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MacHeist 2: 11 Great Mac Apps for $49

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

The guys at macheist are at it again. This time, you can get some stellar apps including pixelmator (awesome image editing program, think photoshop lite), CSSEdit (CSS code real-time editor), and Snapz Pro X (screen casting, and screen capture program). Click Me

Win a free copy of OSX Leopard

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Part of why we’re telling you our upgrade stories is that we want to hear yours. What have been your upgrade stories from past versions of OSX? Send us an email to: news@dogbark.com and we’ll pick one of the stories to receive a FREE COPY OF OSX LEOPARD. Email us your stories before November [...]

My Upgrade Story…

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

My upgrade story involves a princess, some bicyclists (ok, a lot), and a leopard.For some odd reason, my local Mac store was closed during the week for renovations and thus I couldn’t buy my copy of leopard there. I’m still dumbfounded that they’d close a Mac store (here in Seattle) during the week of a [...]

Take that, spammers…

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

“Spamtrap” is an interactive installation piece the prints, shreds and blacklists spam email. It interacts with spammers by monitoring several email addresses I have created specifically to lure in spam. I do not use these email addresses for any other communication. I post individual email addresses on websites and online bulletin boards that cause them [...]

RCDefaultApp - Default Program Selector (Mac)

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I just found a great program that lets you control what programs are used for specific file types from a central location (System Prefs). I just installed it, and it works like a snap.Great little tool, if you ask me. http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/HT: Lifehacker

OS 10.5 (Leopard) to release early?

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Interesting prediction in a Businessweek.com article about the timing of Leopard being released ahead of schedule. The author is suggesting an “end of March” release date.Read Hereht: LifeHacker

BBC reports on Mac uers being too “lax” on security…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Good article about security holes in Macs.News Here.

Color Jack

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Here’s a nifty tool that allows you to have fun with colors. It even contains the color numbers for webdesign. Very cool.http://www.colorjack.com/studio/#

Increase FTP speed with Transmit

Friday, August 18th, 2006

I discovered that if you are downloading or uploading zillions of files using the Transmit FTP client, you can greatly accelerate the file transfer. How? While downloading/uploading, open the Transfers tab in its Preferences, and start messing with the Maximum queue connections box.Read the whole article here:Mac OSX Hints

Put your Mac to sleep in 2 seconds…

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, sleepy-bear hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound — nuthin’ — just fast, glorious sleep). Just press Command-Option and then hold the Eject button for about 2 seconds and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It doesn’t get much faster than that.via Life Hacker