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	<title>Eric Mills &#187; OSx</title>
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		<title>Internetting from the Right Side of the Brain: Growl, Firebug &amp; Seesmic Desktop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just installed Firebug &#8211; again &#8211; have known about it for years but only ever used Web Developer&#8217;s Toolbar in Firefox. Really enjoy the instantaneous preview tweaks of a website, especially with CSS. Then you just go and plug in your code fixes in your favorite coding tools. Also added, via Adobe Air, Seesmic Desktop [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.eamills.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-141.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-269" title="Firebug" src="http://www.eamills.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-141-300x250.png" alt="Firebug" width="300" height="250" /></a>Just installed <a href="http://getfirebug.com/">Firebug</a> &#8211; again &#8211; have known about it for years but only ever used <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60">Web Developer&#8217;s Toolbar</a> in Firefox. Really enjoy the instantaneous preview tweaks of a website, especially with CSS. Then you just go and plug in your code fixes in your favorite coding tools. Also added, via <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/air/">Adobe Air</a>, <a href="http://desktop.seesmic.com/">Seesmic Desktop</a> to manage more than one Twitter account at the same time because finally it supports Facebook in the same window pane. I like me some Facebook updates. And, <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23538">OmniGrowl</a>, though &#8220;nagware&#8221; is pretty cool if you manage blogs. You can have growl notifications of blog comments. That was my morning round of installs and experiments.</p>
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		<title>Getting Setup on Your New Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your first stop should be open source mac, where you can load up on the essentials. I&#8217;d choose Firefox over Camino, because even though Camino is &#8220;more native&#8221; there isn&#8217;t a noticable speed increase or any shinier chrome. The next three on the open source page, Miro, Adium, are a must, and I find that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your first stop should be <a href="http://www.opensourcemac.org/">open source mac</a>, where you can load up on the essentials. I&#8217;d choose Firefox over Camino, because even though Camino is &#8220;more native&#8221; there isn&#8217;t a noticable speed increase or any shinier chrome. The next three on the open source page, Miro, Adium, are a must, and I find that Mac&#8217;s built-in Spotlight works well enough as an application launcher that I don&#8217;t need Quicksilver (although 99% of mac users swear by it). Add Handbrake, Burn, and Audacity and you can do just about anything.</p>
<p>Next up, I&#8217;d skip all the open source html editors, and get yourself a copy of Adobe CS3 or 4. To help with this, you can look for torrents in all the usual places, and a little app called<a href="http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/2696332/Serial-Box-01-2009-MAC-%2B-iSerial-Reader-v2-0-6-MAC-Universal-CodeTempest"> iserialreader</a> will assist in your serial activation. If you go this route for adobe or any other software, you&#8217;ll want<a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html"> little snitch</a>, which is essentially an outbound firewall or whatever the proper term for such a thing is. Get version 2.0 or 2.0.1 because the newer version has a nagging feature. Use serials from iserialreader.</p>
<p>Because I&#8217;m the kind of guy who likes to see what&#8217;s going on underneath the hood, I install <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/istatmenus.html">iStats</a> from iSlayer, and activate the cpu, memory, and network montior in my menu bar (kind of like in Linux distros). This is a shot of what it looks like. That&#8217;s really it, because OSx is pretty cool. <a href="http://www.eamills.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/picture-17.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-209" title="picture-17" src="http://www.eamills.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/picture-17.png" alt="picture-17" width="294" height="42" /></a></p>
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