Ever have an hour to waste but nothing to fill it with? Do you love flash games? Boy, do I have a treat for you!
It’s called The Casual Collective, which is a group of eight addictive and fun games you can play right in your web browser. They’re pretty fun to play and can be [...]

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I’ve used a lot of Twitter applications. I’ve reviewed at least four on this site. I generally don’t stick with a single application for more than a week or two. TweetDeck has become the only exception to that rule - it has changed the way I use Twitter. I started using it back when it [...]

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When you’re moving files around in Leopard, there’s no real consistent way that the files get moved. When moving files locally, they seem to move on when dragged around. When putting files onto a remote location, they seem to get copied by default. Here’s two ways to override those defaults.
Copy
While you’re dragging something, hold down [...]

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The original drum kit shipped with Rock Band is anything but quiet. The newer drums are substantially nicer, both in build quality and overall noise produced. Those with the original drum kit are left in the dust unless they’d like to shell out for the new drums.
I’ve come across an inexpensive way to quiet (not [...]

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Every time I load up Cyberduck, I get flooded with Bonjour Growl notifications. Since I never use Bonjour with Cyberduck, I figured it’s acceptable to disable it. It’s a simple Terminal command, like so many other things are in the Mac world. To disable Bonjour, fire up Terminal and execute this command:

defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck rendezvous.enable [...]

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ted, the Torrent Episode Downloader, is a cross-platform utility for downloading your favorite TV shows when they become available on the torrent stream. ted intelligently knows which shows you’ve downloaded and when the next show is available. It has a large selection of shows, but also gives you the ability to create a custom entry.
ted [...]

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With recent horror stories of Google users getting locked out of their accounts floating around the Internet, it makes you reconsider putting so much trust in Google. A lot of people have all their eggs in the Google basket, but they could too be locked out at any given time. Gmail could also go down [...]

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Linux folks may know about a great piece of software called gParted, the Gnome Partition Editor. While booted into Linux, gParted works great for managing partitions on a hard drive. Windows users don’t have any good (read free) utilities like this, and the built-in Windows partition manager leaves much to be desired.
gParted Live is a [...]

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Color me surprised (well, don’t) but rumor has it the sweet new drum kit that comes with Guitar Hero: World Tour is incompatible with Rock Band 2 for the PlayStation 3. Wait, haven’t we seen this before? And didn’t Sony say this wouldn’t happen again? Hey, fellow consumer, bend over a little further, won’t you?
Luckily [...]

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Mac OS X: Last week I showed how to create VirtualBox VMs as applications. This week, I’m trying out VMware Fusion to see if it’s better or worse than VirtualBox. I’m trying to shoot for the same experience as the VirtualBox machines, so I needed to figure out how to create an App using AppleScript [...]

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