I happy to announce wkpdf version 0.3.0 – a new implementation of wkpdf, on which I have been working over the last months. This version does not provide any major, user-visible features but is mainly a re-implementation in the Ruby programming language. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Apple ships the operating system with a full Ruby [...]

It’s been a year since I have written an article, on the Mac software I consider as essential for my daily work. A lot of new software has been released in the last year and I have changed some of my workflows, thus it’s time for an update. The following list presents a choice of my [...]

Finally NVidia has released a Mac OS X port of CUDA. CUDA is a library that allows for using recent NVidia graphics card for general purpose computations. Until the advent of CUDA, using the massive parallelism of the GPU for general purpose computations required to disguise the computations as OpenGL commands. The advent of CUDA greatly [...]

As some of you will probably know, I’m developing a small open-source tool named wkpdf. wkpdf is a command-line application that renders a HTML webpage to PDF using Apple’s WebKit framework. Unfortunately, a change in the WebKit version shipped with Leopard has broken wkpdf on Leopard. Leopard users of wkpdf will be glad to hear, that [...]

This article explains a handy trick how to export emails from Microsoft Outlook Express and import them into Apple’s Mail.app, but also to almost any other email client. The trick is to migrate the emails using an intermediary IMAP email account.

I have just released version 0.1.0 of wkpdf, my command line HTML to PDF conversion application for Mac OS X. Since the initial announcement the usability of the application has been improved quite a lot.

There are plenty of browsers available for Mac OS X, but I could not find a command-line tool that allows for downloading a website and storing the rendered website as PDF. In this article I introduce my open-source application wkpdf, which solves this problem.

Suddenly, from one second to the other, I couldn’t successfully synchronize my iPod or my mobile phone, with my Mac anymore. During the synchronization process the SyncServer background process went crazy and started generating very high CPU-load without ever terminating. I don’t know what caused this problem but I have finally found a hack that fixed [...]

Omni Group has just released a first screencast that demonstrates a number of features of their upcoming Getting things done (GTD) application OmniFocus. There has been a lot of interest in OmniFocus since Omni announced it last year, also since Omni has chosen to feed the hype and occasionally blog about OmniFocus without revealing anything relevant. Thus, my expectations are pretty high and this first public presentation of OmniFocus leaves me with ambivalent feelings.

MailTags is an incredibly useful tool that could be the envy of your friends running other operating systems. MailTags allows you to add custom tags, priorities, deadlines and notes to email messages. The upcoming MailTags 2.0 (which is now in the beta testing phase) stores these additional attributes to emails not in a proprietary database, [...]