May 8, 2008

Make your Leopard Terminal (and VIM) shine with SIMBL, TerminalColors, and the IR_black theme.

One thing that always bothered the crap out of me about OS X was their implementation of 'Terminal'. Staring at a black box with only white text is quite unnerving. I'm not sure how their seemingly graphically-anal designers at Apple could handle it. Anyways, there's fortunately an easy solution to this ginormous problem.

There's an excellent tutorial that runs through the process of customizing just about everything with Terminal, but I'm going to get right to the point with as little extra stuff as possible.

Apr 8, 2008

It’s official: Apple’s Time Capsule sucks. I now own a $500 rock.

In concept, Apple's Time Capsule seems like a great product. For the first few days, it seemed to work great. Eventually, however, it started randomly disconnecting me every 5 seconds. Aside from generating a cool effect of Adium popping up and down rapidly, it was extremely frustrating. My only solution was to restart the Time Capsule.

So the disconnects happen about once a week now, sometimes twice. I could live with that, no big deal.

Dec 4, 2007

My switch to Mac… a developer’s perspective on Mac OS X.

So my intentions for this blog post are not to gloat about how 'uber cool' Mac's OS X is, or why everyone on PC should switch. We've seen far too many people do just that, so instead, I'll focus on my thoughts over the past couple months, during which I've completely migrated from Windows XP to OS X.