My development platform of choice.

One of the nice things about OS X is that it has Unix under the bonnet. That means you can install all sorts of geeky software like ImageMagick or xdebug; but, knowing where to put things can be confusing if you are new to it. Here’s a quick guide to the folder in OS X, particularly the Unix (or strictly speaking, FreeBSD) side. More»

In OS X, PDF files can be concatenated manually using Preview. But if you are happy using Terminal there’s an easier way, thanks to a Python script installed by default in /System/Library/Automator More»

I’ve seen Quicksilver mentioned several times at LifeHacker (for example, this video presentation by Quicksilver’s maker), so I decided to give it a go.
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Rar is a popular archive format on the web. When I need to unarchive several rar files at once, I use RarLab’s command line tool. Here’s how.
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When you take a screenshot of a window with Mac OS X Leopard (CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4, then spacebar), and paste it into Photoshop, it will be surrounded by an annoying black frame around it. Here’s how to get rid of it. More»

In my increasingly more and more frustrating attempt at finding some use for OpenOffice, I tackled file formats, including batch file conversion. As you can expect for an application written in Java, it wasn’t easy. More»

Setting up a Mac for PHP development used to involve a few visits to Marc Liyanage’s excellent site, playing with NetInfo and the command line. But now there’s MAMP, and NetInfo is gone. So here’s how to setup PHP development on Leopard. [Note: since writing this, it looks like Marc has started distributing PHP packages again.] More»

All the software and apps in my Mac – a reminder for when I need to rebuild it from scratch. More»