Firefox 3.0 Native Mac Theme Lands On Trunk
Firefox 3.0’s new default Mac theme showed up today in the current trunk nightly (Minefield). The theme is very similar to Safari’s.
Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord
A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.
Turn HTML off completely in Mail.app
HTML mail is bad enough when it works – it’s intolerable when it’s as broken as in Apple’s Mail.app.
Plainview - A full-screen web browser for Mac
Free (as in beer). Built on WebKit. Simple. Beautiful.
DTerm - A command line anywhere and everywhere
Payware GUI shell thingy for MacOS. This is not a QuickSilver/Launchbar clone. It’s more like a magical bash interpreter that knows things about what’s happening in various Mac GUI applications (like Finder, Safari, etc).
NetNewsWire is now free!
I wonder why newsgator would make this free. Seems like there was a pretty decent slate of paying users. Losing ground to Google Reader? Eventual ad placement? Just wanted to be nice? Weird.
macvim - Google Code
Absolutely beautiful new Vim port for OS X – sane GUI tabs, multiple windows, client/server mode, fonts look great. Stop building Carbon Vim from source!
Bwana
Manual page URL handler for Safari (e.g., “man:bash”, “man:sort” in URL box). References to other man pages are hyperlinked very nicely and the pages themselves are formatted quite nicely.
Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux
That was quick. IMO, the Mac needs this application more than other platform’s (including Windows) because of its document oriented application switching.
Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about [osxdaily.com]
About half of these will be well-known to the UNIX hacker but there’s a couple I've not seen elsewhere: lsbom, softwareupdate, screencapture, and lipo.
Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall [macdevcenter.com]
Awesome look at using advanced features of ipfw(8) on OS X.
Using mutt on OS X [linsec.ca]
This is pretty darn close to my configuration but I used the mutt-devel port… Oh, and my ~/.procmailrc is pretty insane also :)
Vi Input Manager Plugin
“Essentially, this add Vi command functionality (albeit a small subset) to any (and all) text editors that use the Cocoa text system; e.g., Safari, TeXShop, XCode, etc.”
Bill Gates (clearly on crack): "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day."
“Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”
Jan. 22, 1984: Dawn of the Mac [wired.com]
“But the company’s board of directors balked and ordered the ad withdrawn from its Super Bowl slot. Only the intervention of Steve Wozniak, who said he'd pay for the spot personally if the board refused to air it, saved the day.”
In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment
“… but I gave up after optimizing AWT, implementing drag and drop, and trying to make 1,200 pages of crappy APIs do the right thing on the Mac. Then I took a one-week Cocoa training course, and wrote the first prototype of iChat.”
New Ipod!!!!! (SNL) [youtube.com]
The original SNL / Steve Jobs skit. This is a classic as far as I'm concerned.
Vienna
Nice looking Newsreader for Mac OS X (F/OSS with an Apache 2.0 license and public subversion repository).
SeamlessRDP
Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel’s Coherence Mode for RDP.
Cocoa Remote Desktop
A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.
Everything You Need to Know to Install Tiger
Will be useful if amazon ever decides to ship my stuff.
Preparing for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Installation -- Avoiding issues before and after updating
Notes on stuff that should be backed up and other tips for a smooth upgrade. The comment thread looks promising as well with everyone reporting in with problems and opinion.
Clutter by Sprote Rsrch.
“Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it’s your choice.”
Mac mini As A Home Media Server
Some discussion on turning the new Mac Mini into a Media PC for the living room.