-
Kickstart your Mac Dashboard
I’ve never been much of a Dashboard user. I don’t hate it enough to disable it but I mostly forget about it and all the widgets. There is a big reason why I (and many others) do that. It’s painfully slow. The first load takes forever and that happens after every reboot or when your…
-
Setup a local PHP enabled Web Server on your Mac
On Windows I’ve always used XAMPP for all the small PHP scripts I used to write. I was about to download it’s Mac version today but I thought, “Snow Leopard is basically *nix. I’m sure they have some PHP!”. I was right. The procedure to setup a basic web server with PHP support is something…
-
Middle Click on your Macbook/Magic Mouse
If you are a browser junkie like me and have been missing out the Middle Click ever since you moved to a new Macbook (or got the touchy Magic Mouse), you have a reason to rejoice. I recently found a simple but smart project called 3-tap middle click. It does exactly what it says. It…
-
Fix VLC skipping problem on your Mac
I love VLC. The simple reason: it comes in a package. No clumsy codec downloads or crappy, hard to update codec packs. So when I thought of switching to Mac (will talk about that during the coming weeks), I was happy to see that VLC was there. But VLC on Mac comes packed with a…
