can risk the battery issue again by restoring from a backup. Your choice.

Step 11) Setting your mail accounts to Fetch. Go to Settings > Mail, Calendar, Contacts > Fetch new data > Turn off Push and set fetch to manually. Then click on Advanced and set all accounts to Fetch.

Step 12) Calibrate the battery by letting it run down completely to zero, then charging it all the way up to 100%.

Step 13) Set your brightness down to 50%. Also, turn Auto Brightness to OFF, keep the brightness to one level, the auto up and down is draining additional power.

Step 14) If you are running on a 4s and seldom use Siri, or just want to use her less often, Settings > General > Siri = Turn off Raise to Speak.

Step 15) Update to the beta 3 of iOS 5.1. This update has fixed virtually all issues with battery problems on iPhone 4S. Guide here.

Please post any other solutions you have found in the comments below. Also, feel free to rant about battery performance because the more we lash out at Apple by creating these support forums, the more press they will receive about the issue.

Now for the actual guide:

Step 1) Backup your device using iTunes.

Step 2) Download the latest TinyUmbrella from above.

Step 3) Run TinyUmbrella (On Windows, you will have to run it in Administrator Mode.) TinyUmbrella does not download your SHSH; you will have to download them from Cydia before running TinyUmbrella.

Step 4) Click “Save my SHSH” and all the SHSH on your device that has downloaded from Cydia will be copied to your computer. You should do this twice, once with the box under advanced that say “Request SHSH from Cydia” checked. and again with it unchecked.

To restore the SHSH, follow these steps:

Step 1) Press “Start TSS Server” in TinyUmbrella.

Step 2) Open iTunes and hold down Shift on Windows or Option on Mac and click on Restore for the device you would like to restore.

Step 3) A window will open in which you can chose your firmware to downgrade to.

Step 4) Now you can jailbreak the firmware that you just installed. If this device is not an iPhone 4S or iPad 2, follow the guide here. If it is, I will have a guide up shortly.

Step 1) Restart your iPhone by holding down the home and the sleep/wake button at the same time until the Apple logo appears.

Step 2) If that does not work, you will have to put your iPhone in DFU mode by following the guide here.

Step 3) After putting your iPhone in DFU mode, you will actually have to restore it back to factory settings. The instructions for this process can be found here.

Hope this helps you guys!

Step 1) On your iDevice, go to the Settings App.

Step 2) Select Wi-Fi.

Step 3) Select the network that you are currently connected to and click on the blue and white arrow on the right of that network.

Step 4) Click on DNS and change the current value to 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

Step 5) Open Safari and go to any website just to make sure the settings are working.

Step 6) Open up iMessage and you should now be able to register!

Also, make sure that FaceTime is not disabled in the restrictions section under Settings. iMessage and FaceTime are linked and disabling one will in fact disable the other.

Another attempt at a solution, under Settings > General > Date & Time, make sure that Set Automatically is turned to “ON.”

If you are still experiencing problems, you will have to reset your iDevice and setup as a new device. Cumbersome, but it works.

This works for sure on Microsoft XP, and will most likely work on Windows Vista and Windows 7 also. Post in the comments if it does not, or if it does!

Step 1) In Internet Explorer, go up to Tools > Internet Options.

Step 2) Go to the last tab, Advanced, and scroll down to the Security section.

Step 3) Make sure “Check for server certificate revocation (requires restart)” is unchecked (5th box down).

Step 4) Access the iTunes Store as usual and hopefully it will fix the iTunes 9808 error.

Step 5) Purchase and/or celebrate connecting to the iTunes store!

Step 1) If you are running iOS 5.0.1 or below (which at the time of this article, is the latest version), the process is very simple. Just plug your iDevice into iTunes and click “Restore.” Follow the guide here for a more in-depth tutorial. That’s it; it’s that simple.

Step 2) You will hopefully have your SHSH blobs saved. If so, then this will be extremely simple. Follow the guide here for restoring your SHSH blobs using TinyUmbrella. Then follow the guide here to continue with the restore.

If you run into any problems along the way such as error codes, search for them in the search box on the right.

If you have problems restoring, you may have to put your device in DFU mode. Follow the guide here for this information.

Post questions in the comments!

In addition, if your iPhone or other iDevice is already jailbroken but tethered, simply go on Cydia and find the package called “Corona” and install it. Your jailbreak is now untethered and you do not have to use redsn0w.

For an untethered jailbreak from an iDevice that has not been jailbroken, follow the steps below.

Step 1) Download redsn0w from the links below:

redsn0w 0.9.10b4 for OS X

redsn0w 0.9.10b4 for Windows (Make sure you run this in Administrator Mode.)

Step 2) Open redsn0w and you should see this screen below. Make sure you are running the beta version, as it has been updated since its initial release.

Step 3) Select “Jailbreak” and it will guide you into turning your iPhone off before putting it into DFU mode.

Step 4) Plug your iDevice into your computer and turn it off by holding down the sleep/wake button and sliding the top to OFF. Then click “Next” on redsn0w.

Step 5) Follow the instructions on the next screen for putting your iDevice into DFU mode. Screenshot below.

Step 6) redsn0w will chug away now, jailbreaking your device in the process. After it is complete, you will have an UNTETHERED jailbreak for your device.

Leave a comment below if this worked for you, and as soon as the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak comes out, I will provide an in-depth guide here. So stay tuned!

EDIT: The actual iOS 5.1 has been released. To find out more information about new features, go here.

Step 1) Head over to imzdl.com to download the latest beta for your device.

Step 2) Plug in your device and go to it in iTunes.

Step 3) Hold down Option on the Mac or Shift on Windows and click on Check for Updates.

Step 4) Find the .ipsw that you just downloaded above and select that.

Step 5) The iDevice will now update to the newest beta!

Post in the comments if you have any questions, I will be sure to help you out!

Step 1) Open iTunes and connect your iPhone.

Step 2) Press and Hold the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button.

Step 3) After around 10 seconds, release the Sleep/Wake button but continue to hold the Home button.

Step 4) Your iPhone should have a black screen or a screen with the connect to iTunes graphic. iTunes should pop up and say that a device was found in Recovery Mode. This is good! Now restore your iPhone like normal using this guide here!

Note: If you are holding the Home button and Sleep/Wake button too long, you will know this because your iPhone will restart and you will see the Apple Logo. Just keep trying, sometimes it takes several attempts to get your iPhone in DFU mode.

Step 1) On your iDevice, go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. Uncheck Mail.

Step 2) Restart your iDevice by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake button.

Step 3) Spotlight should now work, but will not search email. To reenable email, simply go back to Settings > General > Spotlight Search and recheck the mail option.

Step 4) If the proposed solution above did not work, try the same thing again but uncheck all the spotlight options, restart, and then recheck them.

Step 5) Last but not least, sync your iDevice with iTunes. For some odd reason, the act of syncing the device causes the spotlight issue to go away.

Post comments below if you have any questions.

To change your dock to the 2D version at all times, simply follow these instructions:

Step 1) Open up Terminal (if you don’t know what or where that is, press the spotlight icon in the top right hand corner of your screen and type in “Terminal” or press CMD-Spacebar to quickly access Spotlight.

Step 2) Type the following command (or copy and paste if you are feeling lazy)

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

Step 3) Press Enter to run the command.

Step 4) Type

killall Dock

Step 5) Press Enter to run the command.

Now your dock should reload and it should be the 2D version.

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Step 1) Plug in your device and open iTunes.

Step 2) Select the device, and on the Summary page, click “Restore”

Step 3) I would recommend selecting backup on the next screen.

Step 4) Click Restore on the next dialogue.

Step 5) Once the software has been updated/restored on your device, a dialogue will appear asking whether or not you will be setting up the device as new or to restore from backup. Choose whichever option you want.

Step 6) That’s it! Your device has now been restored. Your problems should be alleviated and the device should feel a bit faster!

Discuss below!

Step 1) Restart your iPhone by holding down the home button and the sleep/wake button simultaneously until the Apple logo appears.

Step 2) Restart iTunes. This fix usually solves the problem, but keep reading if it did not help you specifically.

Step 3) Restart your computer. Sometimes configuration files get messed up.

Step 4) Update all of your apps in iTunes and try to sync your iPhone again. This fixes most problems related to wrong versions of apps not being able to be installed.

Step 5) On iTunes, go to Preferences > Store and uncheck all the “Automatic Downloads” boxes for apps, downloads, and music.

Step 6) Using a 3rd party USB cable sometimes causes errors and unfinished, faulty syncs. Use the Apple USB cable for an error-free experience.

Step 7) For Windows only, go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Device Manager. Click on your PC’s name and on the upper level, click on “Action” and then “scan for hardware changes.” Restart iTunes.

Hopefully one of these solutions worked for you. If not, explain the exact problem in the comments below and we will try to help!