New: Featured on Mac Informer!  1. Requirements: Intel Macintosh running OS X 10.5 or later (note: download from App Store requires OS X 10.6.6 or later) 2. Entering data without keyboard shortcuts: Each number box has three ways of entering data without using the keyboard shortcuts below. They are: 1) Clicking in the number box [...]

Users who upgrade to Max 5.1 may have heard of Max for Live and seen the new objects in the objects menu. However, you don’t need to purchase or run Max for Live in order to take advantage of some neat new objects. That’s not to say Max for Live isn’t worth buying, but more [...]

Here it is: Set “New Windows open with” to blank page. Set “New Tabs open with” to blank page. This preference should be somewhere fairly obvious in your browser preferences. Safari’s preference window is shown below. Maybe I’m an idiot, but it took me a few months to lament about how Safari was stuck whenever [...]

If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever used the keyboard shortcut to Force Quit applications (if you’ve never used it, upgrading to Snow Leopard will most definitely make it a necessity), you know that it’s alt-Apple-Escape. You’ve probably also noticed that from time to time, you bring up the dreaded “Front Row” menu when [...]

The world’s first user-programmable tilt interface for Macintosh has just been update to version 1.1.  A drastic addition has been made in the form of a new cability to exchange the X and Y Axes (see below).  This is particularly useful for the new Macbook Pro 15″ Unibody model, which according to one source has [...]

Why online backup?  The answer is simple: Time Machine, external disk, or CD – DVD backups are only as secure as the media they are on, and the location they are in.  Time Machine backups, despite being wickedly convenient, are likely going to be backed up to your home location. This means that a fire, [...]