So, I’ve been suffering through the crappy mobile NewsGator site while gnashing my face off waiting for a native NetNewsWire on my iPhone. Last Friday, I got it, and I’d almost prefer the mobile site.
One issue is speed. It’s not very fast. It’s not unusable, but it is irritating. I’m not going into that, because [...]

Without a doubt, the worst part of using a Mac is dealing with the mess that is third-party hardware drivers. Using hardware under OS X is either completely painless, or a nightmare.
The best scenario is that the hardware is supported out of the box. This happens most of the time, and it’s extremely pleasant. You [...]

A while back, I was looking for a way to remove the Spotlight icon from my menubar. I rarely if ever use menu icons, and wanted to reduce the clutter.
The only guides I was able to find recommended chmodding Spotlight.app to 000, to prevent it from being run. I did this, and was happy for [...]

⌘T in nearly any app which uses tabs opens a new tab. In apps without tabs, it opens the Show Fonts. This is a floating window, which cannot be closed with ⌘W, the usual binding to close a tab or window.
While it can be closed in most cases, you have to use a different keystroke, [...]

Using tar to back up a disk which contains large numbers of hard links (e.g. a Time Machine volume) is extremely slow.
Slow as in, I started the backup of this 300gb disk last night, and it’s just over halfway done this morning.