Home-brewed Mac OS X Articles


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Keyboard Cleaning Day (Some PowerBook/MacBook models)
Experiences and some tips about removing and replacing keycaps on laptops.


Reassign poorly chosen command keys (OS X 10.4.x)
iChat example of how to reassign default command key short-cuts.


Free RSS News Readers (from 1/15/2006)
A very quick comparison of free RSS newsreaders along with reader comments.


A Short Review of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
Thinking of starting to program in Cocoa / Objective-C? Check out this useful book review.

a Classic Dilemma (Mac OS X 10.1)
What are you still using Classic applications for? Trying to collect a list and maybe suggest alternatives

Installing Fly on OSXS (all versions of Mac OS X / Darwin)
Fly is a small program for producing gif images using shell or perl commands.

the Good, the Bad and the Beta (Mac OS X Public Beta)
Just keeping a list of some things about the new system that others may want to know about.

Setting up your Name Server (Mac OS X Server 1.x only)
Making use of that nice "named" program already sitting on your machine.

One More Try for an Entry-level Mac (02/27/2004)

Not-so-Background Apps (05/13/2003)

Quick thoughts on QuickTime Player (05/23/2002)

More words about install programs (04/05/2002)

Macs De-Mythified (03/20/2002)

Shareware mystique, shareware sneak (02/07/2002)

A word about install programs (01/24/2002)

OS X 10.1.2 Update (12/21/2001)

OS X Server 10.1.1 (11/22/2001)