iShowU is a free application for OSX that allows you to create screencasts. The software works very well and is capable of outputting video in any format that can be produced by Quicktime. The only downside that I can tell, is that out of the box, the software cannot export as FLV or SWF.
Boot Camp is a beta software program that allows you to install Windows XP without moving your Mac data. With Boot Camp you can burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to seek them out yourself. Once Boot Camp is installed you simply hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows. Cool! Dual-boot Macs!
Flying Meat software has a cool little application called FlyGestures that lets you create complex actions that can be invoked by moving your mouse in a pre-determined manner (a gesture). The gestures can be invoked globally or from within a specific application, and the actions can contain much more than simply starting an application, but can also perform tasks like inserting text.
Did you know that the core foundation of OSX is an open-source UNIX operating system called Darwin? MacDevCenter explains Darwin and How It Powers Mac OS X.
MacDevCenter.com has another great article that will show you how to use HTML Tools on the Mac Command Line. The tools include textutil for converting text files to HTML and tidy for cleaning up your existing html files.
Paul Stamatiou offers his list of 10 Apps Every New Mac User Should Download. The list is limited to free applications that are sure to make your Mac experience even better!
Dan Benjamin has posted a very complete tutorial on Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger. Recognizing this great tutorial, Newby on Rails did Dan one better, and turned his tutorial into a simple shell script that lets you intall the combination of Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL using a single command!
A G5-optimized Firefox 1.5 has been released and it apparently makes the open-source browser really rock the house!
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ShowAll is a simple application that allows you to show or hide hidden files on your OSX system. Why? Many configuration files in OSX are hidden (ie. Apache .htaccess files), so if you want to edit them with a GUI based text editor, you need a way to see them before you can open them.
Textpander is a sweet, free utility for Mac OSX that helps you type more efficiently and more accurately. Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations. It works with any application you open in OSX!
