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iLife’09 Review

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Apple’s iLife keeps becoming more and more compelling with each iteration. Here is what iLife’09 manages to pack in:
iPhoto ‘09 – With face recognition coming to Picassa and Windows Live Photo Gallery, it was only a matter of time before iPhoto got it too. While iPhoto had no problems recognizing photos of my wife, it [...]

iPod shuffle in India: pricing and availability

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

The new iPod shuffles announced by Apple will be available in India in 4-6 weeks. They are going to retail for around Rs. 4,900. The older 2 GB shuffle sells today for around Rs. 3,200 so one way to look at it is (known as ‘the glass is half full’ approach) that you are getting [...]

CouchDB on Mac OS 10.5 via MacPorts

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Firstly, this post assumes you know what CouchDB is. If you haven’t heard of CouchDB before, hop over to couchdb.apache.org to find out more about it.
There are 2 easy ways to get CouchDB running on Mac OS (excluding compiling from source):
CouchDBX
Download and run CouchDBX from Jan Lehnard’s blog. This includes everything you need to [...]

Opening .CHM files on a Mac

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

CHM or Microsoft’s Compiled HTML Help format is quite widespread these days. You’ll find a lot of ebooks and documentation in this format . For example both MySQL and Apache offer their documentation is this format – the latter doesn’t offer PDFs at all. I really wish Preview handled CHM files as well, but [...]

Enable write access to an NTFS partition

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Out of the box, Mac OS 10.5 comes with read access to NTFS. Here is how you can enable Mac OS to write NTFS formatted disks:
Download and install MacFUSE: MacFUSE is a google project that enables 3rd parties to extend Mac OS X’s ability to handle different filesystems.
Once you are done, you can [...]