Category: Mac

I noticed today that Firefox 2.0 on my PowerBook was suddenly incredibly slow. First, I suspected my own code. After I couldn't think of anything that I had done recently that could possibly cause this, I tried uninstalling half...

When you click the little green plus icon on an OS X window frame, the window expands to fill up the available screen real estate. Well, most of the time. It seems to me that OS X often doesn't notice when the display changes....

Now that I have a 24" widescreen monitor at work, I have a lot of horizontal space at my disposal. One of the nice things about this is that I can split my Emacs window down the middle with C-x 3 and have one pretty nice-size...

VirtueDesktops is a nice freeware app for OS X that does multiple desktops with neat effects including the famous "spinning cube" effect. Easy to use and unobstrusive, you can use hotkeys to switch between desktops and also...

When I switched from two monitors to one (I have an external monitor at work), one of my XTerm windows was left in a state where it's resize handle is off-screen. I can't resize it, nor can I move it, since it's already at the...

10 Semi-Obscure Mac Programs You Shouldn't Be Without (tags: mac osx macosx)...

It's interesting that the OS X doesn't have the option to make the mouse pointer go to the default button in a dialog automatically, as Windows has had that feature for years. It turns out that if you want the same thing in OS X,...