Finally, Retail Leopard on Gigabyte 965P-DS3

4 minutes Not a how-to A lot has happened in the OSX86 world. From its humble beginnings back in 2006, when it was the playground of the extremely talented few, and OSX installations were wrought with issues, to the “boom” period when large number of “distros” were the call of the day, and industrious users created their … 

 

Textmate and SVN

5 minutes The shift was overdue. Although Coda, my dev app of choice, offers everything a hobbyist programmer would need, it fails miserably on one aspect. Namely, code folding. For a long time, this trade-off seemed to still justify the use of this app for day-to-day development needs, in light of its other features, e.g. easy integration … 

 

Open or Export CHM files on OS X

< 1 minute CHM files are the de-facto distribution standard of e-books in some circles (O’Reilly) etc, and though these can be opened natively on a Windows machine, the same cannot be said for OSX. One of the best (though certainly not the most popular for some reason) app for opening CHM files on OSX is iCHM. I … 

 

OS X 10.5.8 is out – Choppy performance is back

2 minutes Apple released Leopard 10.5.8 a few days back. The update went without a hitch on my MacBook Pro. The story on my Hackintosh isn’t so great. The choppy performance issues are back, after having been wiped clean in 10.5.7. Argh. I reinstalled OSX to no avail. I nearly borked my system in the process. Here’s …