What's new in iOS 10?

At first glance, iOS 10 may look like past variants, yet an entire heap of applications have had real upgrades, and there are new applications as well. Furthermore, there's an entire flatboat of interface changes that improves iOS even to utilize. Another huge motivation to redesign when the last form turns out is that Siri hosts been opened up to third-get-together applications. Who knows, your most loved application may get Siri bolster soon.

Snap or tap the connections to bounce straight to the application or highlight in which you're intrigued:

emoji

lock screen

control focus

console

photographs

camera

maps

music

news

home

telephone

messages

littler changes and augmentations

New emoji 

Despite the fact that it won't be brand new information to emoji lovers, iOS 10 will (as iOS 9 included) bunches of new emoji. Numerous have been added to be more 'sexual orientation various' as Apple places it in a public statement. It implies there will be female competitors, and different changes incorporate supplanting the weapon with a water gun (there has been weight for quite a while from hostile to firearm dissidents to jettison it). Be that as it may, the center finger symbol remains.

Lock screen

There's a redesigned lockscreen with rich notifications that also respond to Force Touch

Raise to wake include so you can see warnings, in addition to the date and time without squeezing any catches (just on iPhone 6S, 6S Plus and iPhone SE or fresher) 

* New 'Clear all notices' charge 

Control Center 

* New-look Control Center and gadgets. Control Center now split over numerous screens, with music and video control on the second screen and easy routes for HomeKit gadgets on the third 

Console 

* QuickType conveys Siri knowledge to the iOS console with enhanced prescient content and proposals to include pertinent pictures and records 

* The console likewise has another snap sound. The alphanumeric keys have a higher pitch click than the control keys, for example, Delete, Backspace and the Spacebar so it's less demanding to hear on the off chance that you mistype.

Photos app

* There's new face recognition for photos, plus object- and scene-recognition

Recollections is another tab in iOS 10 Photos, and works simply like the comparable Google highlight by uniting from a particular time or place in a keen way. It will likewise naturally make editable recordings of occasions. 

Camera application 

* New backing for bringing RAW photographs with the back camera (iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone SE, and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro or more current). 

Maps 

* Redesigned Maps application, with simple access controls by swiping up from the base of the screen (will likewise recollect where you stopped your auto)

 There's a new option for managing storage: you can tell your iPhone to delete music that you haven't played for a while.

* When exiting an app back to the home screen, the app's icon animates slower into position so you can see where it is on your home screen. 

* The 'Back to..' message has been redesigned slightly, and you'll sometimes see an option on the right-hand side to go 'forward' to a different app

* Apple Music is now simpler, bolder and emphasises the features you use every day. There are onscreen lyrics, too

News

* News has also been redesigned and is now broken into sections to make it easier to browse and has new Subscriptions

Home app

* Home for iOS is a new app that will allow you to control your HomeKit-compatible smart devices

Phone calls

* The Phone app has had an upgrade, and you'll now be able to read transcripts of voicemail messages

iMessage

* Messages gets a big redesign in iOS 10, with automatic emoji insertion, message bubble effects, rich links and more, and it will also be opened to developers so you can use apps within iMessages

Other new iOS 10 features

* There's a new 'Wake alarm' which attemps to help you go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. It's much like the system that Jawbone uses, and will give you a bedtime reminder if you want one.

 There's a new option for managing storage: you can tell your iPhone to delete music that you haven't played for a while.

* When exiting an app back to the home screen, the app's icon animates slower into position so you can see where it is on your home screen. 

* The 'Back to..' message has been redesigned slightly, and you'll sometimes see an option on the right-hand side to go 'forward' to a different app.

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Detect Whether Your IPhone Gets Effected By "Largest Known Malware Infection" in Apple's History

It has been collecting usernames, passwords, and payment information.

Palo Alto Networks, a security firm, announced that they have been cooperating with amateur technology group WeipTech to identify a malware that has affected over 225,000 Apple accounts.

The malware, which they have called “KeyRaider,” steals iTunes usernames, passwords, and payment information. It then stores it all on a server, which is itself vulnerable to exposure, which is how WeipTech discovered it. With over 225,000 users affected, Palo Alto Networks is calling this “the largest known Apple account theft caused by malware.”

KeyRaider targets iPhones that have been “jailbroken,” meaning that they have been unlocked to allow the user to download programs that are not authorized by Apple. Although this practice gives you access past what Apple permits, it also strips your device of virtually all security measures.

Palo Alto Networks and WeipTech have discovered two iOS jailbreak tweaks, which have been downloaded upwards of 20,000 times, that allow users to get apps and in app purchases without actually purchasing them. But someone still has to pay; thus, KeyRaider. The tweaks use the malware victims’ account information to allow users to download non-free items for free. KeyRaider has also been used to lock phones and hold them for ransom.

If you haven’t jailbroken your phone, you haven’t been affected. For those of you risk-takers who have, Palo Alto Networks shows you how to determine whether or not your iPhone has been infiltrated. Also, go ahead and un-jailbreak your phone; live the cautious life with the rest of us common-folk.

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6 Ways to Recover DiskSpace on your MAC

1. Delete Apps

We're constantly downloading and installing apps from the rapidly expanding Mac App Store, and we bet you are too. If you download a lot of games, or apps that take up a lot of megabytes, you can regain a lot of space by dusting the virtual shelves of your Application folder.

If you downloaded apps from the Mac App Store, you can easily delete them from inside the Launchpad application in Lion. Simply click and hold on the application you wish to delete, and then select the small “x” in the corner of the app icon. Don't worry if you change your mind later -- you can always redownload the app from the store's Purchased tab...if you have space for it.

If you installed an application from a location other than the Mac App Store, you can delete it by using an application such as App Zapper. This will ensure that all of the app support files are removed in addition to the application itself.

2. Delete Old Documents and iChat Logs

If you have iChat (or Adium) chat logging turned on, then you are collecting multiple text files each time you initiate a conversation with anyone in your buddy list. While these logs are great for archiving past conversations, if you are a constant instant-messenger, you can accumulate a lot of log files very quickly. Pruning the old files can keep your disk clean. You can see and remove your old log files by opening your Home folder > Documents > iChats in the Finder.

3. Get Rid of Mail Downloads

Just like iChat logs, the Mail app in OS X will stow away Mail attachments without any worries whenever you double-click on an attachment in an email to view it or use QuickLook on it.

You may find these files accumulating in large quantities in your Home folder > Library > Mail Downloads in the Finder. You can generally delete any files here without issue. As long as you have the original message, the attachment will be stored with it. However, you can still move any file from this location if you don’t have the original message.

4. Remove Old Log Files

Log files are a way that your Mac archives important system events. Unfortunately, these log files can become a bit unwieldy quickly. Fortunately, you can delete old log files in the Console app (located in /Applications/Utilities).

You can manually delete the log files from within the Console application by right-clicking on any of the files and selecting “Move to Trash,” or you can use an application like Onyx to automate the process.

5. Find iTunes Duplicates

Duplicate iTunes movies, TV shows, and music can lead to more than usual disk usage on your Mac. Luckily, iTunes can help you easily get rid of these dupes. Just open iTunes and select the sidebar item you wish to find duplicates in (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Apps, Tones, etc.).

Next, navigate to File > Display Duplicates. Here, all duplicates for that category will be displayed. If nothing is displayed, the no duplicates have been found. You can remove duplicates that are displayed by selecting the duplicate and pressing Command-Delete, or right-clicking and selecting Delete. When you’re done removing duplicates, click the “Display All” button to go back to the normal iTunes view.

6. Reset Your Browser

Your browser contains many disk-hogging features, including web page caching. Resetting your browser every now and again will free space on your Mac.

You can do this in Safari by clicking Safari > Reset Safari.

You can also do the same thing in Firefox by selecting Tools > Clear Recent History. 

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Is Your MAC Working Properly???

Checking the Hard Drive

Hard drives, and even SSDs, are susceptible to failure. You never know when a drive will fail, but when it does, you’ll definitely feel the effects of it. You should always have a good backup of your Mac’s drive by using either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive. Having a good backup will ensure that when your drive does fail, you’ll be back up and running in no time.

The majority of drives include a feature called S.M.A.R.T. (or Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). By checking on the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive, you will be alerted to potential upcoming drive failures.

To check the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard drive, open Disk Utility and select your drive in the sidebar. At the bottom of the screen, you will see “S.M.A.R.T. Status.” If everything is fine, then you’ll see “Verified” here.

If your drive reports a problem, then you’ll see “Failing” as the status. If you get this “Failing” message, then you should create a new backup of your drive, and replace the drive as soon as possible.

Apple Hardware Test

The Apple Hardware Test (AHT) is a way to check the status of your memory, logic board, and other important system failure points. AHT is an automated process that will go through and check the various system components on your Mac to ensure they are operating properly.

To launch AHT, you will need to hold down a key combination on your Mac during startup. The key combination varies between systems, but should be one of the following on your Mac:

- Option + D (Early 2011 and newer; Mountain Lion tested)
- Command + D
- D

Note that some older systems use an Apple Hardware Test CD or DVD that is included with your Mac.

During startup on newer systems running Mountain Lion, you will see an “Internet Recovery Mode” loading message on the screen before the AHT loads.

After AHT loads, it will probe your system to check the hardware. After the probe is finished, you will be able to click the Test button to start the simple test (you can also check the box labeled, “Perform extended testing” to test your system longer). After the test completes, you will be notified of any errors that occur. 

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Control Your Mac with LaunchBar

1. Move Things Around

Select one file (or more) in the Finder, open LaunchBar (Command-Space), press Command-G to pass that file to LaunchBar, and press Tab. That opens a list of apps that can launch the file, but start typing the name of a folder you want to move it to, and when it comes up (you’ll see text saying Drag to…), press Return, and off it goes. Rather copy that file than move it? Hold down Option and press Return.

2. Play an Album

Press Command-Space to open a LaunchBar query, then type ALB to get to the Albums category of your iTunes library. Press Return to select Albums, then either type the name of an album or use the arrow keys to browse the list. When you find the album you want, press Return to play it in iTunes.

3. Search And Find

LaunchBar also lets you set a shortcut for searching with Spotlight, only it will preprocess your query and submit it in Spotlight’s special search syntax for more targeted results with less fuss. “Cat picture” will parse as “kind:image cat” and look for images with “Cat” in the filename. Plus, it doesn’t start searching until you press Return.

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Open iTunes Automatically when you connect a Device to your MAC

The first step to this solution is to open iPhoto and click iPhoto > Preferences (or press Command + , [comma]). Go to the General tab, and select “No application” from the drop-down menu for the “Connecting camera opens” option. This ensures that your iPhone, iPad, or iPod will not open iPhoto when connected to your Mac.

Ensure that “No application” is selected for launching when a camera is connected to your computer.

Next, you’ll need to connect your device(s) to your computer and open iTunes 11. Select View > Show Sidebar in iTunes, and then click on your iOS device in the “Devices” section of the sidebar. 

After clicking on your device, select the Summary tab, and scroll down to the “Options” section. Check the box labeled “Open iTunes when this [iPad/iPhone/iPod] is connected.” When you sync these new preferences over to your device, connecting it to your computer will launch iTunes 11.

Be sure to sync your device to carry this preference over.

then u can directly open itunes when connecting a device

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Access Google Contacts from Terminal...

The Contacts app on the Mac is great, but many users rely on Google Contacts to store and view contact cards for people. If you're not syncing Google Contacts with your Mac or iOS device, then you have to access your contacts from your Google account in a web browser — or not. As we'll show you today, you can also use the Terminal alongside Google Command Line Tools to access your contacts without ever leaving the command line. Continue reading, and we'll show you show to list, create, and delete contacts with your Google account. And as a bonus, we'll also show you how to generate a CSV file containing your contacts as a backup.

Listing Contacts

To list all of your currently stored contacts from your Google account, type the following command:

google contacts list --title ".*."

After pressing enter, you'll see your contacts printed to the screen. If you wish to look up a specific person in your contacts, then type the following command to easily search for that person's contact info:

google contacts list --title "Name"

Replace "Name" in the above command with the name of the person you wish to search for in your Contacts. If the person is found, then their contact information will be printed to the screen.

Adding a Contact

Adding a new contact to your Google account is super-easy. To do it, simply use the following command:

google contacts add "FirstName LastName, email@domain.com"

Replace "FirstName" with the first name of the person you're adding, "LastName" with the last name of the person you're adding, and finally, replace "email@domain.com" with the email address of the person you're adding.

After pressing enter, the contact will be added, but you will not be given a confirmation that it has.

Deleting a Contact

Deleting a contact is just as simple as adding one. To delete one of the contacts in your existing list, use the following command, replacing "FirstName" with the first name of the contact that you wish to delete:

google contacts delete --title "FirstName"

When you press enter, you'll be prompted to reply with a "y" (yes) or a "n" (no) as to whether you wish to remove the contact from your Google account.

this is how you can contact with google directly in terminal itself

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Back Up Files from Other OS using Parallels... in MAC

With Parallels, VMWare Fusion, VirtualBox, and other applications that run the Windows platform (and other OSes) in a virtualized environment, all of the files, programs, etc., in that environment are stored in a single hard drive file that resides on your Mac. 

For Parallels, a “.pvm” file is created when you install a new operating system. By default, these files are stored in your Documents > Parallels folder in your user account. If you haven’t changed any of the Time Machine settings, then Time Machine will automatically back up this location whenever a backup is started. 

Parallels’ self-contained “.pvm” file that contains the data associated with your virtual machine can be found in Documents > Parallels.

For safekeeping, however, you can also create another backup of these files by following these steps to ensure a clean backup is created: 

1. Shut down your Parallels OSes.

2. Close Parallels.

3. Copy the .pvm files from the Documents > Parallels folder onto an external drive.

Since the virtual machines (and all associated files) are self-contained, you can simply copy back the .pvm and open it in Parallels to run it without issue, should you run into a situation in the future where you need to restore your machine. 

You can get the content from other OSes...

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VOICE of SIRI(APPLE)...by Bennett....

Siri, Apple’s popular voice assistant, is two years old today. And for the last two years Siri has set alarms, scheduled appointments, searched the Web, and fielded plenty of oddball questions, all through one iconic voice. On Friday Susan Bennett came forward to CNN to claim that she is, in fact, the original voiceover artist for Siri.

Siri first appeared with the introduction of the iPhone 4S back in October 2011. But according to Bennett, the vocals for Siri were recorded back in 2005. She spent four hours per day, every day for the month of July recording at GM Vocals for ScanSoft, which was working on a then-undisclosed project.

Apple hasn’t confirmed Bennett’s story, but an audio-forensics expert with 30 years of experience says that he is “100 percent certain” Bennett is the voice of Siri. Confusion over Siri’s origins in the blogosphere, as well as the new male counterpart Siri voice introduced in iOS 7, convinced Bennett it was finally time to step forward and put a face to the voice.

Bennett, though, is still rather quiet when it comes to sharing any personal information. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta and won’t reveal her age. She claims she became involved in voice work in the 1970s “by accident.” It turned out to be a happy accident though, as today Bennett can be heard worldwide in commercials, GPS devices, and, of course, lots of iPhones and iPads.

You can meet the voice behind Siri and hear for yourself in the video below.

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Shrink or Reduce a Picture Size in MAC OS X

There are a number of online sites that will let you upload ridiculously large image files, even

those that are greater than HDTV resolution, even when they’re going to be displayed as part

 of the site in sizes no more than 500 pixels across. Facebook’s an example: Upload a picture

that’s 2500 pixels across, and it definitely will be scaled so people can see it. In fact, if it’s

shown in a size that’s 500 pixels across, the image is really 5x what it needs to be, and should

be reduced so that it’s (far) faster for users to load.

But, as you say, how do you do that? Today I’m going to show you how to reduce a picture,

photograph or other graphical image’s size on the Mac by demonstrating the great shareware

application GraphicConverter. It’s shareware, so you can grab it and use it for free for a limited

amount of time. After that, you’ll want to pay the few dollars and get a license. In fact, I can

wholeheartedly recommend GraphicConverter as it’s the program I’ve used to edit graphics for

Ask Dave Taylor for many years.

To start, grab a copy from Lemkesoft’s Web site.

As you can see in the “More Info” area, this image is 1294×862. Let’s say we need to reduce it to no more than 600px wide. That’s a bit less than 50% of the current size.
Launch the freshly downloaded GraphicConverter, open the image file, and you’ll see something like this:

A nice colorful picture, but it’s too darn big. To shrink or reduce the image to a specific size — I’ll use a specific width of 600px, choose “Scale…” from the menu:

Now you’ll be presented with a fairly large and complex dialog box, but in fact you only need to pay attention to the top segment, as shown here:

At this point you can indeed enter a specific pixel count for the width or height (if you don’t have the lock bar between the measurements, btw, there’s a checkbox on the page labelled “Proportional”. Check it)
More interestingly, you can change the specific pixel count to a percentage, in case that’s more how your mind works:

As soon as I type in “50″ on the height percentage, the width in pixels is instantly changed. A 50% reduction produces a width that’s 647px. Almost what we want, not quite. Instead, simply type in the desired width in the box as a pixel count:

Ready to commit? Click on “OK” and the image is quickly reduced to fit into the size parameters you’ve specified:

Now all you have left to do is save the image so you can upload the smaller, svelter version. Beware, though, if you just “Save” the file, the smaller version will overwrite the big version. If you’re okay with that, no worries, but if you’d rather that didn’t happen, use “File” -> “Save As…” instead.

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Reset Password in MACBOOK MAC OS X

The good news is that it’s pretty straightforward to reset your password on a Mac OS X system if you have an install disk handy, but the bad news is that even if you reset that password, you can’t regain access to your Keychain (where all your other system and access passwords are stored) without remembering the password. The best you can do is start over and reenter your passwords in a new keychain.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start with the password reset…
You’ll need to restart your computer with the Snow Leopard (or Leopard) Mac OS X install DVD in the drive. When you do, it’ll ask you for a language preference, then the next screen should look like this:

Don’t worry, you don’t have to go any further and risk overwriting all your precious data. Instead, notice on the top that various menus have shown up. What you want to do is look at the Utilities menu:

Choose “Reset Password…” as you can see in the photo above. Now you’ll see the installer replaced by the password reset utility, which starts out looking like this:

It doesn’t automatically select your hard drive on your computer, so you’ll need to click on it, then the “select user” won’t say “no available users”:

Pick the user account you want to reset (in this case, I reset “taylor”), then type in the new password twice and click “Save”….

That’s what you want. Notice the warning about the Keychain password: changing the account password won’t also change the Keychain password. If you don’t remember that password, you’ll have to start over, as I said earlier.
Anyway, click on “OK” and you’ll need to quit the Reset Password application:

Then you’re back in the installer. You’ll need to quit that too:

Finally, it’ll ask if you really want to quit and restart, which you do:

Choose “Reset” and your system will restart and you should be able to get into your system and be good to go.
Now, in terms of the Keychain problem, what you’ll need to do is just create a new Keychain, which is one of the options that the Mac OS X system will give you when you log in to your account and your password doesn’t correctly unlock the Keychain. Now you’re done.
Next time, by the way, consider changing your door lock and skipping the computer bit. 

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Install Windows XP on MAC using BOOT CAMP software....

make sure you have a blank, burnable CD disk on hand.
Now, download Boot Camp from the Apple site and double click on the “.dmg” disk image that’s dropped onto your desktop. Here’s what you’ll see:

Your first step, as highlighted in the “Read Before You Install” document, is to print a copy of the Boot Camp Beta Installation & Setup Guide. Trust me, you’ll want it!
Double-click on the “BootCampAssistant.pkg” icon and you’ll be able to install the Boot Camp assistant:

As with all Mac software installs, this will require you to type in your administrative password. It’s probably the same as your default account password:

A few seconds of activity later, you’ll have the software successfully copied onto your computer and can quit this first installer.
Now your first challenge: finding the new installation assistant! It turns out that the program is installed on your computer in Applications –> Utilities –> Boot Camp Assistant. Launch it and it’s quite possible you’ll see the same message I did:

No huge problem. Quit by clicking the “Quit” button, then go to Apple’s Support Downloads and check their Available Firmware Updates list to click directly to the firmware update for your own Intel system. For my Mini, I simply go back to the downloads page and scan down for the name of my system.
Once the correct firmware update is installed, you need to reboot, but not in the usual fashion. Instead, press and hold the power button on the Mini itself — it takes about ten seconds — until the power indicator light flashes repeatedly to begin the update. Your system will boot and you’ll see the Apple icon and a progress bar:

That will advance, it took me about 90 seconds total, and you’ll reboot again, ready to go!
Finally, we’re ready to actually start working with Boot Camp itself. The first step is to read all of Apple’s warnings:

Okay, now let’s proceed. First choice: do we want to burn a Macintosh Drivers CD, which contains important device drivers for Windows XP so it can access the various hardware parts of the Mac, or do we already have one. I don’t already have one, so I’ll choose the default of “Burn a Macintosh Drivers CD now”:

I slip in the blank disk and the system tells me it’s “ready to burn”. Click “Burn” and it’ll do everything necessary to create the Windows XP drivers CD. This took a few minutes on my Mini, but it wasn’t terribly long.
Next step is much more exciting: it’s time to partition the hard disk!
Partitioning is a geeky buzzword for something that will actually make a lot of sense to you, believe it or not. The idea is that if you have a large hard disk, why not configure it to act like two small hard disks? Or three? In this way, smart system administrators can isolate accounts, minimize out-of-disk-space errors and disruptions, and so on. With Apple Boot Camp, we’ll want to partition the default disk to allow us to have one “disk” that represents the Windows XP world, and another “disk” that represents Mac OS X.
By default, Boot Camp offers up a pretty tiny partition for Windows, as you can see:

I’d recommend that you make it bigger if you’re actually going to use Windows for anything important; Microsoft recommends 10GB as the smallest reasonable and functional partition, for example. If you’re just playing, however, 5GB will probably work fine (until your first big game install). I’ll make mine 8GB to be somewhere in the middle.
Change the partition sizes by clicking and dragging on the vertical bar between the two areas until you have the size or sizes you desire. With my Mini configuration, it left me with 66GB for Mac OS X, of which 20GB is free, and 8GB for Windows XP.
Once the partitions are set up as you desire, click on “Partition” and keep your fingers crossed (there is a slight chance it’ll actually mangle everything on the disk. Not likely, but I would definitely recommend you do one good, clean backup before you start experimenting with Boot Camp).
The disk partition is what we Windows folk call non-destructive or dynamic, which means that you don’t have to reformat and then reinstall everything on both “sides” of the partition. That’s a very, very good thing.  
Once the partitioning is done, you’re ready to install Windows itself:


Insert the WinXP installation DVD, wait for it to be recognized by Mac OS X (it’ll show up on your desktop with a cheery name like “VRMFPP_EN”), click on “Start Installation” and kiss Mac OS X goodbye.
After a bit, you’ll see the unfamiliar blue screen of a Windows installation:

Press ENTER or Return on the keyboard to continue, agree to the Microsoft warnings and legal restrictions page, and you’ll finally get to the “choose partition” list:

Take your time here to ensure that you pick the correct partition! You want to use Partition C: which should match the size you just set too: notice on my screen it’s 8407MB, which is about 8GB, as expected. Move the highlight bar down to the correct partition and press Enter to actually install WinXP.
Now you need to pick a partition formatting option. The two main choices are NTFS or FAT. NTFS is more modern and supports very large partitions, but can’t interoperate with Mac OS X. FAT, on the other hand, can’t support partitions larger than 32GB, but is compatible with the Mac. You’ll see why that’s important later. For now, select FAT and do a full, not a quick, format:

Now some time will pass while the partition is formatted using the Windows FAT32 format. It took my system about five minutes to fill in the progress bar:

won’t document every single step involved in installing Windows XP as it’s pretty straightforward. Just make sure you have your product key available for the verification step of the process. It’s in the package within the Microsoft Windows XP disk, and it’s really a good idea to use a new version of the OS rather than the same key you’ve used with other PCs in your office or home. Worst case, you can skip the verification step and have 30 days of “trial period” before you have to deal with finding a valid key to enter for verification purposes.
Once you’ve finished the full Windows XP install, which can take rather quite a while, your system will reboot and you’ll want to eject the WinXP install disk and slip in the Mac drivers CD you burned earlier in the process.
With Windows, this is done by going to My Computer and right-clicking on the optical drive D: then selecting Eject. Slip in the Mac disk and everything should just automatically launch and start up. If not, look for and double click on the file Install Macintosh Drivers for Win XP.exe. Here’s what you’ll see:

 it’s kind of weird to see a Mac installation program running within Windows XP on a Mac computer, but it’s a brave new world out there.
Probably, during the installation process, you’ll learn that various components of your Intel-based Macintosh haven’t passed the Microsoft Windows compatibility test:

Apple assures us that it’s safe to continue anyway, so I did. Three times!
Then you get to go through a few waves of “new hardware found”, and in all cases you can simply accept all the default settings for each wizard, as those guys in Redmond call ‘em, and proceed. Finally, you’ll get to the last configuration screen:

Click “reboot now” and if the hardware compatibility Gods are smiling upon you, the Mac will reboot right into Windows and you’ll be the proud owner of a Macintosh that can run Windows natively, astonishingly enough.
One last tip: to select which OS you want to run, hold down the OPTION key when you start up the Mac and you’ll be able to see both Mac OS X and Windows XP:

Use the arrow keys to move to the choice you desire, then press Enter or RETURN to select it and zoom into that mode.
When you do boot into Mac OS X, you’ll notice that there’s a new hard disk on your desktop too, called “NO NAME”. Click on the name, count to five, and click again, then type “Windows XP” and you’ll forevermore realize what it is. And yes, you can navigate through it and find your data files from when you’re running Windows, but I’ll talk about that in another article!
It’s a long, tricky process, but I hope this explains exactly how to install and get running with Apple Boot Camp. Also, don’t miss my tutorial on how to install Parallels to run Windows XP within Mac OS X, rather than having to reboot each time you want to switch systems.

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