The software that comes with OS X is very capable. The mundane applications that come with OS X, such as the Finder, Preview, and Disk Utility can do some surprising things. I’ve been using Macs for 20 years and I’m still learning new tricks for these programs.
But, the installed apps can’t do everything. [...]
Free Software for Mac OS X
February 22nd, 2007How to Transfer Mac OS X Application Data between Computers
February 16th, 2007Its been a long time coming, but I finally got a new Mac. I’ve personally owned a Mac of one sort or another since 1987, but I didn’t start using a Mac full time for work until around 2000. I’ve been going through the process of setting up the new machine.
I decided to start [...]
Knocked off the internet, a story of Windows and Macintosh
March 15th, 2005This weekend the internal modem in my Mac died. Living in a rural area, I am a dialup user. Let me say that getting unexpectedly disconnected from the internet is very traumatic.
I’ve been following an iterative development cycle where I deploy to my client’s site every Friday. (My old ERP colleagues would [...]
Whats on my Mac
January 20th, 2005Jackson Miller asks “Whats on your Mac?” Here goes:
MySQL, PHP 4 and PHP 5 as described here. Also, phpMyAdmin. I use a personal version of squid using AdZapper because I have more storage than bandwidth.
Photoshop, Dreamweaver, BBEdit and TextWrangler.
Browsers: Camino, Firefox, iCab, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and Opera. I have a couple different versions [...]
Mac Mini and PHP
January 11th, 2005I read various live blogs during the Mac World event today. It was interesting to see servers melt and the strategies people used to cope. A busy day in the Apple universe.
I just want to point out that the Mac mini comes with Apache and PHP pre-installed.
If you want, compiling a [...]