Reader Simon sent in a cool tip that I’ll definitely be using in the future. Spotlight can be used to perform simple calculations, such as 190*42. Just type it in, and it spits out the answer. For those who may be unfamiliar with keyboard mathematical symbols, here’s a quick rundown:
* is multiplication, / is division, [...]

I just recently noticed a simple method of making certain applications start themselves up upon logging in. If an application is in the dock, you can right-click it, and put a check next to “Open at Login”. This automatically adds it to your list of startup items.
Alternatively, you can open System Preferences, the go to [...]

Safari and Firefox are the two largest browsers in the Mac market. They’ve also both recently released new beta versions. This is the first in a short series on the similarities and differences you can expect in the final versions of Firefox 3 and Safari 3.
It’s important to note, I went with the latest nightly [...]

One of the major draws of the iPhone/iPod Touch is its flick and scroll touchscreen capabilities. I have often wondered, “Why can’t Apple release this for our computers with a simple software/firmware update?”. Apple still has not provided us with such a solution, but Marc Moini has.
Smart Scroll is a great application that makes inertial [...]

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 [...]

I noticed this feature when watching a movie in the background and trying to scroll in Safari. If you scroll with 2 fingers while in Quicktime, the video you’re watching will fast-forward frame by frame (if you scroll up or to the right) or rewind frame by frame (if you scroll down or to the [...]

You probably already know that pressing Tab while in Safari, cycles through all the text fields on your current page. What you might not be aware of is that if you hold Option when pressing Tab, it will highlight the next object the site (or text field).
For example, if I hit Option + Tab while [...]

It used to be that in order to look at files from the trash, you would have to drag everything out and open each file. It took Apple 4 iterations of OS X to get it right but they’ve finally fixed this glaring issue. As the title suggests, you can use Quick Look to look [...]

The good folks over at Lifehacker have compiled a list of 10 ways you can improve your BitTorrent experience. They endorse a few of our favorite products, such as Transmission, and also bring new ones to the table such as Bitlet, a webapp torrent client for torrenting at work/school (may not work with Safari). They [...]

Transmission is one of the best BitTorrent clients out there; one of the reasons it is great is because it’s very fast! However, sometimes it gets too fast and hogs all your bandwidth which will make you lag when playing games online and will also make streaming video near-impossible. Fortunately, there’s a built in bandwidth [...]