Mac OS X 10.6 – “Snow Leopard”

 
MacRumors.com reported that Snow Leopard, Apple’s next OS upgrade, is scheduled to come out January 2009. The article states Snow Leopard will not contain any major OS changes. Instead, the release is heavily focused on performance and stability.
This is welcome news to me. I really love their OS, but lately it seems like I’ve had [...]

Neat Tip For Tracking Packages.

 A co-worker showed me a really neat little trick that I thought I ‘d share…
 
Normally, when I get an email with a tracking number for a package that I’m going to be receiving, I would copy the tracking number, find the companies web site, find the tracking page and paste the number. While it sounds [...]

Quick access to OS X’s built in Dictionary/Thesaurus

You might know about the nice feature in Apple’s Mail application that checks your spelling while you type. It puts little red dots under misspelled words (like many other applications). This is something I think EVERY application on every OS should have built in. It’s great. You do have to make sure your preferences are [...]

Easy to Use, On Demand Calculator: Calq (for OS X and Windows)

Calq is a great simple application that gives you quick access to a simple calculator. I would say this is a pretty much "must have" application. I’m using it on Mac OS 10.5.1.
Calq is sweet. It’s nice looking, fast and does it’s job well. It’s not without fault though…
One thing that makes Calq not the [...]

Mac OS X’s “Show Package Contents” can be useful.

I’m currently using Mac OS X 10.5.1 and came into a situation where I needed some information that was hidden inside an application. The application was Calq by Katoemba Software. I’ll go over what Calq is and how I set it up in another post.
What is "Show Package Contents" and how can it be useful? [...]