With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline.
Many international users have keyboards with the U.S. layout, and are accustomed to typing accented characters with the key sequences of the Windows "U.S. - International" keyboard layout. They often don't wish to get used to the Mac's option-key sequence
RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the ex
Newer portable Macs use safe sleep (hibernation) in combination with normal sleep (older computers can use this, too). What happens is that when you put your computer to sleep, the system writes the contents of RAM into the file /private var vm sleepimage
First, thanks to everyone who made this possible. Iphone Dev team, geohot and his "crew", Iphonesimfree :P and all others. And of course, thanks to the copycat "HaRRo" who keeps ripping off my tutorials - too bad you also copied my previous errors.
The X Window System (more commonly called X11) on Mac OS X provides significant opportunities for Mac OS X developers. Based on the open source XFree86 project, X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X. It includes the full
Hi all, Another new version, asymptotically approaching 1.0. Changes Now supports arbitrary reordering of images via drag and drop Better supports unicode text everywhere (sorry about that!) New "Add tag to All" feature - adds one particular tag to all im
This page briefly describes the sequence of events that happen when Mac OS X boots. Some details of the boot process from power-on until the kernel is up and running are covered in Booting Mac OS X and XNU: The Kernel. To recapitulate:
When I was a Mac user, I kept my million-plus-email archive in Apple's Mail.app program, and suffered through incredible delays whenever I tried to open or search my archival mailboxes (for what it's worth, I'm thrilled and delighted with the performance
Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns – so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below. You'll probably need at lea
Apple's Keynote presentation software makes it easy to create great looking presentations with professional themes, transitions, and charts and tables. If you need mathematics, though, you're out of luck. For some reason, Apple's designers failed to inclu
There’s a conspiracy theory that Steve Jobs wants you to buy a new iPod every 12 months. That may or may not be the case, but if your iPod is hosed, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s time to put it out to pasture. Most iPods are user-fixable and you
I’m an application addict! When I recently switched to the Mac I went hunting around for the best applications to add to the base operating system. There were quite a few good sources of information, but I found one in particular very useful. Mac Specia
Last night I updated my Powerbook to Mac OS 10.4.7 and that broke my previously installed plugin that let me sync my Mac with the Nokia E61. This morning I was met with the following error message telling me that the plug-in for the Nokia E61 was missing.
Tired of waking up to your clock radio? Well, you can use your Mac as an alarm clock, and have it play an iTunes playlist, so you wake up with the right music every day.
The Jargon File is a popular lexicographic resource amongst hackers (and non-hackers too). Although it might have some subjective definitions I may not agree with, I have conveniently quoted verbatim the definitions of the terms "hacker" and "tool" as a p