This is just a quick tip to get Leopard’s Finder window to display the full path to the current directory in the title bar. Essentially this is just the results from a pwd command being constantly displayed in the finder window. While power users will immediately find this very useful even normal users [...]

I absolutely love Leopard’s new Spaces feature, however, the Finder’s default behavior in Spaces drove me slightly crazy. For example, if I wanted to quickly add an attachment to an Email and Finder was open in a different space I would have to either close that Finder window or drag the Finder window to [...]

This just a quick tip explaining how you can avoid iChat’s ‘accept chat’ dialog without using the popular Chax extension. Chax is great, however, it is currently only compatible with Leopard’s iChat via an alpha build. Furthermore, many of Chax’s most compelling features have been added to iChat by Apple so I’m not [...]

Do you hate Leopard’s new 3D Dock? If so, you can quickly remove the 3D effect via the command line. Personally I’m slowly getting used to the new Dock but it is a definite example of unnecessary ‘Eye Candy’, so I can understand why some people want to disable the 3D Dock. [...]

This just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard only) via Yahoo without needing a .Mac account. If you don’t have a Yahoo account you’ll need to go here and sign up for one. After you have your Yahoo account ready, proceed to step 1.

For ages scientific notebooks have been the mainstay of scientific research and have always had one thing in common: paper. Until now that was mostly due to a lack of options. Today as science and computers have become more and more inseparable the appeal of digital notebooks is quite clear. Digital notebooks [...]

Here are a few commands that can be used to activate hidden features of Mac OS X. There are quite a few of these commands floating around the internet, but I have chosen to highlight the ones that I find the most useful. The commands will require use of the terminal, but don’t [...]

After a while those standard Mac OS X icons can get boring. There are a few programs out there that allow you to change your icons such as CandyBar, ShapeShifter, and LiteIcon. CandyBar and ShapeShifter may be out of your price range costing about $13 and $20, respectively. Today I will show you how to [...]