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Hotbox of Brian Kendall is a small background application to show any area you marked in fullscreen mode. You are not bound to static content, but can also use it to zoom into parts of running videos. The utility is controlled via a central hotkey (default: ⌥⌘1) and uses OS-X’s built-in zoom functionality.
Configuration of the [...]

Sending mobile macs based on Intel chips into sleep mode sometimes takes ages depending on RAM size as the whole RAM has to be written back to disk to prevent data loss even if the battery goes down completely. With some settings you can put things right, if you don’t want to wait this time [...]

Everybody using the Macs command line interface frequently can customize it with some very simple steps.
Customize Prompt
To customize the default bash prompt you have to edit the environment variable “PS1″. The standard prompt of Mac OS X looks like the following:
hermes:~ eddie$
You can use multiple further options on this prompt e.g. to show the time, [...]

In the discussion about governmental surveilance, telecommunications data retention, and fighting terrorism in Germany everybody, not only citizens of Germany, should be aware of that also your email communication is affected. Not only the connection data (who correspondet with whom when) is concerned, but also, based on the so called TKÜV all providers with more [...]

At the moment there are very few viruses, trojaners or other malware out there which chose Mac OS X as their host operating system. But it’s still not a bad idea to install a virus scanner on OS X. A popular scanner on Linux/UNIX, and therefore OS X, is Clamav, a open source scanner. ClamXav [...]

Seems to be system tools day. While surfing the web I found a cool app i wished to have found earlier. AppFresh scans your installed programs for updates and offers to download an install them right out of AppFresh.

Caution: As AppFresh is only available as preview version it runs not complete without problems, e.g. it [...]

A really nifty small system app which no Mac user concenrned about data integrity should miss is SMARTReporter. Julian Mayer’s app monitors the state of the lokal hard disks attached to your Mac and informs by several techniques about errors: Email, locale error dialogue or starting a user-defined program.
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http://homepage.mac.com/…martreporter/index.html

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Mac OS X provides several methods to install applications. Simple apps get installed by copying the application file from the disk image to the desired folder. Others are distributed as PKG files whick are more powerful than just simply copy the app file to the applications folder, e.g. the can automatically install files into the [...]

For some reasons not further explained here I dumped my mobile phone, a new one preferably with iSync integration was to be bought. I took the Motorola L7 (german edition): synchronizing with iSync worked seemless, also file transfers worked right out of the box via Bluetooth.But, as most times with new gadgets, there is one [...]