Last night, I decided to change my desktop picture. I set it to: Change Picture every 5 seconds. Well, this morning, I noticed that my system was running incredibly slow. I knew that something was wrong. So, I used OnyX to clean up some caches, and it optimized my system. Then, I booted from my […]

Apple marketed Mac OS X Tiger by its new features, Spotlight and Dashboard. But after using Tiger for about 5 months, I have yet to use Spotlight and I use Dashboard about 3 times a week. I feel slightly sorry for Konfabulator, since it was the original Dashboard. On top of that, the first versions […]

TUAW reviews a great widget, Screenshot Plus, another screen capture widget, but seems to be a lot better than the Capture widget, which I have reviewed earlier. The resolution of the screen shots taken with the Screenshot Plus seem to be much higher than Capture, and there are many cool features included in this new […]

Many rumor sites are going crazy with rumors for MacWorld in January. We all know that Apple will release something extraordinary, and innovative. This year, it will probably be multiple updates to previous systems, and possibly a new item. Many believe that MacIntels will play a big role in MacWorld, and some say that Apple […]

The well-known utility from Lord of the Cows.com, Safari Enhancer provides really cool hacks for Safari, for appearance and function. One of my favorite features from Safari Enhancer is you can change the user agent to tell a web site that your are running Windows with Internet Explorer. You can also change the theme for […]

Namely is an application launcher that has the same user interface as Spotlight, but it is only for applications. Namely is so much faster than Spotlight, and can be activated via a key command and can be launched from log-in. Namely has a floating window, instead of a menu bar icon, which can be somewhat […]

iFeedPod is a useful utility that syncs your RSS feeds to your iPod. iFeedPod works great, and it seems to have no bugs. One thing it lacks, is a schedule for syncing your RSS, so you have to manually sync your RSS feeds each time with iFeedPod. This can be helpful if you are on […]

ImageWell is a nice utility for web developers and others who deal with image sizes and data. ImageWell provides an easy way to scale an image, compress an image, and then upload via FTP or a .Mac account or save it to your Mac. ImageWell makes it so easy for bloggers/web developers scale and image, […]

Aqua-Soft.org is a website that offers a great forum for all Mac users and a blog with daily news and tips. Aqua-Soft has a great “aqua” theme for their website/forum, and they have been kind enough to release it to the public for open source use. I have been busy today, trying to customize the […]

Here’s a nice utility, in case you ever want to change your short user name for your Mac’s account. I had this problem a couple months ago, and I had to log in to the root user, and it was just totally a waste of time. I have come across this nice little utility that […]