I received a beta invite today to test out the Silverback app from Clearleft. Somehow chosen out of a hat (I know can't be true, because I could never fit in a normal sized hat...unless perhaps if it were a really stretchy beanie...I digress), I've now given it a play and sent my testing [...]

With the release of Safari 3.1 the brand new install reverted out my nice RSS icons. Annoyingly, Mac Specialist seems to have deleted their original post offering the install.

Among thousands and thousands of other Mac lovers out there, I too purchased my copy of Leopard for it to arrive on Friday. The ride wasn't as smooth as I expected, and there were some roller coaster moments. There's also a few small things that don't work as expected, and there's a few [...]

ps ax | grep lookupd | grep -v grep | perl -ne 'split; print $_[0]' | xargs sudo kill -HUP I'm often connecting to different networks depending on what job I'm doing, and sometimes I'll need to tweak my /etc/hosts file. Since my system will cache DNS lookups, I'll need to restart lookupd, and this [...]

I recently wrote my first Dashboard app: HTML entities (named in the top 10 widgets by engadget.com), widget using Dashcode. Since the product (Dashcode) is still in beta, there wasn't a great deal of resource available for developing widgets, so I'm sharing my experience and any tips I can offer for development.

Update: why is it you always find the solution after you post a work around? Anyway, you can patch both Intel and PPC based Dashcode apps using the information found at alex.clst.org Dashcode has expired on time, but Leopard wasn't delivered on time, and now we're left for at least 3 [...]

I've been submitting Mac user tips as they come to me via Twitter/Mac_Tips - here's the complete list of the 40 tips (all under 140 characters).