New machine and what I do not like about apple

I bought a new laptop, an apple Macbook pro 2.4 early 2008 edition, so the previous generation macbook pro.

Apple Mac Book Pro 2008 Edition

So why this one? The thing is, I did not want to spend too much money and I got a bit annoyed with some of the limitations of the old macbook, mostly the casing which started falling apart and the lack of a good gpu. Read More...
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Usefull software for mac

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For the n00bs who just got a mac, it might be usefull to compile an updated list of use full software.

I personally use a lot of the usual stuff, like mail.app, address book, ical, itunes, flip4mac, mplayer, vlc, perian, skype, adium X, toast, imagewell, quicksilver, iwork, chicken of the vnc, growl and of course seismac.

Apart from these programmes, I use the following software, divided in freeware, shareware and commercial software:
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Great software: netnewswire

Amazing software: netnewswire. A really nice and free RSS reader for os X. It works in such a nice way, these people have really thought out the workflow very well. Recommended. See here:

NetNewsWire: More news, less junk. Faster
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Rapidweaver

rapidweaver_36_screenshotI discovered rapidweaver thanks to the tips of a few friends of mine. The problem was, I did not have the time to build a new website from scratch, including writing new css and html code and all that. And not for every site I need a completely original homemade website. And more important than that: it is better to have a website which is not homemade, with off the shelf templates, than NO site at all. So rapidweaver. It is extremely easy to setup a website quickly with blog, slideshow etc. It is also quite reasonably priced. See: Rapidweaver.
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Blog implementation

So I was looking for some way to implement my blog in a secure and safe way. I considered a lot of options, like wordpress (which is a festering pile of securety bugs), drupall (of which I am quite enthousiastic) and nucleus (which runs my old blog, but is not ideal). I wanted it to be secure, fast and scalable, which has for me a higher priority than features. So I thought, why not just generate static html? So this is how I do it, using rappidweaver, which I can highly recommend. I will talk about rapidweaver later.
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