May 18, 2026
I’ve talked about my use of Obsidian in the past. It’s my second brain, yet it takes too much manual effort to track everything in it. What important emails were there today? What meetings? Any tasks? In my role as a security practioner, were there new vulnerabilities …
May 7, 2025
It’s been a bit since I’ve had a chance to write a blog post about something technical. As with most people in the world, I’ve been trying to dive deeper into using AI and making it make me more efficient and useful. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the …
February 23, 2020
I have a terrible memory, which means that I rely on a lot of tools and methodologies (like GTD, Getting Things Done) to help me track things. This also means that I have a lot of different tools ,and I regularly re-evaluate and change them if something new can meet my …
February 11, 2017
You know your wife is a keeper when she gets you a YubiKey 4 for your birthday! I was really excited about this YubiKey because of its support for storing your GPG private keys and also for an SSH private key, in addition to the U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) support. I’ve …
February 24, 2016
I’ve recently found and become a fan of the Dash documentation browser for OS X. It has some neat integration with some applications, like Sublime Text and PyCharm (both of which I use), but not for Komodo IDE (which I also use). So this post is to show how easy it is to …
January 16, 2016
NOTE: All referenced scripts are available at https://github.com/vdanen/mutt-scripts. I’ve been using OS X on my desktop for a number of years now and unfortunately, the availability of email clients for OS X, while numerous, all stink. I’m coming from a background …
January 6, 2015
Python 2.7.9 was released nearly a month ago and with it came some SSL-related changes (it backported the Python 3.4 ssl module and does HTTPS certificate validation using the system’s certificate store). The latter can cause some problems with home-grown CA’s, …
December 28, 2013
So, playing around with MailMate I’ve found you can create keyboard shortcuts. It comes with a standard keyboard shortcut list, one for Postbox (a Thunderbird-based email client), and Gmail. My main need here to is to map “delete” to “Archive …
December 28, 2013
To begin with, I liked Apple Mail in Mountain Lion (and Lion also). I’ve been using Apple Mail for a while now for my personal email on my mac, and mutt for my work email on my Fedora box. It works well, and I’ve gotten used to using a GUI for my personal email and …
December 7, 2013
Actually, it’s not much of an adventure so much as a reminder. I’m used to doing software RAID on Linux with mdadm and am fully comfortable with the commandline tools – in fact, I prefer them to any GUI tools that may or may not be out there (for example, if I …
August 23, 2012
Software Update Service is part of OS X Lion server (and Mountain Lion server) that allows you to download OS updates and serve them to multiple clients on a local network (similar to Red Hat’s Satellite server, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux). I’ve had to play with …
March 10, 2012
I recently purchased the HighPoint RocketU 1144AM PCI-E 2.0 x4 Quad-Port USB 3.0 Raid card for my Mac Pro. Since most external drives you buy these days are USB3, and the Mac Pro only has (and perhaps only every will have, if the rumour mill is true) USB2 ports, the only option I …
February 26, 2012
I have an SSD in my Fedora workstation for my rq tool, specifically for the MySQL database. The speed increase there, because it was dealing with huge amounts of data, was very welcome – not so much for importing (speed there didn’t much increase since all the files …
October 13, 2011
So I was thoroughly annoyed to find a guest account with a sandboxed Safari after I had setup iCloud on OS X 10.7.2. Turns out, this only appears when you have “Find My Mac” enabled, and it does make sense (how can your mac be found if no one is using it?). If you …
July 26, 2011
So I had upgraded my wife’s MacBook to Lion and discovered that, once again, Apple screwed around with Kerberos. This seems to be a recurring theme (and not a good one). After quite a bit of fighting and figuring, a few things have been sorted out. Once I’ve got it …
May 25, 2011
This week’s mac tip is Two SSH clients to consider for the iPad. In this tip I look at two really great SSH clients for the iPad (and iPhone as well, although I was mostly just looking at the iPad versions which do vary from their iPhone counterpart): iSSH and Prompt. …
May 25, 2011
Last week’s mac tip was Google Apps’ two-factor authentication provides security boost for Mac and iPhone users which looks at how to setup two-factor authentication on the mac (or anywhere else really, this isn’t quite specific to the mac). Two-factor …
May 17, 2011
Last week’s mac techmail was Work some project management magic with Merlin where we look at using ProjectWizards’ Merlin project management software. If you need project management on steroids, Merlin is a good bet. Even more importantly, if you need an easy way to …
April 28, 2011
This week’s mac techmail is Finding uses for the iPad 2: A skeptic gives it another shot in which I write about my experience with the iPad2. Short version: I like it. It’s no replacement for any existing device I have, but it’s definitely useful. Read the tip …
April 23, 2011
This week’s mac techmail was Enhance security on your Mac with Hands Off! which is a neat security tool for OS X. I’ve been using Little Snitch for years, and Hands Off! is quite similar except that it provides more features and functionality, including the ability to …
April 23, 2011
Last week’s Mac techmail was Use Fake to automate web testing on the Mac which takes a look at a neat app for the Mac called Fake. This app is similar to Automator, except instead of automating desktop-related tasks, it automates web-related tasks. With it you can automate …
April 12, 2011
Last week’s mac techmail was Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X in which I looked at the Tower application, a Git GUI client for OS X. I’ve looked at a few Git clients for OS X and Tower was my application of choice amongst the contenders; the tip explains …
April 3, 2011
I’m a little behind on putting up my recent Mac articles for TechRepublic here, so I’m going to put them all in one post. The first is Introduction to OS X Access Control Lists (ACLs) which introduces you to OS X’s implementation of filesystem access control lists. OS X, …
March 14, 2011
The mac techmail from a few weeks ago was How to use CrashPlan for online backups, which looks at getting the CrashPlan client setup on OS X. CrashPlan is pretty neat: you can pay to store your backups on CrashPlan’s servers in the cloud, or you can use the client for free …
March 10, 2011
The Mac tip from a few weeks ago was Easily distracted? Mac tools that keep you focused. This was an interesting tip to write because when you sit in front of the computer all day, it’s sometimes hard to quantify how much productive work you get done. Like now, updating my …
February 17, 2011
This week’s mac techmail is How to reassign the primary display on multi-display Macs which is pretty simplistic, but really sweet all at the same time. I’m not sure how to do this in Windows (never done it before) and on Linux it’s pretty straightforward too. …
January 20, 2011
This week’s mac techmail is Mac App Store pros and cons: What it means for developers and users. This is a bit of an opinion piece (I try to avoid writing opinions, but I couldn’t help it here) that looks at the current state of the Mac App Store, what’s good …
January 18, 2011
Last week’s mac techmail was First look at the Mac App Store which took a look at the new Mac App Store. It’s pretty much a technical primer on what it does, how updates work, how it works (or doesn’t) with already installed apps, etc.
January 10, 2011
Last week’s mac techmail was Tips for safer web browsing when using Adobe Flash on your Mac which talks about using ClickToFlash on the mac to prevent flash from automatically loading. Since flash is pretty awful and there have been a lot of security holes in it, I prefer …
December 27, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Life with the MacBook Air: The netbook I’ve been waiting for and it’s my review on the new 11" MacBook Air. I love this machine!
December 20, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Digital pack rats will love organizing with EagleFiler which talks about EagleFiler, one of my favourite file organization apps on the mac. It has a welcome Finder-like interface, but makes managing files so much easier than simply trying to …
December 13, 2010
Last week’s Mac TechMail was Get flawless system backups with SuperDuper for the Mac which looks at ShirtPocket’s SuperDuper! tool. This is the one backup tool on the Mac that I have 100% confidence, and the tip explains why and what you can do with it. SuperDuper!, …
December 4, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Enterprise Subversion gets a boost with Cornerstone 2 which looks at my favourite GUI subversion client on the Mac: Cornerstone. The new version has gotten a seriously sweet overhaul with a lot of really nice new features and tweaks. Cornerstone …
November 22, 2010
Last week’s mac TechMail was Web page editing and design with Flux for the Mac which looks at the Flux WYSIWYG HTML and CSS editor. I’m really an old-school web designer (using tools like textmate or vim, and hand-coding everything) and you can tell… my web …
November 9, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Window switching with Witch will boost your productivity which looks at using the program Witch as an alternative to Apple’s baked-in app switcher. Instead of switching windows by applications, Witch brings up a list of all windows, …
November 9, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Stream audio and video from your Mac with Playback which looks at Yazsoft’s Playback software. Out of all the streaming server options for the mac that I’ve found, Playback is the easiest to get up and running and the one that works …
October 26, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was How to set up an OS X OpenVPN client which looks at using the fantastic Shimo VPN client program to setup a client endpoint to an OpenVPN-based VPN (using certificates). It ties in with the other tips in this “series” regarding …
October 13, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Get an easy VPN on-the-cheap with ShareTool for Mac which looks at ShareTool, a program that allows you to remotely control your computer when away from home, or work, whatever the case may be. I like that ShareTool uses OpenSSH for a transport …
October 12, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Working with Safari Extensions: A few to try which is a bit of a primer on how to work with Safari’s Extensions, and also gives some of my favourites to try. There aren’t a lot of Extensions as of yet, but there are a few goodies to …
October 11, 2010
The mac techmail two weeks ago was Synchronize OmniFocus tasks via Spootnik on the Web which looks at the Spootnik web service. You can do more than just sync OmniFocus using Spootnik (i.e. use it as a remote WebDAV service to sync OmniFocus on two macs); if you use Basecamp than …
September 21, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Turn your Mac into a security surveillance centre which discusses the SecuritySpy software and using it to watch the feeds of remote video cameras. Very cool stuff, and shockingly inexpensive (the cameras I got now monitor the exterior of the …
September 9, 2010
As with the Linux tips, I’ve been so busy that I’ve neglected the mac tips, so here they are: Power up your Apple Mail with MailTags and Mail Act-On discusses two very useful plugins for Apple Mail. With these plugins you can put Mail on steroids with some great …
July 26, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Mind mapping with MindNode for the Mac. MindNode is a neat program that lets you do mind mapping, or drawing pictures to represent thoughts or plans or ideas. Mind mapping is quite popular, and with good reason as it gives you a visual …
July 12, 2010
Last week’s mac tip was Handy screen locking tips for Mac. Unlike Windows or Linux, which have keyboard shortcuts to quickly lock the screen when you get up to grab a coffee or go to the bathroom, the Mac doesn’t. It has the same functionality, but you need to mouse …
July 4, 2010
Falling a little bit behind here… the mac techmail from two weeks ago was Safari 5 boasts speed gains but real improvement is extensions which discusses the new Safari 5. My initial reaction to Safari 5 was “meh…”. Using it now for a few weeks, …
June 16, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Send instant messages between Macs on a LAN which discusses using Growl and growlnotify, along with a little help from Automator, to send instant messages between macs on a LAN, without requiring any instant messaging clients. Useful for sending …
June 16, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Simplify Terminal usage on Mac OS X with Visor. Visor is a really neat plugin for the OS X Terminal that allows you to hide and re-open the Terminal with a keystroke. For someone like me who has multiple tabs open, uses mutt and irssi, ssh …
June 5, 2010
This past week’s mac techmail was Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X gets updated to version 4 which looks at the new version of Panic’s Transmit FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/S3 client. Transmit is pretty good; I’ve been using it for years and the new version is a nice …
May 27, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool which looks at a (probably rather unique) scenario of running an IRC client in a virtual machine (running Linux) and having alerts show up on the OS X desktop. The tip, while relatively specific to one function, …
May 23, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Get increased password protection on the iPhone which looks at using the iPhone configuration utility to create security profiles. While this isn’t a pure and perfect security solution, it’s another layer in the onion that will keep …
May 15, 2010
This week’s mac techmail was Get cross-platform remote access via LogMeIn and your Web browser which is a really interesting remote login system. With it I was able to control my OS X workstation from a Fedora box, from within Firefox. The downside is that I couldn’t …
May 7, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Advanced tips for using LaunchBar shortcuts with Mac. I love LaunchBar and have talked about it before. I absolutely could not imagine life without it, and I’m still learning new things to do with it, so this tip mentions some of that …
April 29, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Upload your old email to Google Apps. If you have a Google Apps account, rather than a GMail account, you can use the Google Email Uploader tool to upload old/existing emails from a local client to Google Apps. This is great if you want to have …
April 29, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Protect your privacy with Little Snitch for Mac which talks about Little Snitch, one of my absolute favourite and essential mac software tools. Little Snitch is an outbound firewall, so it will alert you if any applications try to make outbound …
April 21, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Use Microsoft Remote Desktop from a Mac with CoRD. It talks about using the CoRD application to remotely control Windows systems (or Linux systems using xrdp). I’ve been told that Microsoft provides a Remote Desktop Client for the mac, but …
April 7, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Mounting NFS volumes in OS X which takes a bit of a tour on how to mount NFS volumes on a mac (which is not nearly as user-friendly as it should be).
April 1, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was How Thunderbird 3 works on Mac OS X: Better than Apple Mail? which took a look at some of the improvements in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird 3 and how it compares to Apple Mail in Snow Leopard. Is one better than the other? I look at a few areas …
March 20, 2010
This week’s mac TechMail is Install open source software on your Mac easily with Fink. I love Fink. One of the first things I install on any OS X computer I setup is Fink. It gives me all the goodies I’m used to on Linux and makes the CLI so much more bearable (using …
March 11, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Create your own SSL CA with the OS X Keychain. This talks about how you can use the Certificate Assistant on OS X, to create your own SSL Certificate Authority for a local network or internal organization. The tool is quite slick, if a little …
March 9, 2010
Last week’s mac techmail was Remotely wake a sleeping Mac which explains some tricks on how to wake up a local Mac that is asleep. Useful if you want to have a file or media server that is also energy efficient so it’s only on when it needs to be.
February 27, 2010
This week’s mac techmail was Using ExpanDrive to mount remote file systems which takes a look at the ExpanDrive tool, which sits in the menubar and allows you to connect to remote SFTP, SSH, FTP/FTPS, or Amazon S3 file systems and mount them on the computer as if they were …
February 20, 2010
This week’s mac techmail was 1Password for Mac OS X: One program to store them all which is an introduction to the immensely useful 1Password program. If you have a mac and you don’t have 1Password, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice. 1Password stores …
February 13, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Enhance Safari with Glims plug-in which discusses the free Glims plugin for Safari. This plugin adds a bunch of features that should have been in Safari to begin with as far as I’m concerned: automatic re-opening of tabs when you start …
February 2, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is completely non-technical and is a bit of an opinion/rant piece: iPass on the Apple iPad: It’s no netbook killer and it pretty much sums up my feeling about the much-touted iPad. I get what Apple has in mind with this thing, thinking …
January 25, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Managing SSL Certificate Authorities on OS X which takes you through adding a CA to the OS X keychain to verify SSL certificates. This is mostly useful for internal networks that use their own CA and it (obviously) doesn’t come bundled with …
January 21, 2010
This week’s mac techmail is Using Cornerstone to handle Subversion on the Mac. Subversion is my favourite VCS; I moved to it from CVS years ago. Git is still pretty new to me and one day I may invest more time into using it more fully, but subversion still has my heart, so …
January 12, 2010
Last week’s mac TechMail was Save time and avoid errors with Typinator for the Mac which looks at one of my favourite productivity tools: Typinator (a text expansion utility). Typinator is one of those things that now that I’ve been using it for a few years, I …
December 23, 2009
This week’s mac techmail is Syncing The Hit List with Daylite gives you all-access pass to your data anywhere you go which looks at combining The Hit List with DayLite to handle task management. I’m a huge fan of Daylite; it’s the CRM I’ve been using for …
December 16, 2009
This week’s mac TechMail is Sync application preferences with Dropbox which talks about the fantastic file syncing tool/service known as DropBox (disclosure: yes, that is a referral link and I get a small amount of added space if you sign up using it). Dropbox is great, and …
December 10, 2009
This week’s mac tip is Cross-platform Dropbox provides easy backups and file-syncing between computers which looks at using DropBox to synchronize files between computers in an easy fashion. DropBox is cross-platform, which makes it even nicer.
December 3, 2009
This week’s mac TechMail is Easy application syncing with Mac’s Daylite CRM which talks more about using Daylite on the mac as a contact-relationship management software. I love Daylite and use it daily, and it’s ability to sync with other applications makes it …
November 23, 2009
Two new mac tips on TechRepublic… last week’s is Configure OS X for Kerberos single sign-on authentication which talks about how to configure Kerberos with OS X. This week the tip is Get to know Daylite CRM for Macs which talks about the Daylite contact management …
November 10, 2009
This week’s mac techmail is Get creative with Automator workflows in Mac which discusses some of the new Automator-related features of OS X 10.6, particularly in regards to the new Services menu and easy-to-get-started Automator templates. Combining Automator and the …
November 8, 2009
Missed two mac-related techmails from the previous weeks. The first is Learn to use the improved Snow Leopard Services menu which talks about the OS X 10.6 much overhauled services menu and some of the cool things you can do with it such as making your own Automator actions that …
October 23, 2009
This past week’s mac TechMail was Use Shimo to create VPN connections in Mac OS X which talks about using the Shimo VPN client tool on OS X. I’ve tried a few VPN clients to connect to a Cisco VPN, and Shimo is the one that works the best for me. It also supports other …
October 14, 2009
And this week’s mac techmail is about one of my all-time favourite applications: Optimize your Mac experience with the LaunchBar multitasker. Launchbar is probably the first thing I install after the OS itself. I’ve been using it for years and can’t live without …
October 14, 2009
Last week’s mac techmail was Get system display options with GeekTool for the Mac. GeekTool is one of my favourite tools for the mac. Kinda like Conky on Linux, but more flexible since you can have multiple windows all over the place doing various things (i.e. my GeekTool …
September 30, 2009
Last week’s mac TechMail is Use The Hit List to get things done with Mac, which talks about using The Hit List as a task manager. It works quite well with the GTD methodology, although it’s not necessarily geared towards it (you can use THL without following GTD). …
September 22, 2009
So I am now also writing for TechRepublic’s new Mac blog. Same format as with the Linux tips, but they’re geared towards “macs in business”. Should be interesting and give me something else to write about as well. So my first foray here is Lay the …
September 3, 2009
Last month I got Kerberos working quite nicely on my macs, thank-you-very-much. This week Apple wrecked it by making Kerberos an absolute nuisance. It wasn’t bad in OS X 10.5.. a bit annoying to setup but the tools were adequate. In 10.6 they threw away the half-decent GUI …
August 14, 2009
GeekTool is a great application for OS X that allows you to display the contents of shell scripts, images, and files directly on the desktop. This page provides some scripts that I have written or adapted from others I’ve found to provide useful information on the desktop …
April 24, 2009
An annoying and very CPU intensive service called dashboardadvisoryd keeps eating at my CPU on my workstation. This thing has been around for a while but it only spikes every once in a while (probably when trying to connect to Apple’s servers for the Dashboard Advisory …
March 3, 2009
Took me a bit to find one, so I’m noting it here in case I ever forget (or anyone else needs to find something like this). GNOME terminal works great (ctrl-click on the s/key challenge and it does the rest), but for OS X there wasn’t something so obvious and the only …
December 27, 2008
For kicks, this Christmas I decided to give myself something “hackish” to do, and noticed that the local Staples was selling the MSI Wind with SUSE on it for $299CAD. This little beast (the U90, model number MS-N811) is nice… a little bit bigger than my Eeepc, …
July 11, 2008
Last year I wrote about my 20 minutes with OS X Leopard server. This week I had the opportunity, and the obligation, to spend a bit more time with it. Next month I’m converting an office that’s currently using Windows and Exchange for an OS X-based solution. There …
March 25, 2008
Having a fairly modest household network, without a single Windows machine in the mix, I find it quite irritating that the “defacto” way to share files in OS X is to use Samba. Nothing against Samba, of course, but I only want to use it if I need to share files with …
March 25, 2008
Making an encrypted DMG file (a mountable filesystem that most software for the Mac is distributed with) is extremely simple. The ability to mount these filesystems comes with the OS, using the Disk Copy application. There are many ways of creating an encrypted DMG file in OS X; …
March 25, 2008
Mac OS X comes with a very nice, integrated tool that manages passwords for you. This tool is called Keychain, and anyone who has used OS X, has used Keychain. This is a unique means of storing password information, be it website access or passwords to local programs. Keychain …
November 27, 2007
Well, to put it bluntly, Safari butchers the visual editor in WordPress. No idea why. Really irritating, but on a whim I fired up both Camino and Firefox to do some edits and they worked fine. Then I disabled the visual editor in my account profile and lo-and-behold Safari …
November 9, 2007
I had the privilege today of getting to play with Leopard Server a little bit (the new OS X 10.5 server). I can honestly say it’s extremely “wow”. It’s got a slick interface to configuring things like DNS, DHCP, apache, Open Directory (which is essentially …
October 31, 2007
Seems like I’m writing quite a bit about OS X. Sorry, it’s so new and there’s some cool features in it. Like AutoFS finally working (more or less) properly out of the box. It works, but the NFS exports need to be exported to the server with the …
October 29, 2007
Well, my beloved Saft is still not updated for Safari 3… there’s a beta for Safari 3 that works on Tiger, but nothing that works on Leopard. Which makes Safari almost useless, although I did find in the History menu bar the option “Reopen All Windows From Last …
October 28, 2007
Well, I did my duty on Friday and went out and grabbed a copy of OS X 10.5 (Leopard). As I was finishing my SuperDuper backups, I was poking around on Apple’s support forums and heard about all the horror stories people have had. Two essential apps for me, DayLite and …
August 21, 2007
This comic from The Joy of Tech is awesome. Had to link it. It’ll probably screw up the formatting on the page a bit, but is well worth it.
June 18, 2007
I’ve been using PhoneValet to handle the voicemail system here. It’s an OS X app and it works really good. I’ve run it on my desktop, but now that I have a spare OS X machine that I’ve turned into a bit of a server, I’ve put PhoneValet on there. With …
March 9, 2007
The other day I put up a full-feature tutorial on how to use mutt on OS X (most of it is applicable to any other OS, of course… there are very few bits that are OS X specific). Thanks to a hint on macosxhints.com, this article is becoming one of the most popular on the …
February 23, 2007
Yes, I’m nostalgic. Before I started using Linux, I was using OS/2. I went to it from DOS/Win3.1… skipped Windows95 altogether. OS/2 was the absolute best OS back in the day (as far as I’m concerned) and being a nostalgic (and sometimes bored) idiot, I decided …
January 30, 2007
My one gripe a few months ago about OS X was the lack of sshfs and fuse support… I wrote about this for a TechRepublic tip quite a few months ago and when I did I was pretty ticked that it didn’t work on OS X (sshfs absolutely rocks!). Anyways, the fine folks at …
November 22, 2006
I’ve been doing a lot of my web development lately on my macbook pro, but the problem is that I do the work locally, then have to rsync it to my Linux-based server to see the results. Not a huge deal, but a PITA. So I decided I was going to look into running the …
September 7, 2006
The news is out and any OS X-using developers out there are probably aware that BareBones provided a new major update of BBEdit today. I downloaded it and was playing around with it (this is a paid upgrade so I’ve got some time to evaluate it although the upgrade cost is …
May 22, 2006
Really… it is 2006 right? Email’s been around for ages, so why are email clients still so crappy? Last August I switched from the OS X Mail.app (in Tiger) to mutt because Tiger’s Mail.app was too stinking slow. I get lots of mail… I mean lots of mail. My …
May 10, 2006
Ever seen that movie Swordfish with Hally Berry(sp?) and John Travolta? I like that movie. Appeals to me. Hackers… security… mmm… even if it is a little.. outlandish in parts. Anyways, my favourite scene is when he goes to the big house and sits in front of …
April 6, 2006
Well, like pretty much everyone, I was pretty pleased to see BootCamp released by Apple; a tool that allows one to dual-boot an intel mac. Not good enough for me, but a good first step. I’ve been waiting for VMWare to step up to the plate and offer a Mac version of their …
November 9, 2005
Ok, as per my last entry, I’m gonna do some comparisons between Komodo 3.5 and Zend Studio 5.0. Both have recently been released, both are “heavy weight” IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments). Zend Studio deals particularly with PHP… …
November 9, 2005
Hot on the heels of Komodo 3.5 for OS X, the final version of Zend Studio is now available too (upgrading as I write this). I’ve been using the betas for a while, and I think it’s a great upgrade over version 4. I’m a little concerned by the comments and writeup …
November 3, 2005
Well, I’ve been asking for it for about 2 years now but ActiveState has finally come out with an OS X native version of the Komodo IDE. Is it too late? I dunno… I’ve been using Zend Studio for a while now and I’ve come to really like it. The latest …
August 16, 2005
Oh my God… I just read the scariest thing on slashdot about the sale of 1000 iBooks for $50 each and the resulting riot. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/197222 This is the sickest thing I think I’ve read in a long time. People actually feel …
July 30, 2005
Has anyone else had issues with Tiger’s Mail.app? I preferred the version that came with Panther! After using it for a while, and doing a fresh install about two days ago (granted, I copied all of the old files, but still… the whole system feels spunkier so one would …
July 1, 2005
I think everyone has a set of applications that are absolutely essential to them. I’d like to list a few of the essentials and favourite apps that I use for OS X (I’ll do another list later for Linux). There are a lot of great applications out there… some open …
June 20, 2005
I hate to add to the noise that’s going on about Apple’s move from PPC to x86, but it’s just starting to irritate me so much. I can’t believe that people are so stupid and/or blind! The death of Linux? Come on. Microsoft might like us to believe that, but …
May 8, 2005
Well, I got OS X 10.4 (aka “Tiger”) the night it came out.. then spent that night doing backups before I even opened the box. Took me a bit, but worth it because I always do an erase and install… best time to clean up is when installing a new OS. Unfortunately, …
April 19, 2005
Not really, OS X-related, but kinda is considering my Windows install looks more like a default OS X install than my Mac desktops do! Read on for some good links to customizing Windows XP if you, like me, are saddled with using it some of the time and just can’t stand how …
April 6, 2005
I use LDAP for authentication on my LAN (I wrote one of the earliest and definitive articles available on the internet for MandrakeSecure quite a while back), but I find dealing with LDAP to be a serious PITA. It’s not the easiest thing to manage from the …
March 21, 2005
I’ve never kept it a secret that I’m a huge fan of OS X. I love this OS! So I’ve set a category aside for my notes and thoughts on OS X in general. Yes, I work for Mandrake, and yes, I use Mandrake. But I also use OS X (in fact, I use OS X primarily for my …