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                     bamf-hacker in our iPhone 4S Forum wrote up a quick but smart tip on how to useSiri to access Bluetooth and other Setting with only… the power of your voice. All you need to do is create a contact and in the Web site field put the code for the system preference. for example. Contact name...

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                 Wondering how to save video attachments you get in Email to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad camera roll? In previous versions of iOS, while you could easily tap-and-hold to save pictures in Mail, Safari, Messages and other built-in-apps, trying to do the same with movies — movies mailed or messaged from other iPhones and...

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Resetting all devices by powering them down. UNPLUG THE POWER CORDS! 1.  Unplug your XBOX 360. 2. Unplug your Time Capsule or Airport Extreme. 3. Unplug your Cable Modem or DSL Modem. Wait a few minutes. We are waiting for them to release them from your DHCP lease and clearing any RAM that may be lingering. Sometimes leaving things unplugged really does work....

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        It was previously very difficult and even unreliable to password protect Time Machine backups in older versions of Mac OS X. In Lion, however, Apple has made encrypting backups as easy as checking a single box.         Most Mac users have no need to encrypt their Time Machine backups, but those who are extra careful or...

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AirDrop is a new feature in Mac OS X Lion that makes sharing files between Macs easier than ever. There are no accounts to sign into, networks to connect to, or preferences to set up. Some Macs don’t support AirDrop, though, and sharing over Ethernet isn’t possible by default. Transferring files from Mac to Mac is so easy in Mac OS X Lion...

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     In the following simple solution, I will show you how to Check your Macbook warranty Status to see how much time remains on you Macbook Warranty from the factory. This is particularly useful if you have purchased or are planning to purchase a used Macbook or Macbook Pro. The Apple Warranty on these machines goes with the computer, regardless of if...

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The iPhone 4S is official, which isn’t too surprising considering the release date and name was leaked by Apple Japan prior to the Apple event. Nonetheless it’s a big update in terms of specs, so here’s what we know. While the exterior looks identical to the iPhone 4, the interior is quite a bit different with significant upgrades. ·         Dual Core A5 CPU with 2x...

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The latest iPad 2 specs revealed many things, but it was the new Apple  A5 Chip that impressed the most; not because it is twice as powerful as the A4 processor, but because it does not demand any more power from the battery. This is certainly a big deal, as you will be able to still get 10 hours battery life while playing...

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            The second coming of the iPhone 4? Sure enough, Tim Cook just pulled the covers off of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 4S here in Cupertino, making 2011 the first year in the company's current stint in the smartphone business that it chose to launch three new handsets (Verizon's CDMA iPhone 4 included, of course). On the outside the 4S looks exactly like its predecessor,...

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       This approach is different, it lets you change the password of the user currently logged into Mac OS X Lion,without knowing the user password, and without a reboot: ·         Launch the Terminal, located in /Applications/Utilities/ ·         Type ‘whoami’ at the command line to get the current users precise login name, which will look something like this: $ whoami Will ·         Type...

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       By enabling a hidden debug feature in Disk Utility, you are able to both view and mount hidden partitions on hard drives in Mac OS X. Hidden partitions include things like Linux swap, Windows Recovery drive, and OS X Lion‘s Recovery HD, and once they’re mounted they can be edited or formatted just like any other drive. Here is how to...

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If you’ve visited the Sharing Preference panel since upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 you may have noticed there is no longer the option to enable an FTP server to share files and folders. It’s unclear why Apple pulled the easy frontend to FTP sharing, but if you still want to run a local FTP server (or SFTP) in Mac OS X you can with...

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Sometimes we need to separate our hard drive into independent chunks of space and we call thispartitioning. This is most often not needed, but if you want to install another operating system on your computer you will find this to be needed or to protect a system from failure. (Please note that this does not protect you from hardware failures) Partitioning on the Mac is quite simple, you first need to launch...

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        Uses: You might want to have several people accessing the same Mac but not want to share the same preferences such as: dock settings, applications, desktop background, Address Book data, Mail settings, iTunes…             Go to System Preferences by clicking the Apple at the top left of your Mac screen and then selecting “System Preferences"...

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