Regardless of the ‘Switch’ ads’ sanguine approach to entering the promised land of Mac OS X, there are some areas in which Mac use can be somewhat frustrating. One of these areas is financial software. Every year, at tax time, I am left wondering what features are going to be left out of the Mac […]

If you have one of the wonderful USB HotSync and charger cables sold by brando.com.hk, only to find your new device can’t be seen by the system after upgrading to Jaguar or Panther, here is the quick and dirty workaround.

Ok. Sometimes even the best computers crash. They’re still too primitive for the complexity we push on them. Poor things. Poor us. Here’s a script that helps clean up the mess left over from a system crash in Mac OS X (10.2). The script first checks your harddrive and attempts to repair it, then asks you if you want to delete old swap files (virtual memory), and cache files scattered around your system. This script has only been used with Jaguar! You could really damage your system if you use this on some other platform.