Mac OS

What’s cooking

I’m excited to present you guys what I’ve been working on over the last couple of months. I guess most of you still know the My Dream App competition - an experiment to see what happens when you combine the expertise of some of the best talents in the software and tech world with great ideas and feedback from everyone else… continue

Leopard Thoughts

Bit by bit new screenshots of Apple’s upcoming release of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard find their way to the web. Recently I found a couple of nice ones at BabyGotMac, which have unfortunately been removed from the site, due to a DMCA notice served by Apple. continue

Mac OS X Leopard thoughts

Now that the yearly WWDC keynote is over I could not resist to post some thoughts on the first preview of Apple’s upcoming operating system — codename “leopard”. Short excerpt: some nice features, but no revolutionary changes… not yet. continue

Mac OS XP

Now it’s been more than a month that my new MacBook arrived — and I’m still impressed: The display is great, the batteries are really powerful, it’s one of the most quiet notebooks I’ve ever used and it’s extremely fast. But beside the performance boost switching to Intel based CPUs had another big advantage — it’s now quite easy to get a copy of Windows running on your Mac. continue

Widget Manager

Today Apple released the second update to Mac OS Tiger. Beside several reliability and compatibility improvements Mac OS 10.4.2 now provides the functionality to temporarily hide or delete widgets directly from within the Dashboard. continue

Mac OS contrast settings

Some weeks ago I happened to looked at iTunes and noticed that the stripes, alternating between white and light blue, were gone. At first I thought that it was some kind of new visualization of Mac OS Tiger… continue

Installing PHP on a Mac

One great aspect of Mac OS is that it ships with a preinstalled Apache server and PHP4. So if you want to develop dynamic PHP based web sites on your local machine, you just have to enable the PHP4 module and start the server. continue

NetNewsWire: Aqua Package

Because of the fact that the graphit package for the famous RSS reader NetNewsWire was quite popular, I decided to extend the package with some nice aqua stylsheets. Don’t hesitate to download the package and skin the whole app either in aqua or graphit style. continue

Quicksilver: Mac OS X Spotlight schon heut

Die aller Voraussicht nach im ersten Halbjahr 2005 erscheinende neue Version von Mac OS X kommt mit einer verbesserten Such-Engine, welche es erlauben soll nicht nur nach Dateien, sondern auch nach Personen, Terminen, Applikationen usw. zu suchen. Einen ähnlichen Ansatz verfolgt auch Quicksilver. continue

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