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Creative Guy ? Blog Archive ? Customizing your Mac OSX experience Express your creativity, or play with the visual style to your hearts content. This article is very helpful at pointing out what can be modified and how it can be achieved and some of the pros and cons with each method/option.

?? A52Codec – Trac This is a handy little AC3 (Dolby 5.2) Componant that will enable playback of AC3 streams on your mac. Took a little while to hunt down, but when found oh so helpful!

Optimized Firefox 2.0 for G4, G5, and Intel Macs: BeatnikPad Journal We all love Firefox for the mac, but the mac is such a massive platform and compiling it for the lowest common denominator misses some of of the performance benefits for your specific machine. If you care about eaking out the few little CPU […]

? How higher RPM hard drives rip you off | George Ou | ZDNet.com A very interesting article dealing with a solution to the percieved slowness of lower RPM HDD’s and how to improve the partitioning scheme to have the OS run faster, and large non frequent seeking scenarios for the slower parts of the […]

If you’ve ever needed to remotely administer Mac OS X remotely, VNC combined with port forwarding can be very handy. A command like the following below, will forward localport 5901 to 5900 on the remote machive via a ssh tunnel. ssh -L 5901:localhost:5900 bugga.net Under recent versions of OS X however this does not work. […]

If you don’t already have the google back, grab it now. It contains many useful app’s all bundled in a handy installer from google and will keep the apps in the pack up to date, you can use as many or as few of the apps as you like and it is easy as pie […]

New Super Mario Bros. FAQs – New Super Mario Bros. Walkthroughs – New Super Mario Bros. Guides A handy place with links to several New Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo DS.

The 12-Drive RAID Storage Box Now I’m having storage issues, if this unit had a GigE NIC on the back of it, and sweet management interface, I’d be very happy man running around trying to get on. Solaris + ZFS that would allow for any number of discs being shoved into at any point would […]

Use iTunes 7 to get brand new album art for your entire collection on The uber geeks Be warned, this will only find Album Art that iTunes has the tracks and albums for – it will also get rid of any existing low res art – so if you have some art, make sure iTunes […]

Burn A sweet OS X program – open source and free – more flexibilty with your CD burning.