Wrong Unread Message Count in Mail
I recently had the pleasure of having no unread messages in my inbox, yet still having Mail.app showing that I did indeed have unread messages....
Lab Tick lets you control backlit keyboards
If you have a shiny Macbook Pro or Powerbook with a backlit keyboard, this application might be for you. Have you ever been annoyed about...
Album Artwork corruption on iPhone 3G
I don’t use my iPhone much as an iPod since I have a 30GB iPod, but I was using it the other day and came...
A Beginner’s Guide to Video: Part One
Complexity is an unfortunate byproduct of technology. Many substantial innovations we have seen in the last hundred or so years are very hard to understand on the surface. The process of compression is incredibly hard to understand in full unless you feel like studying volumes upon volumes of specifications for codecs (Compressor/Decompressors). Luckily, we don’t have to understand the intricacies of compression to use it handily. Before I continue further about compression, there are some important highlights about video sources that I need to touch on.
Is Apple Care worth the price?
Is Apple Care worth the extra cost? We have more and more converts converting to the Mac end of the computing spectrum. When they begin...
Applications that fit on a thumbdrive for your Mac
With the price of thumbdrives being so cheap these days, you could almost carry around your entire operating system on one. Back in the day...
PSA regarding Backups
PSA About Using Super Duper for Backups. I thought I’d give everyone a Public Service Announcement in regard to backups and making sure you know...
WHAT? Return doesn’t open files?
As a windows convert I had one major problem that took me probably about six months to overcome during my “switch” process. Opening files with...
iTunes 8 Bug / Tip: Playlist sync
I have an iTunes 8.0 bug /tip. It’s in regards to syncing playlists, and the order of those playlists. Most would think, myself included, that...
iTunes Library Cleanup
Being one who has a huge music collection (like 70 Gigabytes, and that doesn’t include all of my CDs), I want to make sure that...
Rar > Zip especially from the commandline.
Rar seems to be taking over the compression space for many people, and since I get some super satisfaction from using the command line to...
Change your login screen wallpaper image
Sometimes default things get old real fast. We look at them long enough and they start becoming eyesores. This also seems to happen with ever...
Get that Bootcamp partition back
Some of the recent switchers that I know decided that it would be in their best interest to have a windows partition set up on...
WebSMSLib – Send SMS from your Menubar
Some of us abroad don’t have the luxury of unlimited text messages, so most of us use the SMS tool on our carrier’s website. Its...
Presto Change-O! Audio Codec Changes on the Fly
Ever had the need to quickly convert one of your AAC audio files to another format? I was asked today for a down and dirty...
Mac OS X Security Manual from Corsaire (not the RAM guys)
Some of us are bigger geeks than others. It’s called natural distribution. Some of us are the outliers while others of us are smack on...
Tunnels are for more than smuggling people across borders.
It seems everytime I read the word tunnel, it’s in reference to people being smuggled across texan/californian borders into the US. While I’m sure they...
Banshee 1.2 – multimedia player, with iPod support
I’m not to sure how I feel about posting this because it isn’t OS X related; however, it is iPod related which makes it Apple...