Tutorials and great Mac software!
I’d like to know how many visitors (and customers of iMap/iWebExpander) are using Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)! This is important to me for making new and enhancing my existing applications. The reason for that is that the Leopard Dev Tools offer so many new features, that I would just like to take advantage of – but if not to many are using Leopard it would be a waste of time.
So just vote here and let me know on what version of Mac OS X you are on:
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Thanks!
Having nearly tested nearly every new feature of Leopard, I can say that I really like it! I’ve loved Tiger and I love Leopard even more. The features are deep-thought and are not “WOW” when you hear them from Apple’s website – but when you start to use Leopard you’ll see lot’s of small changes that make life easier.
One of the rather big changes was Time Machine. Time Machine is a automated backup application with which you can actually travel back in time to get your lost stuff back into the future. Really useful that tool!
So why mention this? Well, my good old PowerBook G4 ain’t that fastest machine in the universe. The rather small HD makes it hard for me to fit a vast iTunes library on it. The iTunes movies take lot’s of space with about 1 Gigabyte per movie. So there were just 34 Gigabytes saying good bye.
I ended having up only 5 Gigabytes! Not good! Not only cause of the low number – but because it slows everything down. Slooooooooowwwww.
So what did I do? Well, I just trashed my 30 movies and boom, 40 Gigabytes of free space. Wonder about them being lost? No, No! The movies are backed up on my external HD and I can access them whenever I need to. Just makes life so much easier. 
So if you ever need space – trust in Time Machine because you can rock the future by going back in time. 
Lastly, the Time Machine screenshot has been screenshoted from Apple’s website. Thanks Apple for the image and for this fantastic application!
Safari 3 is Apple’s latest browser and is surely my favorite one in the world of browsers. Firefox, is just yuck, it has a ugly look and ARG – just horrible. We then have Opera which is the worse that I have ever experienced – I mean, just look at the icon??? Who wants that in a dock??? No one!!! BTW – same goes for the Firefox icon (Even though the fox is a nice idea). Better is the Camino Browser which is a mixture of Firefox’s browser engine and Safari’s elegance. Well done Camino group!!!
In any case, I’m a 100% Safari user and will never switch to a different one.
Now to the post, since Safari is quite new, it has some great features that have yet not been discovered. One of them is a advanced source-code inspector that makes life easier than ever, at least for developers.
Firefox has a plugin named Firebug which allows you to look at the source-code of a page, steal stylesheets in a snap and lots of other great things. Safari now supports this without any sort of plugin. A right-click inspector will allow you to get this:
The image above shows the loading time for certain things of my site. All visually interesting and the power of this “inspector” is just amazing.
Here is a image which shows the source code with syntax coloring.
This image shows how elements are set up within other elements, basically displaying the whole hierarchy and then the corresponding style attachments for this element! Coooool!
This is known through Coda already – but it is just nice to see this out of Coda.
Now how do you get this cool thing? It’s totally easy, just follow this steps:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool trueI hope you enjoy this little trick.
Yeah I know, probably not very exciting for all you guys, Leopard has been around quite a long time and many of you are already using it – but I was not one of them. It finally arrived today since Amazon didn’t have enough copies left so it took them quite a while to process through all the orders.
It’s installed – I just ordered another 1GB RAM for my mac – and the upgrade was a charm. Nothing lost, only great new things were gained. First of all, I changed the background from this ugly Aurora to the Grass background – but I am still not really happy with the outcome. i guess I have to make my own cool aqua background, since Apple didn’t want to.
In any case, I took a look at the new Developer Tools and they are really great. Now it’s real fun making apps – with the new Leopard!
I guess that’s about it, what I wanted to say in this post.