Entropy increases

Today my Keychain Access (in german Schlüsselbundverwaltung crashed reproducibly on startup. The first symptom was actually that Safari did ...

Firefox does not honor the normal Mac OS X keybindings. Install this Firefox extension fo fix these keys: http://mavaball.net/wiki/index.php...

It is possible to move Dashboard widgets back a forth between the desktop and the dashboard: To enable this feature: defaults write com.appl...

http://timotoivonen.fi/misc/apple.html (keyboard shortcuts, iTunes)

I recently installed snow leopard and got rid of all my old Mac ports. One of the things which I did not figure out immediately was how to i...

The Apple behavior of the Zoom/Maximize button is annoying. It behaves differently for *every* application and the intended 'use only as...

When I tried to move some time machine backups out of the way (so that the Migration Assistant/Migrationsassistent) would not find them (and...

I just installed eyetv hybrid and after that I could not use my integrated iSight camera (in my Mac Book Pro) with Skype or iChat. They woul...

Recently my MacBook Pro's SuperDrive would stop buring DVDs. It would try to 'open the session' and then fail with an error mess...

The mini DVI to DVI adapter which is included in the Mac Minis with Mini DVI socket does not transport the VGA RGB signals which are necessa...

Today I received my LogiLink WL0038 WLAN Router, a low priced 54MBit device (about 25 EUR). Unfortunately mine had several shortcomings: Int...

Argh! I thought I solved the /var/log/* issue once and forever, but no, it did not work at all with the changes of the last post. I still se...

I recently tried to increase the amount of log data which is kept in /var/log on my Ubuntu box. The log files are usually rotated using logr...

iPod touch MPN: First generation (rectangular antenna on back) - 8GB MA623LL/B - 16GB MA627LL/B - 32GB MB376LL/A Second generation (oval bla...

http://xkcd.com

Every now and then Apple disables the TCP ports of the X server. I don't know why, but at least two updates from Apple disabled this now...

I just figured that I also need to install NoEjectDelay from the same website to get rid of the eject key delay, but the key repeat still do...

The small enter key on older MacBook Pros is completely useless. Newer MacBook Pros have an option (Alt) key there instead which makes more ...

I recently repeatedly experienced duplicates in iTunes after importing directories of mp3 files. Almost all files (but not all) would be vis...

... can be found here now: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/music.swf (The link in the older post does not work for me at least on m...

BTW: 75% of all statistics are useless! :-)

Apparently there is still a chance: http://ifaq.wap.org/sex/geekguide.html :-)

The keymap on a german keyboard attached to a Mac is rather different that what people expect from a standard Linux or Windows PC. This is v...

After playing with the keyboard type (I don't remember exactly what I did) I had a nasty keyboard type/mapping problem on my MacBook Pro...

After a cold boot I reproducibly got into an infinite loop of the gray start screen. The boot-up sound would be played every 3 minutes conti...

Here I found the solution how to print from my MacBook Pro on a shared printer which is connected to a Ubuntu (7.10) Linux box. The printer...

... sometimes means you *are* looking for trouble.

Germans like signs very much. Too bad this one is in english. :-)

Ignorance is bliss ...