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 [...]

Jaxtr is a website that allows you to send free SMS texts to any number in the US as well as a handful of other countries, such as Sweden, and the UK.
While you may be thinking “ho hum, it’s been done” keep in mind that iPhone data plans are limited to 200 texts per month. [...]

This is just awesome. I was stumbling around Google Code looking for something interesting to write about when I came across blacktree-visor–innocently tagged as a Quake-style terminal.
That line grabbed my intention and I decided to see what Visor was all about.
Visor is an application that attaches the Terminal to the top of your screen for [...]

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 [...]

So you just bought the wonderfully tiny MacBook Air and now it won’t turn on, or maybe it doesn’t want to charge the non-replaceable battery. Either way, you probably need to reset the PMU. How do you reset the PMU on your MacBook Air?
In order to reset the PMU of your MacBook Air [...]

Brandon Hopkins is the newest writer to join the MacTips team. Everyone give him a warm welcome.
If you’re like me and you manage more than your personal Mac on a regular basis, you’ve probably heard of Mike Bombich’s wonderful time saving program NetRestore. I won’t go into how to use the software, that is [...]

Yesterday I hinted at a cool trick in my Customizing Safari with SafariStand post. This isn’t entirely useful, but it’s still extremely slick.
SafariStand comes with a QuickLook plugin that enables you to visualize your web history and bookmarks with Safari (sorry Firefox users, couldn’t figure this out for you):

Getting this working is fairly simple:

In the [...]

Safari is a great browser, but we can always make it better. SafariStand offers dozens of extra features for customizing Safari, as if they were build right in.

Installing SafariStand can be a little tricky:

Install SIMBL, a framework for SafariStand
Download SafariStand. Please note there are 4 different versions for Safari 3.0/3.1 on Tiger and Leopard, so [...]

Once you introduce Quicksilver into your workflow, you wonder how you ever lived without it. We’ve already covered Quicksilver Interfaces and managing to-do lists with Quicksilver, but this just skims the surface of what Quicksilver is capable of.
One of my favorite uses for Quicksilver is for running terminal commands. Doing this was never difficult, but [...]

Vara Software has allowed me to giveaway one free copy of ScreenFlow to one lucky MacTips user. See the bottom of the post for details.
Why is ScreenFlow the killer screencasting app?
ScreenFlow is the application I’ve been waiting for on the Mac. I’ve been using it recently for the MacTips Videos and I love it! It’s [...]