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Last night I made the mistake of playing with some very strong magnets near my laptop. Magnets are hard to resist, especially when they trigger the magnetic switch that puts it to sleep. Unforunately I moved the magnet too close to the hard drive.
I heard a single click. Fear strikes! I [...]

Many of us PHP developers use php.net often. The mirrors available are pretty good, but what if you don’t have a net connection. Ah, OSX already has Apache and PHP installed. This combined with the handy way php.net allows anyone to have a mirror can save your life.

We need to get a [...]

After upgrading to Tiger I wanted to install iChatStatus so my Active Application or Current iTunes song could be displayed as the status. Unfortunately it does not work on Tiger.
This led me to decide to write my own script so I could do even more. My script will set your iChat status to [...]

I decided to upgrade to PHP5 on my Powerbook. PHP4 is nice, but not as nice as PHP5.
Here is a quick rundown of what I did.

If fink is installed you may install these optional and very useful libraries

fink install mysql-client mysql14-dev # MySQL: connects to MySQL
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After using Tiger for the past few weeks I have some new observations.
Dashboard while cool, is not going to be a necessary part of life with OSX. It is still very easy to develop for, and many have created some great widgets. Some of these are useful, but will not change your life [...]