Mac Tales

A friend sent me this brilliant tip via twitter the other day.
OSX mail.app is a really sweet desktop mail application with built in gmail support.
After using mine for about a year, it had become kinda slow – I didn’t really notice how slow until I tried this tip:
1. Close mail.app
2. Open terminal
3. Type the following [...]

It’s not uncommon to find attacks used by web-savvy criminals which exploit the ability to traverse the users history / cache using JavaScript.

Today is blog action day where bloggers blog on the environment. As I blew dust of the feed reader this morning, many of the posts I read repeated a subset of the same handful of ‘tips’ (turn your computer off at night, get compact fluorescent light bulbs, buy a new monitor…)

Truecrypt is an excellent open source security program providing cross platform virtual encrypted disks for Windows and Linux; but what about Mac OS X?

Apache htaccess files have many uses to the webmaster, but by default this file is not visible in the OS X finder. This is because OS X treats files that begin with a dot (like htaccess) as system files.
There is a simple way to change this behavior so that you can see, and edit htaccess [...]

iPhoto is possibly one of the coolest and easiest photo management applications available!
Today we’ve compiled a list of 13 iPhoto plugins designed to share your photos with others. Enjoy!

Here are 11 crucial shortcuts that experienced OS X-ers take for granted, that are not entirely obvious to the new convert from Windows.
It’s easy to get complacent with your shortcuts as a power user, and one of the very first questions the new users ask when starting to work with OS X is, where are [...]