As in the past couple of years I’ve made a Mac OS X Dashboard widget to count down to the State of the Map conference 2010. SOTM 2010 Dashboard Widget and the Dashcode project source.
Category: Mac OS X
Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (64-bit)
This blog post is only relevant if you are on Snow Leopard, have a 64-bit Intel Mac, and need to install ImageMagick. There are many Ruby on Rails projects out there that have some form image manipulation, thus use ImageMagick for that. Up until recently it was a real pain to install, with some huge… Continue reading Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (64-bit)
SOTM2009 Countdown Dashboard Widget
[For the Mac OS X users, who are going to this year’s State of the Map] I have updated the Dashboard widget I created last year for this years conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I’ve added a donate button on the back that takes you to http://donate.openstreetmap.org/. Dashboard Widget 163KB zip Project Source Code 880KB zip
Device Removal
I don’t touch anything, and my slow first generation MacBook will randomly come up with the above message. Maybe an uptime of 13 days is the cause? It is about time I rebooted into Kubuntu to get some updated maps on to my phone for TMJ. There has some considerable improvements in the maps in… Continue reading Device Removal
OOO: Possible fix for the command timed out error on Leopard
UPDATE:Thanks to Eric Bachard, a fix very similar to this will be appearing in OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 due to be released at the end of October 2008. — With a change in the way that X11 works on Leopard, the X11 version of OpenOffice.org has been giving an error message on startup saying “command timed out”.… Continue reading OOO: Possible fix for the command timed out error on Leopard
OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Mac OS X [Update: now available]
The release of OpenOffice.org 2.4 (X11 version) is a little behind the other platforms due to a lack of resources in the QA process, as many of the resources have been placed on the upcoming aqua version. It will be another few days to week before they are available on the mirrors and the Mac… Continue reading OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Mac OS X [Update: now available]
New OpenOffice.org Aqua Development Release
Head over to the OpenOffice.org Mac Porting web site for the latest development build. This is the most stable build of OpenOffice.org running natively on Mac OS X that I have seen. I haven’t yet had a crash with my basic usage. Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 is required. The improvements include: Printing now… Continue reading New OpenOffice.org Aqua Development Release
iLife Browser in Leopard’s open dialogs
In Leopard, if the developer allows certain types of file to be opened, then you get a free iLife browser in the file open dialog. This applies to OpenOffice.org aqua on Leopard too. As the X11 version of OpenOffice.org doesn’t have a native filepicker, this won’t be available there. Find a screenshot below. Those… Continue reading iLife Browser in Leopard’s open dialogs
BBC’s iPlayer now compatible with Mac OS X
After reading a macnn article. I have now found out that the BBC’s Player is now supported on Mac OS X. It is great that I can now watch BBC content from within Safari. The player only has a short buffer, though you can jump to any part of the video and it will start… Continue reading BBC’s iPlayer now compatible with Mac OS X
OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X Leopard
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was launched by Apple Inc. about one month ago. OpenOffice.org, with the exception of the Java features will work on Leopard. If you require the Java features of OpenOffice.org on Leopard, you require to use milestone m237 or later. The problem essentially boils down to the way that OpenOffice.org detects Java,… Continue reading OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X Leopard