Posted on Thu 27 December 2018 in misc • Tagged with Mac, Editor
I was very happy because of the annoucement that SubEthaEdit will have a future! I was using it for a long time, since I bought my first Mac back in 2008 or so. It was a very good editor and did a good job for serveral years on my Mac …
Posted on Thu 29 March 2018 in misc • Tagged with Atom, Mac, Editor, Linux, Windows
The GitHub Inc. has released the Atom editor (https://atom.io) some time ago. It is a nice editor with some basic IDE functionality. Based on the first experiences it is a stable peace of software with a fast interface. The most basic features you would like to see in …
Posted on Sat 10 February 2018 in misc • Tagged with fish, Mac
To use the mac ports system for custom software on MacOS you need to modify your local PATH variable for your used shell. For bash this is done in the ~/.profile configuration.
To archive the same if you're using the fish shell, you should use set -U fish_user_paths $fish_user_paths /opt …
Posted on Sat 05 April 2014 in Development • Tagged with Mac, Ruby
Since I experimented with some Ruby web application stuff the last weeks, I want to share some of my conclusions how to setup a development environment which is working for my two major platforms, Mac and Linux. This post will cover the setup of an easy to use development environment …
Posted on Mon 08 October 2012 in Mac, Tools • Tagged with cdto, Mac, shell, Terminal
A very useful addon for Finder on Mac OS X is the cdto application. It's a very basic gadget which helps you open a terminal in the current opened folder. When I am navigating through my filesystem for example browsing a folder of sourcecode or reviewing an extracted tarball you …
Since I had to bring my self up to speed with all this fancy M2M stuff our developers doing right now I started a small project by my own to learn something about MQTT and M2M communication.
My application is a very basic Objective-C application for Mac based on the …
Posted on Sat 07 July 2012 in Mac • Tagged with C++, Eclipse, Mac, mac os x, programming
This tutorial will explain how to install and use Eclipse C/C++ with Mac OS X. I wrote a tutorial for Windows 7 some time ago because you need to install some additional software to be able to compile your programs. With Mac OS X this should be more …
Posted on Mon 28 May 2012 in Mac • Tagged with foss, free software, gimp, graffic, Mac, photo
Gimp 2.8.0 is available for Mac OS X now.
You need to have XQuartz installed on your Mac for the new Gimp version.
Why should you upgrade to Gimp 2.8 ? For me there is one major change I am waiting for years now. The one window mode …
Posted on Sat 07 January 2012 in Mac • Tagged with Mac, rdp, tools
Searched for an alternative for Microsoft RDP client for Mac and found CoRD. It's a nice free and open source tool for Mac and works fine unitl now.
Nice features are:
I will include a more detailed review of this …
Posted on Thu 04 August 2011 in misc • Tagged with console, iTerm, iTerm2, Lion, Mac, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac OS X Lion
I was using iTerm since I bought my Mac and was very happy with the tool. It is stable and worked well for me. It has nice features like full screen mode on Snow Leopard but after the update to Mac OS X 10.7 alias Lion the full screen …