After several years of trying to figure out what task manager for Mac and iPhone worked best with my peculiar style of organization, I finally settled on Things from Cultured Code. The Mac application is easy to use, uncluttered, and can take advantage of many keyboard shortcuts, while the iPhone app [iTunes Link] gives me a portable version of the Things database to take on the road. While the iPhone app can do a local sync to a Mac, it still doesn't do over-the-air syncing, which I hope Cultured Code will add in a future release.

When I made Things my task manager, I needed to make sure that I could use the same database on both my desktop Mac and my MacBook Air, since the Mac version doesn't do syncing either. It turns out that one of the easiest ways to do this is to use the wonderful cloud storage application Dropbox to hold my Things database, and then point Things on both Macs to use the shared database.

It is all in the name, just like a ghostwriter writes for someone else, GhostReader™ can read for you!
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GhostReader allows you to listen to your documents with naturally sounding voices in a language of choice. Or use it to create your own personal podcasts or your own audiobooks by exporting to iPhone and iPod-ready iTunes tracks. Or just use it to speak selected text in a handy reader window with play, fast forward and rewind functionality. It even allows you to listen to text by just pointing your cursor at the text as you sit back and relax while GhostReader reads the text under the cursor.

It’s been a few hours since the Internet exploded over the Psystar Rebel_EFI bootloader and we tried it out on a few machines in the office and originally thought it failed. However, I let the boot screen run for a bit without touching the keyboard on an HP TouchSmart we had here and it suddenly dropped into the OS X install screen. A quick format using Disk Utility and I was, amazingly, in business. The touchscreen even worked!

Here's a simple way to move your swap partition under Leopard that appears to work for both Intel and PowerPC based Macs. Edit the file com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist, located in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Replace the /var/vm path with the full path to your swap partition.

Last Updated: 9/1/2008 (edits for moving swap file)

Writing a book, short story or research paper is about more than hammering away at the keys until it's done. Research, scrawling fragmentary ideas that don't seem to fit anywhere yet, collecting faded photos from old newspapers, shuffling index cards to find that elusive structure - most writing software is only fired up after much of the hard work is already done. Enter Scrivener: writing software that stays with you from that first, unformed idea all the way through to the first - or even final - draft. Outline and structure your ideas. Take notes. Storyboard your masterpiece using a powerful virtual corkboard. View research while you write. Track themes using keywords. Dynamically combine multiple scenes into a single text just to see how they fit. Scrivener has already been enthusiastically adopted by best-selling novelists, academics, lawyers, script writers and journalists - whatever you write, grow your ideas in style.

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This program synchronize two folders.

Vocab makes it easy to revise for tests - and learn the words - quickly and successfully. Add as many words as you like to a wordlist, choose “Use for Widget” to see a random word every time you show Dashboard. And when you’re ready, take a test to see how well you’re doing, and what you need to revise more. Vocab also enables you to track your progress, so you feel ready and really confident when it comes to the real thing.

Paste this code into an AppleScript, than invoke it with a shortcut (use Quiksilver or whatever you like):
try
set theClip to Unicode text of (the clipboard as record)
tell application "Microsoft Word" to tell selection to type text text theClip
end try

Just move it into /User/Library/Preferences.

Basically, the problem is when you have more than 3 gb of ram (some says 2.5 gb) and AppleVIAATA, JMicronATA, AppleNForceATA or AppleATIATA driver.

I managed to fix this issue by finding this thread and installing the modified JMicronATA: v0.6 and AppleATIATA: v0.1 kexts.

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'rmdir runauto..' or 'rm -r runaut~1'

Using the 10.4.8 kext with Leopard gives you a working airport extreme, but only for WEP or open networks. WPA is proving a bit belligerent, you can connect to wpa2/wpa networks using the "chipxsd method" described at the end of this post. Editing the 10.5 kext can lock up your system when trying to use your airport. Feedback would be greatly appreciated if you have found a way, or even if you tried and failed.
sudo chmod +s /usr/sbin/networksetup
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
networksetup -setairportnetwork "yournetwork" "yourpassword"

Now I've upgraded to 4GB by adding a second DIMM, sleep doesn't work. The video shuts down but the graphics card fan still runs (previously, the fan stopped) and it won't wake up again.

They slice! They Dice! Disk images have become an invaluable tool for Mac admins everywhere. Read on to find out more.

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a stream and YouTube downloader.