In this blog entry I give an experience report on building a budget hackintosh (my first hackintosh-build ever) and on how it went – including necessary troubleshooting (really not that big a deal). Recently, I read a report on Heise.de about building a hackintosh. I was curious about it and tried it for myself. Since … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 5.08 by Carsten Lucke Programming desktop applications in PHP? Yes, that’s possible. Usually the PHP-GTK extension to accomplish this task. GTK is available for a lot of operating systems and thus quite portable. However, GTK applications often have a different look that distinguishes them from native applications. For Mac OS X … Read more →

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 →

It’s been a while since my last article but finally I had some time and managed to write for the german PHP-Magazin, again. To my surprise my article was even chosen as cover-topic. Yippieh! I wrote about PHP- and web-development on Mac OS X using TextMate.

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 →

Some of you supposedly know about Leo, the online-translation service founded by some students of the TU München. Another nice translation-service is Beolingus provided by the TU Chemnitz. I already had the dashboard-widget for Leo installed on my Mac. However, I was disappointed to find out there was no such thing for Beolingus. Disappointed enough … Read more →