How to watch a Blu-ray on your Mac

Last year we bought a small collection of Blu-ray children movies as an alternative to YouTube for our kids. Before they could watch the movies, I had to fix two things:
1. Purchase an external Blu-ray player
2. Find software to play the Blu-ray discs

Faster downloads

For faster downloads, I’ve been really enjoying making use of multiple parallel connection.

For example, at work I occasionally need to download a 25 GB database backup dump from Heroku, which can take 5 hours to download. The download is from S3 via a temporary HTTP url…

Higher than Native Resolution on a MacBook Air

Ever since I bought my first computer, an original Tangerine iBook with an 800 x 600 display, I wanted to be able to simulate a higher resolution to fit more on the screen.

My Mac Apps

My friend just became a new MacBook Pro owner (huzzah!), so I took some time out to write him a list of applications that I use often, and make the Mac such a versatile machine. He’s more into the development stuff so there are a lot of power-user applications in here, but I think this list is nice for…