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By jettro, on January 18th, 2009
 Sunday morning, it is raining, and I am playing with the new mac. I was browsing through the default bookmarks and stumbled upon the widgets download page. Usually I do not use these nifty little apps a lot. Which is about to change. I have found some nice widgets that will make my life on the mac easier.
This post is about those widgets, hope you find them useful as well. I’ll discuss a widget for storing passwords,
Continue reading widgets for the mac
By jettro, on December 21st, 2008
 The mac is a pretty complete system for developing applications. Once I was surprised that tools like subversion and maven come pre-installed. There is a big advantage for the non-technical users that these tools are pre installed. Although I doubt that these people will use it a lot. Would you teach a person to use command line subversion? I guess not. You would teach them to use a tool like Versions. As a developer you can run into problems when you want to upgrade one of these libraries. Some time a go I have already written a post about upgrading maven on the mac. This is a short post about upgrading subversion.
Continue reading Upgrade subversion client on mac osx
By jettro, on November 30th, 2008
Again a blog post about the tools I use on the mac. I have written about this before and therefore I have decided to create a separate page with a list of all the tools. That way you can find the tools a lot quicker. This post focusses on new tools I have found. You can find the page “Mac osx tools” at the top of the screen.
 The first tool I want to talk about is a nice utility that can create applications out of website. With Fluid you take a url, give it an icon and create an application. This application can have it’s own links and preferences. Looks nice and it comes with some advantages. You can place it on your dashboard. It has it’s own icon when going through you apps with command-tab. Very easy interface and free to use.
Find out about more tools by clicking on more
Continue reading Mac osx killer apps III
By freddie, on November 2nd, 2008
Ever wondered what language or library is used for Google Earth, Skype, Sony Mylo, Photoshop Album, KDE, VLC Media Player and of course my companies own Papyrus EYE? It is NOT .NET, JAVA nor Adobe Flex, OpenLaszlo, JavaFX, AJAX, or Silverlight.
Read on, if you want to find out..
Continue reading Want to see a real UI cross-platform application framework?
By jettro, on August 30th, 2008
 This is a short post about again another tool for the mac. I was using TextMate as an external text editor. There were a few reasons why I liked it a lot. I am using it mainly for editing files without opening a full blown editor like IntelliJ or DashCode. Since I am doing a lot of java development, I have a lot of property files as well as xml files that I need to edit. I heard about TextMate and got curious, for me there were a few reasons why I liked TextMate a lot.
- Quick startup times
- Possibility to startup TextMate from the command line
# mate <filename>
- Integration with subversion
- Xml formatting
Today I decided to by TextMate, than I saw it was almost 50 euros. that is to much for me for just a text editor. Therefore I started looking for something else. I found the open source tools Smultron. My conclusion, TextMate is better but not worth the 50 euros when you compare them. I did have to integrate an xml formatter to get three of the points out of the four mentioned within Smultron.
read on to find out the small steps I had to take.
Continue reading Using smultron as a TextMate alternative
By jettro, on May 12th, 2008
 Some months ago I wrote an article with my favorite mac osx tools. I am using my mac more and more, with my current employer I can use it for almost everything I want. I do not have ms office, so sometimes I need to use my other laptop. I also use my other laptop to run databases etc. Just because 2 Gb ram is not always enough.
Telling you about what I do with my other laptop is not the reason to write this post. I want to share a very cool application that can help you to become a lot more effective during all your tasks. It is an application to help you find and then remember all you shortcuts. It integrates with all the applications I use to show possible shortcuts. It is not a free program, but the value you get for only 20 euro’s (excluding vat) is very good. Try it yourself, you’ll be supprised.
Here is the website where you can download a trial
http://www.ergonis.com/products/keycue/
Continue reading Mac osx killer apps (part 2)
By jettro, on May 1st, 2008
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A month a so a go I wrote this item about java 6 on the mac. It was a beta release an I had some issues with it, but it was workable. Now the real deal is ready to be installed. You can download [...]
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