Archive for 'mac os x'

Website of the day : Notify

If you need a slick client for your Gmail account –  up to four –  Notify is for you. It integrates itself into the menu and has more features than the simple google notifier.

“Since Notify sits up in your menu bar, it stays out of the way until you need it. When you do need, [...]

Website of the day: sequelpro.com

Why:

Because it’s design is sleek and beautiful,

the information on it is very well structured,

because is about mac :)

and because they offer for FREE the best mysql admin tool for OsX.

Website of the day: minimalmac.com

We’re starting  a new category today called website of the day.
We’ll try to add here the sites we encounter in our daily surfing on the net  and catch our attention somehow: by beauty, weirdness, the useful information it has, etc.
Today site is  minimalmac.com
The site tries to gather resources on how to create a minimal mac [...]

Web development on a mac – tools I use

It’s been a year and a half  since I moved on OsX.  Coming from the Linux world it wasn’t that hard  to get used to the new operating system. At that time I had some issues to make the perfect selection of softwares and tools I need for my work.
My expertise is PHP, JS  [...]

iPhone for the rest of us

iPhone is a nice platform to develop for. The appstore made possible to transform a hobby or a simple idea into a good income source, due to the popularity of iPhone and the low prices of the apps found here .
Bu what about the rest of coders that come from the pure web side of [...]

Textmate – check your JavaScript syntax

Following the previous post, we will see today how to check the syntax for JS.
In this case we will need a bundle wrote some time ago by Andrew Dupont here. (read the article , scroll down and download the bundle). 
Install the bundle.
In this moment you are almost good to go, as the bundle is set to [...]

Textmate – php syntax check

A nice “hidden” feature that Textmate has, is to check the syntax of the php files you are writing, and display a popup with the result.
How to do this?
Open Bundle Editor, search for the PHP bundle, scroll down until you find the Validate syntax command.
Edit the Save setting to Current File.
Now, depending on how you [...]

Import your Gmail contacts into Os X AddressBook

If you need to import your Gmail contacts into the local Address Book, to be used by Mail for example , here are the simple steps you need to make.
Open safari and login to your Gmail account.
In the left side, under the mailboxes you have the menu Contacts. Click on it and it will open [...]

Os X – close the dashbord – the nice way

Dashboard – nice eye candy tool, lot of widgets, from temperature stats to calculators, radios or whatever else.
Why would I want it closed? Well being on a G4 , I want it a little faster, and faster…( we all want it, don’t we? ), so I need to close some apps/services for this, and to [...]

How to setup svn with remote working copy – my big question

Everybody know SVN and “everybody” is using it. No doubt SVN is one of the best things that happend in the last time. but for a web developer, svn can be a little frustrating – at least for me.
Let me explain:
I am on a mac, a G4 one,so I cannot afford a MAMP [...]