Mac Articles

I got my Mac a few months ago and I am loving it.  I took a moment to make a screencast of my favorite Mac OS X productivity tips.

5 Mac OS X Leopard Productivity Tips

1. Swipe Away Bottom Left of Screen
2. Two finger tap (right click trackpad)
3. Mac OSX Mail, Todo Items
4. Quicksilver
5. Terminal Shortcuts (drag folder, mate, alias)

Through Parallels, Mac users can run Windows programs. Regardless of what operating system you run, as a web developer you should never ignore Internet Explorer.  There are still plenty of people using the browsers because it still runs natively in Windows.

The best way I found to get IE6 and IE7 on my Mac was to use parallels and upgrade to Windows to IE7, then install MultiIE to get IE6 running. Take a look at this screenshot to see it in action:

It looks kind of strange to see a windows taskbar on a Mac, but hey - now I have both IE6 and IE7 running great on my Mac to fulfill my web development needs.