turn your netbook into a mac?

January 12th, 2009 • Comments Off Apple, Blog, Web
Tags: Apple, mac, netbook, osx

Netbooks seem to be the new craziness in technology these days, stores everywhere are selling them, manufacters have upgraded the offer to almost every color, shape, configuration and size available and portable bandwidth is also contribuiting for more ubuiquity.

Apple’s own solution to the ultimate portable machine is still the Macbook Air, which some people may say is a bit pricey, so I guess it was just a matter of time for someone to hack Apple’s OS X into a netbook and try to obtain a cheap Apple machine.

Boing Boing has a handy chart for those who want to adventure into building your own hackintosh. The procedure doesn’t seem very easy and not everything may work without some tinkering with the console and installing aditional drivers.

If you’re interested, go take a look at the tutorials and Boing Boing’s Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart and tell us how it went. :)

Fluid on Mac

August 29th, 2008 • 4 comments Apple, Blog, Web
Tags: applications, mac, web2.0

If you’re a Mac user and an avid consumer of web applications (Flickr, Delicious, Basecamp, Netvibes, Gmail, etc, just to name a few) then you’ll problably be happy to install Fluid.

Fluid is a small application for the Mac which enables you to create Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) for your most used web applications. That means they will run as if they were a stand alone application on your Mac with it’s own desktop icon, menubar, etc.

You can even leave it the dock for easy access to your app, so give Fluid a try, it’s free. There’s even a Flickr Group full of icons for your dock.

Note: If you’re using Windows I guess you could try Prism from Mozilla Labs.

quick tip: send emails on mac

August 26th, 2008 • 2 comments Apple, Blog, Programming
Tags: mac, rails, ruby

For some reason my local Ruby on Rails applications weren’t sending  e-mails, so I found out that all you need is to write the following on terminal:

sudo postfix start

And that’s it, now I can send emails from applications running on my Mac. Nice!

what’s in your dock or sidebar?

August 20th, 2008 • 12 comments Apple, Blog, Other
Tags: applications, mac

So, my question for today is: What applications do you keep on your dock/sidebar? Which essential applications do you use daily?

The following is part of my dock:

• Finder
• Mail (although I still prefer the Google Mail look and feel)
• DashBoard
• Firefox (has all my essential development plugins)
• Safari (faster browsing)
• iTunes
• MAMP (very easy and painless php+mysql+apache on a Mac)
• Textmate (my favourite editor)
• Pixelmator (I learned to forget about Photoshop because I only use 10% of it)
• GoPlan (using Fluid)
• Transmit (ftp made easy)
• Stickies (lot’s of them)
• Calendar
• Terminal (never knew I would say this but I can’t live without it now)
• Control Panel
• and the usual folders and trash bin.