posted by Alpay filed under Mac,
Technology,
Web
Yesterday I have received an e-mail from Google about the beta release of Google Chrome for Mac. The absence of Google Chrome on Mac OS X has been bugging me since the release of it on the Windows platform. Being a browser whore I switch my default browser from Safari to Firefox to Opera and back quite frequently. I have
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac,
blogging
OK, so here I am. Just downloaded the ommwriter I have read about on the internets. It is a new take on the distraction free writing arena where full-screen bare-bone editors are what sells (or are free most of the time). I have been checking these stuff since I am basically a person of distractions. My mind just can't stay
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac,
Technology
Today I have read a piece by Walt Mossberg on Windows 7. In the article Mossberg argues that Windows 7 is not as bad as its successor Windows Vista, but almost as good as Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard. I am not sure about this.
I have left the Windows world when everybody was using Windows XP and Vista
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
MS Office Live Meeting not working on Firefox on Leopard is not definitely not interesting. However it working on Safari is really interesting.
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
The X Lab has great tips for managing Spotlight here, some of which saved my day today so I will post them here:
To stop indexing a volume:
sudo mdutil -i off /path_to_volume
To erase spotlight indices:
sudo mdutil -E /path_to_volume
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
My wife is working on her Ph.D thesis and I feel completely useless being unable to help her. Anyhow, she had some drawings to be done in xfig, which is not been used since the 15th century. I said, OK my mac has BSD under the hoods so there should be some kind of Xfig available there. There are in
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
This is actually an old post of mine back at "The Unofficial Mac". I am reposting for convenience.
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One of the reasons I was itching for an upgrade to Leopard had been the new Mail. I have been using Thunderbird as my e-mail client on my Mac from Day 2. On Day 1 I gave a shot and used Apple Mail
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
I was tinkering with the Mac, and the Windows Mobile Phone to somehow -by chance- get GPRS over Bluetooth running.
I am not sure how or why it worked, but it did, so let me bring together what I have done. It may someday help someone:
Get WM scripts for Mac from Ross Barkman's page. Put them under /Library/Modem Scripts.
Pair your phone
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
As I have explained in a previous post, everyday a few times I can not switch spaces directly by clicking on applications. The workaround is to kill Dock from Activity Monitor or typing "killall Dock" into command line. Performing this three times a day becomes quite annoying so I have done the following:
Open ScriptEditor
type: do shell script "killall Dock"
From the
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posted by Alpay filed under Mac
Using a mac after an eternity with Microsoft software is like heaven. Interestingly I have never thought that heaven was fast, lightning fast. My Mac experience has been strongly associated with speed, due to my choice of MacBook Pro as my main machine, 4GBs of RAM I have on board and probably due to Mac OS X. The sense of
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