GeekTool Revisited: Monitor Time Machine Status

GeekTool Revisited: Monitor Time Machine Status

August 25, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you use Time Machine and want a quick status of activity or your last backup? Well using a simple command to check the Time Machine log file and GeekTool, you can get that information right on your desktop.

Review: Twittelator Pro v3.1

Review: Twittelator Pro v3.1

August 24, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

Twittelator Pro v3.1 from Stone Design is probably one of most full-featured Twitter clients now available. If you used or looked at an older version in the past, Twittelator Pro v3.1 deserves another long hard look.

iCal: Dealing with Time Travel

iCal: Dealing with Time Travel

August 20, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

Do you travel between time zones on a regular basis? Have you ever changed your computer’s time zone to reflect your present time zone and all event time stamps get changed causing scheduling confusion? iCal has the ability to let you easily specify time zones and not affect the times of past events.

Finder: Customize the Icon View of Finder Windows

Finder: Customize the Icon View of Finder Windows

August 18, 2009 in How-To by Bob Faulhaber

Do you want to customize the look and feel of your Finder windows? Text labels too small? Icons too big? It’s easy to make it look exactly as you want.

Review: Voila 2.0.1

Review: Voila 2.0.1

August 17, 2009 in Reviews by Bob Faulhaber

There are many ways to do screen capture on the Mac, ranging from OS X’s built-in functionality to utilities, such as Skitch. But, if you need a tool that allows you to capture, edit and organize screen captures then Voila from Global Delight is an application you should look at.

Better Private Browsing in Safari 4 via Shortcuts, Confirmation Removal, and Cleanup

Better Private Browsing in Safari 4 via Shortcuts, Confirmation Removal, and Cleanup

August 12, 2009 in Tips & Tricks by Mark

Private Browsing still leaves tracks, we will show you how to easily switch in and out of Private Browsing, and go over a few additional steps for the paranoid people who want to cover their tracks in Safari via Private Browsing shortcuts, confirmation removal, clearing cached data, and excluding cached data in Spotlight searches.

How To: Create DMG Art for Fancy Application Installations

How To: Create DMG Art for Fancy Application Installations

August 11, 2009 in How-To by Mark

In this series we go over how to create DMG disk image artwork for use with your apps or applications. Having a professional looking installation folder is critical to your apps image, and rather simple to achieve good results.

iPhone/iPod Touch: Sync Firefox Bookmarks to Safari

iPhone/iPod Touch: Sync Firefox Bookmarks to Safari

August 10, 2009 in How-To by Bob Faulhaber

Do you use Firefox as your primary desktop browser and need a simple way to sync those bookmarks to your iPhone or iPod Touch? Since Safari is the only browser available on the iPhone or iPod Touch you either need to manually create the bookmarks manually or do without, but there is an easier way.

GeekTool Revisited: Weather Conditions - Part Deux

GeekTool Revisited: Weather Conditions – Part Deux

August 5, 2009 in How-To, Tips & Tricks by Bob Faulhaber

In previous posts we described how to put the current date and time on your desktop, along with the ability to display images, in our example we used a doppler radar image, but what if you want actual weather conditions? Using GeekTool and a Perl script, called yweather, developed by a Google Code user named loudambiance, you can pull weather data from the Yahoo feed and display on your desktop.

Security: Create Encrypted DMG Disk Images for Sensitive Data

Security: Create Encrypted DMG Disk Images for Sensitive Data

August 4, 2009 in How-To by Mark

File security and privacy is important for your sensitive data. The DMG disk image is a versatile tool that allows you to encrypt your data and enable password protection on a virtual disk image. This method allows for more versatility and portability than FileVaults methods of securing entire sections of your hard disk.

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