Recently we released the MacTips widget with a lot of success. Because of this, I decided to create a video explaining how to create your own widget.
In this video, I talk about the basics of creating your own Dashboard Widget with Dashcode. I also dabble in some of the more advanced features in Dashcode such [...]

OmniGraffle is one of the apps that makes the Mac what it is. By default it is bundled (a trial version) with the Operating
System, and rightfully so as nearly every user can make use of it.

What it does at a basic level is [...]

IRC is one of the most popular and influential forms of communication on the Internet. Basically it is comprised of different
chat rooms on different servers. The chat rooms are mainly set by context to many different subjects from Vim (text
editor), Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, [...]

Recently Michael wrote about dragging tabs from different browsers to each other.
In Safari, you can also drag a tab to it’s own window by pulling a tab off the tab bar as shown in the movie below.

Thanks to MacTips reader Simon Putzke for this tip.

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 [...]

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 [...]

When you normally adjust the volume from your keyboard it will lower it by one block which can be a little much. However by pressing Shift-Alt-Volume(F4/F5, volume lower/volume higher), it will change the volume by a quarter of a block.

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 [...]

Apparently there have been some people who aren’t getting the toggle to have have the translucent menu bar or not when they update to 10.5.2. For those people all you need to do is run this command:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer ‘EnvironmentVariables’ -dict ‘CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE’ 0

then restart and the option should appear.
[Via: macosxhints.com]

If you’re a Firefox user you’re probably always on the lookout for great extensions. ExtremeTech has came up with probably the most useful and genuine list I’ve ever seen. Here’s the link, it is comprised up of four different lists:

10 Best Firefox Web Developer Extensions (listed below)
10 Ways for Better Surfing
10 Useful Information and Reference [...]