"Remote Desktop Connection.app" allows you to see the desktop of a remote Windows machine on your mac. This application will not update itself automatically, unless you have it installed as part of the Microsoft Office for Mac suite. If you've downloaded the 1.0.3 version you probably did not notice that …

Here's Jill Bolte Taylor. She's a brain scientist, studying schyzofrenia, and the micro-circuitry in the human brain which causes these (and other) mental illenesses. On the morning of September 10, 1996 she had a stroke. Amongst all other things that went though her head, she realized that this was a tremendous …

There is a nice and clean way to automatically mount network shares each time you log into your Mac. It's called the "Bonjour Mounter", a simple application which runs on login, and mounts the drives you configured it to mount. No more, no less.

I recently upgraded the operating system on my trusty Mac Mini G4 home fileserver from Tiger to Leopard. In addition to the out-of-the-box backup, I no longer have to use SharePoints to manage my network shares. In Leopard, I can just right-click them and arrange the sharing. In doing so, I decided to switch on both …

Regular readers know that I've been ranting about the way the music and movie industry are selling us crippled content, which actually feels like punishing you for honestly buying your digital content. Coincidentally, a month after that rant, Steve wrote a mail to the music industry in which he stated that DRM clearly …

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Did you know that your installation of Leopard comes with a built-in performance monitor? It's called "Instruments" and you can attach it to any process currently running. In the screenshot you see here I attached it to an instance of Eclipse while running some unittests. Instruments has some nice templates …

If you're a SQuirreL SQL fan like me, and you use a Mac, you probably also want to know how to add a driver to the OSX version of the application. Most people just point to an external jar file, but you can also add drivers to the application bundle. There's not much to it, but it took me some time to discover that I …

I recently downloaded Eclipse 3.4.1 for Mac OSX, and tried starting it using the eclipse.app icon. It did not work, and I noticed a message in /var/log/system.log telling me that the JVM could not be loaded. After some Googling, I found out that Eclipse is not compatible with the new 64bit version of JDK 1.6 for the …

If you're working on some source code and you quickly need to insert a hexadecimal color code for a color you currently have on your screen, then here is a neat little trick I found: First, install Hex Color Picker by Waffle software. It will add an extra option to the built-in OSX color picker to show you the selected …