I am a BIG fan of Google’s Gmail service. It has the best webmail interface by far and offers nearly unlimited storage. Now that Gmail allows IMAP access I am using it as my primary email service via Apple’s Mail.app. I’ve configured Gmail to check all of my other email [...]

I recently gave up on Firefox 2 in lieu of Leopard because of stability and memory issues. Safari 3 was a huge leap forward from Safari 2 so I decided to give it a try. Overall, I’ve found that I’m enjoying using Safari as my main browser. The only part of Firefox that [...]

Steve Jobs ended 2006 by proclaiming that, “2007 is likely to be one of the most exciting new product years in Apple’s history.” Needless to say, he wasn’t just blowing smoke. Apple was on fire in 2007 as new and revolutionary products lured droves of consumers to Apple goods and launched Apple’s market capitalization (it [...]

When Apple’s new big cat first appeared at the Word Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in August of 2006 and then pounced on the scene in October of 2007 it sent shivers down the spines of some small and large developers in the Mac community. Here I list some of the best Mac freeware [...]

I am enjoying Leopard’s Spaces.app quite a bit, especially once I fixed the Finder issue. Most of the time I experience no problems, however, occasionally Spaces starts to misbehave or becomes unresponsive. The most frequent problem I have encountered is that sometimes Spaces will stop switching to the space containing the [...]

When I think of time machines, images of Marty McFly, Doc Brown and Flux Capacitors come to mind. I suppose these associations were hardwired into my young brain sometime in the vicinity of 1985. So, it was quite natural that I wanted to change the icon for Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine application to [...]

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.