Category: OSX

Sublime Text – Setup

I’ve recently converted my coding text editor to Sublime Text. This post is a reference for if I have to set it up again. The editor can be used on any OS and looks particularly nice on all of them….

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Sometimes You Write, Sometimes You Give Back

I’ve been doing two writing related things this week since returning from my summer vacation. Finishing my first draft of Starveyors and helping to redefine how I will write my next novel. Sometimes you write and sometimes you help others write….

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Leaving Apple for Linux

mlabowicz via Compfight When I got my new Dell laptop and put Ubuntu on it, I was doing more than just setting up a new laptop. I was defecting from the most popular creative arts platform for one that is…

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Amazon, Apple and Microsoft

The new Big Three of digital publishing. Ugh! Can I have a new future please? No? Drat. Okay, then put me in two of the three major markets. Apple still makes me pay to play with purchasing an ISBN. Who…

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Duel Booting Ubuntu and Mac OS

Installing Mac OSX after hosing your Macbook hard drive This is a cheat sheet that I have created in case I have this headache again. There were parts that I screwed up and there were parts that I simply was…

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Firefox Callsign Lookup Search Engine

If you drop by my web site, www.w0pht.org and click on the Amateur Radio page, you will find an option to install a Search plugin into your Firefox browser Search Engine box.  The handy little plugin lets you search the…

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Coherence Mode

I adjusted the RAM used by the Windows XP VM (from 512 to 312) and now Parallels seems to work nicer, especially in the Coherence mode.  Now I can have access to my OS X side while running Visual Studio…

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Virtual Windows

I spent the entire afternoon installing Windows XP Pro in Parallels as a Virtual Machine. Installing Windows on any PC takes a good bit of time, but as a VM, it seemed a little quicker, by a few minutes. online…

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Word Processor For Mac

Most if not all of my creative writing now gets done on my MacBook. I have a wonderful writing program called CopyWrite that I live in when I’m actually banging out prose. best online pharmacy with fast delivery buy paxil…

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