This is a post devoted to the ‘little things’ that make using OSX fun for me. A long overdue last article for the week in apps series.
My Adium set up: as you can see this offers little clue as to who’s online apart from their avatar(display picture, buddy icon etc.) […]
For the penultimate in this series, I will cover the Media Players that I use on MacOSX. (Tim is currently having website problems).
Firstly there is the venerable QuickTime.
Although it certainly is a worthy media player it is held back by QuickTime pro, the version that has all the useful features unlocked. Firstly fullscreen is […]
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 […]
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