Here’s a neat hack to give your “Minimize to Dock” action a bit of spice:
The dock animation “Suck” is hidden in OS X and can be activated with the terminal using this line…
defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck
Now just type “killall Dock” in your terminal and you will notice the new effect after your dock [...]

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I’ve been rally hyping on office suites for their use as free and quick (no set-up required) document manager and collaboration software. So far I’ve only really used Google Docs and Spreadsheets until I stumbled upon a few others that you might want to consider.
Here they are:

Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Ajax 13
ThinkFree Office Online
Zoho Office [...]

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I’ve recommended Google Docs and Spreadsheets as an effective (free!) collaborative online document manager before. I personally use it for most of our collaborative work. However, the chat-style interface doesn’t quite help when you’ve got a few people working on it once.
For such work, me and my buddies have had better successes with Skype [...]

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No quick tip for today, read that: emergency! Why? Mozilla Firefox will be relaunching its add-on site by Feb. 12 and part of the launch will be the removal of thousands of add-ons from its list.
Mozilla is apparently doing this to streamline the list for new users. Let’s face it, add-ons have been the [...]

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Google’s mail service, Gmail, has now open it’s doors to everyone. No more SMS sign-ups. No more invites. Just a sign-up form to accomplish and 2.8 GBs of mailbox space is all yours.
Your move, Yahoo!.
Soruce: Gmail opens it’s doors at Forever Geek

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All the while, I’ve been blogging about Firefox 2 and haven’t really written about Firefox 3. What’s nice about Mozilla is they alway keep their development open to the public. Such is the case with their developments with Firefox 3 dubbed as “Gran Paradiso.”
As the title of this post states, they’ve made Firefox 3.0 [...]

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Kudos to Michael and Apple Gazette for getting Apple Gazette Weekly in iTunes.
Here’s a Mac OS X quick tip from Apple Gazette. How to take screenshots in Mac OS X:

For fast and easy screenshots download SnapNDrag.
For hardcore OS X keystrokes:
command+shift+3 Full screenshot
command+shift+4 Crosshair to allow selection of screenshot area
command+shift+4, then spacebar Camera to [...]

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Windows users have an assortment of freeware and FOSS alternatives to choose from. Unfortunately for Mac users, there’s quite a shortage to that. Anyway, here are a few alternative choices to pricey software for the Mac:

Pixel Image Editor ($39) for Photoshop ($649)
Lineform ($79.95) for Adobe Illustrator ($499)
Billings 2 ($59) for Quickbooks ($250)
NVU (FREE!) + [...]

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I love LeBron James. The massive small forward with a point guard mentality. I just hope the Cavs make the playoffs this time and really show why he can be the next Mike. I envy him too. Set for life and not even 25. Well, he was set for life even before he played [...]

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So Microsoft continues to push ground in securing more Mac users as market. With Office 2007 set for public consumption this year, Microsoft slates the new Office release later this year.
For a sneak peak of Office 2008 for the Mac, visit The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Source: The Apple Gazette

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If you’re one of those people that thinks laterally, loves mindmaps, stores tons of notes all over the place and would like to get organized, you might consider Tinderbox by the folks at Eastgate if you haven’t done so already.

I’ve been using the application —which is currently only available for Mac but Window’s [...]

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