Wired’s How-To Wiki recently put up an article on how to speed up your Mac. A lot of it is just regular maintenance such as deleting unused applications and clearing the caches of your web browsers and uninstalling plug-ins that aren’t often used, but there are a few tips in there that stand out [...]

Safari and Firefox are the two largest browsers in the Mac market. They’ve also both recently released new beta versions. This is the first in a short series on the similarities and differences you can expect in the final versions of Firefox 3 and Safari 3.
It’s important to note, I went with the latest nightly [...]

Alcor (nickname for the developer of Quicksilver)
is
compiling a huge list of user defaults. User defaults
include things like if you want the Safari debug menu to show up, if you want the dock to [...]

If you’ve already downloaded the new Leopard update, you may or may not have right-clicked on your stacks yet. If you have, you would have noticed a huge improvement. Notice how my stacks are no longer represented by the first icon in the folder but rather by the folder icon itself. To make [...]

To block certain apps for certain users, go to System Preferences -> Parental Controls. Then highlight the user to be limited and select the “System” tab. Then check “Only allow selected applications”, and choose from the list (put a check next to each of the applications you wish to ALLOW them to use).

Here’s a quick way to track down your Dock applications. Hold Command while clicking on a Dock icon (Stacks included) and its location in the Finder shall be revealed.

While in the Finder, hit Shift+Command+Delete to empty the Trash. If there are locked files in the trash, you can get rid of those by holding Shift+Option+Command+Delete.

I, like Omer, dislike how Stacks automatically shows the file that’s at the top of the list as your Stacks icon. It looks ugly and it’s not very informative either. I tried using Omer’s method but it still looked a littlelooked tacky to me (no offense). That’s why I was enthralled when I [...]

The stupid translucent menu bar in Leopard annoys me beyond annoyance, here’s an easy way to make it nice and solid like a good menu bar should be. Open Terminal.app, then enter the following command to turn the menu bar solid whitesudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer ‘EnvironmentVariables’ -dict ‘CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE’ 1 To turn the bar solid gray, [...]

Here’s a simple little hack that add the ability to separate items in your “Places” section of the Leopard Finder sidebar.
Here’s an example: Image Source Typoet
To install, just drag the files to some static place and then drag them onto the Finder’s sidebar.

[Download: Typoet]