Category Archives: Mac OSX

iBook, therefore iWas

In a move suprising no-one Apple have gone and put a core duo in an iBook and called it: MacBook. Do I win a prize for buying G4 just before they switched.

Thoughts on Sub Etha Edit

After getting my copy of SubEthaEdit for free with BlogZot, I decided to post my thoughts on it. It has some very powerful abilities as a text editor- but does lack some of the more advanced features like those found in TextMate. It does have some problems such as not auto indenting python when an

An easier way to play SubEthaEdit

The nice people at MacZot are offering SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys for free at the end of the day- but only if they get enough links. And there’s no better price than free. BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com –EDIT– Thought this song was appropriate. –EDIT– Finished, should be getting my key for it soon. I’ll be posting

RSS Reader showdown

After having used google reader on and off for a while (mostly off) I decided that it was time to look into a decent not-web based RSS reader that was good at serving me news. Firstly I had a few requirements: Must be free. Must not suck. Must not have too many annoying quirks. So

Sandvox- quite possibly last beta release

Wow, my favourite (albeit highly unstable) easy to use website creation tool has gone into a final beta stage. I’m going to give it a download and have a play and maybe post a review of it here- it showed real signs of promise last time I saw it (before I rebuilt my mini’s hdd

MacZOT

Well, I got my free code for AppZapper and it worked. It seems to perform its fuction very well. I also signed up for their mystery meat thing for £9- so I’ll see how that works out. MacZot basically bulk buy shareware and sell it on at a discount price to drum up publicity. They

Epson Stylus DX3800 (DX-3800) printer and scanner drivers for OSX

The Epson DX3800 is a small multi-function ink jet printer and it’s cheap. One problem: it says that it’s windows only. Although if you follow these instructions you can get it to work in OS-X. Since having got this to work on OS-X, I thoght it would only be fair to post it here. For