Tag: mac
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Ruby and Mac OS X Lion
When Apple switched from GCC to LLVM in Xcode 4.2, they made it significantly more difficult for me to run ruby 1.9.2. (What are the odds this will get easier with Mountain Lion?) I was using rbenv and its rbenv-build plugin to install ruby 1.9.2 and it told me this: $ rbenv install 1.9.2-p320 ERROR:…
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Mountain Lion
So I looked at the list of 200 new features in Mountain Lion and … meh. If there’s a company in the world that they didn’t pick in preference to Google, though, I couldn’t figure out what it is. I mean, really: a feature to let you access Vimeo? I wonder how much of that…
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Useful Tools
Since I’ve been setting up a new computer, I’ve had the opportunity to think about the apps I use. I don’t have time or energy to put together a comprehensive list, but here are a few of my “can’t-live-with-them” apps. Chrome (and the iReader extension), Safari, and Opera. Chrome is my main browser, but sometimes…
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Dragon Dictate 2.5 – not interested
I won’t be taking advantage of the offer I was emailed today, announcing the opportunity to spend $100 to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.5 of Dragon Dictate. I like that software, I truly do. In five or ten years it will be awesome, and everyone will use it, or something like it. But today, using…
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iTunes playlists, Drag’n’Drop, and Wacom tablets
I noticed that with iTunes 10.4 (80) I can no longer drag songs from one playlist to another. It doesn’t matter whether the source is a smart playlist or a regular dumb one, or even the main music library. As a workaround, I can copy (cmd-c) and paste (cmd-v), but this is … umm ……
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Boxer – DOS emulator for Mac
This looks pretty cool: Boxer. What does it do? “Boxer plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac. Drag-drop your CDs, floppies and bootleg game copies onto Boxer and wrap them into gameboxes you just click to play.” (Kudus: Gruber.)
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VLC vs. DVD Player.app
Apple’s DVD Player.app has been broken for so long, I honestly can’t remember the last time I was pleased with it. It’s very telling that if you go to Apple’s web site, you can’t find DVD Player there. If I was them, I’d be ashamed of it too. I wouldn’t be surprised if Windows Media…
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irb with readline on mac using rvm – vi keystrokes
One last whack at this problem. I just got email from a reader of this blog. (Well, technically, a reader of Google, which reads everything, so I shouldn’t feel too impressed with myself.) Anyway, he found my blog post and emailed to tell me the problem with my .inputrc, which was that I needed these…
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Black Friday – Mac Office 2011
I’ve been trying to decide whether to upgrade my old copy of Office. The problem with Office is that I only use Word. I’ve pretty much switched from Excel to Numbers, and Keynote is so good that it’s been years since I even thought about running Powerpoint. So why upgrade? Well, I do use Word…
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irb with readline on mac using rvm
On the Mac, irb doesn’t come with readline baked in. But you can fix that with $ rvm install 1.8.7 -C \ –enable-shared,–with-readline-dir=/opt/local Kudus: Plataformatec, who uses Homebrew and thus /usr/local rather than /opt/local.