From techradar.com (this one is for ectpete)…
Why wait for Windows 7 though? There are loads of ways you can fiddle with Vista’s interface and cheer up the depressing and omnipresent black bars. To show you some of the options out there here are seven tricks for dealing with that most common of Windows’ viruses: Mac-envy.
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Don’t get me wrong but Parallels is my favourite Windoze surrogate but the Ars Technica Review of VMware Fusion 2 for Mac might be changing that…
VMware 2.0’s grown-up form combines an improved interface with some major low-level features, like support for DirectX 9.0c 3D, four-way SMP, driverless printing, and tighter Mac desktop integration. That’s a [...]
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With the rumor mill trying to chew up the Mac Mini again AppleInsider has reassuring article with a crazy server farm example of mini’s potency…
“With Apple’s recent ‘State of the Mac’ omitting any mention of the Mac mini and reports surfacing over the current line’s discontinuation, there’s been some speculation that the diminutive desktop’s days [...]
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The team over at www.makeuseof.com have a blog that mostly covers web apps, but they’re trying to cover many bases: from web apps, Windows apps and now Mac apps…
“List of the most frequently used Mac applications and provided a free counterpart for each of them. Hopefully, they’ll serve you as well as the paid versions.“read [...]
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But look out it’s a 180MB download…
Gizmodo [link] have a good article on this major update:
Leopard finally gets its second patch, and boy does it fix a lot of stuff. The first patch hit back in November, with test builds of the second making it out a month later. Here’s a list of the [...]
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An up to date list of the top 100 Apple Mac applications. These are the applications that every Mac should be installed with. Examples include the free to the not so free but all worth having for any Mac user.
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www.appletell.com have collected a great guide to tweaking apps for Leopard:
No matter how good Apple Mac OS X Leopard is, there will always be features that people dislike, and want to change. And while Apple may think they have the perfect recipe for a perfect OS, many power-users will want to tweak OS X to [...]
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The web site Usingmac.com (tag line: Fun with Using A Mac) have coalesced most of the Leopard command line tips for changing preference files to fix some of the default nonsense, hurrah!
“Beautify your Leopard with single liner terminal codes.”read more | digg story
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…again.
I want to like XCode 3 I really do.
I like:
1/ The in-code error messages:
2/ erm…
3/ that’s it
I do not like:
1/ That code sense no longer auto-completes print to System.out.println(…), oh no now you have to type System.out.print before it will auto-complete wtf?! So, take one of the most commonly typed pieces of Java code [...]
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