Category Archives: software

Yahoo! Mail Beta in Camino 1.5

The (not so new now) Yahoo! Mail Beta has never liked Safari/ Webkit. However, it used to work fine on Camino – until recently that is. I guess Yahoo! has changed some stuff, because not only does it dislike Camino now, there is no longer an option to “continue anyway” on unsupported browsers. I don’t like using Firefox on Mac (which supports the Beta), so I needed to find a way to allow the Beta interface to load.

Enter User Agent.

Install User Agent, restart Camino and use the following custom user agent string (“Other” in User Agent settings drop down), which allows the Yahoo! Mail Beta interface to load as of today:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Save it as Firefox 2.0.0.2 (Mac OS X PPC) if you like.

Enjoy.

[tags]Camino, Internet, Mac, Apple, Software, User Agent, Firefox, Mozilla, Extensions[/tags]

Software for switchers

I know there have been plenty of such posts/ articles all over recently, but this is more of a personal post in the public domain. Amitabh is the latest “switcher“, thanks, atleast partially, to yours truly (doses of “Come on dude, get a Mac already” twice a day, thank you very much). He finally bit the bullet and is the proud owner of a shiny new, white Macbook. He asked me for software recommendations and I promised him I’ll do a blog post so that everyone can benefit from the gyaan.

So here it goes. In alphabetic order of categories.

Backup
SuperDuper! (Shareware).
Carbon Copy Cloner (Free).

Blogging
Journler – A lot more than just a blogging tool (Free).
Ecto (Shareware).
Marsedit (Shareware).

Browsers
Safari is good enough for most things (Free).
Camino is Firefox for Mac users (Free).
OmniWeb (Shareware).

Burning CDs etc.
Toast (Shareware).
Disco (Shareware).

FTP
Cyberduck (Free).
Transmit (Shareware).

IM/ Chat
Adium – One Duck to rule them all (Free).
Colloquy – IRC Client (Free).

Media Editors
Audacity – Free audio editor.
AddMovie – Join ’em movies (Shareware).

Media Players
VLC – The only thing you’ll ever need (Free).
Perian – Play DivX videos in QuickTime (Free).
Flip4Mac – Play WMV videos in QuickTime (Free).

RSS
NetNewsWire (Free + Shareware, both versions).
Vienna – Open Source RSS reader.

Text Editors
TextWrangler – Amazing that it’s free.
Textmate – The best text editor ever? (Shareware).

Torrents/ P2P
Azureus – The most popular cross-platform torrent client (Free).
X-Torrent – Torrents, Mac style (Shareware).
Poisoned – Connect to multiple P2P networks (Free).

Virtualization – Intel Macs
aka run Windows on Mac (but why?!!).
Parallels (Shareware).
VMware (Beta).
Boot Camp – Not Virtualization but multi-boot (Free).

Virtualization – PPC Macs
Q (Freeware).
Virtual PC (Not free, no longer in development).

Miscellaneous
Quicksilver – Possibly the best. software. ever. (Free).
Pukka – del.icio.us client (Shareware).

That should be more than enough to get you started dude. I’ll (perhaps!) cover some of the more “exotic” categories/ picks in a follow up post.

Welcome, from darkness, to light.

[tags]Apple, Mac, Shareware, Freeware, Software, Tools, Utilities, Switch, Switcher, GetAMac, Macbook[/tags]