One of today’s most interesting technological developments are portable Ebook readers. The two most popular readers are Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Unfortunately for the Mac both of these companies are lacking compared to their Windows counterparts in terms of support, but I will give it to Amazon that they are least a little [...]

The worst thing imaginable happens, your poor MacBook is stolen and is in the hands of a dirty thief. Sometimes insurance will cover the costs for a new laptop, and sometimes you’re just out $1,000+.
But if you installed LoJack before the theft, you may be in luck. LoJack is a software application that runs silently [...]

You’ve probably heard of OpenOffice, the open source rival to Microsoft Office for the Mac and iWork. I love Microsoft Office on the Mac and iWork, but the price is more than I’m willing to spend.
Note: iWork isn’t too expensive, but still more than most are willing to pay for the features offered.

OpenOffice is great, [...]

One frustrating thing about using Gmail for mail is clicking e-mail addresses won’t take you into Gmail. Fortunately, there’s two different ways you can accomplish this.
Google Notifier
The first and easiest method is using Google Notifier for OS X, which adds a Gmail icon in your menubar:

The Google Notifier is nice because it notifies you of [...]

ExpanDrive is a beautiful OS X applications that mounts an SFTP (Secure FTP) connection as if it were another hard drive. It allows you to easily upload, delete, edit or move files like they were already on your computer.

I read John Gruber’s review of ExpanDrive a few weeks ago and decided to give it a [...]

Mutt is one of the best email clients out there, it’s fast, efficient, you can keep your fingers on the keyboard, it has key bindings and macros, threading, regular expression, pattern matching and more.

With a little tweaking you can get Mutt to also integrate into the Mac environment, for example here’s how you can get [...]

Mutt is the greatest mail client on any platform. It’s quick, simple,
extensible and configurable, you can use your favorite editor for writing
emails and more. However one bad thing is that by default you can’t set it
as your default email [...]

NetNewsWire is a great, free, and extensible newsfeed reading client. One of the great features it includes is an infinite supply of stylesheets available to customize the look of the articles you read. NetNewsWire comes with a bunch of its own stylesheets, but you can download more online.
The coolest stylesheet I’ve found is called Ollicle [...]

Adium must be the most customizable chat application in the world. It’s options are so numerous that I discover new ones nearly every day. One of the features that I have most recently discovered involve the organization of contacts who are not in their “available” state, those who are either offline, idle, or mobile.
There are [...]

For Emacs users on Linux one of the most efficient and important things to
do is remap your Control Key to your Caps Lock key. This is because the Caps
Lock key has such a prominent position on the home row and yet it is [...]