It seems like for at least a couple of years now, I've had problems when trying to login to newegg.com with Firefox. Across different installs of Firefox, on Windows, OS X, and Linux, etc.. no matter what I tried, Firefox just didn't work at all. Today after my typical google search session, [...]

UPDATE: I was up too late, and didn't notice that it's update 6 for Java, not Java 6. This is just another update for Java 5... *sigh*
I've been up pretty late doing a little work and tying-up some last minute Christmas shopping, and out of the blue this Apple update window popped-up:

I'm super glad [...]

For those many of you (including myself) who have been waiting almost a year now for Java 6 to be properly supported on the Mac, the wait is over if you're a developer-- Landon Fuller has released SoyLatte 1.0, which is a port of FreeBSD Java 6 to MacOS X which will eventually end-up as [...]

At the request of a reader, I went ahead and researched what .DS_Store Files are, and how prevent MacOS X from creating them. In a nutshell, .DS_Store files are created by Finder to store preferences:

.DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) is a hidden file created by Apple Inc's Mac OS X operating system to store custom [...]

One of my few complaints about MacOS X is that at times I feel like it treats you with kids gloves-- many options for power users either require some sort of hacking, or simply don't exist. One such thing which is fixable is getting Finder to show hidden files. It's a quick and [...]