Money quote: "Introducing the Vista Mac…"

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…

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…

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…

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…

Tech journo Danny Gorog has written a good piece about new sheet-fed scanners that can scan in your bills (even double-sided ones) and save them as PDFs on your computer, eliminating the stacks of unsorted paper we all build up on…

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…

Anyone else have this problem with text rendering on Firefox for Mac? As you can see, the antialiasing is seriously screwed up on the right side of this text. Highlighting the text removes the problem, but when unhighlighted the uneven…

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 column/list view of folders rather than a drop down menu). Replace TRUE with FALSE to…

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…

I am a sucker for more of everything when it comes to computers, so I had to upgrade my MacBook Pro's hard drive to 160GB — the biggest hard drive available at retail. (Of course, soon after I ordered it,…

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…

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…

I've really been getting into podcasts in the last few weeks.

This epiphany has come about for two reasons:

- I got my iPod's battery replaced ($US46.99 including return shipping from USA which equated to $A70… a $30 saving on the Apple service)…

My friend and colleague Tim Gaden has just bought himself a MacBook Pro for work. I am, of course, not the slightest bit envious.

He writes in his post about it, "Repairing permissions on the old one took 118 seconds for…