One of the things that really annoys me about Apple Safari is that it doesn't use the CTRL+K / CMD+K keyboard shortcut for activating the Google Search dialogue box, which is standard across most browsers — particularly Safari.
Instead, Safari makes you use CMD+Shift+L which is a "twister" of a keyboard shortcut — not very ergonomic. 
Amusingly, [...]

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Ever wanted to change the desktop picture in Mac OS X by selecting the file in the Finder, right clicking and selecting "set as Desktop Picture" from a context menu?Or perhaps select some files, then "move files to a new folder", "create folder enclosing these files" or "make new folder for files"? (It's about time [...]

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Putting a Mac notebook to sleep is taking progressively longer and longer as time goes by. The reason? We're all ordering notebooks with 2 to 4GB of RAM now, and by default, OS X writes the entire contents of memory to disk before going to sleep.
Since Apple is pretty good about force-sleeping the computer before [...]

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I've always doubted Albert Einstein's brilliance… I mean, e=mc²… wtf? I don't even know what that means.
But I saw a quote from him today that totally rang my bells…
"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."
That absolutely explains why Apple stuff works well. Jobsy doesn't put in any more functionality than a device needs, [...]

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Oh my gosh, I have no idea what this is all about, but as Fake Steve says, it's pure evil.

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Apple Mail has an excruciatingly annoying bug related to URLs pasted in emails: in every other mail client, they're broken and unclickable.

Apparently this is because Apple Mail uses a relatively new email standard, the "delsp" parameter, which supposedly instructs other mail clients to remove spaces inserted in URLs so they can recombine the parts [...]

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MacOSXtips.co.uk has published some very handy command line tips for customising OS X.
My favourites:
5. defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE
Sets expanded save dialogs as default (showing [...]

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Tim Gaden of Hawk Wings fame (and formerly of APC X-Factor fame, sniffle) has documented an excellent tip to speed up Apple Mail.
It involves optimising the SQLite database Apple Mail uses to store indexes and subject lines of emails.
You can check your current 'envelope archive' size by entering this in the terminal:
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
Then [...]

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Amazing… this company sells blenders and to demonstrate the power of its machines it blends things on camera… like iPods.

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Well, my post on "top 10 things to hate about the Apple iPhone" generated a fair bit of controversy. I can't say I didn't write it with this in mind :-) The traffic on apcmag.com has been nothing short of flabbergastingly stunning over the past few days as a result.
I'm not saying I never fell [...]

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Is it normal to get this excited about a laser printer?
I've had my eye on the Lexmark e120n for some time now, and I ordered it on a whim a couple of days ago. (I got mine through EnByte because it looked like a reputable online store and had cheap delivery.)
I received it at [...]

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Ah, you gotta love this guy. He's been trolling the tech community since tech journalism was invented, and people still fall hook, line and sinker for him every time.
Here's him explaining how he earns tidal-waves of page impressions every time he writes something about Macs.

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What the hell is going on with this ad placed on Google by Apple Computer Australia?

No MacBook Pro is "from $2295", and the iMacs now have Intel processors, not G5… and they start at $1999.
On the upside the ad from GetMac.com.au below was a good find. Price competition isn't something that's terribly common among [...]

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