Apple Seeds Build 12D58 of OS X Beta 10.8.3 to Developers [Mac Blog]

Apple today seeded build 12D58 of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers, marking the eighth beta iteration of the newest version of Mountain Lion. 10.8.3 was first seeded to developers in November.

Build 12D58 comes a week after build 12D54, and like the previous build, contains no known issues or features. Build 12D54 brought significant changes to WiFi, and asked developers to focus on testing AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari.

9to5Mac notes that the new build again contains significant changes to WiFi, but additional changes are unknown. Registered developers can download the update on Apple's Developer Page.

Get Fast Access to Sleep, Shut Down, and Restart Controls in Mac OS X

Many longtime Mac users may know the handful of keyboard shortcuts to instantly reboot, shut down, and sleep Macs, but for those who haven't memorized the precise keystrokes yet, a much safer option is to instantly summon the power controls for OS X instead. This allows you to choose the power option you need while also providing a measure of safety if you have unsaved documents open or if users are connected to the Mac by networking, and it let's you review the various power options before just jumping right into one of them with a direct keystroke. We'll cover how to summon the Power Controls instantly, and then how you can interact with them by using only the keyboard:

• Press the Power button on the Mac to summon the power controls

Obviously you can now choose to just click the appropriate button if you'd like, but each option corresponds with a single keyboard action as well, and keeping hands on a keyboard is often faster for advanced users. Here are the interaction keys and their corresponding actions:

• S – Sleeps the Mac instantly
• R – Restarts the Mac, but with a prompt if some apps are open and unsaved or if users are connected via networking
• Return – Shuts down the Mac, but includes a prompt for apps that have unsaved data or if LAN users are connected
• Escape – Exits out of the power controls, the same effect as "Cancel"

Notice there are not controls specifically for the display in these choices, for that you will still need to either use the lock screen keystroke or a hot corner that is configured to sleep only the display.

If you have no idea what the power button is, it looks kind of like (|) and is either located in the upper right corner of the keyboard for most modern Macs and portable Macs, or physically located on the Mac itself for desktop models and older MacBook models. It's shown below on a MacBook Air if you're still unsure:

Of course whether or not you should sleep, shut down, or just leave your Mac turned on is a matter of debate, but for a lot of cases we recommend either leaving the device turned on or just putting it to sleep. Rebooting or shutting down a computer every day just isn't necessary for most people.

How to Change Photo Album Names in iOS

Sorting pictures into albums on your iOS devices is a good way to manage photos intended for different purposes, and some image editing apps like Snapseed and Instagram will create their own albums to help keep things arranged. It's not uncommon for an albums purpose to evolve though, and what once may have held just a bunch of pictures for picture frame mode on the iPad may have slowly evolved into a broader place to store photos, making a name change appropriate.

Renaming those photo albums isn't entirely obvious though, so we'll cover how to do this on an iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Renaming Photo Albums on iPhone & iPod touch

• Open Photos and stay in the primary screen with all photo albums listed, then tap "Edit" in the upper right corner
• Tap directly on the name of the album you want to rename to summon the keyboard
• Enter the new album name then tap "Done" to complete the change

Before tapping on Done, selecting other albums will let you change their names as well.

Changing an album name on the iPhone and iPod touch both look identical, and while doing this on the iPad is basically the same process, it looks pretty different because the albums are displayed in thumbnail views rather than lists.

Rename a Photo Album on iPad

• Open Photos and tap on "Edit"
• With the (x) now visible on the albums corner, tap directly on the album name to change it
• Tap "Done" to finish renaming the album, or tap another albums name to rename another one

You can rename any album with the exception of Camera Roll, which holds all photos on the device. There are some cases where you won't want to change the given names though, because some iOS image editing apps like Snapseed will create their own albums for photos altered or modified with those apps. As you may have guessed, if you change the name of those albums made by apps and then use the app again, that app will end up generating a new album with the apps name again anyway.