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Two new apps for the mac

jettro — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:21:58 +0000

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This is a short post about two applications that I am using on the mac. I know one of them is not the most obvious choice, still I like it a lot better than another one that is used a lot. I am talking [...]

widgets for the mac

jettro — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:48:53 +0000

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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 [...]

Upgrade subversion client on mac osx

jettro — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:36:52 +0000

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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 [...]

Mac osx killer apps III

jettro — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:03:18 +0000

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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 [...]

Want to see a real UI cross-platform application framework?

freddie — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:49:20 +0000

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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 [...]

Using smultron as a TextMate alternative

jettro — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:16:51 +0000

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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 [...]

Mac osx killer apps (part 2)

jettro — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:44:29 +0000

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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 [...]

Java 6 for Mac OSX leopard

jettro — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:28:56 +0000

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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 [...]

Java on apple’s Mac OSX

jettro — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:03:15 +0000

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When I bought my Mac a few months ago, there was some doubt about the support of apple for java. Java 6 was out for a while and Leopard was still shipped with java 5. There were a lot of blogs and a lot [...]

Mac OSX using vmware fusion : network is down

jettro — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:00:15 +0000

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This is a very small blog item. Still I want to share it with you all using the mac and vmware fusion. This morning I had a problem with my virtual machine. I could not ping a linux ubuntu image running mysql for some [...]