Have you ever wanted to have your mac require a password on waking from system sleep, but not ask for a password when the screensaver is on? Well, me neither, but someone out there might and it’s kind of a nifty customization tip. I came across this nice trick on TUAW that I thought it [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a quick tip. If you find yourself needing to access hidden files on your Macintosh, run this from the terminal. Please note that the inverse of the first command will restore your default settings.
Display Hidden Files
# defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
# KillAll Finder

Recently I connected my Mac to my linux based NFS server at home. I use NFS to access files from two other Linux boxes and on each server my UID (unique id) is set to 1000. In order for me to easily have full access to my NFS shares from OS X I [...]

Photo Booth is a really fun app that comes with all macs that have a built in iSight camera. Here’s a couple tips that make using Photo Booth on your mac even more enjoyable; the ability to disable the ‘white screen’ flash and the ability to disable the 3 second countdown. Try them out [...]

The iPhone 3G is awesome, we all know that, but the rate plans are not. By default there are no text messages included on the plans, and it costs $5 to get only 200 of them. Well guess what, you can get free SMS text messaging on your iPhone by using the AIM protocol. [...]

I came across a pretty useful page today about securing your Mac, and while none of the tips are rocket science or particularly advanced, I still found it to be useful enough to want to share with everyone. The first two tips are definitely what I consider to be 100% necessary if you’re either [...]

Like many other power users, I’m addicted to the Mac OS X command line, any reason at all for me to launch the terminal I take as an opportunity to learn more about the powerful backend of our favorite operating system. Here I have gathered 5 useful commands that will make your life easier [...]