Great idea! I’m wondering if it would be possible to run ArcGIS in Virtual PC under Mac OS X at a professional level. Any experiences? Especially the ESRI hardware dongles give me slight headache.
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After the obviously easy going 30 min Mac OS X hack, Dave Schroeder from the University of Wisconsin started another, a more realistic, challenge. Until Fri 10.3.2006 10:00 AM CST you can try to break into his Mac mini.
A new beta version of Google Earth for Mac OS X is available for download. If you’re still running Mac OS 10.3.9 you’ll probably be pleased to hear that GE now supports your system. (via Google Earth Blog)
A new version of MAMP, containing the latest updates of its components, is available for download.
MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP) is an excelent environment if you’re planning to do some PHP development on your Mac. As they state on the MAMP website, it should therefore not be used as Live Webserver for the Internet.
- Apache Version: 2.0.55
- MySQL Version: 4.1.12
- PHP Version: 4.4.2 & 5.1.2
- eAccelerator: 0.9.4-rc1
- Zend Optimizer: 2.6.0
- phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl2
- SQLite Version: 2.8.16
- SQLiteManager Version: 1.1.3
- Freetype Version: 2.1.9
- t1lib Version: 5.1.0
- curl Version: 7.14.0
- jpeg Version: 6b
- libpng Version: 1.2.5
- gd Version: 2.0.28
I use MAMP primarily to test or modify WordPress upgrades, themes or plugins on my local machine before installing them on my webserver. The installation, administration and removal of MAMP is pretty straightforward – a highly recommended package!
What would you tell a new switcher? Probably this, except that I’m fully satisfied with Spotlight and using Skype instead of iChat.
As long as Apple uses TPM as dongle to limit Mac OS X to Apple-hardware I have no problem with it. It’s a marketing decision. I hope they won’t abuse TPM to get full control over their users like other big companies intend. That would be a huge problem. (Disassembled iMac Core Duo)
Google Earth for Mac OS X (10.4) is now officially available for download here! This time it seems to be an authentic Mac version without any weird Direct X preferences.
On my morning news check I found an interesting link. Seems to be a Mac OS X beta version of Google Earth. Unfortunately I can’t download and test it right now, but there are already a few screenshots and reviews around.
Update:
At home and able to test Google Earth on Mac OS X: on an iMac G5 2GHz RevB equipped with 1.5 GB RAM and connected via 3072/384 kbps to the internet it works nicely! After observing memory & cpu consumption for a while I would suggest to stuff some extra memory into your Mac before using Google Earth. Well, some extra memory for Mac OS X is always a good advice. IMHO the performance is comparable to the Windows XP machine in my office (a P4 3GHz with 1GB RAM). Anyhow, great to see Google Earth finally on Mac OS X!!
Note:
The link above obviously leads to a leaked beta version of Google Earth for Mac OS X hosted by yousendit.com. If you think this download violates your rights please send any further comments directly to abuse@yousendit.com.
I got curious about the new features (e.g. beginning of native SVG support, usability increase on Mac OS X) of Firefox 1.5 and downloaded the latest beta version. Unfortunately I encountered problems with some flash objects caused by the adblock extension (even though it’s compatible and basically works with Firefox 1.5 beta).
If somebody else is experiencing the same problem, here is the solution:
- Uninstall your existing adblock extension
- and install the current developer version of adblockplus (download and open the file in Firefox to install the extension)
- under Adblock_Options unmark the entry “Obj-Tabs”
On my system this small workaround solved the problem.
Btw, don’t forget to check these beautiful GrApple Firefox themes!
Recenty I switched to Mozilla Firefox as preferred web browser on my mac. The main reason why I still used Safari was it’s Keychain integration. It’s something very convenient and I’m sure that Firefox will come up with that feature shortly. The high degree of customisation by installing various extensions and themes is why I finally moved to Firefox.
The default Firefox installation looks like a kind of an alien on Mac OS X, so I googled on how to change this behaviour. An excellent guide I found here.I followed not every hint, but achieved a pretty mac-like interface for Firefox:
- Use Arronax’s GrApple themes to get a nicer user interface.
- Install Aqua Firefox Set to Aqua-fy buttons, etc.
- If you’re already using (a free and not feature-overloaded) RSS Reader I recommend Sage with that stylesheet.
- To speed Firefox a little up you might want to try a G4 or G5 optimized build.
Once the Keychain integration is implemented on Mac OS X it definitely will be the perfect browser ;o)
April 10th, 2005 – update:
Totally forgot about Camino! Another browser based on the Gecko HTML rendering engine Mozilla 1.7 but unlike Firefox it’s not ported but built for Mac OS X 
. Camino is no alien on Mac OS X, it integrates smoothly into to the system (fast programm start, UI, features like Keychain access). The only thing missing is RSS support…