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The geek’s guide to upgrading to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Here are some good and bad things I’ve discovered since I’ve upgraded to 10.6 — I’ll keep adding to this post as I discover more. Very new versions of software for software developers PHP 5.3 (the very newest version, with many “modern” features, finally) PHP also has Pear! PHP and mod_php are compiled with GD, [...]

Kindle Blast — a quick and easy way to get text from your Mac to your Kindle

I’ve made an Automator workflow for easily putting text onto a Kindle. To Install Download the app: Kindle Blast.app.zip Expand it, and put it in Applications Stick it in your Dock To Use (make sure your Kindle is connected to your computer and the disk is mounted) When you are somewhere where there is text [...]

How to build kdiff3 in MacPorts on OS X 10.5 Leopard

Are you getting this error message when trying to build kdiff3 in MacPorts? i686-apple-darwin9-g++-4.0.1: /usr/X11/lib/libGL.dylib: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [libkdiff3part.la] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. Here is how to solve it: [bash] $ sudo mv /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib_bak $ sudo [...]

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