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(4/8/2013) Today’s Apps Gone Free: Wonderputt, Stezza, Busy And More | AppAdvice

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Putt your way through a gorgeous transforming world in Damp Gnat’s casual game, Wonderputt. We also have a colorful music player that was made for cruising, and a slick task manager.

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Why You Should Use Mountain Lion’s Spaces | Macworld

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Spaces are a part of Mission Control, your Mac’s built-in feature for getting a visual on every currently open app and window on your computer. As a reminder, you can enter Mission Control in several ways: Click the Mission Control icon in the Dock to display all your spaces, or press Control-Up Arrow, or, if you prefer, perform a three-finger swipe straight up on a multitouch trackpad. I have a hot corner set to display Mission Control as well.If you’ve never used Spaces, you first need to grasp exactly what this feature does. Look at your Mac’s display: You may see a few windows, some overlapping others, and you may spot your Desktop behind them. Sometimes you may move a window here or there to get a better view of something: a website in Safari, a bunch of files on the Desktop, or your Twitter app. Little as those movements might be, they add up—and the sum total is your time.
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OS X 10.8.3 Update Now Available | iDownloadBlog

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OS X 10.8.3

Apple on Thursday finally released OS X 10.8.3 after months of beta testing, bringing a number of new features to Mountain Lion including the ability to redeem iTunes gift cards for the Mac App Store using a Mac’s built-in camera, Windows 8 Boot Camp support and a fix for the “F:///” detection bug, among others.

Just two days after the latest 12D78 beta build was seeded to developers, Apple has released a public version of the latest incremental update for Mountain Lion in OS X 10.8.3.

Of the various system improvements and bug fixes, 10.8.3 brings a unique iTunes gift card redemption redemption feature that allows users to snap a picture of the physical card straight from the Mac App Store using the Mac’s built-in camera. Also added to the OS is Boot Camp support for Macs with 3 terabyte hard drives and compatibility with Microsoft’s newest Windows 8.

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Test Password Strength & Generate Strong Passwords in Mac OS X | OSX Daily

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Test Password Strength & Generate Secure Passwords in Mac OS X

Mac OS X includes a great built-in utility that helps you test existing password strength, and also generate new strong passwords. If you’re wondering if your password is secure this is a great safe way to test the quality of it, and it’s also a safe way to create new strong passwords that you know will be considered secure.
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Mountain Lion Off to a Fast Start | AllThingsD

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Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple’s Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history.After just its first 48 hours on the market, Apple’s new Mountain Lion already accounts for more than 3 percent of Mac Web traffic, according to numbers provided to AllThingsD by Web tracking firm Chitika.

“Moreover, based on Apple’s June 2012 announcement that there are currently 66 million Mac users in the wild, we can infer that 2.11 million Mac users downloaded OS X Mountain Lion in the past 48 hours,” Chitika said. “Using this figure, if we assume that 90 percent of these users paid to upgrade, OS X Mountain Lion generated $38 million in revenue for Apple in the past 48 hours.”Just how many of those users are paid upgrades is tough to say, though. In addition to non-paid use, Apple also allows Mac users to upgrade all their personal Macs for a single $19.99 fee.

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Rip the Audio Track From a Video with QuickTime | OSX Daily

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Though Mac OS X from Lion onward includes built-in encoding tools to perform conversions of video to audio, you can also extract an audio track from a movie by using QuickTime Player. No downloads are necessary, no enabling any buried features, it’s a simple Export setting in QuickTime and you’ll wind up with the audio track as an .m4a file, here’s how:
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WWDC 2012 Banners Depict iOS 6, OS X, iCloud as Stars of the Show | Apple Insider

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A year ago, Steve Jobs presented Apple’s three technical foundations as being iOS, OS X and iCloud at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference. The company is now building upon on the same message at this year’s event.

In addition to the iOS 6 banner published earlier today, workers at the WWDC event site are erecting similar banners for OS X and iCloud, both missing any specific version numbers.

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4 Tips to Speed Up Reboot & Start Up Time in Mac OS X | OSX Daily

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If your Mac is feeling sluggish when booting or starting up it’s probably a result of a few things: a bloated login item list, too many windows being restored, a super slow external drive that takes forever to be accessed, or even just the general hard disk speed. The good news is that most of these are very quick to fix, so follow along and you’ll be starting up a Mac quicker in no time at all.

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Locate the Wallpaper File When Set as Desktop Picture from Safari | OSX Daily

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Have you ever set a desktop wallpaper from Safari, only to wish you had saved the file directly so you could access it later or do something else with it? As long as the desktop picture is still set, you can retrieve the original wallpaper image file easily:
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