If you have not checked out SmileOnMyMac's Text Expander, you really should. Whether you enable just the TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary for TextExpander Snippet or you use it to manage email signatures, common phrases, corrections, instruction blurbs or more. One of the cool features is a snippet from David Smalley to put TinyURL capabilities at your fingertips. While this is a great start, his script is too involved to make it fast enough to replace the text and let you carry on with your typing.

We've all been there, working on a little snippet of HTML or CSS, and you need a quick color code. Web designers and web programmers who need to specify colors must use a special code known as Hex or Hexadecimal. This code can amazingly in this day and age not be found directly within the Mac OS X color panel.

Along comes Hex Color Picker to put an extra tab in the system-wide color panel. Instantly see the hex color code for any color, and edit it just the same with a number of shorthands. Problem solved.

You may have explored the Grab application in the past (or maybe you haven't). There's a quick and easy way to capture your entire screen or a portion of the screen, to a file or to your desktop. Update: Look below for a new way to quickly capture a window.

What is POP3 and why is it bad? In a brief description, POP3 is an email protocol that downloads email from a mail server to an email client such as Outlook, Entourage, Apple Mail or Thunderbird. The drawback of using this protocol is that when someone spills coffee on their laptop or their machine is stolen; all their company emails are gone. There might still be a few emails left on the server, but the majority of it is lost.

One of the biggest requests I receive from clients is the desire to mount their iMacs on a VESA compliant articulating arm. Despite the new 2007 iMac's absolute thinness, it's flat-footed design, and up/down tilt just does not meet everyone's needs. Apple does make a VESA adapter for the 24-inch iMac.

Looking for a simple, easy to use paint program for the Mac?

Recent Switcher? Missing Paint on Windows?

ArtRage is your answer. No, it's not a new form of Rage...

Here is a fun tip that I found over at macresearch.org.

• Make sure you have a cool screen saver set (such as the RSS visualizer)
• Open Terminal (found in Applications/Utilities)

GeekTool is a System Preferences module for Mac OS X Panther (10.3) or Tiger (10.4) to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).

Why is this cool?