Entries tagged with “OSX” from ant0ine's blog

On Unix and OSX, Ctrl-e put the cursor at the end of the line.

On MediaWiki Ctrl-e loads the "edit" page even when you are already on it. The result is that all your changes are lost !

You can imagine why I'm writing this post, Yes, I hit Ctrl-e very often :-)

Thanks JY !

Two different solutions to save 10 minutes per day when doing custom searches.

• with this QuickSilver hack

• and the FireFox bookmark-keyword shortcuts

A cool new little app from a Mac user at Google: the GMail Notifier for Mac OSX. A lot better than the Firefox extension I was using before.

Tiger is out since yesterday, I read some interesting reviews like this one from ArsTechnica

But I can't find a full changelog to see if Terminal.app has been improved.

Does somebody have more information?

After some years of using Linux (I think my first distrib was a RedHat 5.1, but I'm not sure) I've switched last month to Mac OS X.

The change between a Dell Inspiron + Fedora Core 3 and a PowerBook 17 + Panther is radical.

• with Linux the suspend to disk is not very easy to set up, in contrast with OS X, I never stop my PB !
• a clean filesystem, it's UNIX, but it's clean.
• a very good GUI, on Linux I'm used to use GNOME that has learnt a lot from OS X, but now with the original, it's better.
• a very well design hardware, all the PC laptops look ugly to me now !

Really, when software and hardware are designed in the same time, by the same people, it makes the difference.

I've added some software to make OS X more "geek friendly"

• a virtual desktop manager Virtue (thanks Yann for this comparative)
• a launcher (and more) QuickSilver
• an SSH tool Fugu
• a monitoring tool MenuMeters
• THE browser, Firefox
• an Email client Thunderbird, but it's still very buggy, and not very integrate with the OS, on this point, Linux and Evolution 2 are better.

The most important drawback of this switch is the Terminal , I've tried different solutions, Terminal, iTerm, xterm (from X11), but nothing works as well as with Linux. Maybe with Tiger in a few days :)