Category: Mac

Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0

Yahoo released a new version of the Yahoo Widget Engine (the product formerly known as Konfabulator) for Windows and Mac OS X. http://widgets.yahoo.com/ There are some great new widgets bundled with it too, with my personal...

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My first Automator workflow

Something I've been doing quite a bit lately on my Mac is downloading new software in the form .dmg files and copying the .app file in the disk image to my Applications folder. I wanted a nice little shortcut for quickly copying...

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Sudoku for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X

Here's an open source Sudoku game that works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X: Michael Sweet's FLTK-based Sudoku game...

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Playing with the QEMU emulator on Mac OS X

On occasion, it might be nice to run Windows or Linux on my PowerBook, but I don't yet have Virtual PC. So I tried the free QEMU emulator today. According to Free OS Zoo, the best way to run QEMU on the Mac is to use Q, a Cocoa...

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CornerClick: interesting Mac freeware

CornerClick is a nice freeware program that lets you assign actions (including AppleScript) to the screen corners (with or without modifier keys) in Mac OS X Panther and up. It worked well for me on Tiger, except that I couldn't...

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X11 ssh forwarding

Since I've been running Eclipse on my FreeBSD box and displaying it over X11 to my PowerBook, I wanted to enable X11 forwarding over ssh so that I wouldn't have to manually set the DISPLAY environment variable. I tried ssh -X and...

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Using Bluetooth DUN on my Treo 650 with Mac OS X

I actually set this up a few weeks ago and was meaning to blog about it, but it slipped my mind. Using the info in this article, I was able to set up Bluetooth DUN on my PowerBook so that I can surf the Web using my Treo's...