The DarwinPorts project that we all know and love has been reincarnated under the name MacPorts. It has been added to the Mac OS Forge project community. They are currently in the process of migrating everything over but you can expect to see it up and running again very soon.

Found this little tip on the Apple website. Very useful if you use a lot of applications on a somewhat regular basis.

dding folders to the right side of your dock can be a real timesaver, and two of the most popular folders to add to the dock are your home folder and your Applications folder. Another thing you might consider, rather than putting your entire Applications folder on your dock, is to create a new folder and put in aliases of just the applications and system add-ons (such as the Calculator, etc.) that you really use. Then you can access these by Control-clicking on the folder in the dock and a pop-up menu will appear that looks a lot like the Apple menu from OS 9.

Apparently, in order to render obsolete flashing pages that can occurs when a webpage loads, (due to the client getting data from any number of sources; the stylesheet, various data sources, etc) web browsers are programmed with a little delay. The delay is, appropriately, conservative. But by adjusting a variable in the Safari preference file you can speed Safari’s delay time up.

Steps:

1. Make sure Safari is not running.
2. Open Terminal and type:
   defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.25

That’s it. You can start up Safari again and see the difference. If you want to restore the default delay value than perform the same steps above but replace 0.25 with 1.0 (the default).

Enjoy.

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