Jan
04
Custom message OsX login screen
Add a custom message to Your Mac OS X Login Screen to help people contact you if your Mac is lost. Useful if you have a portable Mac.
Oct
11
Apple Wallpapers
This post serves no purpose whatsoever but to test the new WordPress post formats.
So I hereby proudly present the wallpapers that reside in my Mac Mini’s wallpaper folder. Rejoice!
Jun
08
WWDC 2011
or more specifically, the World Wide Developers Conference opening keynote speech by Steve Jobs and colleagues. Meaning it’s for developers, not end users.
In a nutshell: iOS5 will be awesome, this fall. Lion is going to be awesome, next month for only $29.99. MobileMe turns into iCloud and will be free, costs $25 a year if you want to use the music syncing option.
You can watch the whole keynote here, or download it here.
Or instead of watching the whole 2 hour keynote, which I do recommend, you could opt to check out the 4 minute ‘musical’:
Aug
06
OS X 10.5.8 update
Probably the last update before Snow Leopard is upon us, really looking forward to that.
Hmm, looking at the screenshot reminds me I still need to bump that 1GB of RAM up to 2GB, 1 really isn’t enough for OS X.
May
14
OS X 10.5.7 update
And just as I was about to update this post caught my eye in my newsfeed.
Apparently even on a Mac it’s good to wait a few days before installing a major operating system upgrade.
EDIT: Never mind, 10 minutes after posting this I get a message from my iMac saying it’s already downloaded the update and asking me if I want to install it.
2 clicks and 5 minutes later and here we are, all is right in the world.
Now I hope it’ll go as smoothly on the Mini, seeing as that’s a bit more critical.
Apr
29
Mac photo apps
Here’s a question for the Mac users out there.
I’m taking an average of about 4-500 photos a week and now I’m leaving the last remainder of Windows behind and switching over to the Mac for my last computer I’m on the lookout for a good way to organize my photos and for any good applications to edit them. So iPhoto, Aperture, Gimp, Photoshop, what do you use?
Apr
15
Turning your Mac into a webserver
Here’s how to turn your Mac into a web/mail/ftp server with all the trimmings.
Apache is included and works just fine, just turn on web sharing in you preferences.
If you intend on hosting multiple sites, here’s a rundown on how to configure virtual hosts.
PHP comes included with Leopard but is disabled by default. You could enable it, however, it’s rather limited as a lot of extras aren’t included which can be rather useful on a webserver, such as GD support. It’s therefor better to download and install Entropy’s PHP package.
MySQL, just download and install the official build from here. I might make a followup post covering MySQL’s post install tasks such as setting the root password, creating users and databases from the command line.
Mail. By far the easiest and least hair pulling way to set up a full mailserver is by ploinking down $25 for MailServe Pro (or $15 for MailServe if you don’t care about Dovecot. I do because it’s faster and supports multilevel folder creation). You’ll have your mailserver up and running in under 5 minutes, well worth the money.
FTP, this can be useful if you use a different computer as your client machine, or if you want to allow other people access to your mac for their own sites. For this I use the excellent PureFTPd Manager.
And finally, seeing as you’ll undoubtedly be editing a lot of textfiles and the Mac’s TextEdit can mess them up, get TextWrangler for all your editing needs, it even integrates in your command line.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind