Quick Tip: Follow links easily on Twitter for Mac
Some of the most useful shortcuts are discovered accidentally. This little tidbit is no different. It’s a pretty well documented fact that the “back” gesture works...
Tip: Three ways to eliminate cable clutter
Have spare cables? Sick of them getting all tangled and turning into a giant rat’s nest? You’re probably not alone. I know exactly how you...
Show only active applications in Mac OS X Dock, and how to get 2-D all the time
Are you into minimalist interfaces? If you want to cut down the clutter in the Mac OS X Dock, OSXDaily has a nice tip to...
Tip: Reveal folder sizes in the Finder
One of the first things that I was annoyed with when making the jump to the Mac was Finder’s inability to show me the size...
Terminal Tip: Scheduling an RSYNC based backup over SSH with a CRON job
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been struggling with our web server. You may have noticed extremely slow load times from now and again....
Get rid of Dictionary and Calculator results in your Spotlight searches
Did you know that you can get Dictionary results and Calculator results directly in the Spotlight search bar? Personally I love it, but I can...
Motorola Xoom will require 6 days to get LTE upgrade
The Motorola Xoom, which is set to be released today, February 24th, 2011, has a slight issue. In order to upgrade the Motorola Xoom’s 3G...
Turn that sexy Cinema Display into a giant flip-clock
When I was in college, my Mac was a swiss army knife. It was my alarm clock, my television, my computer, my stereo, and even...
Figure out your OS X ports and firewall settings
I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why Back To My Mac hasn’t been working for the last couple of weeks. After...
Sync Todolicious with Dropbox
During the wee hours of the night, I commented on Twitter about my desire for Todolicious to sync between my Macs. One of our awesome...
Clean up your Mac for the New Year
Now that Christmas is over, we all start to think about what the next year has in store for us. Many of us like to...
ScummVM: Gamin’ with the Oldies
You’re probably familiar with games like Sam & Max: The Devil’s Play House and Tales of Monkey Island, but only the old and nerdy among...
See Growl notifications on your iOS device
Even if you’re just a little bit nerdy, you probably use Growl. It’s a great notification system for your Mac that countless apps take advantage...
Compress and decompress on your Mac
We all know that compressing a file or folder is a mere right-click away here on Mac OS X, but .zip is so 1990s. Wouldn’t...
Turn off automatic updates in iTunes
If you live in a place with limited bandwidth (See: The boonies), you probably don’t want iTunes downloading podcasts all willy nilly. Luckily, there is...
Use DropBox as a WebDAV server
Earlier today, I wrote a post about VoodooPad. I discussed syncing with a WebDAV server, but I warned that it wasn't for the faint of heart. Turns out, there is a better solution to syncing via WebDAV than running your own server on your Mac: DropDAV.
Sick of Tumblr downtime? Backup your blog ASAP.
Tumblr is a great blogging service. It works well, and the UI is great, but they have been extremely unstable lately. For some people, twenty-three...
Dashkards: Add application cheat-sheets to your Dashboard
I’m a keyboard guy. Any time I have to remove my hands from my keyboard to grab a mouse, I get annoyed. The only problem...