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Switching to homebrew

1, Sep 2010

Finally @MSch convinced me that homebrew is the future on mac os package manager, and i switched. It was surprisingly simple, and i was able to clean up all those (around 200) installed ports from macports. sudo port -f uninstall installed sudo rm -rf \     /opt/local \     /Applications/DarwinPorts \     /Applications/MacPorts [...]

if you have to spend all your time just fighting…

28, Mar 2010

Period. I won’t port to Windows because I can’t, not because I hate people who use Windows. It’s just too hard. It’s not like people TRY to make bad software for Windows. It ends up bad because if you have to spend all your time just fighting to get the most basic functionality working, of [...]

Get more space with HSF+ compression

26, Feb 2010

Sneaky… apple added HSF+ compression to SL and compressed most of their executables with it. Read the link for details, it a very clever, backward compatible HACK. Anyway, we can use that now (conveniently) with Squeeze! And as a matter of fact, it’s currently free for MacHeist-Users. Best thing? It makes my mac even faster. [...]

Introducing FocusApp

17, Feb 2010

We all know, multitasking is evil and slows us down. But it’s not so easy to just focus on one thing, sometimes you wanna be reminded. What better place could be there than the always-visible MenuBar? Let’s introduce FocusApp! Yes, thats all. Enter some text you wanna be reminded of. It’s there as long as [...]

The little things

13, Feb 2010

Those little things make the difference between a good OS and a great OS.


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