A friend of mine and I were recently in an Apple Server class. In the course of the class every student is required to set up their server and client using the same username and password. With this little bit of information, the username and password, you can wreak havoc (in a non-destructive [...]

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 [...]

Who needs Micro$oft Flight Simulator 54769 when you can have Google Earth flight simulator for free! Simply hit + Option + A and you will be in the air in no time. You can choose from a variety of planes such as F-16 and crappy turboprop you’ve never heard of… Yeah, it’s really not [...]

For anyone out there that supports the use of a decimal time system, I just wanted to quickly recommend two simple, yet very cool apps that bring time coherence to the OS X world:
1. Decitime: A very nice-looking application displaying an analog/digital decimal clock. You can use it as a floating window, or can have [...]

If you are not sure if you should or shouldn’t get an iPhone, this will make you buy it. Or, if you already own one, this will surely double its functionality for you. mkaz.com’s “Name Tag for iPhone,” the ultimate iPhone webapp allows you to turn an iPhone into a fully functional, top-of-the-line name tag, [...]

Found this one on digg, gave me a laugh

Have a terrific rest of the weekend.

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Some much needed Monday morning humor–Steve Jobs announces the new iPod on SNL.

Hahaha…
[Via TUAW, MacSlash]

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Yesterday, my roommate pointed out that while my Powerbook (G4) was closed, the light on the front would go from dim, to bright–over and over again.
The more I looked at it, the more it looked like the Powerbook was breathing.
Unfortunately the only Mac I have is a Powerbook, so hopefully someone else could confirm this [...]

I’ve been running Chitkita ads here on MacTips ever since hearing about them from Darren at ProBlogger. So far they’ve been producing average returns, but I recently noticed an ad here on MacTips which made me chuckle:

I’m not so sure this ad is completely relevant to MacTips’ user base–but I’m willing to give them the [...]