Mounting Samba (SMB) shares in Mac OS X Lion
If you recently upgraded from Mac OS X Snow Leopard or an earlier version to Lion, you might have noticed that mounting Samba (SMB) shares doesn’t work the way it did before Lion. Apple changed a bunch of stuff – see this page for details: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4829. Prior to Lion I was able to use an … Read more
O’Reilly PHP 5 Cookbook – 3rd German Edition
The German PHP 5 cookbook in a new and completely revised 3rd edition with information on the new PHP 5.3. Collected knowledge of American and German PHP experts. It contains hundreds of well-approved “recipes” including explanations of the new PHP features. Read more
Pure-FTPd and its Anti-Warez switch
Among all the free ftp-daemons out there I like Pure-FTPd the most. It’s easy to configure and has all features that are important to me (TLS support, virtual-users support, etc.). Anyway, today it was driving me crazy. I’ve been setting up a new Debian-based linux-box in VMWare and when starting Pure-FTPd it kept telling me … Read more
NetNewsWire for free!
Good news for all NetNewsWire fans. Newsgator’s awesome feed-reader for Mac OS is available for free since January 9th. This means no more NetNewsWire Lite! From now on FeedDemon 2.6 and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0 are also available as free download. See their website for more information. MacMegaSite also published a detailed article … Read more
Coconut Battery – awesome battery monitor
Last week I found Coconut Battery, a very useful application for portable Macs like Macbook Pro, Macbook or the older Powerbook models. It doesn’t only show you the current charge of your battery but more important the maximum charge and the capacity. This is pretty useful to see how the battery’s current capacity compares to … Read more
