“That was a tough period, more than two weeks with nothing happening!”
“You mean the government shutdown?”
“No, the time between Apple announcements.”
Here’s another game that is getting a second life on the iPad. The 7th Guest was one of the best games of the 90s, and is perfect for someone looking for a Halloween scare. Solve puzzles and enjoy the mystery.
If you have OS X 10.9 you can see the Library folder by going to your Home folder in a Finder window, and then choosing View, Show View Options and then checking Show Library Folder.
There are hundreds of keyboard shortcuts for Mac users. There are Mission Control shortcuts, Finder shortcuts, system shortcuts, application shortcuts and more. Many you can find by just looking through the menu bar for that application. You can find system ones by looking in the System Preferences under Keyboard.
But some keyboard shortcuts are more useful than others. And some are harder to remember than others.
So MacMost has compiled a list of our top “power user” keyboard shortcuts for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Here they all are on a single PDF page, downloadable and printable: The MacMost Mavericks Power User Keyboard Shortcuts. Download it and pass it along!
With the iPhone 5s you can take a burst of photos at 10 images per second and then choose which photos from that collection to keep.
It is important to keep tabs on your Burst Mode shoots, as just a few seconds of burst shooting here and there can fill up the space on your iPhone. A good practice is to take a burst, select the one or two you want, and then delete the burst collection immediately.
It’s official: Apple will hold another special event on Tuesday, Oct. 22. While the invitation doesn’t mention any products specifically, it is likely that we’ll hear about new iPad models. The event comes almost exactly one year after the announcement of the 4th generation iPad and iPad mini. It is likely that Apple will make the new iPads available either Friday, Nov. 1 or Friday, Nov. 8.
It is also very likely that Apple will announce the release of Mac OS X 10.9, Mavericks. The new version of the Mac operating system has been in testing for some time, and developers recently were notified to submit apps to the Mac App Store that support Mavericks. It is uncertain whether Mavericks will be released on that day, or some day soon to follow.
I like games that teach you something while you play. Type:Rider is a fairly basic side-scrolling roller with some puzzle solving. But the backdrop to this game is the history of fonts and printing. You can skip the text, or read it and learn something. Plus, it looks beautiful.
Run Terminal. Then type say followed by anything you want in quotes.
say "Hello World"
Your Mac will speak it. The voice settings are in System Preferences, Dictation & Speech, Text to Speech.
“I wish Apple had a ‘Find My Husband’ feature. Then when he stays out too late with his buddies I can deactivate him remotely.”
When you search with the Safari browser on your iPhone, you get results from Google. But you can also change Safari's default search engine to use Yahoo or Bing. Also, no matter which search engine is your default, you can always use another engine for any search.
But you don't need to set a search engine as the default in order to use it. If you ever want to use a different search engine than your default, you can simply go to that engine's web page.
There are many more search engines besides Google, Yahoo and Bing. Any one of them will work on the iPhone. If you often switch between engines, you may want to simply bookmark each engine's home page for quicker access.
The Clocks app allows you to add different locations to your World Clocks screen so you can see the time in different parts of the world that are important to you.
Clock times will accurately represent different locations, even ones following or not following daylight savings time. Even very strange time zones -- try adding Eucla, Australia.
It is still just a rumor, but some sites are reporting that Apple will announce the next generation of iPads on Oct. 22. This is almost exactly one year after the previous iPad announcement, so it sounds plausible. Most rumor sites indicate that the new iPad will have a faster processor similar to the latest iPhone 5s, and that it will have a design much like the current iPad mini. The mini may also receive a processor upgrade, and may get a retina display.
Reports also speculate that Apple will use the Oct. 22 event to update us on the availability of a new Mac Pro machine, and release Mavericks, the next version of OS X. Developers recently received the gold master beta release of Mavericks, so the public release is almost certainly very near.
The real reason Apple added a fingerprint scanner to the iPhone was to lock up the Koala smartphone market.
You can quickly and temporarily clear away all of the windows on your Mac and view your Desktop with either the F11 key, or Command+F3. But if you have toggled the function keys, you may need to use the FN key as well. Check in System Preferences, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mission Control and look for Show Desktop to make sure it is enabled. Then you use this function, you can even drag and drop items on the Desktop before using the same keys to return to the windows.
