I’m using the DevArt theme until I have time to mod it.

Like many other OS X modifications, Megazoomer requires SIMBL, a free InputManager available here.

Megazoomer is a free download. Get it here.

I use logKext as a keylogger on my own machines. It’s very handy to have a record of what I’ve typed, and since it makes the log file encrypted, I’m not too worried about someone else getting access to it. The few passwords that I actually have to type (thanks to Keychain) show up in it, but without the password to defeat the Blowfish encryption, the file is not viewable to prying eyes.

It’s great to be able to record all my keystrokes in case of a web application crash (the main reason I use it) or other times when I would have lost what I was writing.

Other keyloggers I’ve found include BackTrack(US$15), ,

Programs like KeystrokeRecorder (US$29), Spector (US$99), eWatch (US$18) and MonitorerX Pro (US$29.95) offer more advanced features such as the ability to capture screenshots as well as keystrokes, and to email the results to a specified address.

To use it, start up the installer and then open the terminal. (/Applications/Terminal).

Run the command


sudo logkextclient

enter your administrative password and then enter the default password marked in the readme. By default Blowfish encryption is used. There is an uninstaller for LogKext put in the root directory of your HD, ( / ) and can be uninstalled even if you’ve forgotten the password for logkext.

changing the password is similar to declaring and defining values in programming using the “set” prefix.

example: changing logKext password


set Password=NewPassword

you can see all variables you can change by typing list.

open will open the log in a text editor, i prefer simply cat’ing the log using “print”.

The new Yahoo! Messenger has arrived and is a Universal Binary, ready to run on both Intel and Power PC machines.

Built around a redesigned buddy list with a sliding webcam pane, it sports a number of interface enhancements, including (for the first time) support for custom user avatars.

Yahoo! Messenger is a free download. Get it here.

Each of these programs can be run as a separate application, at once, on your Mac with no issues to speak of, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have them all within one app? Or, if you have more than one account with one of the services, would it not be handy to be able to have them both signed in at once?

A few applications have come to the forefront in this category, namely defaultware‘s Proteus and the Open Source programs Fire and Adium X.
After using each for some time, I have come to the conclusion that Adium is the best choice for new and power users alike who want to take control of their chatting, as well as being the most stable application with the most well thought-out user interface.

Setting up new accounts is a breeze, and Adium’s preferences let you choose on a per-account basis whether or not to autoconnect when the program is opened.

If you have your Mac on a network of any kind, wired or wireless, where there is another Mac running Adium or iChat, you will see that user appear within a new area on your contact list. The Rendezvous (OpenTalk) protocol Adium uses is the same one you’ll find in iChat.

Proteus and Fire both do a good job for the most part, but neither comes close to the stability and number of options and features found in Adium. The fact that it did not crash once, while both the others have been known to be somewhat unstable, combined with a well thought-out contact list structure make Adium X the best choice overall for multi-protocol messengers.

Safari uses the ‘Text Size’ buttons, which can be made visible by choosing “Customize Address Bar…” from the View menu. With previous versions of Safari it can be selected from the View menu.

Command-plus (actually equals) and command-minus work as keyboard shortcuts, zooming text size up and down. This feature works in Camino, Firefox and Internet Explorer as well.

This does not increase the size of images in your browser, however. For this feature you must be running OS X 10.2 or later.

OS X will let you zoom the whole screen, using Quartz to smooth the screen and avoid pixelation. The default key command for this feature (once it’s turned on in the Universal Access preference pane) is command-option-equals to zoom in, with command-option-minus doing the reverse.

If you set it to an easier key combination (such as F5 and F6, only possible with OS X 10.3 or higher through the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the ‘Keyboard & Mouse’ System Preference pane), you’ll find that you use it more often, and that it’s quite a nice feature, both for your own use and when using your screen to show things to others.

Old Comments:

Nonsense. By now, every
Nonsense. By now, every idiot know how to zoom in with the browser. Try command =+ with the tiny itunes and see what happens. And who want to use two hands for the command touchpad routine? No one.

By Anonymous (not verified) at Nov 21 2008 – 7:43am

Stepping out
Yeah, Stepping Out was cool, I used it for a little while. Setting your screen size way higher than it actually was rocked.
It’s pretty much what OS X gives you if you turn on the Screen Zoom feature, although the screen focus actually follows the mouse non-stop. However, it does offer an option to behave the same as Stepping Out, where the mouse ‘pushes’ the screen around as it gets to each edge.

By paulpro at Jan 11 2005 – 9:15pm

Old software feature
Anyone remember Stepping Out? That let you make a large virtual desktop, rather than separate screens like using Space, Desktop Manager, Virtual Desktop or the ones in KDE or GNOME.
The screen would scroll whenever you reached the edge with your mouse. You didnt have to worry about key combinations or onscreen buttons, you just had a larger workspace. It was cool!

By tachyon at Jan 5 2005 – 6:45pm

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