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Install Ubuntu 8.04 using VMware Fusion on Mac OS X « Laurent’s Weblog … just because I *can*. [...]

Peter Linder’s Weblog (tags: blog friends switzerland) [...]

I should take more care what I wish for. For sometimes, it comes true … most notably, if you have a really playful friend (which, in all honesty, is exactly what I (secretly) wished for, clearly without considering the consequences, notably the fact that I have to be prepared for surprises).

So. This evening, around 9 [...]

For future reference: Images placed in Microsoft Word for Mac v.X (yes, that’s quite an old version now) only print when having a width of less that 4096 pixel. Height seems to have no influence, neither does the colour mode (experiments have been conducted with both a 8bit-RGB TIFF and a Bitmap TIFF). And I [...]

Es dürfte die erste Schurkenware für Mac OS X sein: MacSweeper preist sich selbst als Systemsäuberungs- wie Sicherheitswerkzeug an und gaukelt nach einer “Überprüfung” der eigenen Festplatte stets schwerwiegende Bedrohungen für Sicherheit und Privatsphäre vor, die nur durch den Kauf der Software beseitigt werden könnten. Derartige “Rogue Software” existiert unter Windows schon lange und fscklog-Leser [...]

Temporis – Fashionable Timelines in a Timely Fashion (tags: Timeline Tools Shareware OSX software lang:en) Bee Docs’ Timeline – Timeline Software [...]

After calling myself the Master of iTunes Smart Playlists, I’ve been asked to share some tips.

I can do so, even if I don’t know whether I can tell anyone anything fundamentally new. But then again I also made the experience that many people don’t use Smart Playlists at all or have no idea how they [...]

Quicksilver is probably my most used application on my Mac. Its developer, Nicholas Jitkoff1 gives a look behind the scenes at Google Tech Talks.

Found via habi.

He’s kinda cute on that vid, or as Merlin Mann puts it: “actually astonishingly good-looking”. Who says software developers have to be ugly grumpy nerds? I mean, there are even [...]

Since I a) get asked that a lot and b) Mathieu Tozer has a post with the same name, that gave me the inspiration and c) some people around me will get a shiny new Mac and d) some people actually read my blog (surprise!).

This is, for now, just a quick note to myself, soonish to expanded into a proper post. If possible.

Based on German Dvorak Type II by Matthias Halibrand, I made my own Dvorak keyboard layout for Mac OS X.

You can get it here. Basically, it’s a bastard for programmers and designers, with goodies like good reachable [...]

Why Apple has not yet proved that they really re-invented the phone. What this business needs is a platform that is open.

Irgendwann sind sie alle [bekehrt][1] …(Ich merke einfach wieder mal, dass ich schon vor langer Zeit eine Liste der Switcher und Noch-zu-Switchenden hätte machen sollen.

Turns out there is a similar clipboard for search strings. Select text, press ⌘E and afterwards you can use ⌘G to find next occurrence of the string you copied to this find clipboard (use ⇧⌘G to find previous).

TextMate Blog on The shared find clipboard: I didn’t knew about this, but it surely sounds very, very [...]

Not that I actually had time to do this stuff – but this evening, I got hooked on Quartz Composer and started experimenting with it. Using trial and error, it was quite easy to grasp its concept. The result? X30 Starcatcher.

… and say: Abracadabra! Once again, Arcor from Quicksilver fame has silently released a new plug-in for Quicksilver – and this time, it’s Gestures.