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 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.

sudo postfix start

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

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.