Lördagen den 30 augusti öppnar Kantro (betyder äpple på syrianska) Store en Apple-butik i Södertälje. I styrelsen för Kantro sitter min rumskamrat Peter. Det är hans son som kommer driva den.

Nu väntar jag bara på att de öppnar en webbshop så jag inte måste åka till Södertälje varje gång jag behöver handla.

Nu finns Adium 1.3 beta 2 tillgänglig.Största förändringarna verkar vara nytt gränssnitt av infofönstret. Den verkar också starta upp snabbare nu även om man har flera konton.

Change log och nedladdning hittar du här.

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Har precis laddat ned och installerat Open Office 3 beta för att testa den. Vad som lockar är att man nu kan köra den på Mac utan att behöva dra igång X. Vi får se om den kan konkurrera ut Neo Office.

Testar att publicera med MarsEdit:

Browser-based interfaces are slow, clumsy, and require you to be online to use them. While your blog’s web interface struggles to perform the simplest of tasks, MarsEdit uses the power of your Mac to provide an amazing blog editing experience. MarsEdit is a desktop blog editor, so you can write a blog without giving up the comforts of your Mac.

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The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year–or for that matter, ever–is a Mac.

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Kolla vilken fantastisk apparat Macen är. Med hjälp av Parallels Desktop kan jag nu köra MacOS och Windows XP (eller någon Linixdistribution) samtidigt på samma maskin. Jag blir så lycklig!

Nu kan man köra Windows parallellt på Mac. Och varför vill man nu göra det? Kanske för att Agresso bara funkar i Windows och Explorer 6. En annan BRA anledning är att man vill kolla hur webbsidor beter sig i olika webbläsare och olikar operativsystem

Nu har jag haft Macen i snart 3 veckor och har börjat anpassa den efter mina preferenser. Bland annat har jag hittat ett antal open source program som jag börjat använda:

Adium Adium is a free instant messaging application forMac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

HimmelBar HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications. You can also add a custom location such as the Classic Applications folder, or any other folder of your hard disk that contains applications.

Growl Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Growl offers you complete control over which notifications are shown and how they are displayed. You will not receive any notifications that you do not want, because you can easily turn notifications (specific ones or all of them) off.

Image Tricks Don’t let Image Trick’s diminutive size and simplicity fool you. I leave this little app sitting in the dock for quick access by drag n’ dropping images directly on to the icon. Image Trick utilizes Tiger’s Core Image filters to transform and tweak screenshots, photographs, and misc images on your computer.

Quicksilver Launch files, open folders, meta tag items, upload to Flickr, etc. without ever leaving the keyboard. The list goes on and on. The possibilities seem endless thanks to an assortment of plugins and tutorials which revolve around this wonder application.

Cyberduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

Firefox The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world’s best browser.

Thunderbird Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.

NeoOffice Built on OpenOffice.org. Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.

SuperDuper Application that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

OnyX OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, configure hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Exposé, Disk Utility, delete cache, remove certain files and folders that may become cumbersome, see the detailed info of your configuration, preview logs and CrashReporter reports, check the Preferences files…

Smultron Smultron is a text editor designed to be easy and intuitive to start off with and to become more and more able as and when the user wants it.

NVU A complete Web Authoring System to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap.

iEatBrainz (Acoustic Music Tagger) Uses MusicBrainz (musicbrainz.org) to fix your mp3 and aac tags in iTunes after they’ve been ripped using acoustic matchings.

VirtueDesktops VirtueDesktops is a virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS. It offers features, eye candy and configurable options that no other desktop manager on the mac has added yet, and is under active development.

MiniStat2 Universal system monitoring widget. All about your processor, memory, storage, temperature sensors, AirPort with Bluetooth, network connections, and batteries. Customizable skins and very compact size.

Se så förvånat glad jag blir av Macens olika funktioner.