Archives for the 'Mac Software' Category
Terminal.app ANSI Colors
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Since Leopard, I did not have a good application able to change ANSI colours in Terminal.app.
Even though it does not seem a particularly pressing issue, the defaults are quite bad: the standard blue is quite too dark to be used on a dark background, so you have to use a light one. Unfortunately enough, some [...]
iCab
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Today iCab is discounted on mupromo (50%).
Here it is the wikipedia article and here the website of the author.
iCab is a browser for the Mac. It is much more: it is a piece of WWW and Mac history. For a long time it has been the only relatively functional browser for MacOS Classic (after Moz [...]
TextMate easter egg
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Very nice Halloween icon…
Texniscope Intel
Monday, April 10th, 2006
I have just compiled a Texniscope version for Intel.
It works for me, tell me if it works for you too.
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Killer: test 1 (passed)
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
This is the first test to understand what makes my MacIntel GUI terribly slow when some software run.
I wrote a small C++ program on that purpose. It makes some operations on matrices, but it does them in a quite inefficient way. When we multiply two matrices, it [...]
Multitasking on MacIntel fails in presence of bugs
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Right at the moment (as you may have learnt from some of my previous posts) I’m working on numerical libraries. I’m developing a (hopefully) efficient version of the aks algorithm to test primality.
I’m not here to describe AKS, nor to describe multitasking or any particular algorithm. It is sufficient to say that they are programs [...]
Look, I’m Universal!
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
A PPC Application
A Universal App
I have not yet found an Intel only Mac application.
Now we show some unix executables. The first one is a script.
This one is universal
and this is Intel Only
Of course you can build universal unix executables, as you’ve seen.
Install gmp with c++ with Dynamic Libraries.
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
I have to admit I’m a libtool noob. However I know gcc and g++ 4.0.1 available with MacOS Tiger are able to compile c++ dynamic libraries. In fact this is done with flag -dynamiclib
However, gmp if configured with –enable-cxx and without disabling dyamic libraries fails. In fact it passes g++ the -shared option (that works [...]
Darwin Ports vs. Fink
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Well… on my PB I recently installed Fink. It run smoothly. Fine. Here on my MacIntel I installed Darwin ports, since Fink is alpha on MacIntel.
DP is amazing. Works with no hassle and all. It’s main disadvantage is that it compiles everything (and that is not quite a problem, since I have a 2 GHz [...]
Stattoo
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Stattoo è una piccola utility fatta da Panic. Uno dei più celebri prodotti di Panic è Transmit, a detta di molti il miglior client FTP per Mac (io personalmente sono affezionato a Fetch, che come studente posso avere in licenza gratuita e che ho usato fin dalla versione 1.x nei primi anni ‘90, ma i [...]