One of the many new features that was in Mac OSX 10.4 is launchd, a daemon which is given the job of managing daemon, program and script running. This takes the place of many different UNIX programs and replaces them with a unified daemon.
Just using Powerpoint and noticed this:
No Image:
With big image:
This is the fourth part in the week in apps series, Tim again joins us- but unfortunately his server isn’t working too well and will be posting here instead.
What can I say about Microsoft?
They make the best Office suite.
When I used Linux, there was only one thing that drew me back to using Windows; Microsoft […]
In this, the third post of the week in apps series, Tim and I. Will be looking at Instant Messaging clients.
For inter-service compatibility, there is none to beat AdiumX. Being open source I can always run the latest version on the svn tree- not suggesting this as a smart thing to do. The SVN version […]
Today is the second installment in the week in apps series and Tim again joins us for Web browsers.
On any other platform, the choice for a good powerful tabbed web-browser is fairly easy; Firefox. But on OSX it looks nasty:
It uses custom widgets.
It uses Aqua and a menu. Not unified.
So I looked for an alternative, […]
This week I’m going to be examining certain applications on my desktop running OSX, and Tim will be doing the same for Linux.
Mail.app
It could be said that there is only one real choice for an email client for OSX: Apple Mail. For one it comes pre-installed with OSX and secondly; it genuinely is the […]
Since the leak of the Leopard beta, quite a few interesting videos detailing the powers of core animation. Although I wonder why it was not shown at WWDC keynote, although I might think that Apple isn’t best pleased at this leak.
Seems that support is reliant on Core Image, so yay for my iBook […]
NAT a bad router, RAID support across USB drives.
Perfectly complementing my time machine.
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AdiumX version 1 has hit beta. Personally I use the SVN version although hope that it’s slightly more stable. (Not that it’s unstable but it sometimes glitches on logging in to msn after sleep.) Anyhow, anyone still using 0.8 should look to upgrade- or get ready for when 1.0 is released.
Opera 9 is being released by Opera today was recently released by Opera; and holds major improvements over version 8 and might just be enough over the technical preview to tempt me away from Camino- and it should show some signs of OperaDS.
Update:After giving Opera a go I can only flaw it on it’s OSX […]
After getting tired of iTunes spectacular flaws in video playback, I decided to take things into my own hands and build an applescript to play itunes videos in VLC. The applescript. This script just takes the filename and checks whether or not it is an mpeg4 video and if it is opens vlc with the […]
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