OS X Daily: “Use the App Store Without a Credit Card” plus 2 more

Use the App Store Without a Credit Card
Locate the Wallpaper File When Set as Desktop Picture from Safari
Amazing Beautiful iPad Toilet Plunger iStand

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:41 AM PDT

Use App Store without credit card

Signing up to use the App Store requires a credit card, right? Wrong. We showed you how to use iTunes without a credit card, and it turns out you can do the same thing with the iOS and Mac App Store. This is a perfect solution for setting up an iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Mac for a kid or for use in a public space, when you want to provide access to the free downloads and updates in the App Stores without the ability to make purchases through it. Even without a credit card attached to the Apple ID, you can add gift certificates and redeem codes through this account, making for an easy budgeting system should you wish to provide limited access to App Store purchases down the road.

How to Setup and Use iOS & Mac App Store With No Credit Card

Open the iOS App Store or Mac App Store and click on “Account” from the right-hand side
If currently logged into an Apple account, click on “Sign Out” otherwise click the “Create Apple ID” button (alternatively, you can sign up on the web directly from Apple)
Agree to the Terms and Conditions and fill out the Apple ID creation page, set this up for a new email address than your primary app store account
At the “Provide a Payment Method” screen, select "None" as the payment option
Optionally, add a gift certificate to pad the account with an app purchase budget
Click “Create Apple ID” and verify the email address you provided earlier, your credit card free Mac App Store login is now active

Now log into the App Store with the newly created Apple ID and the user will be able to download any free apps or download updates to existing apps. The credit card free account can also redeem promo codes and add gift cards to their account should they need to make purchases.

Locate the Wallpaper File When Set as Desktop Picture from Safari

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:58 AM PDT

Safari Desktop Picture file location

Have you ever set a desktop wallpaper from Safari, only to wish you had saved the file directly so you could access it later or do something else with it? As long as the desktop picture is still set, you can retrieve the original wallpaper image file easily:

From the Mac OS X Finder, hit Command+Shift+G and type ~/Library/Safari/ as the path
In the Safari folder, look for “Safari Desktop Picture.*” the suffix could be .png, .jpg, or whatever other image type the original picture was
Copy the “Safari Desktop Picture.jpg” file to the desktop

Safari Desktop Picture file location

The copied file is the wallpaper, you could also move the file instead but moving it will cause the desktop picture to change on next reboot because the source file is no longer in place.

Any background image set through Safari will always show up in that directory.

Amazing Beautiful iPad Toilet Plunger iStand

Posted: 01 Apr 2012 12:02 PM PDT

iPad plunger stand

Beautiful. Alluring. Gorgeous. Perfection. Amazing. Exemplary. Smart. Revolutionary. Stunning. It’s everything you could dream of and more. This amazing iPad stand will be the envy of everyone who sees it, because who doesn’t want a toilet plunger resting on their desk? Featuring a handsome wooden handle and a ravishing lightly used black rubber cup (complete with mystery sediment stained around the rim), this gorgeous toilet plunger is easily the best toilet plunger to ever grace the iPad as a stand.

You want one? Of course you do. You can hardly contain your buying impulses when such a beautiful product arrives on the scene, and you’re in luck, because for a limited time this luxurious iToilet iPad Smart iPlunger is discounted from it’s regular price of $799 to just $7.99 on Amazon making that at least a 631,811,724% discount. This iPlunger is so amazing it will pay you in glory for years to come, and not only does the iPlunger Smart iStand work to prop up an iPad, it will even unclog a toilet or drain for you. That’s at least two uses from a single groundbreaking product. Unfortunately the soiled sediment staining is not available on the discounted model, but what an adventure that will be to customize your very own design.

iPad toilet plunger stand

Look at this world class beauty.

iPad stand toilet plunger

OK you probably figured out by now that it’s April fools day, meaning the internet is officially useless for 24 hours. Of course we have to do our part to contribute to that. I recall seeing these plunger pictures floating around the web quite a while ago, though I have no idea of the original source, if you know where these originated from post in the comments.

Thanks to Daniel for sending this in.