Monthly Garbage Bag

Crash (and I don’t mean cymbals)!


I’m sitting at my Mac this morning, facing a window that looks out onto the street in front of my house, working on a web site.
I hear the throaty growl of an accelerating engine, and look up just in time to see the smear of a black car flying past. Simultaneously, I hear an enormous [...]

Mute system audio when increasing/decreasing volume


Here’s a cool tip from The Distant Librarian on how to silence the audio feedback you get when using the keyboard to increase or decrease the volume in Mac OS X.

Hold down the shift key while depressing the volume keys will silence the auditory feedback while raising and lowering the volume, but still show the [...]

Screencasting on Mac OS X: What you need to get the job done


Your choices for screen capture on Mac OS X are increasing, both in quantity and quality. Screen capture and screen casting is cake using these low-cost (and sometimes free) applications:

 
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Configure Apache Web Sharing for user accounts in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard


Apple’s new Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) changes how web sharing is set up. Thankfully, they’ve moved us all to Apache 2 codebase (a good thingâ„¢). But in doing so, they’ve disabled the ability to serve web pages contained in your home Site directory.
If you turn on Web Sharing from the System Preferences panel, it [...]