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As Ubuntu kept maturing i kept on gradually liking the "apt-get install" command in ubuntu to the point this felt like a hinderance on other linux flavours more notably Mac. To my surprise there is a tool available to make apt-get work in mac, this is fink (http://www.finkproject.org).  The binary is available to download for 10.5 and lower, for the rest who have moved on it seems the only option is to compile and install from source as per the instructions on the fink website. I had 10.8 (Mountain Lion) installed and as the fink site suggests i had to compile using source, before i could install fink i had to install xcode and xcode developer tools (xcode > preferences > downloads > developer tools) xcode-select -switch /path/to/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer I had to accept a license for Xcode build by reading and typing 'accept' sudo xcodebuild -license Unpack tar.gz manually or double click in your browsers download, if you want to ma...

Like everyone in the UK i woke up to the news of tragic death of Steve Jobs the Apple co-founder, i was not going to write a blog post on the topic, but there was something that prompted me to write one. I got the news not from my tv but my macbook pro! I switched on my macbook, fired up a new tab in safari, and there it was, very simple, very sober 'Steve Jobs' 1955-2011. A real tribute to the design genius he was. I am sure there will be a new person at the helm of things at Apple, Apple may continue to grow in leaps and bounds or may just fizzle out - but you can't take that away from Steve, the way he came back to Apple when things weren't going very well - brought the iMac which was a run away success, followed up with other fantastic products we all love and cherish. The most important thing was he got Apple to believe they were not in the business to shift boxes but deliver what the customer expects, stuff that just works. Hats off and tributes to the g...

I tend to admire each apple product when it arrives, for their design and astethic sense. The ipad2 or macbook pro or the thinner macbook air - apple just seem to bring up one lovely product after another. The techie kid inside me wants to desperately own a macbook. Every few days i have an itch to buy a macbook pro or a macbook air for my drupal/php development, I must add I started as a windows fan and used to scoff at apple afficionados, and felt apple owners are a bunch of kids bragging about their toys while apple goes to the bank laughing. Well not a lot has changed about how i feel about Apple as a marketing company. For instance if you look at the current offerings for macbook pro, we have a core2duo, i5 & i7 processors. As far as core2duo goes, this is a 4 year old processor and at that it is selling at around £984 Core2Duo Macbook Pro on Amazon.co.uk whereas I had bought a core2duo based windows laptop approximately 3 years ago at £500 pounds looks like this macbook ...