Twitter is a great way to stay in touch with people around you. Confused? Watch Twitter in Plain English below:

We’ve done a Review of Free Twitter Clients, but Lifehacker found a method that is pretty unique.
For this to work you must have the latest version of Fluid (review). Fluid is a site specific [...]

Firefox 3 was recently released to the world. Here are some links covering its launch:

Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3 - lifehacker.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 - arcanology.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
Firefox Inside [...]

While working in Finder, sometimes I need to jump to Terminal.app to perform a command.
To do this I generally:

Launch the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.app)
Type cd
Then drag the little icon from the Finder toolbar on to the Terminal

This copies the current path from Finder in to the command line.
This works fine, but there are [...]

Reader Jean Pierre writes:

If you click on the Finder icon in the Dock, it will open you Home folder. You can change that. Go to Finder Preferences > General > New Finder window opens and from the popup menu, choose any folder you want (I like the Applications folder)

While this is a great tip in [...]

Reader Simon sent in a cool tip that I’ll definitely be using in the future. Spotlight can be used to perform simple calculations, such as 190*42. Just type it in, and it spits out the answer. For those who may be unfamiliar with keyboard mathematical symbols, here’s a quick rundown:
* is multiplication, / is division, [...]

Here are two handy tips for working in text editors, guaranteed to increase your productivity.
Lewis writes:
Holding alt whilst dragging in the mouse in a cocoa text editor will change the cursor to a crosshair and allow you to ‘block’ select text in a square. This is particularly useful when working with tabular data.

As Lewis notes, [...]

An easy way to change the default application for a file is to right click (Control+Click) a file and hold option while selecting an application from the “Always Open With” menu.

Please note this only changes the default application for that one file–not every file with this type. See our other post for assigning default applications.
I [...]

While I was trying to fix a different problem, I stumbled upon a keyboard shortcut that brings up the sound preference pane. Just hit Option+F5. From here, you can adjust the volume of your sound alerts, system output volume and microphone input volume.