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 [...]

The number of possible data fields in Address Book often seems endless. Everything from addresses and instant messenger screen names to the names of a contact’s brother or assistant are possible. One of the fields that I have only recently started playing around with is the Related Names field. This field allows you to link [...]

Cyerduck is a great application for uploading and downloading files using FTP. It manages to be customizable while remaining fast and light-weight. Version 3.03b introduces some great new features.
Don’t let the cute icon fool you–Cyberduck will handle most of your FTP needs. Here are 9 reasons why you should be using Cyberduck.
9. Upload from the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Download Smultron.
I’ve been using Smultron for a few years, but thanks to Alex Hwang for reminding me that not everyone has a great, and free, text editor.

These days everything is moving digital. Today there is digital signage (for advertisements), magazines post their articles on their Web sites often for free or in online subscriptions, newspapers are going completely Internet based and the list goes on and on. Another industry whose medium is making the transition is the book industry.
The popular O’Reilly [...]

MacTips reader Bret wrote in and asked how to modify the folder icons in OS X. The default icons look great, but change is always nice.
There are two basic ways to modify your icons, the long hard manual way and the super easy way.

Hard Way: Manually Changing Your Icons
Manually changing your icons is as simple [...]