My 10 must-have Mac tools

As more and more people I follow on twitter do the only sensible thing and move to Mac, and also since “top list” type posts tend to drive traffic to your blog, here are my must have mac tools.  I originally wrote this up as a wiki so that Dave and Max could contribute and [...]

Evernote

Generally, my desktop looks like something exploded all over it.  One of the things I used to save most were text documents with little notes about an idea I had, or something I should build or something I have to get done.  I played with Yojimbo for a little bit and also with Circus Ponies’ [...]

Mail.app internals

I read a cool post the other day that explained how to speed up Mail.app, OS X’s built in mail client. The secret lies in the fact that Mail.app stores all of your mail in an SQLite3 database, and by running a vacuum command on the subjects table, it’ll speed up mail quite significantly. Never [...]

Setting up a PHP/MySQL development environment under OS X

Since my laptop got nicked last year, I started using a loaned Powerbook to try and get some work done. I’d always wanted to make the move from PC to Mac, but was always held back by the ease of use of a “known” operating environment and a large drive full of existing Windows format [...]