Monthly Garbage Bag

Balmer gone wild!


Regardless of your beliefs, this is funny as hell:

Screencasting, screen capture and video chatting for under $100 on Mac OS X


The mission:
Spend no more than $100 to equip your iSight-less Mac with a web cam, mic, and software necessary to do screen, audio and video capture. Oh, and make it easy.

Macintosh Mail.app speedup and cleanup


Apple’s Mail.app utilizes a SQLite database to manage the mail index. In my case, that’s approaching 10,000 email messages. Constant deleting and moving wreaks havoc over time on this database, resulting in slow-downs and hiccups (or, in the worst case, failure). You can force Mail.app to rebuild its index, resulting in much snappier performance, a [...]