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 [...]

Have you ever wanted your desktop to look like the picture above? Of course not, but you might want things like bigger font, picture/document previews built into your icons, different grid sizing, basic information about your files and folders, and/or larger icons.
You can accomplish this not only on the desktop, but any finder folder/window by [...]

This is a basic tip but a feature many of you may not know about.
Inside System Preferences -> Desktop & Screensaver you can set your desktop background to automatically change at a set interval.
This interval can be as short as 5 seconds or as long as 24 hours. It can even be set for when [...]

If you scroll over a contact in Mail, a little arrow will appear in the bottom-right corner. If you click the arrow, you can perform a number of actions using the contact such as “Search in Spotlight”.
One of the more useful features is the ability to create a smart mailbox that automatically collects all the [...]

They go over a variety of small hacks that can be made to Stacks in order to improve your life.

… Another hack they go over is one we’ve already covered here at MacTips, and that is the addition of a Recent Items Stack.

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, [...]

Say you’re using Quick Look on a document and you want to know when it was created or how large the file is, Quick Look can’t tell you this, but Inspector sure can. Hit Command + Option + I and Inspector will appear, ready to answer all your questions
Note: this works anywhere in Finder, not [...]

This is essentially a list of every single keyboard shortcut available in OS X. To access this list, open System Preferences and proceed to the Keyboard & Mouse section. Then click on the Keyboard Shortcut tab. This brings up a menu of every keyboard shortcut that’s built into OS X.
To enable pre-existing shortcuts, put a [...]

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 [...]