Archive for the 'OS' Category

Adding Kannada support to Mac OS X

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

As mentioned earlier, Mac OS X (10.5) comes with support for Devnagri (which technically enables Hindi, Marathi; and depending on where you are in India, Konkani), Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil. Support for other Indian languages is available from 3rd parties and is usually free. Here is how you can add Kannada support to your Mac.
If [...]

New software updates available for OSX

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Apple has released a bunch of updates for OSX including some security patches.

The softwares which are getting updates are -

FCP/Pro Apps
iPhoto
iLife
iWeb
iMovie
iTunes
Security update

Edit: Apparently most of these updates are old, they just showed up in my ‘Software Update’ today

5 handy UNIX commands for Terminal.app lovers

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Given Mac’s slick UI, chances are you’ll never bother with what is under the hood. Still, sometimes it helps to know a little bit of Terminal-foo. If you studied UNIX at school or college, you’ll feel right at home. Mac OS after all is UNIX under the hood and you can even find remenants [...]

A guide to Indian languages on Mac OS X

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Mac OS X Leopard has decent support for Indian scripts and languages. Out of the box, Leopard comes with fonts and keyboards for Devnagri, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil.
Reading Indian language text:
There is nothing that you need to install to be able to correctly view data in these scripts. For example, if you visit the BBC’s [...]

Mac basics for Windows users: Menus

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I bought my first Mac a few months ago. Having been a dyed-in-wool Windows user (and a former Microsoft employee) meant that I was apprehensive about my ability to be productive with Mac OS. The fact that Macs can now run Windows (both natively under Boot Camp and virtualized), made the decision easy – I [...]