Automatically Mount Network Drives
Have all your media on one computer, and you want to stream your media across the network to your laptop or media center Mac? Some...
Mac OS X Tip – Automatic Power On/Off with OS X
Would you like to have your computer turn itself on in the morning, or when you return home from work? No, I’m not talking about...
Mac OS X Tip – Screen Capture
We all know that we can use “Grab” from the Utilities Folder to make a screen grab or a window grab. However, I have a...
Get access to folders that are locked
Managing multiple user accounts can be a giant pain in the butt. It’s great if you’re sharing the computer with people who know what they’re...
Disk Utility: Burning a CD at a slower speed
Working as an IT manager can be a fun job, and sometimes it can be rather annoying. A co-worker brought their PC in because it...
Add color labels to your email with Mail rules
In my ongoing effort to reclaim my inbox, I’ve realized that both smart folders and mail rules can seriously cut down on the clutter. One...
3 suggestions for iPhone and Touch game developers
A couple weeks back we wrote an article about the A.D.D levels that iPhone users have. It came on the back of some reports that...
Do math in Spotlight
When Napoleon Dynamite went on about mad skills, he wasn’t referring to my math abilities. They approach null space pretty damn quickly. I blame my...
Apple’s iPad and iBooks.app unbundled
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber is reporting that the iBooks application will not be included on the iPad by default. He’s stating this because according to...
3 Things to help you check the condition of your battery
Have you ever noticed that your battery is acting little funky, but you have no idea what you can do about it? There’s a couple...
PwnageTool 3.1.5: Now ready for iPhone OS 3.1.3
The iPhone Dev team has been hard at work since iPhone OS 3.1.3 has been out, and today they’ve released PwnageTool version 3.1.5. If you’re...
Clean off the Crap, and make your Mac merry
As a huge Mac nerd, I tend to collect a lot of crap on my system. I’m constantly installing applications, downloading video, and moving things...
iPhone OS 3.1.3: Some details behind the hidden fixes
Just recently, Apple released iPhone OS firmware 3.1.3. Our own Sofia Fontes wrote about the iPhone OS 3.1.3 being available, but I thought I would...
iTunes U: Stanford CS193P: iPhone Application Programming Updated
Stanford has updated the iPhone OS iTunes U to show the Winter 2010 class. The class is taught by Alan Cannistraro and Josh Shaffer. This...
Shedding light on those hidden files that are lurking in the dark.
Nothing annoys me more than backing up files from the sites web server only to find out that my .htaccess file has gone missing. It’s...
Killall is your Friend…if you need to fix a crash or two.
The terminal is a powerful tool. Getting yourself acclimatized to its inner workings is very valuable. If you mastered DOS at any point in your...
Stop your contextual menus from beach-balling (freezing).
Right clicking giving you a beachball? For those of you who aren’t sure how to phrase “right-clicking”, they’re called contextual menu’s and on occasion an...
Get your file extensions back on the Mac (Leopard, Snow Leopard)
Tired of not seeing the file extensions on your files? I know I am. I’m not sure why this isn’t on by default, and frankly,...