Free Cheat Sheets for Developers on DZone

I found today a superb resource for Cheat Sheets (also known as reference cards) on DZone.

Whenever I find a cheat sheet in a book store I need to buy it.  Looking up information on the Internet is way…

Apple unveiled new Snow Leopard at WWDC today

Today at the WWDC Apple presented the all new Mac OS X known as Snow Leopard. A lot of improvements have been done but most of them only under the hood. Yes! More power and more speed.…

Top 10 Firefox plugins for web developers & designers

Firefox is my favorite browser for creating and testing website design and functionality. On the one hand you have big share of visitors using Firefox (Wiki: Usage share of web browser)  and a rapidly growing user base.…

Sharing iPhoto Library among several users on a Mac

When I started iPhoto for the first time and imported the latest shots from my camera I was amazed how simple it was to split automatically photos into events, place them on a map and improve the quality by…

Screenshot Secrets in Mac OS X

You probably know how to make a screenshot on your Mac, but when you are writing tutorials you need often just need an image of the current dialog box or application window. You can crop a screenshot in Photoshop or…

Fixing the HTTP error problem while using WordPress Flash Uploader

The reason for the upload error lies within the mod_security module which is basicly a web application firewall that protects your website from a range of attacks. So you shouldn’t turn off this module as it protects you but you…

Swipe to navigate in Firefox on a MacBook

Being used to the 3-finger-swipe functionality to navigate within Safari and other Apple applications I wanted Firefox to behave the same way. Safari is really a great browser but not used by many users. To test…

7 essential must have applications for Mac OS X

This is my list of essential little helpers every Mac should have installed. These tools are not very expensive and can improve productivity on a Mac a lot.

1. Little Snitch

The Firewall that…

Setting up a dynamic copyright in WordPress

When you have a website running for several years it’s getting pretty annoying to update the copyright years in the footer year by year.

Paste this simple code into your footer template to generate copyright years fully automated (change “2009″…

My First MacBook Pro

A few weeks ago I bought my very first Apple MacBook Pro. I wonder why I didn’t switch already years ago. I’m using PCs since almost 15 years so far, so it was a hard decision for me to…