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 [...]

Reader Jean Pierre writes:

If you click on the Finder icon in the Dock, it will open you Home folder. You can change that. Go to Finder Preferences > General > New Finder window opens and from the popup menu, choose any folder you want (I like the Applications folder)

While this is a great tip in [...]

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 [...]

In Mac OS 10.5 you’ll notice a completely new firewall menu, and you’ll notice that it is now under the “Security” tab of System Preferences.
So the question was asked, “What is the best way to set up my 10.5 Firewall?”
The word firewall is originally an automotive term that was used as the barrier between the [...]

If you find it frustrating you can’t switch between active windows in Photoshop by pressing Command+Tilde (Command+~), you’re not alone.
Thankfully there’s a few quick shortcuts nearby that accomplish the same thing:

Command+Shift+Tilde
Control+Tab
Control+Tilde

Are there many Photoshop users out there? More or less Photoshop tips?

I perform a lot of domain whois lookups. If I have an idea for a domain and want to check its availability, I generally do a search for domain whois and then lookup my domain with one of the listings.
There’s nothing wrong with this process, but with Quicksilver we can improve any task we do [...]

I upgraded WordPress last night because of a vulnerability, but in the process managed to break the feeds. So the widget and RSS were broken. While debugging the issue I stumbled on NetNewsWire’s View Source feature.
Control+Click on any feed and click “View Source.” I was expecting a rather dull plain text editor but this actually [...]

.Mac has always been a little expensive when compared to other alternatives. The upside has always been a @mac.com e-mail address and seamless integration with OS X.
One of the best features of .Mac is iDisk, which acts as a remote hard drive for storing and sharing files.
But if you’re willing to get your hands dirty [...]

iCalendar is one of the first applications that made me lust for a Mac. In many ways it’s the essence of an OS X application, both beautiful and functional.
One great way to make iCal a little more usable is by subscribing to shared calendars.
A shared calendar is a calendar that is maintained by somebody else, [...]

Gizmodo recently posted out that keyboard localization and accents in SMS messages can lead to bloodbaths, so I figured it would be useful to point out how easy it is to put accents over letters on the iPhone; maybe it will save some lives.
The default view when the iPhone keyboard pops up on your screen [...]