Starting next week, I'll be transitioning to a new career outside the hallowed halls of Macworld--after nearly 10 years of running macosxhints.com (and almost five with Macworld), I'm joining Peter Maurer at to help run the business (, including contact info for my new job).

While I'm leaving Macworld, I still hope to contribute articles on topics that aren't in conflict with my new job in the software development business, so I think you'll still see my byline around here going forward--but it won't be associated with the Mac OS X Hints blogs.

So for this, my final Mac OS X Hints blog, I thought I'd pick out a sampling of my favorite blog entries from the last five-ish years--with a special focus on the older hints that still work in Leopard and Snow Leopard. These aren't necessarily the best hints, or the most popular hints, but ones that I just find personally interesting and/or useful. In no particular order, here they are.

* : This one is still my all-time-favorite hint for showing off the power of OS X. It lets you run a screensaver as your desktop "image," complete with full motion. When I first wrote about this, this trick took 50% of the CPU power of a G4/733MHz machine. Now it takes around 1% to 3% of my 2.66GHz MacBook Pro's CPU. Very fun!