Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, View Options Slowing Down Your System?
You can choose your preference of View Options and if you’re like me you’d like to view everything at a glance. This can easily be enabled in the Finder View menu by opening the Show…
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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Apple’s Broadband Tuner
Released in November 2005, Apple’s Broadband Tuner increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is…
Titanium Software, OnyX 1.6.6
Thanks to Titanium Software, now you can easily carry out maintenance, optimisation, and personalization on Mac OS X. Commands that otherwise, must be carried out using UNIX command line executions are now accessible through the OnyX GUI interface….
Keychain Access 3.3, Creating Secure Notes
Keychain Access can be found Inside every copy of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and previous incarnations of Mac OS X, in the Applications/Utilities folder. Often neglected, Keychain Access is the tool for keeping personal information private. Out…
Alastair Tse’s Album Art Dashboard Widget
Kudos to Alastair Tse, on his great effort to bring us closer to acquiring album art for our tunes. Whilst, Fetch Art is an effort to match album art from the Internet for your entire iTunes library; Alastair’s Album…
Mac OS X Tiger, Andrew Escobar’s Enabler 1.01 Apple Front Row Hack
Apple introduced Front Row with the launch of its revised iMac G5 line-up. Featuring the Apple remote together with a built-in Apple iSight and its accompanying application, Photobooth. Some reviewers and sceptics have compared Apple’s Front Row efforts with Microsoft’s Windows…
Mac OS X Tiger, Securing Your Trash
Erasing files from your hard drive (emptying the trash), just means that you’ve told the Mac operating system to earmark those files to be over-written but they are not actually removed from the system entirely….
Apple Mail 2.0.5, Sending Windows Friendly Attachments From A Mac OS X System
Apple Mail 2.0.5 which ships with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, now comes with a built-in feature that simplifies sending Windows friendly attachments through email. ‘Windows-friendly’ refers to the removal of resource files in attachments…
Qdea, Backing Up And Synchronizing Your Mac With Synchronize Pro X
Apple’s vision of creating computers that we can store our ‘digital lives’ on has reached its boiling point where most of us are doing just that. But what happens when the hardware fails? — a…
Mac OS X, Open Firmware Passwords: ‘Power On Protection’
Because Max OS X facilitates the use of modifier keys that enable Mac users to boot up from alternative sources, or in FireWire Target Disk mode, it may be necessary as an additional line of defence…