As some of you may know, iTunes began offering a special 99¢ movie once a week, starting about a month ago. As you can tell from the widget above, some of the movies can be quite excellent!
The way I keep up with these specials is through the 99Rental.com Dashboard widget. It’s worked very well and [...]

Dashboard is one of the best tools available in OS X. With a single click of the keyboard, or a flick of the mouse, you can bring up a whole screen covered in miniature applications providing everything from statistics to new Mac tips. But because Dashboard is just so useful, sometimes you end up with [...]

Reader, Alex recently discovered that pressing Option+Command and clicking an open application, causes all other open apps to hide (it also works with the desktop, much like Exposé).
Thanks Alex! Submit your own tip and get some traffic to your site.

Twitter is a really incredible internet phenomenon, it mixes blogging and instant messaging.
To learn more about Twitter, visit Twitter in Plain English.
There are many amazing Twitter applications for OS X. We have even discussed many different free Twitter clients here on MacTips.
My personal favorite Twitter client, however, is Twitterific, which is offered both in a [...]

Reader Alex Hwang recently wrote in about GLTerminal, a Terminal.app replacement that recreates a terminal from 20 years ago.

GLTerminal accomplishes this by:

Allowing you to change the screen brightness
Allowing you to “curve” the text so that the edges wrap backwards
Allowing you to make the screen flicker
Emulating a baud rate for painfully slow speeds

While GLTerminal doesn’t have [...]

A couple weeks ago I stumbled on Phun, a Physics simulator built by Emil Ernerfeldt for his thesis project.
Phun acts as a physics playground. Inside Phun you can setup simulations and run them with all sorts of variables, such as gravity and air friction.

Phun even supports water! While it is a little rough around the [...]

Lately I’ve made it a habit to memorize many of the keyboard shortcuts for manipulating text. These shortcuts can generally be used across any Cocoa application and are great for increasing your productivity.
Download the Text Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet in PDF format.

Do you see any shortcuts that are missing?

The Mighty Mouse has an awful default button mapping. First off, both right and left button are assigned to left-click (primary). Secondly, for some inexplicable reason, clicking the scroll wheel brings up Dashboard. Third, I find the scrolling to be much to slow for my needs.
To fix these problems and any other issues you have [...]

In Mac OS 10.5 you’ll notice a completely new firewall menu, and you’ll notice that it is now under the “Security” tab of System Preferences.
So the question was asked, “What is the best way to set up my 10.5 Firewall?”
The word firewall is originally an automotive term that was used as the barrier between the [...]

Pixelmator is a great Photoshop replacement for people that don’t need all of the Photoshop features, or can’t afford to buy a $700 program. At only $59 it’s definitely a feasible replacement.
I’ve been using Pixelmator to create simple (and different) headers for web sites. Here is a way I’ve been playing with and [...]