How to: Print from iOS to a non-AirPrint printer

How to: Print from iOS to a non-AirPrint printer

AirPrint is pretty cool, if you have an AirPrint-enabled printer that is. My mom happens to have one and when I’m at her house printing is a piece of cake. At home, however, I don’t have an AirPrint printer and sometimes I do need or want to print things from my my iPhone or iPad, so want can I do? Several things, in fact.

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The Day Safari Was Born

The Day Safari Was Born

We’ve covered many of Don Melton’s posts about the birth of Safari (I’m really tempted to switch back from Chrome…just because), from how it got its name to how engineers hid it in plain sight during its development. Today Don talks about the day Steve Jobs took the wraps off Apple’s own browser.

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Microsoft Surface Tablet Hacked To Run Mac OS

Microsoft Surface Tablet Hacked To Run Mac OS

You can file this under, “well, why not…”. After the Surface Tablet was jailbroken (which word is Microsoft is good with, hmm Apple), someone wondered if you could, oh, run a Mac OS on it. Yep.

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Safari Hiding in Plain Sight

Safari Hiding in Plain Sight

We (sorta) know how Safari got its name, but during the time it was being developed, how did we not know about it? Heck we think we know Apple is working on iOS 7 (and OS X 10.9) through our server logs, how did we miss Safari? Simple, the developers hid it in plain sight.

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CleanMyMac keeps your Mac running smoothly [Deals Hub]

CleanMyMac keeps your Mac running smoothly [Deals Hub]

We usually talk about iPhones here at iPhone Hacks, but a lot of you will have Macs to sync them with. Today’s iPhone Hacks offer will keep your Mac running like the day it was unboxed and get your old Mac running like new again. With CleanMyMac you can easily manage all of your system extensions, such as plugins, widgets, preference panes, screen savers, input managers, QuickTime, services, startup items, Quick Look, Spotlight, dictionaries, scripting additions, iTunes, Finder plugins, Growl, Safari extensions and a whole lot more.

For a limited time you’ll get the CleanMyMac Double Pack which will keep two of your Macs clean and free of clutter for just $25!

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Glance Back at 2012 and Look Ahead to 2013

Glance Back at 2012 and Look Ahead to 2013

Lots of sites are looking back at 2012 to review the year gone by, but while there is no doubt it’s been a pretty exciting year, I thought I’d start with a look at the year to come and make a few arm waving predictions about what we might see. Well, a few arm waving predictions and a good number of pretty sure bets as well.

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Apple to Refresh MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in June 2013 with Upgraded Internals

Apple to Refresh MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in June 2013 with Upgraded Internals

DigiTimes reports that Apple is planning to refresh the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air lineup in June next year, right in time for WWDC, the company’s annual developer conference. 

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BlueStacks’ App Player Brings 750,000+ Android Apps To Mac

BlueStacks’ App Player Brings 750,000+ Android Apps To Mac

Back in June, BlueStacks, a company specializing in Android virtualization, had released a public alpha of the App Player for the Mac, that allowed users to run a limited number of Android apps on the Mac such as Fruit Ninja, Pulse etc.

Today, the company has released the beta version of the App Player, which gives access to more than 750,000 apps on the Mac.

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Apple To Move Mac mini Production To U.S.?

Apple To Move Mac mini Production To U.S.?

When Apple’s CEO Tim Cook revealed in a interview with NBC Rock Center’s Brian Williams that one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured in the U.S, it was speculated that Mac Pro production will be shifted to the U.S.

But Taiwanese publication DigiTimes reports that Mac mini production will be shifted to the U.S.

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Wunderlist 2 is a wonderful upgrade to an already great to-do list app

Wunderlist 2 is a wonderful upgrade to an already great to-do list app

Wunderlist has always been one of the most widely-used to-do list apps on the market. It is elegant, simple to use, available for nearly every platform, and – perhaps its greatest selling feature (pun totally intended) – it is free. The team at 6Wunderkinder had a great thing going with Wunderlist, but it was only supposed to be the first small step in the team’s foray into task management. Wunderkit was supposed to be its ultimate triumph – but that wasn’t how it went down.

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