Magical Macintosh Key Sequences

Clarence Westberg: Magical Macintosh Key Sequences[Clarence Westberg's Radio Weblog]

Dive into Mac OS X

Congratulations to Mark Pilgrim on the rebirth of Dive into Mac OS X

Wired helps marginalize the Mac

Rob McNair-Huff. This kind of article really pisses me off.[Mac Net Journal]

OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH

OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Apple Switch parody

Mark Frauenfelder: Here's a parody of the Apple TV commercial I was in.[Boing Boing Blog] Hilarious!

Kerry's Computer

Adam Curry: Finally a real reason to vote for Kerry; he's a Mac user.[Adam Curry's Weblog]

Mac OS X Negative Grayscale View

Alfredo Octavio: In Mac OS X press Control+Option+Command+8... Like it? (Thanks eMe, have a good trip!)[Tyromaniac]

Raines Cohen is the Imelda Marcos of Macintosh T-shirts.

Steve Michel: Nice piece on my old pal Raines Cohen. But there are no pictures![Steve's No Direction Home Page]

The Sovereign Prophylactic

Alwin Hawkins: Oh great and powerful Alwin(er)logger: Restart, Command-S, fsck -y, exit or reboot. The sovereign prophylactic.[ViewFromTheHeart]

I switched!

Mike Krus: I bought, installed, configured and am now enjoying a iMac G4.[Mike Krus: Radio Tunning] Vini, vidi, vici!

Daniel Drew Turner and Matthew Rothenberg

Marc Barrot. Daniel Drew Turner and Matthew Rothenberg: Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit CPU [in eWeek via SlashDot].[s l a m]

UNIX under the Desktop

Sheila Simmons: Linux Journal: UNIX under the Desktop, by Doc Searls and Brent Simmons. (Don't miss the picture at the bottom of the page: Brent and Papa!)[Sheila News]

Radio Blogging from Mac Word

Omar Shahine: I made Simon Fell's Radio Blogging from Word Macros work on Mac OS X. I posted some inctructions on how to make it all happen. [Omar Shahine]

Mac Collecting Like a Religion

Leander Kahney: The Mac is more than a computer — It's a community, an identity, a church. Collecting Apple memorabilia is an important part of the Mac psyche.[Wired News]

OS X port of Rotor

Simon Fell: Now that the OS X port of Rotor is available, and there's faster & cheaper PowerBooks available, there's no excuse for not owning a Mac![Simon Fell]

Mac OS X and J2EE

Robert Barksdale: Thanks to JBoss and other J2EE application servers, your Mac OS X system can play in the J2EE Big Leagues....[ZOPEN-X: Web Dev and OS X]

Notes on installing PHP and MySQL on OS X 10.1.5

John VanDyk: Notes on installing PHP and MySQL on OS X 10.1.5. I found lots of disjointed information but nothing that stepped me through the whole process.[View from an Iowa Homestead]

Apache 2 for Mac OS X

Bill Humphries: Looking for an Apache 2.0 to run under OS X.2? Server Logistics has packages for Apache (which install under /Library), Perl, PHP, Tomcat, and other server components.[More Like This WebLog]

Godzilla vs. Macworld

Wired News: Macworld always makes a big splash in San Francisco and New York, but nothing rivals the scene at the Tokyo version. The convention starts this week. Leander Kahney reports from Tokyo. [Wired News]

MacNet Journal Jobs keynote coverage

Adam Curry: I recently donated to MacNet Journal. A weblog I read regularly for good reporting on all things Mac. I'm happy to see this blogs excellent coverage of the Jobs keynote.[Adam Curry's Weblog]

Mulling Over Fate of Macworld

Leander Kahney: It ain't over until Steve Jobs sings, but some pessimistic Apple fans gearing up for this year's Macworld San Francisco suspect the end may be near for the popular computer show.[Wired News]

Mac OS X

Mark Pilgrim: Dive Into OS X, a FAQ for Mac OS X and OS X Server administrators, has been reorganized and updated with almost a dozen new questions and answers from my most recent class.[diveintomark]

Innovations in Mac History

Dave Winer: Leander Kahney digs through the archives and discovers that many of the innovations in Mac history came from small independent developers, not Apple. Keep digging Leander, there's much more to the story.[Scripting News]

freshmeat.net for OS X

Brent Simmons: freshmeat.net now has a section for OS X software. I can't seem to find an RSS feed for this section—if anyone knows where it is, please let me know. Thanks![ranchero.com]

Apple Disrepects Yet Another Developer

Oliver Wrede: It is really disappointing to hear that Apple rips off one of the most innovative application from a developer and actually copies the concept of Watson to Sherlock 3 without actually featuring Karelia for this.[owrede_log]

One Man's Retro Mac Revival

Leander Kahney: Devan Simunovich trucks his collection of 50 compact Macs to raves, where he sets up classic game lounges. He's part of a thriving group committed to dusting off ancient Macs and getting them working again.[Wired News]

Mac Trouper No. 1

Matthew Rothenberg: Anybody who harnesses his hospital stay as a PR opportunity to show off the features of his wireless PowerBook configuration is tops in my book. Best wishes for a prompt recovery, Mr. Jobs![Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Mailing list for OS X Web Services Developers

Brent Simmons: I've been thinking of starting a mailing list for developers who write web services desktop apps for Mac OS X. If I hear from a few people that they would participate, I'll get it started.[inessential.com]

TigerLaunch 1.0b3

Brent Simmons: TigerLaunch 1.0b3. This release finds more applications, including those in your user applications folder. It uses an icon in the menubar instead of the word Apps. The Configure window allows you to choose an alternate icon.[ranchero.com]

New iPod Cheesecake?

Matthew Rothenberg: A photo iPod? Couldn't have seen that one coming! According to my favorite independent site for samizdat Apple product info -- Think Secret -- Jon Rubinstein's elves over at the company's iPod division are wrapping just such a gadget in time for the holiday shopping season...[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Saving Collectibles to the Macs

Wired: Over the years Apple has given out millions of branded tchotchkes. Some are now very valuable. Who knew a promotional poster would be worth more than $1,000? By Leander Kahney.[347.com || Radio Weblog] Very interesting. I've got a ton of this crap — I may be sitting on a gold mine!

PreFab UI Browser 1.2

Brent Simmons: PreFab UI Browser 1.2 helps with the new GUI Scripting feature of Mac OS X by allowing you to "explore, control and monitor the user interface of most Mac OS X applications. It lets you navigate the user interface hierarchy then generate useful AppleScript statements with a single click."[ranchero.com]

OS X Screen Saver Desktop Background

C.K. Sample, III: If you have OS X, try this... Open terminal. At the prompt type in: /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background & Your screensaver will become your desktop background. To end type: kill and then the process number that comes up after the command was executed. cool[Sample the Web]

Remind me why I haven't upgrade before now...

Rob McNair-Huff: The installation of 1GB of RAM in my Pismo PowerBook went fine and the machine does indeed feel more snappy with all of that RAM rather than relying on the hard drive for RAM intensive programs and operations. I won't bore anyone with the details, but at a cost of less than $200 including the shipping, this purchase from MemoryToGo.com is a bargain...[Mac Net Journal]

Mailing list for OS X developers of web services apps

Brent Simmons: The osxweb mailing list was formed to promote inter-operability between OS X apps that use web services and formats such as XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and so on. The idea is to create informal standards for things like clipboard formats for RSS items. (The idea is not, for instance, to work on RSS itself.) A secondary goal is to promote a toolbox of code that app developers can use.[ranchero.com]

The Boy Who Cried "Mac Table"

Matthew Rothenberg: After all Apple's protestations to the contrary, could this really be the year of the Mac Tablet? Tony Smith of The Register thinks it's a distinct possibility--and he's got the European trademark filing to prove it. According to his article (and accompanying illustrations), the company is seeking to trademark a "handheld computer" packed into a chassis that resembles a disembodied iBook screen and lacks any obvious keyboard...[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

A New Take on the Mac Tablet

Matthew Rothenberg: Another Mac trade show, another no-show for a keyboard-free Apple portable. Apple Expo in Paris indeed provided a launchpad for a radically redesigned iMac desktop that in many ways turns the tablet concept on its side; but while recent Apple patent filings for a "handheld computer" sparked optimistic predictions about a whole new portable platform, an actual slate was not in the offing. So what's the frequency, Philip?[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Longhorn: It's What's for Dinner

Matthew Rothenberg: Jobs and Co. tweaked Microsoft's collective nose with this brassy assertion back at June's Worldwide Developers Conference. During that Mac developer lovefest, Apple insisted that its next big cat (due in the first half of 2005) will deliver most of the features promised for the beefy Windows upgrade (slated for 2006). Longhorn is cowpathing, Apple maintained, and Tiger will take a chunk out of its hide. Now that boast turns out to be inaccurate: It was too conservative...[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]

Opportunity

John Robb: If any Mac developer(s) want(s) to work with UserLand to build a slick interface for Radio (like this one for Windows), let me know. I suspect based on UserLand's sales into the Mac community that it would be worth $50-$100 k in revenue to the partner in the first year (more in follow on years). Not a bad way to supplement income during a slow economic period. Note: UserLand sells software to over 3,500 companies, schools, and organizations.[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

mac mess

Adam Curry: I bit the proverbial bullet last night and re-installed my OSX system.I must admit that it was totally painless, took a bit to download all the updates (about 100megs) but so far (stay away Murphy!) everything seems not only back to normal, but better than before. All my apps still work, prefs are still in place... Just like the old days when your Mac would hang or crash, just shut down, shake twice and restart... I'm lovin' it![Adam Curry's Weblog]

Is an Apple Search Engine on Track?

Matthew Rothenberg: Here's an interesting tidbit from blog-daddy Dave Winer: On Friday, Dave remarked that he'd seen a week's worth of sharply elevated traffic headed his way from Apple.com. This spike whetted his curiousity about whether Cupertino might be testing out some sort of hitherto unannounced Web-searching facility. It's a compelling idea that fits nicely with Apple's efforts to put its own stamp on its customers' online experience, from e-commerce to e-mail to online storage. It's had its share of false starts (viz. eWorld), but Apple has kept on trucking. And in the realm of desktop search, the company has led the way with its Sherlock technology and the Spotlight capabilities slated for Mac OS X [base "]Tiger.[per thou] Now that it's beaten Google for brand recognition, is Apple ready to take on the upstart in the field of Web search?[Rothenberg's Mac Enterprise]