{"id":315,"date":"2005-06-07T18:53:35","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T23:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=315"},"modified":"2005-06-09T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T13:45:08","slug":"some-mac-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/07\/some-mac-stuff","title":{"rendered":"Some mac stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hubert, I don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;ve heard\/seen that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figuiere.net\/hub\/blog\/?2005\/06\/06\/204-the-dark-side\">Apple will ship the Intel C\/C++ compiler<\/a>, but they&#8217;re definitely backing XCode and GCC. In fact, they encourage gcc usage, as it will provide smooth transitions, and one of their new Intel Macs already had gcc -arch compiled to handle <tt>ppc<\/tt> and <tt>i386<\/tt>. This probably quenches the rumors that Intel <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/06\/see_you_intel\">will build PowerPC processors<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theappleblog.com\/2005\/05\/27\/boolean-searches-in-spotlight\/\">Boolean searches<\/a> in Spotlight enhances it with NOT\/OR searches &#8211; useful. I haven&#8217;t tried Beagle yet, but this shouldn&#8217;t be a hidden feature but really pimped up.\n<\/li>\n<li>Wah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious-monster.com\/\">Delicious Library<\/a> is seriously being pimped at WWDC. I think  they&#8217;d be winning some design awards sometime soon. For those of us using Linux, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcatalog.net\/\">mCatalog<\/a> (requires Mono). All this uses the exposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html\/102-1053031-1904902?node=3435361\">Amazon Web Services API<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Popped Mono on OS X. To use gtk#, I need X11? Eh, it isn&#8217;t native, but it works right. Well, here&#8217;s news, Mono is not cross-platform, either. Mac users hate X11 apps. Why do you think we have NeoOffice\/J being more popular than OpenOffice.org\/X11? So besides wxWindows, we may never have a true cross-platform GUI out there (and its not even a pretty solution).<\/li>\n<li>Been playing with Dashboard widgets a lot. Its highly impressive. CSS, JavaScript, and basic HTML, and you get some really useful features. Also mining Apple&#8217;s Web Kit. There&#8217;s a lot of potential here, and with some good CSS-fu, lots of cool widgets can happen. XCode is something I&#8217;ve used a bit more, and I&#8217;m rather impressed &#8211; jump around .js file functions too. It even edits HTML! Its very cool.<\/li>\n<li>Tried Abiword. Its kinda nice. Lightweight, doesn&#8217;t require X11, I&#8217;m kind of impressed. I wonder if gnumeric is also available on OS X and if it&#8217;s as good (I mean, I keep on reading about abiword at planet gnome&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>Quartz Composer is cool. If this is what the programming future is going to be, we&#8217;re going to get a lot of cool, high-end apps. The toy RSS screensaver is completely easy to build! However, it performs shitless on my iBook G3 with the Radeon 7500. Looks like I really need to get some power&#8230; erps, PowerBook thing at some stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubert, I don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;ve heard\/seen that Apple will ship the Intel C\/C++ compiler, but they&#8217;re definitely backing XCode and GCC. In fact, they encourage gcc usage, as it will provide smooth transitions, and one of their new Intel Macs already had gcc -arch compiled to handle ppc and i386. 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