Tag Archives: mac

Visual Studio vs. Xcode

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Steven Fisher

Working with Xcode and Visual Studio on a day-to-day basis, it’s natural that I’d compare the two tools. The following is not intended to be an unbiased comparison. These are my opinions only. They’re based on how I work, and … Continue reading →

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Update what?

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Steven Fisher

It may seem like I usually come down hard on Microsoft software. The simple reason for that is that Microsoft software is worse than Apple software. But that doesn’t mean Apple software is flawless. After the user double clicks a … Continue reading →

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Developers on Xcode-users are reporting issues with Xcode 2.4 including missing SDKs and stale version numbers of the IDE and CHUD. I’m not quite at the point where I’m willing to install it myself, but I’m getting closer.

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Dustin Bachrach describes some of Xcode 3′s new features in Xcode 3.0, a Great Developer Additon.

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Here’s a handy tool for any Mac OS X user editing HTML: Hex Color Picker. It adds a hex panel to Mac OS X’s color picker. In addition to allowing you to pick colors by hex value, you can pick … Continue reading →

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

DrunkenBlog brings us another Safari crash (warning: link WILL crash Safari). This one is actually a part of WebKit.

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Yet another thorough debunking of the “Make sure you repair permissions before installing an update!” hysteria.

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Macslash posted a link to a great article on using mdfind (and mdls) instead of find or locate.

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Windows Media Player for Mac OS X has been discontinued. But don’t worry, Mac users, it’s been replaced with a better option for playing Windows Media content. Microsoft has worked out some sort of deal with the makers of the … Continue reading →

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

It’s widely accepted in the Internet world that Firefox is the end-all, be-all of web browsers. Now that Microsoft’s long forsaken Internet Explorer is starting to show its age to more and more of the general internet using public, people … Continue reading →

Posted on December 3, 2005 by Steven Fisher | 6 Comments