Archive for the 'Mac' Category

Welcome back, GPG Mail!

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

A friend just sent me this link to a blog entry that describes the return of GPG Mail to Snow Leopard 10.6.2:
http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/?p=20
The link to the download is:
http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/GPGMail-1.2.1.mailbundle.zip
And it works! Go get it.

Subversion server on Snow Leopard server

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

As I already bragged about, I got me one of those delicious little OSX Mini Snow Leopard Server boxes. So sweet you could kiss it. I just got everything together to make it run a subversion server through Apache, too, and as a way to document that process, I could just as well make a [...]

The cutest little muscle machine ever

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

I got me that brand new Apple Mini with Snow Leopard OSX Server unlimited edition included. This is such an adorable machine, you wouldn’t believe it. It has everything you can wish for in a server, as far as I can make out after just a couple of hours with it. It’s super easy to [...]

What a strange piece

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Can’t help commenting on this opinion piece on TechRepublic: The Apple Tablet will disrupt Apple’s device momentum. Just a few choice quotes:
… 1) providing good entertainment; and 2) providing flexible input and output. The success of the iPhone illustrates how correct I was in the first point. It stumbled into the entertainment angle.
Yes, sure, Apple [...]

Anything but games are illegal?

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I’m having this most surrealistic dialog with a very agreeable iTunes support person, about invoicing. The thing is I bought a few apps from the iTunes app store, among which Omni Focus for the iPhone, but the invoice (or “receipt”) I got from Apple doesn’t mention sales tax at all. Just the net amount in [...]

The real iPhone conspiracy

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

So I’ve used a Mac for a while and I’m just starting on iPhone development and a blinding flash of the almost-obvious strikes me. This is not the Blackberry killer or the Palm killer, it’s the long-fuse Microsoft killer.
Remember the monkey dance? Ballmer yelling “Developers, developers, developers!”, while jumping around like a neurally defective and [...]

Hard decision

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The end of .NET? I can’t wait.

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Ok, I admit, that title is a bit over the edge, but still that is how I feel. Developing for .NET is increasingly becoming not fun and far too expensive. The only reason to do it is because customers expect products for .NET, but under slowly increasing pressure from developers, that is going to change. [...]

GotoMeeting runs on the Mac!

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I love GotoMeeting, but until now I had to run it under Windows. You could only run it as a viewer under OSX before, but the latest version has a full function Mac client. I opened GotoMeeting under OSX (Firefox) then under XP (Firefox) on the same machine in a full screen virtual window, and [...]

In furtherance of Mac pimping: RAID

Friday, December 5th, 2008

What do you give to a Mac Pro that has it all? A hardware RAID card, of course. Outside of the sheer pimping factor, there’s a business reason, too, of course. Yeah. Like less danger of losing stuff.
Before getting one, I studiously read forums, user groups, ratings, and stuff, and came away with the clear [...]