Scott Bellware gave a shout out to Show Your Spaces so I’m chiming in with how I’m taking advantage of Leopard’s new Spaces feature.
Yes, Virginia, that is a full-screen Visual Studio 2005 running under Windows 2003 Server in the bottom left — hallelujah!
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!
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:
Check out the post if you want to know more.
Having switched to the Mac, I find myself in need of a replacement for the very good Windows Live Writer. The first program I tried was Ecto, and I could not dig it. The interface was clunky, it didn’t offer any sort of decent preview automatically, and I generally didn’t like it.
After Ecto, I tried using TextMate to create and post blog entries. Basically, that’s not what the application is for — it’s an editor. So the handshaking and interaction felt contrived and basically it was a demo of how crazy a bundle can get in TextMate. In short, it wasn’t happening.
Now I’m trying MarsEdit — the new version 2 has been released. So far it seems to have a practical user interface that I can appreciate. I’ll continue to work with it for the next week to see how it works out. At this point, it feels good. I only hope that it can continue to impress or I’ll be searching again…
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:
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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