To Upgrade to Leopard or Not?

Why I’m considering upgrading to Leopard
Mostly it’s the little things that have always bugged me about Tiger:
- It doesn’t lock up the system when searching for network shares.
- Double-clicking events in iCal opens them for editing.
- When renaming a document the file type extension is not automatically highlighted.
- The Finder displays the full path to [...]

Unsanity v. MacFixIt and the Little Guy in the Middle

MacFixIt’s article, Failure to boot after installing Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), has managed to gain a lot of negative press in the Mac web. Unsanity, the maker of APE, a program that MacFixIt consistently recommends against using, has decided to redirect a link (Before installing Leopard, remove APE modules via this uninstall process.*) coming [...]

ProVoc Flashcards App for Mac

I just discovered ProVoc Flashcards via the Chinese Mac group and thought it was worth sharing, as I was not aware of it before and have actively searched for Mac flashcard apps many times in the past. It is in the same league with Genius and iFlash, also both great Mac flashcard apps. What I [...]

See OS X Menu Extras Quickly

A typical problem I run into daily on my Mac is that the display on my iBook is smaller than there are items on the menu bar. That means that menu extras, the little icons on the right of the menu bar, get “eaten” by application menus, the text-based menus on the left.

One way to [...]

Movie: iChat V. Skype

iChat takes on Skype in this internet connectivity battle. Who will win?

Tags iChat, Skype, Connectivity, China