Apple Writings
3Dec2007
In Tiger, one of the first things I did was to download UNO in order to eliminate the brushed metal / aqua mashup that was the previous version of Mac OS X. However in the bright shiny world of Leopard, there is little need for that particular hack, as we welcome consistency to our desktops with...
27Sep2007
There have been many versions on how to run Safari 2 at the same time as the new Safari 3 beta. I’ve tried lots, but most didn’t work. So for a while I went back to safari 2, but I can’t live without the between window moveable tabs – plus when I reinstalled Safari 3 I really noticed the speed...
4Sep2007
It seems that David Watanabe has been busy squirrelling away in his lab and is releasing a point update to his fabulous Xtorrent application.
When I first landed on the Mac platform a few years back, if you wanted to download via torrents, you had little choice. I ended up using the bloated java...
23Apr2007
This is a three part article, you might want to prepare, or configure first.
The simplest way of testing out your new TinyXP is to run a typical install using Parallels Desktop for Mac.
Parallels
I’m using the latest build of Parallels (3188 at the time of writing).
Create a New VM...
23Apr2007
This is a three part article, you might want to prepare first.
The configuration of nLite shown below is designed to give a basic XP with minimized overhead in order to test in Internet Explorer 5 through 7 and to provide a minimal gaming Windows in Bootcamp. If you follow these...
23Apr2007
The advent of Intel inside every Mac has opened up a world of convenience for me and every other web designer. Whether via Parallels or Bootcamp we are now able to launch Windows XP with relative ease so we can test in Internet Explorer or just see how a site looks in Windows. It also opens up a...