This week we've made it back to Brisbane in Australia and I've finally upgraded from my clunky Windows PC to a 15" MacBook Pro. We also bought Parallels so I'm going to be able to run OS X, Windows XP, and Linux on the same platform without rebooting.
This is exciting for me because I'll finally get to test all my templates on all three major OSes, and all major browsers, although I will not be installing IE6 on the winXP virtual machine, nor will I be installing IE for mac. I installed MAMP so I could run my Serendipity test server, and also installed Firefox 2.0 and Opera on the mac, gee they look so much better than they did on the Windows PC. Almost seems like they were always designed for the mac and Windows was just an afterthought. Maybe its just the way the mac does things.
If anyone has any advice or links on maximising battery life on the powerbook pro Id really appreciate it. Charging the battery takes a couple of hours but seems to run down just as quickly. Are there any settings I should try to adjust to reduce power wastage. I've figured out how to reduce the brightness of the keyboard backlight and screen brightness but I'm sure there must be more that I can do.
Also, can I run the powerbook pro off the power supply without charging the battery? I don't want to reduce the life of the battery by charging it too often.
Can anyone recommend a good freeware text editor for OS X, I really need one that is capable of handling css files, and if possible I'd love to use tabbed windows just like firefox.
Can anyone tell me how I can use iphoto to browse my photos, and then click something to get the photo open in the gimp? I've actually installed Gimpshop but I guess the procedure will be the same.
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Saturday, February 17. 2007
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Robert Lender said,
Saturday, February 17. 2007 at 21:15 (Reply)
Texteditor: How about TextWrangler. It´s from http://www.barebones.com/ and is the free brother of bbedit.
Thomas said,
Sunday, February 18. 2007 at 22:02 (Reply)
Correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm quite sure WinXP includes IE6 ;-)
But testing your (excelent) templates would be more interesting using IE7.
Carl said,
Wednesday, February 21. 2007 at 04:14 (Reply)
As for IE6 v IE7, I am so over IE6, I'm a firefox boy all the way, I'm going to install IE7 on the VM and just forget about 6, I figure most people will be using 7 soon anyway.