Let me tell you something. If you ever paid money for a Windows Emulator for your Mac, make a sad face and read these words very carefully. Open source is free, stable, reliable, and continuously updated. So on the topic of running Windows executables on your Mac, Darwine has been around for years and is the Mac port of the popular Wine app which has been available to *nix users for years. Download it using this easy guide and start playing your favorite Windows game in minutes. (more…)
Call it a trick or not, anyone who has used dual monitors on a Mac knows how handy it would be to have a second menu bar on the extending screen. The following app does exactly that by placing the menu on your second screen and giving you a fairly wide variety of options and customizations that allow you to tweak it to your hearts content.
The new 2010 i7 and i5 MacBook Pro’s feature two graphics cards, an integrated Intel HD card and a GeForce GT 330M. There’s nothing wrong with this, unless you’re trying to conserve battery life and aren’t playing games. For whatever reason Apple hasn’t released any updates with the functionality to switch between the two manually, but thankfully some hackers have done the dirty work for us. (more…)
This is an easy pick, not a shameless plug. All you developers out there know how convenient it is to have a real time database app. Sometimes phpMyAdmin just doesn’t cut it. For those who are familiar with the popular Windows counterpart, SQLyog, this will be a no brainer. Sequel Pro is a free and beautiful app for your Mac which will make web development and database administration a breeze. (more…)
On January 11, 2010, In OS X, Tips & Tricks, by sergio
This may not be so useful for everyone, but i’m sure i’m not the only one who has searched for an answer to this question. Whether it may be for easy access to your favorite website or some kind of home development project editing your Macs hosts file is easy as ever. Ever done it on a Windows machine? It’s pretty much the same thing. Here is how we do it. (more…)