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Installing RMagick on Leopard

After installing Leopard on my Mac I decided to install the annoying RMagick and it’s dependences because I use it quite alot in my web apps for resizing images, cropping and so on. (Leopard already came with Ruby installed, woohoo!) Unfortunately it’s still a game of luck, pacience and preseverance. Luckily I followed the tutorial [...]

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an ode to desktop app experiences part 2

Reading Fred Oliveira’s post on desktop experiences made me think about all those little gems we have installed on our computer (or could have) and deserve more attention. One of those applications on my Mac that I simply adore and is not related to work is Delicious Library. You see, it’s simply fantastic. Delicious Library [...]

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A fresh start

I’m posting this on the new version of Reinventar, the redesign is more or less finished and all the essential stuff are here (but expect some tweaking in the next days). I think it’s more clean and some visual bugs are now gone, although I would like to hear from you and know what you [...]

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new new new and old

What a busy week, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here. That’s because I’ve been writing some beginners stuff over at “ruby in portuguese” and an article or two for the online magazine “Programar”. But apart from that there was a lot of activity in the web in the last week or two. [...]

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Intel Mac Mini revealed

It’s official and it’s looking good, the new Mac Mini powered by Intel CPU chips are coming. TUAW has unveiled the specs for both versions: 1.5GHz Intel Core Single 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor 2MB L2 Cache 667MHz Frontside Bus 512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM) 60GB Serial ATA hard drive Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) Price: Starts [...]

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