I noticed that my Dashboard is getting slower and slower to load every-time I use it – and ironically it appears to be caused by the very feature that is there to speed things up – the cache.
If you use Dashboard heavily and with Widgets that gets their content from the internet – chances [...]

Another week another Beta from the Parallels team – there does not seem to be a lot of differences between Beta 2 and this latest release if you look at the features – there is, however, one important difference at the end “NEW! Lots of various fixes” – so well worth the download.
The installation [...]

The advantage of CrossOver is that you do not have to start up a Windows environment (like Parallels for example) – with CrossOver you can run (some) Windows application without installing Windows at all and simply run it directly in you OS X with very low CPU overhead (Intel based systems only).
I think the solution [...]

The notification application that I think most Mac users are really happy with has just been released in an updated version (for some reason it did not pick up the update automatically when checking from the Preference Pane?)
Downloading it and installing it was painless, however, and the key issues addressed are:
General

Significantly improved performance when [...]

I came across a strange behavior by Safari – all of a sudden my RSS feeds were no longer being updated. I had read a few places that it could be caused by broken databases files in your /Library/Syndication – and deleting these files would solve the problem. I did, however, not have any such [...]

The guys at Techspansion are really busy these days – it has only been 3 says since I last wrote about the update to version 1.18 – and now the new version 1.19 has been released – once again with new features:

Major increase to H.264 encoding speed on multi-processor Macs! Give your G5 Quad or [...]

I have had a go at making a simple RSS widget for Mac Season using the new Dashcode Developer Beta from Apple (seems pretty stable). You can pick up a copy from developer.apple.com – you will have to register – but there is a free option to join, just click the link on the top [...]

My favorite screensaver is the SaveHollywood Video Screensaver which is available fro free as a Universal Binary. The way I have set it up is to point to a folder with my favorite videos in and they are then shown as my screensaver in random order (currently HD versions of the “Get a Mac” adverts).

With [...]

The cool VisualHub has been updated with lots of new features – I use VisualHub myself and generally quite happy with it (iSquint is also pretty good and free)
New in VisualHub 1.18:

• Improvements to DVD encoding quality.
• UI updates and enhancements.
• Converted MPEG-1 files no longer display macroblock errors on some players.
• Multiple files can [...]

Parallels just keeps getting better and better and it is getting hard to follow all the builds – the only downside is that one might ending up using Windows more instead of finding great Mac alternatives.
There are once again a lot of awesome features and enhancements introduced in this Beta, including:
USB 2.0 support – [...]