Posted in Applications, Tools on May 11th, 2007
When you create any kind of the website, you definitely need to have Apache, mySQL and PHP installed on your computer. With Mac OS X you can take a long journey to install the components separately, but this never worked for me.
MAMP is an excellent alternative. All the “console†based applications receive graphical interface and […]
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Posted in Applications, Tools on Apr 8th, 2007
Google released Google Desktop for Mac OS X several days ago. And to be honest – they released excellent piece of software again. I hope, Picasa for Mac OS X will follow quickly.
Google Desktop is very similar to standard Mac OS X Spotlight or to QuickSilver, but it also index not just the content of […]
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Posted in Tools, Mac OS X on Mar 26th, 2007
Growl is a simple system of notification windows, running over all the applications, showing the important system messages in Mac OS X.
It is the system, which is quite common also in Windows, where the application has to take care of the notifications on its own. Mac OS X approach is much smarter. There is one […]
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Posted in Applications, Tools on Mar 25th, 2007
AdiumX is the best icq client for Mac OS X. It supports ICQ, AOL, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, MSN and Jabber. So, you can be connected to as many instant networks as you want.
The version 1.0 was released several weeks ago and right now, you can download new update solving several issues and adding nice cute features.
When […]
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Posted in Tools, Mac OS X on Mar 10th, 2007
Co-existence of Mac OS X and Windows on your Intel based Mac is easy and with no difficulties. But, there was one huge disadvantage. From Mac OS X it was really easy to access files from Windows, but to write them back was a really tough job.
But, Google employees are great, smart and very productive. […]
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