Trey Connell

I wanted to put Windows XP on my mac so that I could test out sites we build in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari on PC. I was pretty apprehensive about tainting my mac with an operating system like Winblows - even if it does run in a virtual server....

TextMate is a very popular text editor with a lot of features and "bundles" (think "plugins") that runs on Mac OS X. TextMate contains an often overlooked feature for creating nice html versions of your code for display on your site. In order to do this,...

I read maclife.com and yesterday's story titled "One Multi-Touch Screen to Rule Them All" caught my eye. I immediately began thinking I was going to see real evidence of Apple's version of the tablet PC. After creating the iPhone and iTouch, it would seem...

Update: I've now decided that Firefox 3 is not reliable enough to use as my default browser so I've switched back to Safari. It's extremely slow to connect to most sites, and sometimes it won't connect at all while Safari connects and renders the page...

If you spend a lot of time on sites like Twitter, you have seen how URL compression is used to shorten very long URLs into smaller, more user-friendly URLs. I had been using a few web sites to shorten URLs, and it dawned on me that I really needed a slick...

Mail.appetizer has been around for some time, and I find it to be invaluable for dealing with email more efficiently. How many times have you been working in another application only to see the little red indicator show up on the Mail.app icon? In order...

I've been looking for a really good RSS reader for Leopard lately.  I'm just not crazy about the built-in RSS support in Mail.  I wanted something simple but that allowed me to group posts by category or topic.  Sometimes I just want to read over...

If you own GarageBand 4 then you can use it to create your iPhone ringtones. The latest version - at the time of this writing it's 4.1.2 - lets you drag and drop any song into the GarageBand 4 window. The problem is that GarageBand won't import protected...

You may have seen this post where I talk about the yuckiness that was my old keyboard and my thoughts on buying a new apple wireless keyboard. I went ahead and decided to buy one as I just couldn't stand looking at the old one any longer. I searched eBay...

I'm considering spending $80 on a new apple wireless keyboard. I've had the same old school, clear case keyboard for about 5 years now. Let me put it this way - it's seen better, and cleaner days. I've thought about taking my keyboard apart and...

If you own a Mac running OS X and want to keep up with your friends on Xbox live without actually having to sign it, go check out http://1337pwn.com. You can download and install a widget that allows you to enter in all your friends' gamertags and then...

A buddy of mine pointed me to Newegg.com where they have a 2 Gigabyte memory chip that fits many laptops including my MacBook Pro for a mere $38.99. I ordered it immediately, and it came in today. I've now boosted my laptop memory from 1 Gigabyte to 3...