Ever wonder about how to get information shown on your OSX desktop?

Well wonder no more, I stumbled over a blog entry which mentioned GeekTool which looks to be pretty interesting.

I especially like some of the screenshots, here is an example of what it can do.

While I [...]

It looks like the latest update to Quicktime (7.1.5) is buggy. There is a discussion going on at Apple about reverting back to the previous version – which is close to a no go.

I ran in to the same problem with VLC (VideoLan Client), which quits unexpectedly, and very random. There is [...]

I really like OpenVPN it allows me to have a very simple VPN solution, and it runs on standard ports (80, 443), which means that it can penetrate proxy’s and firewalls (don’t tell security people please).

Now installing it on OSX can be a bit anoying, as there are not prebuild binaries (that I can [...]

It looks like someone have been doing something about this. Amit Singh from Google, have been working on FUSE (File-system in USErspace).

It is supposed to make is possible to read/write NTFS (and other non-supported filesystems) on OSX.

But as usual with these things it comes with a warning: [...]