Category Archives: Mac OS X
Today Dashboard
My first iPhone application is available for purchase on the iTunes store as of today. Pretty happy with that, the last 10% did take 90% of the time The application is called “Today Dashboard” and it is intended to be … Continue reading
Favorite Mac OS X Applications
Here is a list of applications that I find myself using very commonly over the past few years. There have been many more but in the end they don’t get used as often so I’m not listing them here. I’m … Continue reading
Macbook Pro Fixed
I’ve been meaning to put together an entry on my favorite Mac OS X applications since I know several people getting started with the OS. This christmas break I sent in my macbook pro for repairs since it was getting … Continue reading
TextMate Command to get QNX 6.3.0 POSIX docs into HTML window
I created a new TextMate command today to get the HTML documentation for the current word highlighted from the QNX 6.3.0 online documentation. If you’re looking for POSIX docs integrated with textmate then this should work for you also: #!/usr/bin/env … Continue reading
Starting to use TextMate
I have decided to switch to TextMate as my editor. I’ve been using Vim for a while now and still think its a great editor but have decided to make the switch. TextMate is really easy to customize. I usually … Continue reading
Virtue Desktop Manager
I’ve been using Desktop Manager as my virtual desktop pager/manager on Mac OS X. Problem is that it doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (last update May ’05) and is a PowerPC binary. I just found Virtue last night and … Continue reading
Cool POSIX app to colourize your terminal applications
http://cwrapper.sourceforge.net is a great application for colourizing the output from programs like make, gcc, ps, df, etc. I find it particularly usefull for make and gcc since it highlights warnings and errors. Its extremely easy to install. I had to … Continue reading
Mac OS X Terminal Applications
I’ve been using 3 different terminal emulation programs for Mac OS X. So far I haven’t found any that are perfect. Here are the three of them and their pros and cons: Apple’s Included Terminal app: Pros: – Comes with … Continue reading




