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 [...]

David Rayner has been writing this list of VI/VIM features for the past 21 years, and it is still updated frequently today. The
list covers the obvious things like macros, simple movement and so forth, however it also goes into detail of
the these and [...]

Key bindings are those combinations of keys that allow you to make simple and complex functions/actions available in a single command. For example to go to the beginning of a line you could just press Control-A, to captilize a word Control-u, to delete a world Option-d. These are set in two files, one of which [...]

A partition is a division of your hard drive. What it does is it takes one part of your hard drive and turns it into another virtual hard drive of its own. Say you have a 120 GB hard drive. You could partition it into a 40 GB drive and a [...]

For anyone wanting to hack their iPhone and have been looking around for a while for a how to hack their iPhone to either install apps on or use with another Service Provider the best resource which will cover just about all you need is http://iphone.unlock.no/.The site features simple tutorials that have step-by-step explanations on [...]

This is for those of you (like me) who tend to scratch disc media. To do this, you need a copy of Leopard, an external hard drive or old iPod (more than 6.4 GB) and Disk Utility (you have this, don’t worry).
First, insert the Leopard install DVD. Then open Disk utility. Click “Mac OS X [...]

Audacity is a well known, simple, open source Sound Editor available on multiple platforms. However on the Mac it is a little bit tricky to install for the unintelligible, but it is quite simple.

Download it (I recommend the Beta)
Open it up and drag it to your /Applications folder

Of course it is installed right now, but [...]

If you have an iPod Video with a broken hard drive or just want to upgrade to more energy efficient and more durable Flash memory, then Tarkan has just what you need. It’s a straightforward operation that shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes. Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Compact Flash card of any size (No [...]

Adam Pash, over at Lifehacker. He says that it’s almost as easy as installing it on a Mac. To perform the installation, first you need to mess with the BIOS settings to match those found in the pictures he posted, then you torrent a file called “Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3″ [...]