All those who signed up for the public beta can log in to the beta site and download OS X Yosemite now. The download is around 5.07 GB and seems to be newer than the earlier developer preview.
For people interested in checking out and participating in the public beta of Mac OS X Yosemite, you can sign up for it on the OS X Beta Program Site.
Only the first one million sign ups will be accepted. So, hurry up if interested!
For people interested in checking out and participating in the public beta of Mac OS X Yosemite, you can sign up for it on the OS X Beta Program Site.
Only the first one million sign ups will be accepted. So, hurry up if interested!
EzeeCube seems to be a must have for most homes today.
We all have tons of digital photos and videos from our phones that really need to be organised and sorted out. This stackable, and therefore extendable gadget does it all.
No need for any Internet connection. It’s all locally done, right in the comfort of your home network at blazing speeds unlike the relatively slow Internet speeds.
Check out the IndieGoGo page where this gizmo has already been over-subscribed.
There is also a very nice video and a writeup from EnGadget which is worth looking into.
I hope to get my hands on one of these sometime soon…
Apple released iTunes U 2.0 with support for creating and sharing courses a few hours ago. Although it is too early to figure out the actual impact and overall usage and adoption given the high price of Apple devices, it does look promising.
To create a course, you need to have an iPad and have to register with an Institute name and profile, which, can be edited later. I guess details will emerge as and when people start using it.
A brief description from the application is as follows:
Create courses on iPad
Apple released iOS 7.1.2 and Mavericks 10.9.4 a few hours ago. Once again, at least the iOS update appears to be untried and untested. There is also an update for Apple TV, 6.2, although I did not see anything new or different in the brief look I had after the update.
Those attempting to update iOS using iTunes might be out of luck as the update might get stuck after a while. The OTA update seems to work fine on a few devices that I tried.
Well…Not a very exciting event from Apple, but, there are some points that could stretch Apple’s lead in the mobile and desktop market to some extent.
A word of caution for early adopters. Do not attempt to try iOS 8 just as yet on your primary phone. Most of the current applications will not work as expected and a vast majority would simply crash, including the stock apps. Yosemite, although usable, is quite laggy and slow, which is to be expected from a developer preview. The same applies to Xcode 6 beta.
Back in 2010, I had listed out some of the apps I was using and recommended the same. A lot has evolved since. It’s not just the apps, its also the devices that have changed giving rise to better and more powerful apps. I will try to cover the basic setup options for a new iDevice running iOS 7. iOS is currently at version 7.1.1 and, ideally, one should upgrade to this version, if not already on it.
I will focus on the iPhone here since that is the most commonly used iDevice. Most of the following also applies to the iPad. You can find tutorials for the iDevices on Apple’s site as well as YouTube, if needed.
When this first happened to one of my external backup drives, I was at a loss. The drive would not show up in Finder, but, I could see it in the “Disk Utility”. Attempting to repair the disk from Disk Utility, resulted in the message above.
Naturally, I Googled around and found that this was a very common issue and quite a few people had posted similar issues on Apple and other forums. Mostly people put it down to WD hard drives and some had even written to WD about the same.
After some experimenting, I found the solution to be surprisingly simple and pointed to yet another bug in Mavericks.
I tried this on different external drives of different capacities by simply pulling out the USB without ejecting the drive. Sure enough, I got the same issue and message after running disk utility on almost all occasions.
The solution, for me, was quite simple. Let the “Disk Utility” try and repair the drive and come up with the message shown above. Then remove the drive and plug it back in and it will work. Just run repair on it again to make sure that all is as expected.
Keep in mind that it might take around 2-10 minutes for the drive to show up in “Disk Utility” for the first time and it will not auto-mount and show up in Finder. Keep the “Disk Utility” running. After that, it’s simple. Run repair. Ignore the error. Re-plug the drive and run repair again.
I have tried this on 3 WD and 2 Seagate drives with HFS and ExFAT, all work. Hopefully it would work for some others who have similar issues.
Well, now that OS X Mavericks has a .1 update, with the concentration being on Apple Mail and Graphics, it would be safe to say that OS X Mavericks, like iOS 7, is possibly the worst release of OS X ever. The completely untested releases, not to mention the non-existent UX.
Mavericks, true to it’s name, is one. Almost nothing works as expected. Although Apple acknowledged issues in Apple Mail, it was limited to Gmail related accounts and mentions nothing else. It still has a clutter of draft/versions and sync issues. The rendering of standard HTML email still does not work.
The Contacts still retain the bloat and duplication issues of earlier. All iCloud applications require manual run to sync them across devices. The iCloud Keychain does not work for Exchange accounts…try changing an Exchange account password after the policy expires it. The more iDevices you have on the iCloud Keychain, the worse it becomes.
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to extract files from ISO images in bulk. Unlike Windows where one has so many popular and free applications for this task, I just made up a multi-line process for the same on OS X.
I used the hdiutil to mount and unmount the ISO file and a simple cp to extract files as follows…
for m in *.iso
do
if [ "$m" = "*.iso" ]; then
break
else
echo -e "\nFound $m"
dd=`hdiutil attach "$m" | cut -f3`
echo -e "\nFound ${m%%.*} - $dd"
cp -a "$dd"/ .
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
exit 10
else
hdiutil detach "$dd"
rm -rf "$m"
fi
fi
done
Just in case…this is a bash script snippet. The actual script is longer and does some more work, but, this should give a fair idea as to how one can automate the extraction of files from ISO images.
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