Not the first Windows-running Mac

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Sytem Update 10.4.6

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Garageband can turn you into a song writer

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What is MacOSX?

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Universal Binary pro apps appear

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Still no ‘diallers’ on Mac OS X

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Some time ago we published a piece on diallers and how there weren’t any for Mac OS X. Today there’s an article in Khaleej Times on this very topc:

More and more Etisalat customers claim that they are losing thousands of dirhams to telephone calls that they haven’t actually made and to destinations they never heard of. An Etisalat official declined to comment when contacted by Khaleej Times yesterday.

Irked customers alleged they feel duped when their telephone bills shoot up to thousands when they have in reality hardly made any international calls.

And the dismaying fact is that the bills show that calls have been made to destinations that one has not even heard about…

A technical expert who requested anonymity opined that the numerous pop ups that appear on the computer screens could be getting downloaded into the system allowing some distant source to access your internet or telephone lines.

Some Etisalat customers blame the service provider for not taking effective action to protect the interest of their customers. “Etisalat should do something as regards blocking the so-called pop-ups and cookies that create such a problem,” said one angry customer.

“There is no point in washing their hands off this problem as more and more of their customers are falling prey to this scam. They are the service providers and they have the responsibility,” he added.

As far as I know there is no such software for Mac OS X. So the advice stands – buy a Mac.

Google updates GMail notifier for Mac

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Google has updated the GMail notifier for Mac OS X. If you use GMail and Mac this is a must. The put some new icons on it, and it’s now Universal Binary.

Microsoft updates Office

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Microsoft updates Office 2004 to 11.2.3 and Messenger to 5.1.

WordPress 2.0 installation on Tiger 10.4.5

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I wanted to play around with WordPress and thought ‘wouldn’t it be cool if I could install it on my Powerbook?’ After some Googling I found guides about how to do it, but they were all for the older 1.5 version or WordPress and not for 2.0. Now, I don’t know if there are any differences in installation but there may be.

Anyway, here’s what I ended up doing on my Powerbook G4 running 10.4.5:

• I already had MySQL installed and working so I logged in and created a new database called ‘wordpress’. I didn’t create a new user, although you probably should.
• I downloaded WordPress 2.0.2 from here.
• I uncompressed the WordPress package and put all the files into Library/WebServer/Documents after I had copied everything already there to a backup folder.
• Activated PHP according to instructions here, and restarted Apache.
• I renamed ‘wp-config-sample.php’ to ‘wp-config.php’.
• At first wp-install.php would not run but after I had changed ‘localhost’ to ‘127.0.0.1′ in wp-config.php it worked fine.
• In Safari, I typed in ‘http://localhost/wp-install.php’ and followed the installation-guide. Once it was done, everything was working.

So now I have a local installation of WordPress which makes it so much easier to try many things out, especially when it comes to design. What I also did was set up the whole WordPress installation as a project in TextMate so I have easy access to all the files. I’m not sure it can get much easier to work with than this ;-)

Update: If you want much more detailed instructions, check out this three-part installation guide.

[posted with ecto]

Doom 3 via VNC

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