Mac OS X Lion has been out long enough for a lot of us to realize that there might be a couple of essential tweaks we’d really like to make. Here’s how to make some changes that require more than just a toggle in preferences. Read more »
While this week many people are searching for Easter Eggs or the Afikoman, here are 10 hidden settings you can find in your Mac apps and OS X. These are all small changes you can make that make using the applications and the system slightly better. Read more »
Bookmark syncing service Xmarks is shutting down for good on Jan. 10, 2011, meaning that all syncs will cease, and all backups will be lost. At least the early notice means we have time to look for alternatives, which for Safari users won’t be that easy. Read more »
iTunes 10 was released yesterday and brought with it a few UI overhauls. There currently isn’t a way to bring back the colored icons in the sidebar, but there sure is a way to get the window controls back to their former positions. Read more »
Visor is a neat way to make the terminal in Mac OS X universally accessible via a hotkey. It’s useful because it means you can jump to the terminal without moving your hands from the keyboard, regardless of which application you happen to be using. Read more »
Users can let their Home folder get out of hand and slowly kill any remaining hard drive space. I use Apple Remote Desktop if I need to find out who’s using up too much space with their Home folder and SSH works perfectly for this. Read more »
Shortly after we learned some more details about Comcast’s TV Everywhere trial yesterday at NewTeeVee Live, Disney CEO Bob Iger said on his company’s earnings call that he believes TV Everywhere solutions should not be offered to consumers for free. Broadcasting & Cable reported on the […] Read more »
Time again to pop a shell and dig into the deep, geeky Unix internals of OS X with Dig Into Unix. Today we are going to look at two top-shelf power tools for text editing: sed and awk. Sed is a Stream EDitor, and if you […] Read more »
Aliases in Mac OS X are essentially equivalent to shortcuts in the Windows world. They work by creating a link to an original file located somewhere on your Mac or network and maintain the link even if the original is moved or renamed. How to Create […] Read more »
Continuing our Dig Into Unix series, we’ve now covered the absolute basics of launching Terminal.app, moving around the file system, looking at files with cat, and learning about commands with man. Now, I’d like to introduce you to the power of vi. vi (pronounced vee-eye) is […] Read more »
Recently, two articles appeared on TechRadar documenting various command line tweaks for various apps and functions of Mac OS X. While I didn’t find anything new there, it’s nice to have two articles that summarize a bunch instead of tracking them down one by one across […] Read more »
Just this week I was posing the question of where are all the (no-jailbreak-required) ssh/terminal apps for the iPhone? While not the best platform for such a tool (the keyboard would – and does, as you will see – eat up some serious real estate), the […] Read more »
I believe I can safely say that the primary objective for users running OS X is to connect to the Internet to read mail, check out web sites, chat with friends, download new apps or grab/share multi-media content, etc. With bandwidth caps staring to become all […] Read more »
I normally avoid anything that looks like tech support in my entries here, but this may verge on an exception. Bear with me, and I’ll explain. I rebooted my Macbook Pro about four days ago, and lo, to my surprise, the icon for my boot drive […] Read more »
I have a confession to make: I have not always been a Mac person. For the period of time between the retirement of System 9 and Panther (yes, it took Apple showing a real commitment to Unix for me to give them a shot again), I […] Read more »