just as a quick note:
I really like the ability to browse my hard disk with the os x finder in column view via arrow keys. But what s really annoying: you can’t open a file with the enter key. Instead, this key is allocated with the functionality to rename the specific file. So what you [...]

Recently I upgraded my MBP with a larger hard disk. While the data migration from my old hard disk went nearly seamlessly (thanks to CarbonCopyCloner) and took me about 4 h (1h tinkering, 3h copying data), the BootCamp/Windows migration kept me busy for another day and nearly failed in the end.
First I tried to make [...]

There are many people working really hard to run os x on no-mac computers: the osx86project, a company who is selling pre-installed os x in PC hardware, or a company that just announced to sell usb dongles which boots EFI.
Some people guess that the only reason that apple isn’t suing these companies for their commercial [...]

“This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.”

One of the first things I changed after installing Leopard was the desktop picture. Not that I wanted to customize my computer, give it a personal touch, but i hated this space-timemaschine-pink-horror.

But until now there was still this well-known picture at the Login In Screen.
Here is how you also can remove this:
Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/
You will [...]

use command + tab to switch between applications.
use expose to switch between everything (but i turned it off).
but how to switch between windows of one application, lets say between different safari windows.
it’s command + <!
there is also a little app called wich. It is similar to the “command + tab” function, but shows a list [...]

My old scanner isn’t recodnized by os x “out off the box”. So I use the great vuescan, which supports a wide range of scanners and is a solid scanning tool with a lot of parameters to adjust the scanning process and the image quality.
But if you just want to make a quick copy of [...]

Like you might know, there is this great function in os x: check any word in the dictionary by hovering this word with the pointer and pressing ctrl+command+d. Works in every cocoa application.
Philipp ‘Lipflip’ Brauner provides a package that enhances the dictionary.app with the complete english-german vokabulary from dict.cc for offline usage. You can also [...]

The last Java 6 update by apple only runs on intel macs with 64 bit processors (core 2 duo) and OS 10.5 intalled. Developers working on a 32 bit mac could check this open source project: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte
” SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]

Wie oft war ich in der blöden Siutation, meinen Mac anzuschalten und gleich darauf zu hoffen, dass die mich umgebende Ruhe nicht durch den Startup-Gong peinlich zerschnitten wird. Ein Deaktivieren des Sounds ist in OS X von Hause aus nicht möglich. Die einzige Möglichkeit ist den Rechner vor dem Neustart auf Stumm zu schalten, was [...]