Dear Microsoft and systems administrators,
The common practice of forcing people to change their passwords periodically makes them less secure, not more secure. Please stop it.
This is the most unresearched, and insecure tactic for network security ever. Forcing the password to be significantly different from the last password is even worse. The reason is simple: People […]

I haven’t been a big of a fan of Firefox as most of the world has become.
I still prefer Safari for usability, and FF has never really felt ‘Mac-like’ to me.
But as more and more useful (and sometimes not so useful, but fun) Extensions get written and improved for it, I find myself wanting to […]

This video on metafilter shows users of IE and Firefox how to drastically speed up their browser if they are using a broadband connection. It looks like the default settings are optimized for dial-up and don’t take advantage of some of the capabilities of cable-modem or DSL. I followed the steps and instantly saw a […]

I thought I would balance my karma by promoting a great deal on some independent developer shareware since my last post was essentially about how to steal photoshop.
For the last month or so, Phil Ryu’s MacHeist has been selling a deeply discounted bundle of really great shareware apps for $49. It’s a limited-time offer that […]

Unfortunately I do not own a copy of Photoshop CS2, only CS, and unfortunately, the CS3 Beta requires a CS2 Serial Number. Lucky for us all, some nerds cracked the Intel Mac version in about a day after its release. I found the instructions on demonoid.com, but they were a little confusing, so the following […]

I find the arrow links in the iTunes library excruciatingly useless when they link to the iTunes Store. They SHOULD link to your internal library instead. (Hint: Holding OPTION while clicking the link DOES take you to your internal library)

I have used a number of different downloaded scripts to change this default behavior in the […]

I am becoming a huge Apple Aperture advocate (alliteration). So much so, that I am thinking about buying a copy just because I think the deserve the money. I hated previous versions because of the giant database file it produced with all the photos packed inside. I hate iPhoto because of how it organizes photos […]

I bought a MacBook Pro about three weeks ago.
I haven’t had any major issues with it (none close to what I’ve been reading, anyway), and I’ve been quite happy with it so far.
I’ve been reading a lot about the MacBook Pro and everyone’s complaints about heat/noise/etc., keeping a good eye on the developments.
I love […]

Popurls.com is a brilliantly useful new site that aggregates the most popular links, videos, photos, etc, from ALL of the major aggregation sites. It’s a beautifully designed aggregator of aggregators.
When I say all, I mean ALL. On one page, they manage to squeeze, in a very organized way, the most popular links from DIGG, […]

Up all night… long story. Wrote this.
For years and years I searched for a decent backup software for Mac. Because I was never able to find anything that did what I wanted it to do (I’ll explain in a second) I mostly backed up manually, and very infrequently. This is a bad, bad practice. You […]

I have been planning to write up a post about essential Mac software for a little over a week. A friend of mine is new to Mac and just bought a MacBook Pro. He is, of course, asking me many questions about software, and “how do I do this?” and “How do I do that?” […]

iAlertU is a sweet, sweet, (though mostly useless) application for use on motion sensor enabled MacBook Pros, that simply adds a cool motion detector alarm system. Once activated, if somebody moves the MacBook, a screeching alarm sounds. Before watching the video below, I hoped to myself that the developer would have had the inspiration to […]