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…

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…

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…

It's one of the biggest thrills a journalist can experience: stumbling upon a scoop of worldwide relevance.

You hear a corporate executive say something in the midst of a stream of marketing fluff, and your adrenalin starts pumping… did I…