Google Quick Search Box – A Quicksilver Assassin? (Brief Tutorial)
Friday, June 12th, 2009Within the past week or so, Google officially released the free Mac application titled Google Quick Search Box. This application has many similarities to the ever-so-popular open-source (thus free) Mac application called Quicksilver and with good reason. It turns out that the creator of Quicksilver, Nicholas Jitkoff, is employed by Google, and he’s the main [...]
Change the Default Folder/System Icons in Leopard OS X
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Looking to spice up your Leopard GUI? You’ve come to the right place. Just the other day I did a bit of searching, and I came across a post from UsingMac.com that showed in just a few easy steps how to change the default icons (folder and system icons) in Leopard. This means that when [...]
GimmeSomeTune – Free iTunes companion
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Thanks to LifeHacker, I was exposed to this new free iTunes “companion” application (only for Mac) called GimmeSomeTune. Some of the features of this application include artwork and automated lyrics fetching (which is the best at preforming these tasks as far as I’ve seen compared to other add ons), iTunes notifications, iTunes controlling, Apple Remote [...]
That Nifty Little Option Key
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Keyboard Shortcuts/Mouse Combos in Mac OS X This is a screen cast of a few different keyboard shortcuts/mouse combos for Mac OS X that I don’t believe are terribly well known. I learned these from the book, The Missing Manual: Mac OS X – Leopard Edition that I posted about previously. I liked learning these [...]
David Pogue’s Missing Manual
Monday, February 11th, 2008This isn’t a tip, but I’m more or less just letting you all know that I’m still here and haven’t forgotten about this section of my site. I’ve been making notes of things that I’d like to share with everyone, and it’s just a matter of finding the time to do it. My schedule’s been [...]
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