How To: Disable Dashboard in OS X Dashboard in Leopard is a love it or hate it application. There are several useful applications that can make life easier. On the other hand, it’s easy to hit the activation buttons on Mighty Mouse by accident. Other people may begrudge Dashboard’s use of memory. It’s not much, [...]

.tgz files have been used in Unix for years. Originally created to handle backups to tape, it’s now commonly used to archive groups of files together such as installers for software. This is where most people run across the confusing .tgz, tar.gz, or tar.bz2 file extensions. These instructions should be universal for most Unix systems, [...]

1.) Finder – My biggest issue with finder is that I like to have column view. Finder does not reliably track that preference. When closing the active window it sometimes switches back to another view, especially if you’ve not opened it in a while. This is even worse when working with network shares that multiple [...]