K’s Weblog

It seems like forever since I’ve been behind the mic recording my very own segment for the podcast.  But sure enough, here I am.
fseventer
First off this week is a tool from FernLightning called fseventer.  This app gives you new visibility into just what files on your hard drive are modified by the tools you use [...]

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Please Apple, heed my call.  We’re not all n00bs.
I performed a series of software updates on my computer today.  Apple has learned that some of us would like to know what our update contains, beyond the simple “bug fixes” or “compatibility fixes” that it typically lists with each update.
My ask is simple, whenever there’s a [...]

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Announced at MacWorld yesterday, the MacBook Air is an ultra-thin laptop that is… well… ultra-thin. It skimps out in almost every other facet from storage to expansion ports and still has the same footprint as larger thicker models.
Kevin Naits put together a great little video montage poking fun at the obsessive nature of the [...]

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Over the last several months, my 20GB 4th Gen iPod has been giving me some trouble, mainly because I’m hard on my gadgets and this one’s been battered about a few too many times. With hard-drive based media players this usually means that the device is as good as bricked. I’ve been hanging [...]

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Saw this when I opened my Google reader tonight…

It made me laugh… I had to post.

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OK, so it’s been about a month since I installed Leopard, and there are a few things that have been bugging me.  One which is a constant source of frustration for me (since I’m really a keyboard guy at heart) is the fact that by default, OS X won’t allow you to “tab” your way [...]

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The folks over at MacUpdate are doing it again.  They’ve bundled together a ton of apps and are selling them off for one low packaged price.  The deal is set to expire this Tuesday, December 12th at about 20:00 PST.
The software included in the bundle is:

ForkLift
RapidWeaver
Swift Publisher
Marine Aquarium
Xslimmer
Memory Miner
Yep
XMind 2008 Pro
iStabilize
PulpMotion (still locked)

Full retail cost [...]

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UsingMac.com has posted a great tutorial for tweaking several new OS X settings from the terminal.   These mostly make use of the defaults command which allows you to adjust any of the XML config files that make up OS X.

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I had to do a quick Google search for this one after not finding any immediate help in System Preferences. The answer came to me through Matt Mullenweg’s blog. System Preferences –> Sharing –> Computer Name. Not quite sure why it’s under sharing… but this is a Mac and I guess [...]

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I found an interesting bit of hidden text in OS X.  The icon for “TextEdit” actually contains legible text if you can enlarge it enough to read.

This is in addition to the other little “hidden gem”… Those cute kids in Cupertino thought it would be cute to paint every non-mac computer with the Blue Sceen [...]

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