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WriteRoom Reviewed

Patrick G van Diest — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:21:54 +0000

As writing tools go, WriteRoom is about as basic as they get. By default, you get green letters on a black background (see below). I mean a black background — the entire screen goes black, with just a green flashing cursor awaiting your typing.

As you might know WriteRoom is a writing tool for Mac that sole purpose is to help the writer focus on his/her writing. It features a plain basic text view without any disturbance in a form of chat window, e-mails, twitter, and others.

I wrote this blog post using WriteRoom, and it helps me focus on writing the post (rather than switch between Safari tabs)

For Windows user, you might try Q10 that had a similar feature like WriteRoom. Write on.

Tweetie for Mac

Patrick G van Diest — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:24:30 +0000

I’ve been using Tweetie for Mac for about sometime now. I tossed Twitteriffic out of the context, since it’s not so fun anymore. Anyway, a native Twitter client supposedly faster than those cross-platform Air-based Twitter clients. So Tweetie is an app to go for me right now in a Mac environment.

Today, they release version 1.2. It supports video recording via iSight, fix some bugs, but brings back those weird white selection background, and they haven’t put any Twitter refresh API yet (I really need those, the default refresh time is way too long)

I still eager to wait for other breakthrough features to this sweet Twitter client app.

Mac on Chrome News Update

Patrick G van Diest — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:06:04 +0000

Google Chrome is getting near on MacOSX. Mike Pinkerton, one of the Google dev team on Mac Chrome project stated that they had new development regarding the project. It seems the tab feature is getting more stabilize through the application.

As a frequent Google Chrome user in Windows environment, I’m excited hearing this news. If this thing is stable, so long good old Safari on my Leopard system.

(via Cult of Mac)

That Wind OSX86

Patrick G van Diest — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:19:35 +0000

One of my not-so good habit is I like to buy stuff compulsively. So when one my colleague said he actually succeeded on installing OSX86 on his Axioo Pico I just can’t stand the curiosity and bought me a MSI Wind too (the OEM version of Pico).

Now I have in my hand an MSI Wind U100 1.6Ghz Atom Powered netbook with Windows XP pre-installed. Without further a do I installed OSX86 (it was the MacOSXWind version specialized on MSI Wind)

Thoughts:

It detects almost every peripheral in there, except the Wifi device. Why? because the latest series of U100 was equipped with Atheros Wifi card, not the usual Realtek card. They only had a Realtek driver yet.
The mic-out, and line-out wasn’t detected properly. Still finding a way to solve this issues.
Sleep, restart, and shutdown features were great. No errors encountered.
You’ll get the typical OSX 10.5 Leopard user experience.

So on the next day I ask MSI if I could change the wifi module. They happily helped me changing the module to a Realtek one. Nice service there, MSI. Now I could use the wifi feature once again, although not in an Airport kind a way.

All in all, been using this WindOSX86 for about a week now. I can say that I’m happy of what it provides. Plain old OSX 10.5 in a 10-inch display. Quite nice as a Macbook nano of some sort.

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