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Apple has sent out press invitations confirming the previously rumored October 22 event date. According to AllThingsD , Apple will unveil a new iPad and iPad Mini model, and likely provide a release date for OS X Mavericks and the new Mac Pro. The new iPad Mini is rumored to have a retina display, while iPad 5 is expected to be thinner and lighter and have an aluminum chassis that is similar to the design of existing iPad Mini models. Both devices are said to run on the new A7 64-bit CPU that was introduced with the iPhone 5S. The event invite, shown above courtesy of AllThingsD (no, we do not get invited to that stuff), is vague as usual, with a brief tagline saying “We still have a lot to cover.”, and the event itself will be held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. If you’re in the market for a new iPad, iPad Mini, Mac Pro, or a new Mac in general, you may want to hold off a week to get more details about the new offerings. OS X Mavericks is a great improvement to...

Anyone who downloads files from around the web, ftp, torrents, and elsewhere will eventually wind up with a lot of archive clutter sitting around on their Mac in the form of tons of zip, rar, sit, and other compressed file formats. This is because the default behavior is set for archives to maintain their existence even after their contents are extracted, a reasonable but conservative setting that can cause users to forget about the original archive file(s). Rather than having an unruly mess of compressed file containers scattered throughout the OS X file system, a better solution for many is to adjust the Archive Utility preferences to automatically relocate the origin archive to a central folder after the contents have been extracted, this insures you’ll only have a single place to look for archives and makes it much easier to manage. Go anywhere in the OS X Finder, and hit Command+Shift+G to summon “Go To Folder”, enter the following path the box: /System/Library/CoreServices/ Loc...

Yes, you can still lock the screen orientation in iOS 7 to prevent the display from rotating itself when an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch has been physically turned onto its side. The orientation lock is now in a quicker access location contained within Control Center, making it much faster to access from anywhere than it was before. Regardless, if you’re a creature of habit and haven’t found the setting since it has been moved, don’t feel too bad. Here’s how to get to it faster than ever with Control Center: Swipe up from the very bottom of the display to summon Control Center – you can be on the lock screen, at the home screen, or in an app Locate the “Orientation Lock” button in the upper right corner, tap on it to toggle ON or OFF The orientation lock button will be highlighted in white to show it is enabled, and a little icon will appear in the topmost status bar to demonstrate if it’s on as well. Some users have reported that the screen orientation is stuck vertically or horizon...

Personal Hotspot lets you share a devices cellular data connection with other devices or computers by turning a device into a wi-fi router, and it’s easily one of the better features of the iPhone and cellular iPad models (and Android phones for that matter). The iOS Personal Hotspot usually functions without a hitch, but sometimes the connection can appear flakey and connected devices will drop off the network completely, or have intermittent connection drops with significant packet loss. This is likely a software problem that will be addressed in future iOS updates, but in the meantime there’s a fairly simple fix that seems to resolve the issue completely for clients who are experiencing dropped connections. The trick? Set the network configurations yourself, which prevents Personal Hotspot from assigning DHCP information to clients, and seems to resolve the intermittent connection problems completely. From the Device Running Personal Hotspot You’ll obviously need Personal Hotspo...

The Dock sits at the bottom of the screen on every Mac by default, and it will stay there unless it has been relocated either with a settings adjustment or a key modifier. If you’d like to switch the location of where the OS X Dock resides, you can easily do so with either method outlined below, using System Preferences which is the better known method, or the faster but lesser known trick of using the Shift key and dragging the Dock handle to a different region on screen. Relocate the Dock to the Left or Right with System Preferences Open System Preferences from the  Apple menu, then choose the “Dock” panel Look for “Position on Screen” and select either “Left”, “Bottom”, or “Right” The locations are fairly self explanatory, but you may wish to experiment with each of them yourself to get a better idea of how moving the Dock impacts general use. Something important to keep in mind is that the Dock icon sizes will generally be larger when the Dock is shown on the bottom of the scree...

One of the most commonly used command line tools is ‘cd’, which stands for change directory, and as you probably know is used to navigate directories and switch between one folder or another within the file system. For those just learning and starting to familiarize themselves with the Terminal and command line, here are five tricks for the otherwise simple ‘cd’ command that are guaranteed to make your life easier at the command prompt. 1: Go Back Think of this as a back button for the command line, because it doesn’t matter what your pwd (present working directory) is, it will always take you back to where you were immediately before the present directory. cd - Try it out yourself, navigate to a deep folder structure then type cd – to jump back to where you were. You can repeat the command to keep going back too. 2: Go Home You can instantly return to your home directory with the following: cd That command assumes your CDPATH is set to the default path of your home directory (more ...