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A tale of two upgrades
Last week while I was working on my iPhone app, XCode started to stuck and suck. The beach-balls were blocking me almost every hour. I was ver annoyed thinking why this machine is so slow. The MacBook Pro I'm using is reasonably fast and almost recent (bought last year). The whole point of buying a MacBook Pro is the ability to run at least two command shells, XCode, iOS simulator, Pixelmator (for graphics manipulation) and Safari for reference. Read more – ‘A tale of two upgrades’.
Mounting remote (ssh) filesystem on Mac OS X
I use SSH to login to different servers I manage. There are some nifty tools available for a Mac for transferring files to a server via SCP like Fugu and Cyberduck. But I wanted to have the entire folder mounted in Finder so that I can access it anytime. The MacFuse + sshfs combination worked [...] Read more – ‘Mounting remote (ssh) filesystem on Mac OS X’.
→Threading in Cocoa applications
Brent Simmons’s notes on threading in Cocoa applications: Stuff happening in threads is private and self-contained. Black boxes, train cars. Communication between two things should be on the main thread, except in carefully controlled circumstances. Communication includes notifications and KVO, not just direct calls. Using GCD or NSOperationQueue is way better than the old ways [...] Read more – ‘→Threading in Cocoa applications’.
→ Jim Reeks: The Man Behind the Mac Startup Sound
Who’s the man behind the sound you hear, every time you startup your Mac? One More Thing onemorething.nl went down to San Jose to track him down: Jim Reekes. He worked for Apple for over 12 years, during which he left his mark on everything sound at Apple. via OMT in San Francisco #3: Let [...] Read more – ‘→ Jim Reeks: The Man Behind the Mac Startup Sound’.
Mutt for GMail IMAP on Mac OS X
Mutt is an advanced email client for *nix systems that runs in a terminal . Here’s how you can use mutt on Mac OS X [Snow] Leopard  and configure for GMail account with IMAP. All mail clients suck. [mutt] just sucks less. First download and install MacPorts. Open a terminal window and install Mutt 1.5.20 using [...] Read more – ‘Mutt for GMail IMAP on Mac OS X’.
GrowlMail breaking Mail after Safari 4 Beta Installation
After installing the latest security update on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Mail began to crash on startup. It printed out the message saying the problem may be because of the GrowlMail plugin. Disabling the Growl and removing the GrowlMail plug-in didn’t help. I’d to remove the GrowlMail.mailbundle from both the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles and /Library/Mail/Bundles. Now the [...] Read more – ‘GrowlMail breaking Mail after Safari 4 Beta Installation’.
Macworld '09 and the new unibody 17" MacBook Pro
Except for the new unibody 17″ MBP, the other three announcements (iLife ’09, iWork ’09 and iTunes DRM Free Music) were not pleasing the mac fans out there. I still skeptical about the new MacBook Pro, given that I’m very happy with my current one. I don’t want to upgrade at least for the next [...] Read more – ‘Macworld '09 and the new unibody 17" MacBook Pro’.
MacHeist Bundle
Finally, I bit the bullet and buying the MacHeist bundle. I've already purchased CSSEdit which is part of the bundle. But there are some great apps in the bundle I don't want to miss out. Also, being a Heister I've an extra discount of $10. So, all 14 apps for just $39.00 :-) Read more – ‘MacHeist Bundle’.
givegoodfoodtoyourmac promotion
Twenty European developers will start offering their applications to Mac users with price discount ranging from 30 to 70%. The special offer will start on November 27th, and will include the following applications:

Art Text from Belight Art Text is an application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons. The program implements the latest Mac OS X technologies which allow you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy graphic. Use the result with iWork, Microsoft Office, BeLight applications and other programs. Create more compelling business presentations, brochures, flyers, postcards, business cards and Web sites with the program.

BannerZest from Aquafadas BannerZest is Flash presentation software for professional and amateur web designers. Turn your pictures into a flash slideshow with a few simple clicks and share it on your website. BannerZest doesn't require you to know or even possess Flash!

PixelMator from PixelMator Pixelmator is a beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.

Cheetah3D from Cheetah3D Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeling, rendering and animation package for Mac OS X with an easy learning curve. It offers many tools from powerful polygon editing over advanced subdivision modeling to HDRI and radiosity renderings.

Contactizer Express & Pro from Objective Decision Contactizer Express is a new, easy to use, affordable but powerful Contact Manager for Mac OS X. Built from the identical core as Contactizer Pro, Express features the same intuitive user interface and innovative approach that has been universally praised by both users and press alike.

CoverScout 2.3.5 from Equinux Complete your iTunes collection with authentic album artwork. Check status (complete, incomplete, none) of the artwork already imported in your iTunes collection. Look up various websites (e.g. Amazon, Google, etc.) with CoverScout to find missing artwork. Eventually choose between multiple images or resolutions. Set cover with one click (right click) for complete albums in your iTunes library.

CSSEdit from MacRabbit CSSEdit makes editing stylesheets easy and intuitive. With features like live inline previewing of styles and a unique grouping system, it offers a lot of punch in a low-cost package. Other features include CSS grabbing from other sites, favorites for often-used styles and font sets, etc.

Feeder from Reinvented Software Feeder is a fully featured application for creating, editing and publishing RSS and iTunes podcast feeds. Whether it's a news feed for your site or a podcast, Feeder makes it simple.

Fotomagico Express from Boinx Software Ltd. Boinx FotoMagico lets you create professional slideshows from your photos and music with just a few, simple mouse clicks. It sports a very clean and intuitive yet powerful user interface. High image quality, fast performance, and user flexibility were some of the design goals for this application.

FreeWay Express and PRO from Softpress Systems Limited Freeway Express is Softpress’ entry-level product and the successor to Freeway LE. Using Freeway Express, anyone can create a Web site quickly and easily, without needing to learn or edit HTML code.

Geophoto from Ovolab Geophoto lets you see your pictures from a new perspective. Break the limits of long lists of pictures sorted by date! You can now browse your photo albums by location, easily finding the pictures you've taken in a particular place, during a particular trip.

iDive from Aquafadas iDive is a digital video shoebox...for your DV tapes and now for all your QuickTime movies.It will turn any assortment of disorganised video files into an instantly accessible catalog. Finding a clip hidden amongst hours of footage will never again be a problem.

iStopMotion Home from Boinx software Ltd. Remember how you watched, fascinated, when King Kong climb the Empire State building? When Luke Skywalker rode the ice beasts? When Wallace and Gromit hunted down the Were-Rabbit? For centuries now, stop motion animation has made the fantasies of film makers come true.

Magnet from Creaceed Magnet is the easiest way to customize your movies and share them with your friends. With advanced motion tracking, the cat's head will follow the same path as in the original movie. Using Magnet, you are able attach a picture or animation to a movie, to define a blur zone, or even to emit particles that follow the moving objects.

Merlin 2.5 from ProjectWizard Merlin is the only native network-based collaborative Project Management solution for Mac OS X.This version offers over one hundred new features and enhancements propelling Merlin to the top of Mac OS X professional project management software.

Money from Jumsoft Money helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily. It supports all the features required for personal or small-business accounting needs.

Morphage 3.x from Creaceed Morph Age is an application for morphing/warping images and movies on Mac OS X, such as faces, and save the result to a QuickTime movie.

Personal Trader from Coladia Personal Trader is a stock market utility designed for the management of investment portfolio. Intuitive and easy to use, you can track and analyze your investments. Just one click and Personal Trader will get the values from Internet and update your current holdings. It lets you get the values from the Internet and update your current holdings.

PulpMotion from Aquafadas PulpMotion... Quick is easy and easy is fun! Create fun animations with all your (i)Life: music, photos AND your videos... no one's left over not even the iSight! From stately to funky, from captivating to comical, choose your style to impress your audience.

RapidWeaver from realmacsoftware RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design application to help you easily create professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver produces valid XHTML & CSS based websites.

Remote Buddy 1.x from Iospirit GmbH Remote Buddy allows you to remotely control anything on your Mac with your iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple Remote or Wii Remote.

Tables from Daniel Schwill Tables enables you to organise and present data very simply.With Tables you can not only organise data but also do calculations and comparisons with it. Add, sum or multiply numbers or process data by using various functions.

Together from Reinvented Software Together lets you keep everything in one place. Text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks can all be dragged to Together for safe keeping, tagged, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again instantly.

VideoPier from Aquafadas VideoPier is the missing link between MPEG2 camcorder and your Mac. It lets you visualize the clips on your camera that Quicktime would otherwise refuse to open. VideoPier lets copy them to disk, and export them to any format for viewing (iPod, AppleTV, iPhone) or editing (iMovie 06/08).

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