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MacBook Screen Problems

A few days after I got my MacBook, I started to notice how horrible the screen is. I have a grid of diagonal lines that are especially visible in the left corner and on light colored images. Now, I’m noticing distortions on just about anything that has a gradient on it. This [...]

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Using Backpack Offline with PackRat – Screencast

This is the first of (hopefully) many screencasts I hope to bring you over the coming months. Today’s screencasat is about how to use your Backpack account offline on your Mac with a new program called PackRat.

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Browser Stats

You sure can tell that a lot of Mac users visit this site. IE below 10% :)

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Mac OS X Home and End Keys

Update: Now you can skip all these instructions and just download my KeyFixer application to fix your home and end keys. Read the new article …
The default behavior of OS X’s “home” and “end” keys drives me nuts. In every other operating system that I’ve used, these keys move your cursor to the beginning [...]

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Mac OS X Installation Instructions That Don’t Suck! (Rails, Lighttpd, MySQL, Apache2, PHP5)

I had to reinstall my computer the other day, it’s needed it for a while (mostly because I’ve installed every stupid program I could get my hands on for the last 6 months). I haven’t wanted to reinstall because I had a “working” install of Rails and I remembered how hard it was to [...]

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No Native Flash Player For Intel Macs

According to reports from around the web, the Flash Player does not run well inside Safari or Firefox on the new Intel Macs (using Rosetta). Adobe has known about the switch to Intel for more than half a year, isn’t that enough time to make the Flash Player work on the new processors? Where [...]

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WebKit Nightly Builds Offer Great New Features For Web Developers

I recently learned that you can download nightly builds of WebKit. What is WebKit? From the site, “WebKit is the system framework used on Mac OS X by Safari, Dashboard, Mail.app, and many other OS X applications. It is based on the KHTML engine from KDE.”
Why would you want to download and use WebKit [...]

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Why I’m Switching to Mac and Linux

People sometimes ask me why I would want to switch away from Windows and use Mac OS X and Linux. I sometimes ask myself the same thing. Then, I go and read the news, and I’m reminded (every day) of why I’m making the switch. People, it’s just not safe to use [...]

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Goodbye Windows (Sorta)

Last night, I took a major step in my long-term goal to free myself from the curse that is Microsoft Windows. I’ll never be able to get completely away from it, but I can choose to use something other than Windows for my daily work. I’ve spent the last 3 months using my [...]

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Mac Tip: Spellcheck (almost) Everything!

I’m constantly finding little gems in Mac OS X that make my life easier and make me love the Mac even more every day. Recently, I realized that you can automatically spellcheck in just about any program in OS X. This is especially great when writing blog entries and emails in Safari. [...]

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