redemption in a blog

Rails, Firefox, Anime, Mac

Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Get your Rails tests results via Growl notifications

In: Mac|Ruby|Ruby on Rails|Web development

1 Apr 2007

I’ve been using Autotest (part of the ZenTest package) while testing my Rails applications and never thought of asking for more. After all, getting my tests (well, specs actually) run automatically whenever I make a relevant change and having diff-level granularity on which tests Autotest re-runs is pretty damn useful enough. That is, until I [...]

23 Comments

IMAP-IDLE plugin for Apple Mail

In: Applications|Mac|Mozilla

25 Feb 2007

Yup I switched to Apple Mail from Thunderbird a few months back, primary reason being back then I was barely able to run my developer applications on 512MB of RAM (Apple Mail runs lighter than Thunderbird, unfortunately). It’s comforting to find that there is an IMAP-IDLE plugin for Apple Mail (Thunderbird got its IDLE support [...]

2 Comments

Sharing a USB printer from Mac OS X to Windows

In: Mac|Operating Systems

5 Feb 2007

Not too long ago I was asked to use hook up the Mac Mini that was collecting dust in our office to our HP Deskjet printer (HP Deskjet 1280 to be exact) and have it function as a “print server” of sorts (we have since replaced it with a NAS with print server functionality, which [...]

97 Comments

VLC 0.8.6 – full screen controller panel

In: Applications|Mac|Open Source

26 Dec 2006

VLC media player 0.8.6 (changelog) was released a few weeks ago so this may be old news, but I am clearing my backlog of drafts. Mac OS X users, if you watch videos in full screen mode (like I do most of the time), you’d be delighted to know that they added a full screen [...]

4 Comments

HP laptop with an Apple sticker

In: Mac

14 Dec 2006

Saw this in a MacDonald’s at a local shopping mall: If you can look past the fuzziness of the photo, it’s actually someone using a HP laptop with an Apple sticker. Now, if only I can get a HP sticker for my MacBook Pro…

3 Comments

Older Entries

Newer Entries

Subscribe to RSS feed