Oct 24
Apple will be releasing version 10.5 of the OSX operating system Friday night. Called Leopard, the new version of the Mac operating system contains 300 new features. You can read all about it on the Apple site, so I’m really not going to go into it here.
Amazon is offering it for pre-order at $109 (a $20 discount).
Local Apple stores are doing a launch party at 6 PM (local time I presume) with free t-shirts and all the hype that is Leopard. Of course, the gold RTM is already available on the torrent sites, but I’m not one to risk such illegal behavior — even if I’ve already paid for it.
I’ll likely install it once I get it. I’ve read that all the stuff I use works without a hitch. VMware Fusion, my Windows XP Boot Camp gaming partition, it’s all supposed to just work so I’m excited. I’m actually very glad I bought my Mac before Leopard so I could first get comfortable with Tiger.
Party On!
Oct 04
So MarsEdit interfaces with Flickr, making it easy to add pictures from the iPhone into a blog post. So I’m going to see just how well it works. Note, this is only a test! The picture is of me at my 20th high school reunion this past summer holding one of my daughters.
It looks like MarsEdit is a keeper, but I need more time with it before I pull the trigger.
Oct 03
Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo, one of the CodeBetter bloggers, put up a pretty useful post on using the same virtual machine image between Windows/VMware Workstation and Mac/VMware Fusion. He makes some good points about the differences between the file systems and how to make sure your machines are portable between the two operating systems.
Some of the key points:
- Split the disk images into 2GB chunks. I’ve always done this to make sure I can copy them to my thumb drive to move them around.
- Keep the disk volumes on a FAT32 volume (such as a BootCamp partition) to avoid the files expanded on OSX beyond what can be supported.
- Keep an eye on VMX files to make sure the paths don’t point to the wrong locations
Check out the post if you want to know more.
Sep 12
Well, with VMware Fusion up and running, I setup a Windows 2003 Server system with Visual Studio 2005, all the tools, SQL Server 2005, the works. Then I threw the switch on Unity mode and I’m so freaking stoked right now I can’t handle it. I’m going to backup the VM disk image onto an external drive so once the OS does the usual MS gig I can just restore the old disk and have a clean fresh system once again. Of course, I can just set a Snapshot in VMware as well, which I might try to see how well it works. Oh yeah, glossies:
Sep 12
No, this is not the start of a series, but the first of at least one tip of the day for Windows users switching to the Mac. By default, OS X does not tab to controls that are not edit-style controls (you know, where you type words and stuff). On Windows, you can tab to anything. I’m a keyboard jockey, so I like to type username (tab) password (tab) (space) to trigger the submit button. Bam! Move along. When I first started using OS X, I was stifled by the mouse requirement. Until I found this dialog under System Preferences…
Once I had this setting changed, the world was all good again. Enjoy!
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