I just found out about Skim and I find it to be wildly useful for personal use, but I can imagine this could be a huge productivity booster for anyone in academia in particular. In short, Skim views any PDF files quickly as expected, but more importantly it allows you to take notes and [...]

Creating your own cheap Mac Hackintosh out of a PC Netbook is pretty popular right now, so I compiled a list of various how-to guides mostly for myself but figured I would share it with our readers as well. The guides rank from reasonably easy (Dell Mini 9) to an arduous hack, and it’s [...]

I really enjoy videochatting with friends and family using iChat, so I was pretty frustrated when seemingly out of nowhere iChat video started freezing completely after a video chat session was initiated. I searched around a bit and noticed other people having the same problem and symptoms - iChat video freezes but iChat audio [...]

Mac users are largely immune to the world of virus and trojans, but it’s not uncommon for you to be a Mac user in a LAN sea of Windows PC’s. The Conficker Virus is Windows only but it’s garnering a lot of attention, so if you’re on a Windows LAN at home, work, or [...]

It’s very easy to mirror an entire web site on your local machine thanks to the terminal command wget, here’s how to do it:
Launch the Terminal and type the following command, replacing guimp.com (a tiny website) with the URL you desire to mirror locally.
wget -m http://www.guimp.com/
This will download the entire site on your [...]

MAMP: It stands for Mac Apache MySql PHP. It delivers on all four of these fronts and it does it very efficiently. MAMP is nice because you can install it (and delete it) without altering anything “built-in” to your OS X installation. Every file that MAMP needs and uses lives inside [...]

Seems simple right? It should be, however in Mac OS X Leopard there is not exactly a straight forward or easy way to lock your desktop. Of course you can use the System Preferences and enable the screensaver and sleep password functionality but I’m looking for something quicker. Thankfully I found this [...]

For me, listening to Pandora is as routine as brushing my teeth in the morning. Tonight I was browsing the application downloads over at apple.com and came across “PandoraMan”. PandoraMan is “A small Cocoa app to run the Pandora mini player using WebKit. Created so you can quit Safari, Camino, etc. without [...]

Spaces. Personally, it is my favorite addition to Apple’s Leopard operating system. I have become very accustomed to working with Spaces and have long desired the ability to set a different background for each virtual “space”. That is now possible thanks to SpaceSuit. Installation of SpaceSuit is a breeze and setting your [...]

I have been a long time user of Skype and recently some of the features unique to the beta have caught my attention. In particular, I am enjoying the new screen sharing functionality. Frequently, I work remotely and find screen sharing crucial to collaboration. If you haven’t already, I encourage you [...]