MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

I’ve never been entirely convinced by the little green button on OS X windows. It can be difficult to predict exactly how pressing it will resize some windows, and occasionally, full-screen, regardless of what is being displayed, is exactly what I am after. Here is the fine-grained and keyboard friendly solution that I’ve hit upon.

My blogging career started almost simultaneously with the purchase of my first Mac a year and a half ago and it’s been a great experience so far. Below are the applications that I use daily to administer my personal blogging empire.

Subscribing to RSS feeds in a dedicated RSS aggregator gives you a powerful and convenient way to stay updated on all your favorite content from around the web in one centralized place. Here are a few ways that subscribing to RSS feeds and using a dedicated RSS reader will enhance your online experience.

OS X comes with a host of really excellent applications, but one of the best things about being a Mac user is the breadth and quality of third-party applications that you can install to enhance your computing experience. Here is a list of applications to immediately install on a new machine.

I run lots of apps simultaneously on my Mac, and while it’s great to be able to quickly switch tasks without waiting for an app to load up, having everything open everywhere can be a bit of a distraction. If you’re the same, check out Freeverse’s Think. Think allows you to focus you attention with [...]

LifeHacker has a nice list of freeware alternatives to the shareware apps in the current MacHeist bundle. I completely agree that the quality of the apps has ‘diluted’ in the new bundle.

VoodooPhone is a plugin for Flying Meat’s VoodooPad which lets you export your wikis to your iPhone or iPod Touch for viewing in Mobile Safari. Excellent.

This is one of those small customizations that makes my Mac super excellent. Mail.appetizer is an email alert plugin that gives you a preview of new mail messages as they arrive in your mailbox. Most importantly, it’s gorgeous. As you can see from the screenshot at the right, the notification window, in addition to giving [...]

Recently I’ve been listening to a good deal of audiobooks, especially when falling off to sleep at night, and of course my Mac plays them for me. A major annoyance with this setup, though, is the super bright laptop screen illuminating the room and making me feel as if my bed is on a submarine. [...]

Caffeine has been updated and not allows you to set how long it keeps your Mac awake. Perfect for watching streamed vids that play in Safari.