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What is the best Git GUI on OSX?

What is the best GUI on OSX for viewing a repository, and (optionally) manipulating it? ...

How to protect Mac OS X software from cracking?

We're releasing a Mac version of our Windows application. Under Windows, there are several tools for executable protection, for example Armadillo, ExeCryptor, AsProtect etc, however, none of these has a Mac version. So, my question is: Are there any executable protection / encryption tools for Mac OS X? ...

How do I enable more than 8-bit colors in Terminal.app?

In the Vim and Emacs terminal apps, the color schemes look horrid. How do I enable the colors to be as vibrant as the GUI version (or more than 8 colors for that matter)? Should I just give up, and move over to their respective GUI applications? And if so, which? ...

Oracle connection problem on Mac OSX: "Status : Failure -Test failed: Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection"

I'm trying this with Oracle SQL Developer and am on an Intel MacBook Pro. But I believe this same error happens with other clients. I can ping the server hosting the database fine so it appears not to be an actual network problem. Also, I believe I'm filling in the connection info correctly. It's something like this: host = foo1.co...

Virtual network interface in Mac OS X

I know that you can make a virtual network interface in Windows (see here), and in Linux it is also pretty easy with ip-aliases, but does something similar exist for Mac OS X? I've been looking for loopback adapters, virtual interfaces and couldn't find a good solution. You can create a new interface in the networking panel, based on a...

Programmatically stream audio in Cocoa on the Mac

How do I go about programmatically creating audio streams using Cocoa on the Mac. To make, say a white-noise generator using core frameworks on Mac OSX in Cocoa apps? ...

how to connect oracle?

how to connect oracle by php on MAC OS X? oci? ...

endian-ness of new macs - are all pc platforms the same now?

Does the change of macs over to intel chips mean we're done with the bit twiddling on numbers in binary resources for cross platform data distributions? Is that the last of this problem or are there some other platforms I'm not aware of? ...

Beginner question about XCode 3.1.1 and static libraries

Hi all, I'm an experienced VS.NET user and trying to get up and running on XCode 3.1.1. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I'd like a static library ("Lib") to have its own xcodeproj file. I'd an executable application ("App") that makes use of Lib to reference Lib's xcodeproj file so that changes to Lib cause App to relink. Ideall...

what's the best app to draw UI wireframes on the mac? (And why)

I want to draw user interfaces for web and desktop applications. I need something less print-oriented than omnigraffle. think pixels! Also, need good building blocks (aka stencils). Form elements, tableviews, etc. ...

What is the best way to connect remotely to a mac

I'm trying to remotely control a macintosh computer. I know that in the windows world, you can use Remote Desktop to connect from one windows computer to another windows computer. This works relatively well. I know that you can use a VNC server but this isn't always the most secure or give the best performance. Are there other opti...

Is it possible to send the contents of a text file to the clipboard from the command line in OS X?

I've found myself needing to do this a couple of times lately and wondered if there was a way to do this in the OS already. Failing that, I've got a pretty good idea of how to write a script to do it, I just need to know how to access the clipboard in os x. ...

Arial Font doesn't display properly in Mac

I have a flash movie with a dynamic text that supposedly is Arial, and in my windows machine it displays as Arial. But when I tried it in a Mac, it shows as something like Times New Roman. I tried every property available and can't seem to get it to show as Arial on the Mac. I found another movie I had that didn't have this problem, so...

How do I create a nice-looking DMG for Mac OS X using command-line tools?

I need to create a nice installer for a Mac application. I want it to be a disk image (DMG), with a predefined size, layout and background image. I need to do this programmatically in a script, to be integrated in an existing build system (more of a pack system really, since it only create installers. The builds are done separately). ...

Physical Address in JAVA

How do I get the physical addresses of my machine in Java. ...

Focus-follows-mouse (plus auto-raise) on Mac OS X.

(I don't want to hear about how crazy I am to want that! :) Focus-follows-mouse is also known as point-to-focus, pointer focus, and (in some implementations) sloppy focus. [Add other terms that will make this more searchable!] ...

Run script on suspend/resume in Mac OS X

Is there any way to automatically run a script on suspend/resume (i.e. when I close the lid, or after opening it) under Mac OS X 10.4? ...

What are some useful TextMate shortcuts?

Macs are renowned (or bemoaned) for having an extensive number of shortcuts. However, OS X itself pales in comparison to the shortcut lists in TextMate and its bundles. What are some useful keyboard shortcuts you use? ...

Eclipse text comparison order

I'm using Eclipse 3.4 (on Mac) and I've got an annoyance with the text comparison having the files I'm comparing in a specific order which is not what I want. When I compare two files it always seems to put the first file (alphabetically) on the left, and the latter one on the right, but I want to be able to change this on a comparison ...

What is a good GUI text editor for the Mac?

I'm relatively new to programming on the Mac, and I need a good text editor. I'm looking for something: free, gui-based, non-VIM, non-Emacs. As a reference, my editors of choice on Windows are SciTe and Visual Studio's editor. ...