Archive for the 'Mac OS X' Category

Using Backpack Offline with PackRat - Screencast

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

This is the first of (hopefully) many screencasts I hope to bring you over the coming months. Today’s screencasat is about how to use your Backpack account offline on your Mac with a new program called PackRat.

Browser Stats

Friday, March 31st, 2006

You sure can tell that a lot of Mac users visit this site. IE below 10% :)

Mac OS X Home and End Keys

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Update: Now you can skip all these instructions and just download my KeyFixer application to fix your home and end keys. Read the new article …
The default behavior of OS X’s “home” and “end” keys drives me nuts. In every other operating system that I’ve used, these keys move your cursor to the beginning [...]

Mac OS X Installation Instructions That Don’t Suck! (Rails, Lighttpd, MySQL, Apache2, PHP5)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I had to reinstall my computer the other day, it’s needed it for a while (mostly because I’ve installed every stupid program I could get my hands on for the last 6 months). I haven’t wanted to reinstall because I had a “working” install of Rails and I remembered how hard it was to [...]

No Native Flash Player For Intel Macs

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

According to reports from around the web, the Flash Player does not run well inside Safari or Firefox on the new Intel Macs (using Rosetta). Adobe has known about the switch to Intel for more than half a year, isn’t that enough time to make the Flash Player work on the new processors? Where [...]