Content tagged osx
Blog Entries
Perhaps the worst download experience ever, surpassing MySQL’s Query Browser, and the problems with Mono and OS X. Hint: scroll to the bottom of the … gulfstream/2428
John Siracusa’s definitive review of OS X 10.5. gulfstream/2346
The 11 white males who did OS X 10.4. (Or as trading cards.) gulfstream/1728
Uber-hacker jwz finally … buys a Mac! gulfstream/1768
MSN 5.0 (for Mac) looks rather nice. The features page says it can be used across different networks (!)—anyone got this to work/know what it’s … gulfstream/1812
Somewhat interesting report on the reliability of Apple laptops, a subject somewhat close to my heart. I suspect the absolute numbers aren’t … gulfstream/1920
iTunes 6.0.2 phones home to Apple with your listening history? Turns out that it only does this if the “MiniStore” pane is open, but the fact … gulfstream/1935
OS X: emacs-like keyboard shortcuts that use Control (ctrl-a, ctrl-n, etc.) work, by default, in Cocoa apps. Following the instructions half-way … gulfstream/752
Seemingly decent, honest (non-breathless) OS X 10.2 review. (Compare: David Pogue.) gulfstream/903
“Only Mac OS 9 users see anything to complain about with Mac OS X, because they’re the only people accustomed to something even more polished.” gulfstream/913
Paul Sahner will make you a personal OS X icon (from a photograph) for US$15. They’re quite cute. Why is this less tacky than mall cartoonists? … gulfstream/918
Apple uses Lucida Grande italic! (“Stream Music Wirelessly to Your Home Stereo”) Looks kinda crappy too. (Oh yeah, this is noteworthy because … gulfstream/1598
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Changes
subversion client? seems to be more focussed on creating diffs though
Hivelogic: Installing MySQL on Mac OS X
Secrets: index
preference pane for managing "hidden" os x preferences? (like tinkertool, i think)
TidBITS Safe Computing: Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software?
"no"
Vote for Virtualization
developers need virtualization to support old versions of the os, to test properly, and so on
SCR | DROPCLOCK
screensaver clock: video of solid numbers dropping into water, in slow motion
TidBITS Blog Post: Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively
TidBITS Blog Post: Time Machine Exposed!
Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing
UsingMac.com - Leopard - 40+ Helpful Automator Applications
whole bunch of little automator examples
MacDevCenter.com: HTML Tools on the Mac Command Line
Macworld: News: Opinion: The sad state of Services
Very simple rules for memory management in Cocoa
Macworld: Feature: Tiger secrets declassified
The Warne Account » Top 30 mistakes made by new Mac users
Shrook 2 - RSS and Atom for Mac OS X
Cocoa Text System - Usable Selectors
0xFE - 1111110b - 0376 - 254 - b9#9: Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline
Jumpcut: Minimalist Clipboard Buffering for OS X
Mac OS X: Creating a login hook
Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes?
Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog: QuickSilver - A Better OS X In Just 10 Minutes
Lord Pixel's Unicode Font Info
Disk Inventory X
finds big files, basically
mobile.feisar.com - Add Address Book Support for unsupported phones in Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'
Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections
Functioning Form - SxSW: OSX and Longhorn Development
first os x had no user testing--decions made by senior designers and jobs
NSBlog » Why CoreAudio is Hard
GrApple - Aronnax`s Firefox Themes
Pinstripe for Firefox: Now with 20% more Macintosh : pretty widgets
WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software
text mode editor for os x (very very text mode)
Seashore - About
os x-native, gimp-based image editor. version 0.18, and not quite ready for real work yet.
quicksilver user guide / reference manual [pdf]
hfsdebug: A Debugger for HFS Plus Volumes
Slife Labs | Features
visual your app use, over time
Lingon by Peter Borg
service manager (i.e. manage scripts, services that run at bootup)
BlackBerry - BlackBerry for Mac
blackberry sync for mac--apparently usb-only?
So you just got a Blackberry Pearl and you have a mac… | A Whole Lotta Nothing
Script for Using the BlackBerry Pearl as a Bluetooth Modem on a Mac - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)
Mac OS X Tips
setting os x app options using defaults from the command-line. most of these can be set by TinkerTool as well
Syncing a Blackberry Pearl with the Mac Address Book
Titanium Software
similar to tinkertool (haven't used it)
Hiding Applications From The Dock | Mac Geekery
Versions - Mac Subversion Client
osx graphical subversion clients are pretty awful; this one might just work out... (about to enter beta.)
ZigVersion - subversion GUI for OS X
The XeTeX typesetting system
(like LaTeX, but not)
stewing over safe sleep
sleep-to-ram turned off on modern mac laptops! so that's why it takes so long to go to sleep.
HoudahGeo - Geocoding for the Mac
GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs
Pixelmator
nice-looking photoshop-style software for os x (not beta yet)
Anti-Grain Geometry - Texts Rasterization Exposures
detailed & informative piece on hinting
scplugin.tigris.org
subversion plugin with finder integration (haven't tried it)
SanDisk | Products | Accessories | Multi Card ExpressCard<sup>™</sup> Adapter
Matasano Chargen » A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features
Exploring Leopard with DTrace
nice introduction to DTrace on OS X
Apple - Mac OS X 10.5 (Darwin 9.0)
source code to apple's open source projects, including e.g. apple's patched version of php
Macworld: News: Analysis: The end of Netinfo
how users, groups are managed in 10.5
Software
example program to watch for os x event notifications, such as itunes track change
SanDisk | Products | Accessories | MobileMate Readers
Dan Rodney - Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Unix 03 Conformance Release Notes: UNIX 03 Conformance Release Notes
unix stuff that changed between tiger and leopard to support leopard's posix compliance
Providing PDF Workflow Options in the Print Dialog: Introduction to Providing PDF Workflow Options in the Print Dialog
how to add items to os x's print pdf dialog
