Friday, October 25, 2013

How to Make a bootable Mavericks Install Drive

Please Backup your Data Before you start Installing Mavericks. Once you’ve downloaded Mavericks, find the installer on your Mac. It’s called Install OS X Mavericks.app and it should have been downloaded to your main Applications folder (/Applications). Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu. In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support; you’ll see a disk image file called InstallESD.dmg. Double-click InstallESD.dmg in the Finder to mount its volume. That volume will appear in the Finder as OS X Install ESD. The file you want to get to is actually another disk image inside OS X Install ESD called BaseSystem.dmg. Unfortunately, BaseSystem.dmg is invisible, and because this is a read-only volume, you can’t make BaseSystem.dmg visible. Instead, you’ll mount it using Terminal, which makes it visible in Disk Utility. Open the Terminal app (in /Application/Utilities), and then type open /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg and press Return. Launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). You'll see both InstallESD.dmg (with its mounted volume, OS X Install ESD, below it) and BaseSystem.dmg (with its mounted volume, OS X Base System, below it) in the volumes list on the left. Select BaseSystem.dmg (not OS X Base System) in Disk Utility’s sidebar, and then click the Restore button in the main part of the window. Drag the BaseSystem.dmg icon into the Source field on the right (if it isn’t already there). Connect to your Mac the properly formatted hard drive or flash drive you want to use for your bootable Mavericks installer. In Disk Utility, find this destination drive in the left sidebar. You may see a couple partitions under the drive: one named EFI and another with the actual drive name. Drag the latter—the one with the drive name—into the Destination field on the right. (If the destination drive has additional partitions, just drag the partition you want to use as your bootable installer volume.) Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Click Restore, and then click Erase in the dialog box that appears; if prompted, enter an admin-level username and password. Wait for the restore procedure to finish, which should take just a few minutes. In Disk Utility, select BaseSystem.dmg on the left (not OS X Base System) and click the Eject button in the toolbar. This action unmounts the disk image named OS X Base System. (If you don’t do this, you have two mounted volumes named OS X Base System—the mounted disk image and your destination drive—which makes the next step more confusing.) Open the destination drive—the one you’re using for your bootable install drive, which has been renamed OS X Base System. Inside that drive, open the System folder, and then open the Installation folder. You’ll see an alias called Packages. Delete that alias. Open the mounted OS X Install ESD volume, and you’ll see only a folder called Packages. Drag that folder into the Installation folder on your destination drive. (You're basically replacing the deleted Packages alias with this Packages folder.) The folder is about 4.8GB in size, so the copy will take a bit of time, especially if you’re copying to a slow thumb drive. Eject the OS X Install ESD volume.

Monday, September 23, 2013

iOS 7

iOS 7 is free and comes with every new iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. iOS 6 can easily update by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Devices that are compatible with iOS 7 iPhone: iPhone4,iPhone4s,iPhone5,iPhone5c,iPhone5s iPod Touch: iPod Touch 5th Generation 16GB,32GB,64GB iPad: iPad2, iPad with Retina Display, iPad Mini Some of features i had looked over. Control Centre Control Centre makes it easy to access the controls and apps from any screen with just one swipe,quickly turn on or off Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Do Not Disturb. can also access their flashlight, timer, calculator and camera and even be connect to an AirPlay-enabled device and lock the screen orientation. Notification Centre We can swipe down from any screen—including the Lock screen—to access notifications like missed calls, emails and more. The Today feature shows summary of the day, birthday reminders and calendar events. what tomorrow looks like. And can use Missed view to see notifications that haven't addressed in the last 24 hours. Multitasking Multitasking in iOS 7 makes switching between apps quick and easy. With the new thumbnail view, Preview open apps and close them with just a swipe. Multitasking to use apps and updates app content before opening it. Camera Camera in iOS 7 has four shooting formats—still, panorama, video and square—and with just a swipe, switch between formats to capture photos and can use the all-new built-in filters to add effects to the still and square pictures, right in the Camera app. Photos Photos in iOS 7 gives a new way to see pictures and videos based on time and place. Photos creates smart groupings of pictures and videos called Moments, Collections and Years so it’s easy to find photos. And with iCloud Photo Sharing, share photos and videos with friends and family who have an iOS device—and friends and family can leave comments right in the Photos app or add their own photos and videos to the shared stream. AirDrop With AirDrop for iOS, share anything with one person or a group from any app with a Share button. AirDrop detects nearby iOS devices so send pictures, documents, or links with no network or setup required. And can make themselves visible to friends only, or everyone around them.(sharing is between iOS Device). Safari Safari makes browsing the web fast and intuitive. Safari in iOS 7 hides navigation buttons and bars until more content appears on the screen. Browse the web using new gestures—swipe left to go forward and right to go back. The new smart search field combines both search queries and URLs and with tab view, switch between open web pages. Shared Links shows web pages shared by people on Twitter. Siri In iOS 7, Siri has a new look and a more natural-sounding female or male voice and can do even more. Now Siri is integrated with popular search engines and social media like Bing, Wikipedia and Twitter, so when you ask Siri a question, they see more results from more sources. Siri can also help you with more tasks, like returning calls or playing voicemail. App Store The App Store has more than 900,000 apps worldwide, so there's almost no limit to what iPhone and iPad can do. The Apps Near Me feature in iOS 7 helps find apps relevant to their location.