A List of things DB Needs for His New Mac
Posted on April 1, 2007So DB bought a Mac. Which I think signals the end times or Ragnarok or something, but anyways. He posted a few things he needs for his Mac. I have answers. Answers that may help other folks too. Plus I don’t feel like typing a long-ass comment on his post that will probably be blasted by comment spam checkers ‘cuz it’ll be full of links.
- DB needs a code editor. For that, I recommend Smultron. I know BBEdit is the old stalwart, and TextMate is the new hottness, but Smultron is P.D.G. (Pretty Damn Good), and, as a bonus, it doesn’t cost 120 USD (BBEdit) or 40 euro (TextMate).
- DB needs to video chat with Windows users. iChat can do it with AIM users. Unfortunately, Adium can’t do video chat. It’s a LibGAIM limitation. However, Yahoo for Mac can do video with Windows Yahoo users (with the standard shitty Yahoo video chat quality) and Skype can do cross video chats I believe, as well. I am unsure about MSN for Mac. Anyone know?
- DB misses his key command for the Run shell. Fortunately, those fine motherbitches at Blacktree developed Quicksilver. Quicksilver, with the punch of a two-key-combo, lets you launch apps, open web pages, send emails, do UNIX commands, make text files, do math, and so much more. Check it out.
- DB knows about Flip4Mac, but does he know Perian? Perian is the shit for video codecs, giving you all you need.
- DB would like an AMP stack. If only someone made a self contained development environment, complete with it’s own little Apache, PHP, and SQL… Oh wait, they do! MAMP gives you all you need for developing websites in an Apache environment, with no fuss. It’s so good, I use it my self.
That’s it for now. Anyone else got any questions, you just go on ahead and ask, li’l chilluns.
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