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Getting started with WordPress and MAMP on your Mac

by Sang Tang (Oct 9th, 2009)

WordPress is among the more popular blog publishing and content management systems available. Some web hosting providers, such as GoDaddy and DreamHost, provide a relatively seamless and integrated WordPress installation process built into their ...

Ask TUAW: Photoshop alternatives, Windows and Mac file sharing, application switching and more

by Chris Ullrich (Oct 8th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about Photoshop alternatives, Windows and Mac file sharing, graphics problems in Snow Leopard and quickly switching between applications, and more. As ...

VLC 1.0.2 includes 64-bit Mac port and security fixes

by TJ Luoma (Sep 28th, 2009)

VideoLAN's popular cross-platform open source media player VLC 1.0.2 is now available with an important security update. The rest of the release notes are rather terse and nerdy: "BEWARE: this release is not compatible with Tiger. This version ...

WidgetPad: web development for iPhone apps

by Josh Carr (Sep 15th, 2009)

Sorting through the tips inbox, we encountered a new product that is coming out for the iPhone next week. It's not an app, game, or anything we "normal folk" would use but it looks to be a great open source, web-based development platform for iPhone. ...

LogMeIn to Mac users: No Hamachi² for you!

by Steven Sande (Sep 11th, 2009)

I'm not a fan of setting up Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In fact, I've had so many issues with VPNs in the past that I now subcontract that work to a fellow geek who seems to have a knack for understanding the various settings. That's why I have ...

How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- it's easy and free

by Steven Sande (Sep 7th, 2009)

I received a private tweet from a reader the other day, who asked a question about a previous post in which I had installed Windows 7 RC1 on a Mac using Sun's VirtualBox. The tweet asked, "You did a post about installing Win 7 on the Mac for free. ...

Need a few petabytes of Mac storage? Build your own BackBlaze Storage Pod

by Steven Sande (Sep 1st, 2009)

One of the largest personal iTunes libraries I've ever seen belongs to a client of mine. This client, who was a DJ in the 50's and 60's, has a huge collection of vinyl albums and singles that he painstakingly digitized, cleaned up, and catalogued in ...

SweetFM now an open source project

by Joachim Bean (Jul 16th, 2009)

Update: SweetFM has now been moved to a project on GitHub SweetFM, a totally awesome Mac client for the Last.fm streaming music & recommendations service, is now an open source project. This means that anyone can download it for free and you ...

WWDC Demo: Mashduo compares iTunes libraries

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 7th, 2009)

When traveling, I am always amused to see other iTunes libraries appear in my iTunes as we all glom on to the same wireless network. "Oh, hello there, Sandy's MacBook, I didn't realize you were such a Hootie and the Blowfish fan." If you're ...

PS3 Media Server transcodes and remuxes in real time

by Mat Lu (Jul 6th, 2009)

For a while now I've been using MediaLink ($20) from Nullsoft to stream video from my Mac to my PS3, but last evening I discovered that I had some MKV (Matroska container) files that I wanted to stream but which the PS3 doesn't natively support. ...

The question of emulators

by Mike Schramm (Jun 26th, 2009)

Gizmodo recently posted this video, which is beautiful to any PSX-era gamers: it's Final Fantasy VII running right on the iPhone, like buttah thanks to the 3GS hardware. How is this possible? Through the magic of emulation -- ever since computers got ...

Installing Windows 7 RC1 on your Mac... for free

by Steven Sande (May 10th, 2009)

Sometimes you have to use Windows. Supporting clients in multiple-OS environments makes this a necessity for some Mac users, while others want to run applications that are available in Windows only. You can get a preview of the latest flavor of ...

Prism single-site browser goes 1.0 beta

by Michael Rose (May 10th, 2009)

The concept of a single-site browser or site-specific browser (SSB, either way) is simple: give me a window with one website in it, preferably a desktop application replacement like Gmail, RTM, Basecamp or Zoho, and let that window behave like a ...

Found Footage: iPhone file transfer with style

by Steven Sande (May 3rd, 2009)

iPhone developer Emanuele Vulcano pinged us with a note today telling us about a free file transfer app for the iPhone. Since most file transfer apps are a real yawner, I was dubious...until I watched the video. What makes Mover (click opens iTunes) ...

Google Chrome run natively (most of it, anyway)

by Mike Schramm (Apr 7th, 2009)

After much lamenting and a few attempts, Google Chrome can finally be run natively in OS X. Kind of. Don't get us wrong, it works: it starts up fast and runs one process per window, just like the Windows version. But there are a few glaring holes, ...

NeoOffice 3 available for download

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 31st, 2009)

We had a lot of mail from users eager to let us know that the NeoOffice 3.0 is now available. NeoOffice is a Mac OS X native open-source office suite originally crafted from the code used for OpenOffice, and its developers are boasting about the ...