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.

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.

How do I adjust the resolution of my Retina display?

If you need to adjust the display resolution choose System Preferences from the Apple () menu. Choose Display. The Retina display offers scaled resolutions that allow you to have text and objects appear larger on screen, or to make them appear smaller which provides more space on screen. Note: Scaled resolutions do not offer the same visual quality as the Retina setting. Scaled resolutions may also impact graphics performance depending on which applications you are using. Your MacBook Pro with Retina display has 2880 x 1800 pixels and starts up in its native Retina mode, which is the recommended resolution for use on this computer.

Cursor issue when playing full-screen games on Windows 7 via Boot Camp-MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

When using Windows 7 with Boot Camp on your MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), mouse or trackpad clicks may not seem to respond correctly when you play full-screen games. Disable display scaling on HiDPI settings to correct this issue. *Right click the game application's icon. This brings up a Properties dialog box. *Click on the Compatibility tab. *Place a checkmark in the checkbox for "Disable display scaling on high DPI." *Click OK.

Calibrate the battery of Apple Macbookpro/MacBook Air

For any MacBook Pro/MacBook Air user, especially those who travel, a long battery life and top notch battery health are vital. The tips below will help ensure you get the most out of your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air’s battery over its lifetime.

1) Calibrate the battery once ever 1-3 months
Finally, if your battery is showing signs of shorter run times, you may want to calibrate the battery (once every 1-3 months). To calibrate the battery, follow these instructions:

a) Fully charge your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air.
b) Once fully charged, leave it plugged in for at least another 2 hours.
c) Remove the MagSafe power adapter, and use your computer until you get the battery level warning message.
d) Ignore that message and keep running your notebook.
e) Eventually the machine will go to sleep.
f) Do NOT plug it in. Instead, let it sleep for at least 5 hours.
g) After the time has passed, plug it back in, and let it fully charge.
h) Once fully charged, your battery has been properly calibrated.

2) Turn off AirPort Wireless
If you do not require the Internet and if there are no WiFi networks within range, turning off AirPort will considerably save your computer’s battery life. It is also wiser to use an Ethernet cable over wireless if the option exists.

3) Turn off Bluetooth
Once again, if there is no need for a Bluetooth device, the best thing to do is to turn off the Bluetooth feature of your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air.
 
4) Minimize use of iSight Camera
The iSight camera uses plenty of battery power. Keeps its use down to a minimum if trying to extend battery life.
 
5) Remember to eject discs from the DVD drive 
The motor in the optical drive required to spin DVDs and CDs can use a lot of power. Thus, eject your discs to maximize battery life. If you insist on watching DVDs, say on a long journey, rip them to your hard drive first instead.
 
6) Reduce screen brightness
Turn down the brightness of the screen to as low as you can comfortably work, and your battery life will significantly rise. The brighter the screen, the shorter your battery life.
 
7) Turn down/off the backlit keyboard
Similar to the brightness of the screen, keeping your backlit keyboard (if you have one) at its lowest or off will save plenty of battery juice.
 
8) Turn down volume or use headphones
Loud volume on your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air requires more energy. It is more energy efficient to plug in headphones instead if you fancy listening to loud audio/music.

9) Run fewer applications at once/turn off unneeded applications
By running less applications simultaneously, or installing more RAM, you reduce your risks of having unused parts of your memory being called for tasks, thus saving battery life.
 
10) Do NOT disable a CPU core
For all MacBook Pro/MacBook Airs with more than one CPU core, disabling a core is NOT wise. Your MacBook Pro/MacBook Airs chips were designed to run most efficiently with multiple cores active. Disabling one not only requires more power, but also generates more heat. Some users have reported losing up to 40 minutes of battery life by turning off a core!

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Screen Sharing adds drag and drop file transfers

Remote Screen Sharing is enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, adding support for drag and drop file transfers between the viewer and the remote desktop and enhancing support for virtual displays.

Screen Sharing, a remote access feature Apple first added to OS X 10.5 Leopard to enable viewing or controlling another Mac's desktop, is gaining a feature from Apple Remote Desktop: the ability to drag files from the local desktop into a remote session.

After connecting to a remote host, the local user can now drag files to the desktop, or target a specific app, invoking Exposé to, for example, drag an image file to a Pages document, select the window of the desired document, and place the graphic in the document.

To Read more visit:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/23/inside_os_x_108_mountain_lion_screen_sharing_adds_drag_and_drop_file_transfers.html

Enable AirDrop Over Ethernet & AirDrop On Unsupported Macs Running OS X 10.7

AirDrop is the extremely easy local peer-to-peer file transfer tool that is built into Mac OS X 10.7, it allows you to easily send and receive files wirelessly over a network just by dragging and dropping. It’s a great addition in Lion, but it’s not supported on all Macs.

You can enable AirDrop support on unsupported Macs running OS X 10.7+ by using the following defaults write command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1


Paste that in and hit enter. You’ll need to then kill the Finder with ‘killall Finder’ or reboot the Mac for changes to take effect.

What’s really interesting is that this enables AirDrop over both Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet connections, which basically means any machine running Lion can use it whether or not it has a wireless card. As long as it’s connected to the same network you will be able to see the Mac in the AirDrop list of another Mac running 10.7.

If you ever want to disable this for some reason, you can just use this code.

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 0

Enjoy........