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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Yesterday Google allowed users to subscribe to their alerts via an RSS feed instead of email. I prefer this option as my RSS reader is open almost all day and I like to know about things as they happen. Sure, that was always available for the email notice too, but RSS is so much easier.
To [...]

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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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When I was in high school, the Internet was really starting to take off. Being the nerd that I was, I started charting my Christmas wish lists using Excel. Well, those days are long gone and now I’m an even bigger nerd. Luckily, there are a couple tools that satiate my thirst for that yuletide [...]

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Losing your laptop is an ugly event. I’d like to show you a simple way to improve your chances of getting your beloved laptop back. The idea is simple – create a wallpaper image that shows up when your computer is at the login screen.
All I did was grab a pre-packaged image from the wallpaper [...]

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Everyone knows that search.twitter.com (formerly Summize) is a great way to aggregate or find tweets with certain criteria. Here’s a few more tricks that will help you narrow your search results:

Use a boolean: searching Obama OR McCain will give you results containing either of those keywords. String them together as you like (Gustav OR Josephine [...]

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I ran across these videos the other day on Lifehacker and wanted to share a few of them. I especially like the Japanese shirt folding video – it absolutely boggles my mind how quickly they did it.
Get 8 watch batteries from a AA battery

Fold a t-shirt in two motions

Boost your wireless router’s signal

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