MacOSXHints.com Find out what’s keeping your Mac awake Have you ever been annoyed to find that your Mac won’t got to sleep when you tell it to? It turns out that in Mac OS X 10.6 and later, there’s a simple way of finding out what’s keeping your Mac awake. Run the following command in(…)
Permanently Unhide Library MacOSXHints.com When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows how to make the folder visible and keep it that way forever. As you may know, and as(…)
Every day, we find different kinds of tweaks and apps from various categories. Most of the time we get so excited to download every tweak or app that we find interesting. However, we find some of them not functional after all, and they end up with a single tap of delete button. With all(…)
Display A Login Window Banner In Lion [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac Many of us manage Mac labs, whether for a school or a community agency, that require users to acknowledge an Acceptable Use policy, or agree to terms about using the computer. Wouldn’t it be great if there was some way to(…)
Batch Convert Tons Of Image Types With Snap Converter [OS X Tips] Cult of Mac Images and their various types are a funny thing. There are a ton of them out there, including jpg, png, psd, tiff, gif, and the like. They all have their uses and pros and cons. But what happens when(…)
Flashfake Antivirus Tool For Mac Finds And Removes Flashback Trojan Cult of Mac Whew… Apple recently responded to the Flashback trojan that has reportedly infected at least 600,000 Macs. The Cupertino company said that it is working on an antivirus tool to detect and remove Flashback from infected computers. Another tool called FlashBackChecker can check(…)
TextWrangler 4.0: Now even better, still free The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) The good folks over at Bare Bones Software have just released version 4.0 of their classic and free text editor for Mac OS X, TextWrangler. I talked with Bare Bones head wrangler Rich Siegel a few weeks ago about what was set(…)
To use a keyboard shortcut, or key combination, you press a modifier key with a character key. For example, pressing the Command key (the key with a symbol) and the “c” key at the same time copies whatever is currently selected (text, graphics, and so forth) into the Clipboard. This is also known as the(…)
Despite Apple’s best efforts, you can make a bootable install disk of Mac OS X Lion… but it’s not for the faint-hearted, or those who aren’t tech inclined.Luckily, there’s an even easier way to make a bootable OS X Lion disk now. It’s calle…
OS X App – Screen Saver Activators: Quick little Apps designed to change, and activate, Mac OS X screen savers. Great in the dock! There are no settings. You run the app, it launches the screen saver. Quick and easy. All Screen Saver Apps – Download (in one zip file) Spectrum SS.app – Download(…)
Developer: Bee Documents
Price: $40 [$65 for 3D Edition]
Back in June, I wrote about the Apple Design Awards at the 2008 edition of Apple’s WWDC, where Bee Documents’ Timeline 3D earned a runner-up award for Best Mac OS X Leopard Applicat…
Disk Label Finder 
HandBrake Batch 
Disk Ejector 
iPhoto: Export ALL Events to Folders 
Find PowerPC Apps (Lion Upgrade) 
Fix Permissions for OS X Files 
Backup / Sync Google Docs to Local Drive 
Quick Backup 
Single Site Checker 
QuickTalker 1.0 – Speech 
