Category Archives: Software
How to install pkg file commandline?
Recently, when I tried to install a pkg file, just by double clicking, it gave an error. In such situations commandline installer tool comes handy. Here is how you can use it. sudo installer -pkg <pkg name> -target / (Usually the target location is the root folder. However you can also point it to some [...]
Snow Leopard is out
After all most two years of development and testing Apple has released it’s new operating system on the 28th August 2009. It is two months earlier than previously planned but many blog sites have correctly predicted the early arrival. According to Apple, this release is all about refinement not reinvention. They have done lot work [...]
How to access HFS+ formatted HDD from a Windows PC?
There are several ways you can access a Mac HDD from Windows PC. If you have a Mac and a PC you can activate the File Sharing in System Preferences on your Mac and you are ready to go. The Mac should appear under network. You can make the process easier by mapping the network [...]
How to use the OS X built-in screen capture utility
If you haven’t discovered yet, there is nice OS X hidden gem called screen capture, which could be quit useful taking snapshots of your screen. If you want to take a screen shot of the full screen press Command + Shift + 3. For a selected area, press Command + Shift + 4 and highlight [...]
How to update Rails on OS X
Since Apple released Leopard a while back, the Ruby on Rails team has released several updates. Here are the commands to update the Rails on the terminal. $ sudo gem update –system $ sudo gem install rails $ sudo gem update rake Happy Railing!
Apple’s impressive product lineup
Finiteloops.com wishes a Happy New Year 2009 to all the visitors! It’s been a long time since I posted any news here. Since the previous post, many new products have been introduced by Apple and it has been an exciting time for all the Apple fans. One of the most interesting products for me is [...]
ies4osx: Use Internet Explorer in OS X
If you want to visit a website optimized for (or only work with) IE, it is no longer required to install an extra Windows partition on Macs running OS X. With the newly released ies4osx (beta, at the time of writing), you could simply emulate IE 5 – 7 just like you are on a [...]
Anti-virus software for OS X
You are probably much more safer working on OS X than Windows XP/Vista but there is no system on earth 100% free of virus threats. In this article, I have listed some of the popular anti-virus software, which might help running you Mac safely. ClamXav Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV), is a widely used free antivirus software [...]
Recover your data
Perhaps it has occurred to you that the external hard drive attached to your Mac does not respond or you have accidentally erased some important files. I have tried to find out some of the software, which might help you in such situations. The feature lists and descriptions listed in this article are extracts from [...]
Web browsers for Macs
Here you will find some of the well known web browsers for Mac users. Camino (lightweight and fast) Open source, graphical Web browser based on Mozilla’s Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the Mac OS X family of operating systems. In place of an XUL-based user interface used by most Mozilla-based applications, Camino uses [...]