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Flickr Find: Transferring games from iPad to Apple II

Flickr Find: Transferring games from iPad to Apple II

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Flickr Find: Transferring games from iPad to Apple II This is a little on the old side, circa late 2011, but it's still incredibly cool. Reader Ken Fager posted a photo of an iPad being used to download games from the Apple Game Server Online onto an Apple //e. Fager(…)

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Flickr Find: A history of Apple OS installer CDs

Flickr Find: A history of Apple OS installer CDs

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Flickr Find: A history of Apple OS installer CDs Remember when all Mac computers shipped with install CDs? With the debut of the Mac App Store and digital distribution, those days are gone. Like album cover art, the decorative designs of install discs are collectibles that we can admire while(…)

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The Handy Dandy Guide to Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts

Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures The Handy Dandy Guide to Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts … because clicking a mouse to move between pages is too hard. Submitted by: Unknown (via Forbes) Tagged: facebook pages , keyboard shortcuts , facebook settings , mac os x , windows , shortcuts , keyboard , failbook , g(…)

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Merge contacts in OS X Contacts app

MacOSXHints.com Merge contacts in OS X Contacts app This isn’t a hidden feature, but it’s one that many people may not know. I found it recently when I discovered that I had dozens of duplicate contacts in my Contacts app, caused by quirky iCloud syncing. If you find that you have two cards for the(…)

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Google will end mainstream support for ActiveSync in January

Google will end mainstream support for ActiveSync in January

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Google will end mainstream support for ActiveSync in January Google has announced that, as part of its “Winter Cleaning” initiative, it will be ending support for Exchange ActiveSync outside of Google Apps for Business, Government and Education on January 30, 2013. ActiveSync will continue to work past that date for(…)

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Fake installer malware makes its way to Mac

Fake installer malware makes its way to Mac

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Fake installer malware makes its way to Mac If you download a Mac app and its installer asks you for your phone number, you’re likely looking at the latest malware to find its way onto OS X. According to Russian security firm Dr. Web, a Trojan malware has been identified(…)

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Scripts to disable and enable password for lock screen after sleep or screen saver

MacOSXHints.com Scripts to disable and enable password for lock screen after sleep or screen saver Here is two small scripts that I use to set and unset the password prompt when I lock the screen, or put my Mac to sleep. It is a nuisance to have to unlock the screen by entering the password,(…)

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Features of the new iTunes 11 MiniPlayer

Features of the new iTunes 11 MiniPlayer

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Features of the new iTunes 11 MiniPlayer As you start playing around with iTunes 11, don’t forget that it ships with a completely updated MiniPlayer. Here’s a quick guide to this great little tool. Moving to and from the MiniPlayer Look at the top-right corner of your iTunes browsing window.(…)

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iTunes 11 for old fogies: goin’ back to the way it was

iTunes 11 for old fogies: goin’ back to the way it was

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) iTunes 11 for old fogies: goin’ back to the way it was So you just downloaded and installed iTunes 11. Now you’re scratching your head and going, um…where did my iTunes go? This is the post for you. Here are a few things for you to do to get back(…)

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iOS’s Notification Center cares more about my contacts’ birthdays than I do

iOS’s Notification Center cares more about my contacts’ birthdays than I do

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) iOS’s Notification Center cares more about my contacts’ birthdays than I do I love Notification Center, but there’s one thing that’s bugged me about it since its introduction in iOS 5 and that thing is even worse in iOS 6: Notification Center always shows your contacts’ birthdays no matter what.(…)

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Apple accommodates European law with Lightning Micro USB adapter

Apple accommodates European law with Lightning Micro USB adapter

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Apple accommodates European law with Lightning Micro USB adapter Apple’s iPhone 5 introduced the Lightning connectivity port as well as adapters for older, 30-pin hardware. A Micro USB adapter was also released on Sept. 12, which Apple had to produce to comply with European law. Apple, RIM, Nokia and nearly(…)

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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion gripe list

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion gripe list

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion gripe list To be sure, I think OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is the best OS Apple has ever released. It feels like a completed version of what Mac OS X 10.7 Lion should have been. It’s fast, it’s clean, it melds some iOS concepts(…)

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Save space after Mail upgrade

Save space after Mail upgrade

MacOSXHints.com Save space after Mail upgrade Migrating Mail from Lion to Mountain Lion leaves behind a folder containing previous attachments. Attachments in Lion were saved to ~/Library/Mail Downloads, but under Mountain Lion, Mail is now sandboxed, and the new path is ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads. During the upgrade, the folder contents are copied from the old location(…)

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Find out what’s keeping your Mac awake

Find out what’s keeping your Mac awake

MacOSXHints.com Find out what’s keeping your Mac awake Have you ever been annoyed to find that your Mac won’t got to sleep when you tell it to? It turns out that in Mac OS X 10.6 and later, there’s a simple way of finding out what’s keeping your Mac awake. Run the following command in(…)

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