January 2nd, 2008 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Command Line, Fun, Customize
The Mac OS X desktop is attractive, highly functional, and very customizable, but by default the maximum icon size is 128×128, which is pretty large but if you have a huge monitor or you’re visually impaired you may want larger icons. This is where the command line comes in, where you can force the […]
December 14th, 2007 - Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Fun, Retro
Many of us who converted from a Windows PC to a Mac may long for the amazing artistic capabilities allowed within Microsoft Paint. Ok so maybe that’s a bit dramatic, and we all know that Microsoft Paint is pretty crappy, but that’s also why it was fun. Thankfully, developers in the open source community […]
December 2nd, 2007 - Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Fun, Customize
It’s that time of the year again Mac users! The holiday season is now here in full force, and part of the fun is customizing your Mac to be with the season. Here’s our three favorite apps so you can deck out your Mac desktop in the holiday spirit.
Snowfall - a beautiful falling snow screensaver […]
May 22nd, 2007 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Fun, Customize
The Mac OS GUI and all it’s eye candy is a pleasure to use and look at. Perhaps you’ll remember a while back from our Fun Eye Candy Effects article that by holding down the Shift key, you can slow down virtually any Aqua effect in Mac OS X, from minimizations to Expose. If […]
April 10th, 2007 - Mac OS X, Fun, Screensaver
Little is dreaded more in the Mac world than the kernel panic, the Mac OS X equivalent of the Windows Blue Screen of Death. Mac software developer DoomLaser has released a great prank to play on any Mac using friends or colleagues in the form of a screen saver that emulates a kernel panic. […]
March 16th, 2007 - Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Fun
Everyone enjoys a cool desktop background and OSXPlanet just might take the cake for its automatically updating planet wallpaper. You can choose any of the nine planets (eight if you’re anti-Pluto) and have them displayed as your background. Perhaps the most impressive is with our very own planet Earth, which you can set to […]
March 8th, 2007 - Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Fun
Chances are if you have a new consumer Mac it has a built-in iSight camera, just waiting to be used. If you’ve ever thought about setting up a webcam but figured it would be too difficult, fear not, because it doesn’t get any easier than this. Cam2Web is a tiny no frills app that […]
March 1st, 2007 - Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Fun
SeisMac hits high on the cool and innovation scale of Mac Apps, by turning your Mac laptop into a seismometer. OK, some of you are surely asking yourself: what the hell is a seismometer? The short answer: an earthquake detector! Actually it detects all seismic activity, not just earthquakes. SeisMac works by tapping into […]
February 28th, 2007 - Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Fun, How to
MediaFork is a lot like HandBrake, which is fitting because it is based on it. It allows you to easily rip any DVD or DVD source folder to various movie files that can be played on your Mac, PC, and iPod. MediaFork was created because HandBrake development has stagnated, so it’s really taking off […]
February 24th, 2007 - Mac OS X, Fun, Retro
How would you like to run Mac OS System 7 in Mac OS X? Never thought about it? Us neither, until we came across a post at Mac Informant showing us how to do it. OK so this just might be at the top of the useless list, but the fact that it’s possible […]