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Category Archives: Mac

Parallels Desktop for Mac

Mac OS or Windows? Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac lets you seamlessly run Windows and Mac OS X side-by-side, drag-and-drop your files between operating systems, and run Windows software on your Apple computer without rebooting.
Reference: http://www.parallels.com

MAMP: Mac – Apache – MySQL – PHP

MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.
MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with [...]

Snow Leopards ate my C/C++ compiler

That beast ate my compiler too *LOL*
Reference: http://www.brianp.net/2009/09/05/snow-leopards-ate-my-c-compiler/

Installing MacPorts ( mac ports )

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

Install Xcode.mpkg
Manual MacPort Install from svn
http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.subversion

$ mkdir -p /opt/mports
$ cd /opt/mports
$ svn checkout http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk

$ cd /opt/mports/trunk/base
$ ./configure –enable-readline
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ make distclean

MacFUSE and Macfusion

allows you to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities
References:
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.macfusionapp.org/