For an upcoming project I needed to set up secure communications using GPG. It’s been a few years since I used this, and I have never used GPG on the Mac before… Turn out, that it’s not trivial to get it running… Here’s a bunch of links that helped me get things working: http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/index.html – [...] Read more – ‘GPG Mail under Snow Leopard’.
R. had told me about this strange “Services” menu in OS X, but I never really bothered to look deeper into it. The article “Mac OS X Services (the menu you never go to)” told me a bit more about the things possible, when text is selected… Let my Mac read some text loud Open [...] Read more – ‘Mac OS X Services’.
After the question about “what happend to Foldershare” got answered (Microsoft bought it), the Mac version is back online, the only thing left, that left me wondering, was the question what was going to happen to the US$ 100 I spent just a week before the acquisition on the Foldershare professional service. Now that also [...] Read more – ‘Foldershare Customer Service’.
That’s what I thought when I read the ongoing announcments (and the howling of the frustrated pro-users) over at Mac Essentials yesterday. Of course it would be nice to have new multi-core PowerMacs or PowerBooks. But few people would care. The announcements of the new iMac with it’s gadgets, FrontRow and of course the iPod [...] Read more – ‘Long term strategy’.
This is one of the things that I should have been setting up a long time ago, but haven’t. Yesterday was the day. Remote Backup of my PowerBook. Goal: Continuous off-site backup of the most important files (my home directory) on my laptop Ingredients: Strongspace (I got a 4 GiB account for $8 / month) [...] Read more – ‘Back-up’.
What a nice little program! Active Timer keeps track of where you spend your time, while working at the computer. [via TUAW] Technorati Tags: mac, zeitmanangement Read more – ‘Active Timer’.
MailTags for Apple Mail, adding Spotlight Meta Information to mails. Looks good, I’ll try it out. From the same people that gave us Mail ActOn (a plugin that I uses extensively) Technorati Tags: mac, mail Read more – ‘Mail Tools’.
For an upcoming Rails project, the plan is to use the sqlite database. On Windows, the whole process of getting this installed was easy. Download the DLL, do a gem install sqlite3& and be done. Not so on OS X, where I plan to develop. sqlite3 is installed by default, but trying to install the [...] Read more – ‘sqlite3 on Mac OS X — trials and tribulations’.
It’s absolutely unbelievable, how little it takes to make a good design. Actually, it’s unbelievable, how much it takes to make so little. The Mighty Mouse is such a thing. While I haven’t seen it yet, or actually laid hands on it, it seems to me, reading the descriptions, that the designers have put a [...] Read more – ‘The cult of the mouse’.
Spotlight continues to be useful: With the RubyImporter Plugin it understands Ruby Code… Neat Technorati Tags: mac Read more – ‘Ruby Spotlight Plugin’.
Being a step-by-step guide as an aide for the failing memory. Inspired by the screenshots of Dee Zsombor Get a Tiger compatible Emacs (unfortunately Aquamacs does strange (i.e non-emacs) things with it’s windows, so ECB falls on it’s face) Install RubyMode.el (from the Ruby distribution) Download ECB Download supporting libraries (eieio, speedbar, semantic) and install [...] Read more – ‘EMacs on OS/X for Rails development’.
If you are sometimes looking at a wonderful CSS design and wonder, how this was achieved, you could look at the HTML and the CSS code and start to figure out how to achieve things. This could take quite some time. Enter Xylo Scope. Xylo Scope loads all CSS files, and displays the relationship between [...] Read more – ‘A CSS microscope’.
Download the QuickTime High Definition Trailers directly (and save them for future viewing, for example on a HD capable projector – thanks Michael ;-) ) kingdom of heaven nasa wildlife Technorati Tags: mac Read more – ‘HD Trailers’.
Our office got a new HP LaserJet 2420dn printer yesterday to replace an old LJ6 (that was woefully inadequate for office use). Installation of the printer drives went fine (as long as you call a 67% success rate in the first round fine – now we are at 100%) Today the additional 500-page tray arrived [...] Read more – ‘More trays?’.
20 cool things in Tiger – and I haven’t heard about most of them… The best hint for me, was the hint for Keychain Access. I know that there is something that is called keychain, but I didn’t realize that it’s a full blown application that not only stores all your passwords (duh), but also [...] Read more – ‘20 things in Tiger’.
It took a while, but now it’s online: The swiss (and the scandinavian) itunes music stores. The price for a track is CHF 1.50 ( around 1 Euro or 1.2 US$ – quite expensive, but this is Switzerland, where the money comes from). Also, version 4.8 of iTunes itself is available, and it’s playing videos [...] Read more – ‘iTunes Music Store Switzerland is online’.
After reading a bit about iSync & Tiger at vowe, I decided to give the solution outlined a try. However, I managed only to create a Kernel Exception on the phone, and to wipe out all my calendar entries. Yes, I had a backup (through the excellent mobical.net service, which allows to sync the phone [...] Read more – ‘iSyncing with the Nokia 9500’.
I was visiting Benno, my friend who got both a PowerBook for himself and an iBook for his wife. When I looked at his running applications, I noticed “Norton Antivirus for Mac” running on his computer. I laughed and said, that he wouldn’t need it. To this he answered, that there were indeed viriii for [...] Read more – ‘There really is nothing to see’.
Something good is coming out of the NSA — a guide to secure various operating systems. I have cursorily glanced over the XP and the OS X guides and learnt quite a bit. This goes to my reference stack and will be thoroughly reviewed soon. Very interesting reading! Operating System Security [via vowe] Read more – ‘The NSA secures your computer’.
I admit it. I have switched. The Mac Mini was just the beginning, since last week I have a 15″ PowerBook. I really, really like it. I will not bore you to death with all the details of why the Mac is better — you have heard those things before. I have to keep my [...] Read more – ‘This Mac thing’.
I won’t have time to do this for another 2 weeks (see above for the reason), but I googled around for the problem of a crashing Lotus Notes 6.0.3 for Mac OS X and found … Ben already has it licked: Notes 6.5 on OS X. Also Nini seems like a good thing to have. Read more – ‘Installing Lotus Notes on Mac OS X’.
Ups – alle Sonderzeichen liegen auf der Mac Tastatur an völlig anderern Stellen. Vor allem Dinge wie eckige und geschweifte Klammern scheinen auf einer Schweizer Tastatur unauffindbar. Zum Glück gibt’s Tastatur-Tipps. Read more – ‘Programmieren mit dem Mac?’.
My MacMini arrived yesterday and I was playing the better part of the evening and a small part of the night (yawn) with it. First impressions: It’s small It’s quiet (unless it get’s really busy, at which point the fan kicks in – and that’s one noisy fan) Setup was very, very painless. I let [...] Read more – ‘Mini’s here’.
