OS X: Screen Capture KB Shortcut

Nice... SHFT-COMMAND-4. Then select the area and a file will be created on your desktop of the selected area.

Windows: What's the Big Deal with Crysis?

I've played many games. Most have been good, some have been great, and a few have been terrible. Crysis isn't terrible. It is however, overrated. Here's my gripe. I just finished Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. BEAUTIFUL game! Ran well on my MacBook Pro under XP, had a great story line, etc etc. Now, take Crysis. I just installed it the other day and ran it for the first time. No, I can't run it at full graphics settings, but even at medium it looks like crap. My point is, how can COD4 look so good, run beautifully, and Crysis looks like shit? Some might argue it's the expansive free roaming element of Crysis but I don't know. The game's not all that.

OS X: Fusion vs. Parallels

I won't go into the differences or comparisons between the two. I'm simply posting about my own personal experiences. I had been pretty happy with Parallels since immediately after I switched to Mac. It allowed me access to Windows to do anything I needed to do while booted into OS X with the exception of playing games- which I was ok with, and expected. However, recently Parallels has been acting up- kernel panics, not able to drag and drop files between the two OS's, the Windows "window" was not dynamically resizing when I drug its border, etc. So, since Fusion is out of beta now, I decided to give it another go. I've been pleased. All of my aforementioned Parallels issues are resolved by using Fusion. As a bonus, I gained a little speed when starting Windows as well as shutting down. I still reboot into Boot Camp for gaming, but nothing else.

OS X: Making the Leopard Stacks Feature Look Nice

I like the stacks feature of Leopard but it frustrates me having the icons dynamically changing on the dock based on what I have in the stack folder. I ran across a post on XD's blog about overlaying stacks with a nice icon. It works very well and is pretty straight forward to implement. You basically just place your icon of choice inside the stack folder, modify its "Date Modified" property, and set the stack to sort on Date Modified. The original article link is here.

OS X: Access the Dock/Menu bar with KB

I picked this tip up on Lifehacker today. You can access dock items with a CTRL-F3 combo, and the menu bar with a CTRL-F2 combo.