Mac apps I use: System Admin Version!
Following Jason’s article on apps he uses, I thought it might be a good idea to make a series of it. I’m a systems administrator,...
Alphabetize your Lists in VoodooPad
I am a list fanatic. I make three or four lists each and every day, and most of them are stream of consciousness. I’ll list...
Make Your Desktop Cheerier
Ho ho ho! As Christmas draws closer, I start looking for more ways to deck my halls with boughs of holly. As I spend a...
Download Music and Movies with Apple and Mac OS X Leopard
One of the first questions I get asked by new Mac users is… how do you download music. My answer… iTunes of course, but then...
How-to install linux apps in leopard
For some of us we have migrated from different operating systems. For myself it was from windows to linux and now mac. When I was...
Bulk Edit Tracks In Your Itunes Library.
I’m not sure why I haven’t noticed this before, or tried for that matter, but up until now I had no idea that you are...
Leopard Install on an iBook G4…
Here we go… I’m literally in the middle of an install on my iBook. It’ll be my first leopard install, and I thought I would...
Compare Files and Folders with Changes
I spent some time over the last week tracking down some files that were corrupted, from god knows what. The problem was that the files...
What is expose?
I was talking to a friend last night who has had a mac for over a year and knew absolutely nothing about expose. Man is...
Extract Audio From Videos
I can hear you! Extracting audio from video files might seem like a hassle. There are many methods that are just that, but I’m here...
Adium 1.4 (Beta) now with Twitter support.
Adium 1.4 Beta 1 has been released, and in addition to the tons of networks that Adium currently supports, it now supports Twitter. While this...
Getting Front Row to Work on OS X Server
In my post ‘Front Row and OS X Server,’ I bitched about Apple not updating Front Row for 10.5 Server. Well I have found a...
Stop Spotlight From Indexing Your External Drives
I’m an idiot… no really… I’ve spent the last hour researching hacks to exclude my newly acquired 1TB Firewire drive from being indexed and searched...
Beginner Guide: Updating to Snow Leopard
It is reaching the end of summer in Alaska, I am so sorry to say. It is now time to finish all of the summer...
Snow Leopard’s Release is Just Around the Corner
Who’s ready to upgrade to Snow Leopard? With only days before it goes on sale, you might be asking yourself, will Snow Leopard work on...
Cheap and Free Back-Up Solutions for Mac OS X
Every hard drive will fail, it is just a matter of when. One way to minimize the disastrous effects is to do a regular backup....
Logitech Growls at Growl
Are you having problems with Growl showing alerts? Did you buy a new Logitech device? Have you tried everything else? Well there is actually a...
Add a Trash icon in Finder’s sidebar
Today I’m going to show you how to add a new item to that Finder sidebar. For some reason Apple does not include a link...