For those of you trully nerdy enough to need something like this, i solute you. In fact i myself have recently needed to run a jabber (XMPP) server for one reason or another, so here is the simplest and most popular option available to Mac OS X users right now. Ignite Realtime’s Openfire is a simple yet powerful open source solution to this problem. Here’s how to do it. Check out the Ignite Realtime Openfire webpage and download...

This may not be so useful for everyone, but i’m sure i’m not the only one who has searched for an answer to this question. Whether it may be for easy access to your favorite website or some kind of home development project editing your Macs hosts file is easy as ever. Ever done it on a Windows machine? It’s pretty much the same thing. Here is how we do it. Go to Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder.. and type in...

A MAC address is a unique identifier for your network card, and is always unique meaning it often serves as a security measure on many networks. What does Spoofing your MAC address mean? It means you will be able to set your MAC address to whatever you like. How is this possibly useful you may ask? Imagine yourself at a hotel where you can only have one device on the network at once, and you would like to use your wifi on your laptop and...