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 [...]

Notice something different about the above, Safari menu bar? If you look in between Bookmarks and Window, you’ll see a menu that most of you, probably don’t have. It’s called Develop and in my opinion, it’s one of the coolest features that Safari has.
In order to activate this menu, hit command + , to bring [...]

A few months ago Travis wrote a great post on installing MacPorts. If you’ve never heard of MacPorts:

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

MacPorts makes [...]

On any given day, my desktop is filled with screenshots and images I’ve saved while writing tips. Often my desktop looks like the following:

There are a couple of methods to get around saving images to the desktop–including saving them to the clipboard–but I actually really like this method.
I have my bottom right corner of my [...]

Eliza is a psychiatrist, and best of all, she offers her services free of charge to anyone with Mac OS X. To find her, open Terminal.app and type:emacs and hit enter/return. Then hold down Shift and press Esc. Now type:xdoctor then press enter/return. You have now entered Eliza’s office. She will ask you a series [...]

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 [...]

The other day, I decided that I wanted to recover the hard drive from my old and broken iBook G4. Some of you may be thinking that since the MacBook has an easily accessible hard drive compartment so the iBook must have one as well, I wish this were true. In order to [...]

These days encryption and digital security is more important than ever. Up until a week or so ago Linux and
Windows users had this great tool called TrueCrypt, now it is also on the Mac. TrueCrypt is free and open
source software. The home site [...]

Snippets have become one of the must-have features in text editors thanks mainly to TextMate. Most editors now have
their own version of them; of course TextMate has it’s snippets capability built-in by default, Emacs has
snippet.el, VIM has the SnippetsEmu script (and some others [...]