Tired of waking up to your clock radio? Well, you can use your Mac as an alarm clock, and have it play an iTunes playlist, so you wake up with the right music every day.
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X
I’m an application addict! When I recently switched to the Mac I went hunting around for the best applications to add to the base operating system. There were quite a few good sources of information, but I found one in particular very useful. Mac Specia
With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline.
Many international users have keyboards with the U.S. layout, and are accustomed to typing accented characters with the key sequences of the Windows "U.S. - International" keyboard layout. They often don't wish to get used to the Mac's option-key sequence
• Safely archive your large volume of vital email information. • Easily access your email database with fast, sophisticated searching. • Protect your essential email data from data format obsolescence.
Versions is the first Mac OS X Subversion client that won't make you long for the command line interface anymore. Without over-simplifying the way Subversion is structured, Versions gives a clear overview and all the tools you'll need.
I needed to edit numerous files today on a remote linux box. Normally, I would ssh in and use vi. However, I had to edit ruby/rhtml files and I wanted a familiar environment (in this case, TextMate).
Battery Health Monitor is a free utility for PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, and MacBook Pro owners that monitors virtually all battery health parameters and displays them in an easy-to-read format
About Xfolders Does the Finder have too few features for your liking? Does it offer too little information? Xfolders, the new file manager for Mac OS X, Tiger, is the solution. Xfolders supplements the Finder and it is, thanks to its compatability with No
We are continuing our efforts for bringing you even more feature-full product and we are making our latest Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 early available to you. It will be one more FREE update of the currently available version.
Note: While I describe this method using a Treo 650 as an example, this method will work with any bluetooth-enabled GPRS or UMTS telephone: Just enable Bluetooth on your phone (with Bluetooth visibility "on"), and follow this guide ignoring all the Treo-s
Apple's Keynote presentation software makes it easy to create great looking presentations with professional themes, transitions, and charts and tables. If you need mathematics, though, you're out of luck. For some reason, Apple's designers failed to inclu
I've never gotten along too well with the Mozex plugin that should allow me to edit Firefox textareas in TextMate. Fortunately, a new plugin seems to make things a lot easier...
Kerberos for Macintosh is an implementation of the Kerberos authentication system for Mac OS X. It is based on the MIT Kerberos implementation and provides Kerberos v5 and Kerberos v4 protocols, GSSAPI, a graphical authentication interface and accompanyin
You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in iTunes. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the menu shortcuts below). To do an action, press the keys indicated below.