Bmon is a commandline program that comes in very handy for watching the throughput of data ports. While there are several GUI utilities to do this, the fact that Bmon is a terminal program allows you to log into a remote server and monitor its throughput. In fact, it’s installed on my server so I […]

iPhoto Keywords Made Easy
Apple’s implementation of keywords feels somewhat kludgy at best, and it’s a bit confusing, especially at first.
You have to open a special keywords panel, and also show the keywords in the main library. From there, when you want to categorize an image, you select the image(s), then find the keyword to assign […]

When I use OSX I find always finding myself discovering little things that if I’d known them before I could have done things much more efficiently. Here are a few of ‘em:
Using wildcards to build iPhoto smart albums
This is an interesting little iPhoto feature I just found. When making a smart album, ? and * […]

Well this Tuesday I will give you a half-mac-tip-half-anything-tip. Java. If you aren’t a programmer, this really won’t apply to you. However, if you are, and would love to be able to write one program and have it run on any system, (including Mac OSX). Even if you don’t own a Mac, you can write […]

Today’s Tuesday Mac Tip is about something I enourage all Geeks to do at one point and time. And Macs are great at it, so without further ado:
Mac OS X comes ready to do web serving right out of the box
with Apache, the Internet’s most popular, stable and feature rich web
server. Setup takes just a […]

Well its Tuesday again, and since I’ve been coding alot lately, I thought’d I present a quick overview to get some of you script junkies into AppleScript. Its an indispensable tool for automating your Mac. Its also one of hte easiest scripting languages to learn. It’s been part of the Mac OS since System 7 […]

Well today is Tuesday (MacDay) and today is going to be interesting, We’ve got a VERY beginners tutorial for the OSX dock, My reasoning is that many who don’t use OSX and Macs aren’t aware of its benefits. Anyways:
First off, lets jump into the dock. Now some who haven’t ever used OSX or Mac […]

For a while now, the Intel/Unix crowd have looked down on the MacOS because it didn’t have access to a command line interface. But ever since OS X, we can stand proud! Since OS X is based off of FreeBSD, you’ve got full access to all the wonderful Unix features, namely: the command line. What […]