Mac Tales

This is so 1990’s – it reminds me of the days when software rarely worked, and crashed a lot.
I run my mac with the filesystem set to case sensitive mode.
I do this because I’m a programmer, the languages I use are cases sensitive, and I tend to write software that is deployed on linux, which [...]

Network security software in the Windows world is a really big deal. OS X is often touted as virus free, but does this mean you don’t need anti-spyware, anti-virus and firewall software?

Soon after switching to mac, I was on the hunt for a new ftp/sftp client. As a Windows / Linux guy I’d stuck with Filezilla for many years, free from nagware, stable, reliable and powerful enough for my simple needs.

I just came across this great little list dedicated to OS X software for switchers: Check it out over at: OS X Software for Switchers.

This just occurred to me today; since the recent release of Parallels 3 and Vmware Fusion Beta 1.3, each of these virtualisation products now support boot camp partitions.

Today I will show you a fantastic OS X alternative to MS Office. Before switching to mac I was a little concerned about how I would edit word processor documents and excel spreadsheets.