I have been asked this a number of times recently and thought it was worth putting in here.

There are two simple ways to quit a non-responsive application from the desktop.

1 Press the ‘Cmd-Alt-Esc’ keys to pop up the ‘force quit’ window. From here you can choose an application to force quit. Very unhappy [...]

If you, like me, have thousands of email messages in Apple Mail (on Tiger) and have found over the years it gets a little sluggish, then this handy tool may well fix it.

Vacuum Mail by Leland Scott just plain works. I won’t bore you with the gory technical detail other than it rewrites the [...]

... where have you been all my life

Rita is quite an amazingly innovative (really!) illustration/drawing application for Mac OS X. It’s also the work of one guy, Niklas Frykholm, who appears to be sickeningly talented!

It’s incredibly easy to use, has loads of funky drawing tools (hatching, highlights, freehand shapes and ovals), several mad drawing tools [...]

Maccam is a fantastic application (driver) that supports zillions of unsupported, ‘pc’ webcams on OS X.

What does this mean? It means you can buy any of the ‘PC only’ cameras listed on Maccam and use them on your Mac, just like any other webcam.

And you know what, it’s open source too, which means it’s [...]

Now that’s what I call a user interface …

Ok, I’ll keep this short.

That was dull.

AppleTV is quite nice, but let’s face it, with no movies or TV on iTunes in the UK it’s an expensive toy. Especially with Apple’s idea of the exchange rate.

iPhone. Very slick, but no US launch til the summer means no UK launch until 2008/9/10. And, [...]