One little known feature in Safari is that within the application package there is a file that lists all of the plug-ins you have installed.
There are a couple ways to access it.
The most straightforward way to access the file is to select “Installed Plug-ins” from the “Help” menu in the Safari menu bar.
Another way is [...]

A friend of mine recently discovered that you can drag tabs in between Firefox and Safari. I’m not sure if this works with other browsers but I think it most likely does

Another feature of TextMate Snippets are Transformations. Transformations are Mirrors (see last TextMate part) with small modifications. One of the most powerful features of TextMate is it’s implementation of the Regular Expression¹ engine which Transformation use to adjust the mirrored text. Here’s an example:

- (id)foo
{
return foo;
}

- (void)setFoo:(id)aValue
{
[foo [...]

MacWorld 2008 is quickly approaching (January 14th-18th). The keynote from Jobs will begin on January 15th at 9am.
There’s been lots of speculation about what will be announced. Everything from a new Mac Tablet to a Mac Nano to replace the Mini have been suggested. Below are my predictions, what are yours?
iMac Updates
The only [...]

We want to know if you know what the following keyboard symbols mean. If you don’t, no big deal–we’re trying to figure out the best way to present keyboard shortcuts.

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MacTips Discussions user globalrambler recently asked how to add multiple birthday’s for one contact in Address Book:
Does anyone know of any way, other than entering multiple contacts, to have multiple birth dates in Address Book. The example would be a person who has a spouse and two children. It would be good to have the [...]

Caffeine is a simple application with one purpose and one purpose only: to keep your computer from falling asleep/going into screensaver mode. This is especially useful when reading long articles and watching videos online.
To use it, simply launch it, then a new icon with “ZZz” written on it (far left in picture) will appear in [...]

Another handy TextMate Snippets feature is mirroring. One use for this would be if you wanted to make a header where the text displayed is the header’s id name.

Example seen here:

This is created simple by evoking this snippet:
< h1 id="$1">$1< /h1>
(Had to add spaces in tags.)
For me since the activation string is “h1″, all [...]

At some point in the last year or two, Apple added basic lyrics functionality to iTunes and iPods. The main thing that makes this useful is that when listening to music on an iPod, it adds a little pane that you can scroll through with the lyrics to the song.
There are various applications that find [...]

Gizmodo ran a story about how to get the iPhone plan down to a miniscule 15 bucks month. To do this, however, you must block texting and data; you must also have another plan that you can add a line to. Do NOT forget to do this or you will be charged by the kilobyte [...]