I've been using iWow for iTunes some time now. It makes my music sound great, but there is a downside to it ... if you have a 'slow' Mac like mine (mini 1.42 GHz), it eats up to 42% of the CPU. During CPU intensive tasks, that can be a real pain.

I work in an office with lots of Macs with iTunes libraries, and often play stuff off other people's libraries to check it out. But I don't want to be busy looking up bands when I'm at work, so I wrote two AppleScripts to post a link containing a...

Acer's Aspire One netbook laptop comes without an optical drive. It does comes with a DVD, though, that lets you either install Linpus Linux OS to the netbook by connecting an external USB optical drive to it, or create a recovery USB drive using the...

I have both Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 installed on my machine for compatibility reasons. However, both versions of the application show as, for example, Microsoft Word in the menu bar when running. I wanted to change this, and found an easy way to...

Recently, any time I tried to run Safari on 10.6 caused all apps and the Finder to hang with the spinning beach ball. Force-quitting Safari stopped the problem, but it would occur again on the next launch. Googling around, I saw many folks reporting...

If you need to search for something you chatted about in Skype, but do not remember exactly who or where you chatted with, it's hard to do right now. But here's one way to do it with Spotlight. The latest version of Skype for Mac has a history button...

Navigon not only produces navigation software for the iPhone; their (probably) much bigger business is selling GPS navigation units for cars. These units can currently only be updated from Windows operating systems. However, an out-of-the-box Parallels...

I wrote some proof-of-concept code that allows you to use the Apple Magic Mouse to zoom in/out in the frontmost application with pinch gestures. I've detailed the process of how I got this working in this entry on my blog, including some compilable...