Archive for September, 2009

Snow Leopard: A Developer’s Delight

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Snow Leopard, just like its predecessor Leopard, is a developer’s delight. It ships out of the box with (in no particular order):

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
Python 2.6.1
perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
svn, version 1.6.2 (r37639)
Apache/2.2.11
PHP/5.3.0
Java SE 6 (javac version 1.6.0_15)
SQLite version 3.6.12
gcc 4.2.1

And then you can also install XCode 3.2 or download the iPhone SDK.
I [...]

Apple’s newest iPods (Sep’09 Edition): Disappointing India Pricing

Friday, September 18th, 2009

table.ipod { Arial; background-color:white;font-size:9pt;line-height:100%}
th { text-align:right; }
tr.first td { border-bottom: 2px solid #333;}
td { border-bottom: 1px solid #999; padding:2px}
tbody.num td { text-align:right;}
[...]

Problem installing Aperture 2.1.4 update on Snow Leopard?

Monday, September 14th, 2009

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, after which I installed Aperture 2.1 from the retail DVD. Now at this stage you cannot launch Aperture because versions lower than 2.1.4 are blocked from running on Snow Leopard. So I downloaded the 2.1.4 Aperture Update and tried installing it. The installer gave me the following [...]

Snow Leopard: Apple changes weather provider

Friday, September 11th, 2009

If you’ve used the Dashboard’s Weather Widget on Mac OS 10.5, you’ve probably noticed that the provider for weather data used to be AccuWeather.com. With Snow Leopard this has changed to a combination of Weather.com and Yahoo. AccuWeather used to have a much bigger collection of cities – including many smaller cities in India [...]

40% discount on VMWare Fusion

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

VMWare is giving 40% off on our favorite virtualization product for the Mac – VMWare Fusion. You can buy it for $47.99 (the regular price is $79.99). Use DESKTOPSALE promo code at checkout. The offer expires on 10th September 2009.
Start here.