Yesterday Mac OS X Lion was released and after I made a backup of my machine I started the install process to upgrade to Lion.

Where can you download Lion? The only way up to now is to buy it in the Apple Appstore. I wrote a tutorial based on …

As you maybe have heard Mac OS X Lion will be available only via the App Store. Many people asked how they can perform a complete new installation if you only have access via the App Store to the latest version of there os. First install Mac OS X 10 …

GitHub became one of the most popular places for free and commercial software development the last few months. The market around the great DVCS Git initiated by Linux Torvalds became more and more popular. It is fast and fixes many problems for distributed code development by design.

A colleague of …

On Unix like systems it's easy to create an ISO image from an CD or DVD with dd.

You only need to know the device name of your CD or DVD device and a terminal.

If you don't know the device name open a terminal and type:

drutil status

This …

With SizeUp I found exactly what I need for managing my application windows on Mac OS X.

One of my daily use cases where SizeUp helps me a lot is when I have open many iTerm windows with ssh shells. On my desktop there are often a lot of shells …

If you wanna test web applications and don't have the time and experience in setting up a complete LAMP environment on Mac you should have a look at MAMP. It's a complete Apache, MySQL, PHP distribution with a small management gui.

Just install the package and start the MAMP application …

MindNode is another tool I want to share with you. If you need a tool to quick and easy write your ideas or brainstorming down I can recommend MindNode to you. There is a free and a pro version. Up to now i am comfortable with the free version.

Check …

There are two big distributed versions control systems one is Git and the second is Mercurial. Many popular software projects migrated there repositories to Git or Mercurial the last years. There are some nice plugins for ide's but to browse or checkout a repository independent from an ide i prefer …

With SubEthaEdit for Mac I found a nearly perfect text editor for my needs. It has nice features like syntax highlighting for the most important languages, collaborating features over Bonjour and works stable and fast for me.

In some cases I like to add a signature to an email or encrypt it to be sure the information is only useful for the person I am sending the email to.

On my Mac I'm using Mail with GPGMail to handle all my encryption stuff with email. The index …