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Show the date and calendar on your Mac desktop with Dateline

May 24, 2010 - Leave a Comment

Dateline is a nice little utility that places a transparent linear calendar on your Mac desktop. It’s pretty customizable so if you want the dates to be horizontal or vertical, or the text color or their background colors to be different it’s just an easy couple of tweaks away. Perhaps the best part about Dateline … Read More

Switch Mac Function Keys to Work as Standard Function Keys

May 12, 2010 - 13 Comments

I’ve always preferred the way the original MacBook and MacBook Pro’s handled the function keys, in particularly the way F9, F10, and F11 are used to enter into Expose and Mission Control. For a while now the function keys have changed, they default to playing music, adjusting keyboard backlighting, and adjusting volume levels, I like … Read More

How to Change the Desktop Background Picture in Mac OS X

Apr 18, 2010 - 9 Comments

Making your Mac desktop background look attractive goes beyond just eye candy, it can help to improve your focus or give some inspiration. We’re going to show you how you can easily change the wallpaper on your Mac, and you can set the desktop background to any picture you want. Whether you’re a minimalist and … Read More

How to Hide or Remove Icons from the Mac Desktop

Apr 14, 2010 - 10 Comments

You can really clean up your Mac Desktop by hiding all the hard disk and drive icons that appear by default on it. This is a settings choice that makes it so when you connect a new drive to the Mac, it won’t show up on the desktop, but it will be visible from a … Read More

Get rounded corners back on your Mac’s screen

Apr 8, 2010 - 2 Comments

Prior to Mac OS X 10.5, your Mac’s desktop had rounded screen corners. Now you can bring those smooth rounded corners back with Displaperture (say that ten times fast). The developer jokingly notes “enjoy CRT nostalgia” but I think the rounded corners are actually kind of nice looking with the rest of the Mac OS … Read More

Awesome Galaxy Wallpaper

Mar 30, 2010 - 4 Comments

[ Click for full resolution at 1920×1200 ] I really like the Aurora spacey galactic themed wallpapers that come with Snow Leopard, so I was pretty excited when I came across this original background picture on one of our readers websites. It’s a great variation of the galaxy theme and looks completely at home on … Read More

How to Set the Default Column Size in Mac OS X Finder Windows

Mar 25, 2010 - 21 Comments

The Mac OS X Finder column view is really handy, letting you see multiple folder contents side by side in a hierarchical view. But unless you set the default column width yourself, anytime you launch a new Finder window, the columns size will be reset on a per window basis.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server Default Wallpaper

Mar 17, 2010 - 6 Comments

I recently came across the default wallpaper in Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and I think it looks just fantastic with it’s blue hues, starry knight kind of aurora type theme.

TotalFinder Adds Tabbed Windows to the Mac OS X Finder

Mar 9, 2010 - 7 Comments

I love tabbed windows and I use them everywhere I can, whether instant messaging in iChat to hoarding sites in Safari. Now you can get tabbed windows in Mac OS X’s Finder! TotalFinder is a really cool app that brings full tab functionality to the Mac desktop, allowing you to not only create tabs of … Read More

Change the Mac Login Screen Background in Snow Leopard

Jan 25, 2010 - 8 Comments

You can change the Mac OS X login screen background picture using a few different methods. We have covered this tip before but it was based around a few Terminal commands that might not be easy to follow for the average Mac user without command line experience. With that in mind, here are ways to … Read More

Change iTunes 9 Background Color

Jan 17, 2010 - 9 Comments

iTunes 9 is great and has a lot of improvements, but changing the background color in Grid view from the nice easy-on-the-eyes dark to the bright retina torching white is not on my happy list. Now they made this different recently but Manish is still am not thrilled. Thankfully French designer Damien Erambert has come … Read More

Free Mac Icons – list of free beautiful icons for the Mac

Jan 14, 2010 - 6 Comments

I love icons and customizing my Mac desktop, so I decided to share with you all my personal bookmark list of free mac icons. These are the sites I visit when I want to change my Mac appearance and all the icons that define the OS X desktop and dock. Of course if you’re on … Read More

Change the Login Background Wallpaper on Mac OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard

Dec 19, 2009 - 11 Comments

If you want to change the wallpaper that sits in the background of your Mac’s login screen in OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, from the Finder hit Command+Shift+G to open the ‘Go to Folder’ screen. Type /System/Library/CoreServices/ and click ‘Go’:

Get your Mac desktop ready for Christmas!

Dec 16, 2009 - 1 Comment

It’s that time of year again, just 9 days before Christmas! You can get even more in the spirit by decking out your Mac, so here’s some resources to do just that. From making it snow on your Mac desktop, to virtual christmas lights, holiday music, and themed wallpaper, we’ve got you covered. Merry Christmas! … Read More

Access a whole bunch of hidden Mac preferences with Secrets

Dec 11, 2009 - 1 Comment

Secrets is a pretty nifty system preference panel add-on that lets you access all sorts of hidden ‘secret’ preference options. Instead of typing a bunch of default write commands you can basically just click checkboxes or change dropdown options to easily enable some pretty cool stuff. It’s pretty comprehensive, with a bunch of options for … Read More

Add 24 Hidden Visual Effects to Photo Booth & iChat in Mac OS X

Dec 7, 2009 - 8 Comments

With a little bit of hacking and modification, you can add up to 24 additional visual effects to iChat video conferencing and Photo Booth! A reader pointed out this very cool Mac OS X mod and if you like to play around with Photo Booth or iChat effects it’s worth the effort, since it gives … Read More

Beautiful Falling Snow Screensaver for Mac OS X

Nov 29, 2009 - 6 Comments

We have discussed SnowFall just about every holiday season for the past few years because it’s really that great of a screensaver for the winter and holiday season. It is so great that Apple has featured it in their Apple Stores around the holidays on numerous occasions, so if it has Apple’s seal of approval, … Read More

Apple Crossbones Sticker Decal is a Geeky Way To Decorate a MacBook

Nov 22, 2009 - 4 Comments

Want an interesting way to spruce up the MacBook Pro Apple logo? How about some crossbones? I saw someone at a local coffee shop with a spiffy skull & crossbones style sticker stuck on their MacBook Pro, but in place of the skull was the usual Apple logo that naturally glows. While I didn’t get … Read More

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