iPad

I believe that it leaves a little out of the subject-matter of the blog, but if you allow it to me, I am going to give my opinion about a topic that is in the first line of the actuality Mac and still at the risk of to fall down weighed, since one spoke, one speaks and one will speak very much on the topic, not here, if not, in general in the whole Internet. Since you will have deduced many, already not only therefore I write, if not for the image that he accompanies to the article (it costs more an image than thousand words), I refer to the iPad.

From the first moment that Asus presented the eeePC to the world, the Mac users we were asking Apple a portable equal one. Very much it rained and very much it was speculated until finally it seemed that Apple was going to create the awaited machine, but skylight, the apple is the apple and it had to put his granite of sand, his personal touch. And this way, it rejected the netbook to get overturned in a tablet. The reactions were clear: the principal hardware manufacturers devoted themselves to show to the public his tablet versions, someone very similar … There Came to the Apple designs then the day that Apple presented his tablet, under the denomination iPad. The iPad offers a new gadget concept, much to the Apple and that beforehand does not serve for anything. And this, this is what they began criticizing 90 % of the companies of the world. But they forget that what makes a device of these characteristics big is the software that accompanies it. I do not know if for envy or because really they take reason, but the iPad has been much criticized, enclosed, before going out to the market and being proved, he is a winner of a fiasco award. The result is that only in the USA there are already 150.000 reservations of the product and having annulled the reservations that were coming of out. Judgar yourselves: Apple error (iPod touch big) or increase of his income (new case iPod)? I incline more for the second thing.

Coda, this big stranger … or not

Continuing with the article that I wrote a few days ago, today I prepare to speak about Coda, a child IDE of development who as we read in his Web, sell it under the premise: text publisher + file transfer + svn + css + terminal + books + resides = whoah.

Coda is an environment of Web development faced to applications PHP created and commercialized by Panic, Between other things, a text publisher integrates under the same program together with a FTP that will allow us to edit in line our pages (in addition to being able to use it separately, skylight is). Also, it is provided with a client of overthrow, a publisher CSS and a terminal that will allow us to get connected for SSH straight from the same program. Mean sample is, therefore, in the function of all-in-one where all his potential, turning into a fundamental tool for those that we devote ourselves to the Web pages creation.

We will be able to form the Web places that we need, without limit and with several aspects to be able to get connected for FTP and SSH, show us the previsualizations of the place, etc. in an environment completely integrated with the esthetics that Apple gives to his products.

The publisher is provided with help in-line, that is to say, as we are writing is suggesting us or precompleting the text and he can detect if we are earlier a file html, php, javascript, css …

If we have to gain access route SSH, forget to use the terminal of the system to yourself. Basing on the configuration that we gave him of our place, he will open his console already connected to the servant and I list to operate. If, on the other hand, we want to raise files by means of the protocol FTP, it is enough to sail along the folders of the servant who is provided with permissions for it and to drag the content that let's want to raise. The client FTP bases on Transmit, also of the same company and that many you use insurance due to his handling facility.

On the other hand, if we are provided with a servant to take a versions control, Coda is compatible with Overthrow, as what we will be able to have controlled all the changes that we are doing in our project.

Anyhow, as I always say, the best thing to prove it and if he convinces us, to buy it straight from the Panic shop.

Web: http://www.panic.com/coda/

He installs Windows 7 in your Mac.

Continuing with the line of these articles today we are going to see how to install Windows 7 in our Macs.

Windows 7, although many try to make us think the opposite does not stop being one more Windows therefore the process of installation, safe any detail is not distant a lot of form that I explained to you for the versions XP and Sight. If you have not read them I invite you to to give you a return for the post.

Well, let's see in what it differs. When the last version of Boot Camp appeared, together with Snow Leopard Windows 7 was still not free, so that it is not a 100 % compatible with him. To make it compatible we must unburden ourselves an update of the page of Apple, you can find it here. In this update we find a new bundle of drivers and utilities that will do that your Windows 7 works perfectly with the whole hardware.

Now I am going to speak to you about some well-known problems that appear (or they can appear) during the installation of Windows 7 in our teams:

1. - Symptoms

On having updated Windows, Dress Windows 7 he returns us an error 0×80070005 ″. This can happen when the fitter of Windows 7 tries to write in a volume Macintosh of only reading.

According to the proper Apple the steps that we must continue to solve it are the following ones:

Resolution

Before updating of Windows Sight to Windows 7, Windows 7 uses the application Boot Camp for the fitter of the update. This application dismantles safely the volume Macintosh of only reading in Microsoft Windows Dress.

1. It unloads the file Apple_Win7_Upgrade.zip.
2. Double bundle clic in the file.zip to decompress it.
3. To initiate the application, double bundle clic in Apple_Win7_Upgrade_Utility.exe.
4. When the message appears “A program without identifying he wants to gain access to the computer”, click in Allowing.
5. When the message appears “Application Boot Camp for the installation of the update Windows 7 ″, click in Accepting.
6. When the message appears “The preparation has been satisfactory”, click in Accepting to begin the computer again.
7. After beginning the computer again, cost that the volume Macintosh has been eliminated clicking in Beginning> Team. Now, the volume Macintosh should not be visible.

It carries out the update of Windows Dress Windows 7.

2.-Symptoms

It is possible that when you install Microsoft Windows 7 in an iMac (27 inches, ends of 2009) by means of Boot Camp, a black screen appears. This can happen because the fitter of Windows 7 does not include the controlers of graphs or of Bluetooth necessary for your Mac.

Resolution

It continues the steps that are described next to unload the necessary controlers and to install Windows 7 in your iMac:

1. Move up to the low part of this page and click in License of Software to accept the license.
2. On the following screen, move up to the low part of the page and click in Accepting and unloading if you are the terms.
3. If you are updating from Windows Sight, you will need to use the application Apple_Win7_Upgrade_Utility before beginning the installation of the update.
4. The files are compressed into a file.zip. Double bundle clic to open it.
5. It connects your device of storage USB or introduces your card SD. It notices: you must connect your device of storage USB straight in the rear part of the iMac and neither not to a keyboard nor to concentrating other that does not perform high potency.
6. If the device USB or the card SD has not been formatted like MS TWO (FAT), or if you are not sure of it, continue the steps A to M that appear next; otherwise, it sees to the step 7. Important: these steps will erase the contents of the device of storage USB or of the card SD; it realizes a safety copy of the important files that are in the same ones on an additional disc.
   1. It selects to Go> Utilities.
   2. It opens the Utility of Discs.
   3. Utility of Discs selects the unit USB in the left part of the window.
   4. Click in the eyelash Divisions.
   5. Click in Options.
   6. Click in “Main record of starter”.
   7. Click in OK.
   8. Click in the card Format.
   9. It selects MS TWO (FAT).
   10. It assigns a name to the disc MBRFAT.
   11. Click in Applying.
   12. Click in Division.
   13. When it finishes the process, salt of the Utility of Discs.
7. It drags “Controlers“ and “AutoUnattended.xml“ from the folder iMac_Late_2009_Win7_Drivers, that opened in the step 4 to himself, to the icon of the device USB or of the card SD to copy the files in the same ones. Do not copy them in any subfolder.
8. The assistant of Boot Camp initiates.
9. Select the size of the division and click in Division.
10. When the division, bundle has been created clic in Initiating the installation and it inserts the DVD of installation of Windows 7. The computer will be begun again.
11. It continues the screen instructions for the installation of Windows. If it is a question of a new installation, do not forget to use the fitter of Windows to format the division BOOTCAMP. You will have to click in Options of unit (Forward position) to see the formats selection.
12. The computer will be begun again in several occasions during the installation process. The screen can turn out to be black during some minutes while the fitter of Windows locates the controlers in the device of storage USB. During this process you must not extinguish the computer.
13. In some moment there will appear a screen that it you will request to establish a user's account in Windows 7.

If the screen remains in black after several minutes, it means that the computer is extinguished (keep the starter button touched during a few seconds), next, 6 returns to the step. Make sure of the fact that the device USB or the card SD are formatted like main starter Record, FAT, and that AutoUnattend.xml and the controlers find in the level root of the directory.

These are the problems that I could have compiled of the Apple page, if someone knows some problem more do not hesitate to ask about them that I hope we can find solution to them.

A greeting and we meet in the Linux installation

Introduction to the development environments for YOU X

In the topic that occupies us today, we are going to speak about the environments of development that there are available ones for Mac OS X. Everlasting, it has been said that the Apple computers were not good environments for the applications development. Partly, this was true it even does a pair of years, when the popularity of the apple was already a fact beyond the iPod and the iPhone.

Without going further, I still remember when being in second of career (if the memory does not trump me) I bought my first Mac, an iBook G4 with Panther. The first real problem which I had to face, the margin of the change of the operating system that did not turn out to be annoying to me by no means, it was how to do the practices that every day were sending us. To programme in Pascal and in C they supposed a problem and as soon as we begin studying in depth the development in JAVA, the thing became more complicated. Then, when I risked in the managerial world, the problem came to me with the development of applications J2EE in this environment and the problems of configuration of Eclipse so that it was taking of correct form the TOMCAT configuration.

We must know that Mac OS X is a system UNIX, not in vain, it takes all his skeleton of the systems BSD, direct progeny of the mythical system of the 70. Therefore, we have a C/C compiler available ++, any time, we install XCode, the environment of development that Apple puts at our disposal and that we will find in the DVD of installation of the system. XCode offers a finished environment for many languages, as they could be Pascal or Java, so, when we install FreePascal or the SDK of Java, we will be able to use this tool that Apple puts at our disposal.

Other of the most popular environments that we find in Mac OS X and that it has improved very much in the last years for our operating system is an Eclipse. When I began myself to dedicate professionally to the world of the Web programming and we were creating in the company applications J2EE, Eclipse supposed many problems. Frequently we were lacking an environment as WebSphere of IBM, with our own production servants and without problems of compatibility with other day pupils, as it was Tomcat. For fortune for us, with the step of the versions up to today, the Tomcat configuration already does not suppose a problem and does not last any more than five minutes (descarga+instalación of tomcat+configuración of eclipse). In the same way that happens with XCode, we will be able to programme with more languages thanks to the plugins who can settle, straight, from the proper environment across the servants of updates of the project Eclipse. This way, for example, for PHP we have Aptana, which offers us a powerful environment to develop applications of this type.

Although if of PHP it talks each other, I have special predilection for Coda, an application developed by the boys of Panic, not very expensive and that between other things, allows us to edit our files in line.

As the weeks happen, we will see how to form some and others up to turning our mac into the perfect platform for the development without anything than envying to the workstations Windows.

TexShop

Today it has had me to face me to the hard Latex and not, I do not refer to this plastic materíal but to a publisher of compiled text. For the one that has not heard to never hear of this format I put a small summary to you, extracted of wikipedia:

Latex is a system of composition of texts, faced especially to the creation of books, scientific and technical documents that contain mathematical formulae. Ref. of Wikipedia

To edit a document of this type we do not need any concrete program, can create it even with TextEdit or Smultron, for what yes we need a program it is to generate the compiled document.

Many solutions exist to compile this type of documents but I am going to present to you the very concrete one, which I am using and the one that TexShop considered to be easier to use.

TexShop is a free application, he is in English but it is very visual, so you will not have any problem to use it.

To help us it has several desplegables in that they offer us, of way arranged by categories, all the possible tags that we can use to create the text.

I do not believe that this program needs many any more explanation, that you use Latex you will be already used to this type of publishers, but to make sure that the simplicity of use of this one makes it essential, once we get accustomed to him.

I hope that it should serve to you, a greeting and up to next post.

To discharge

• TexShop – to Discharge

The recommendation of the week – 08/02/10

And this is the first post of “The recommendation of the week“. Normally this section will be for topics not related to the apple, this way to extract a little the head of her, but in this occasion, although we are not going to treat the same topics that we treat normally as a configuration, programs … yes it is going to be a subject-matter relative to Apple.

In this one recommendation I am going to present the page MacProgramadores, a place to you faced to teach us to programme for our platform of habitual use. In her you will find very much detailed tutors of how programming for Objetive-C (the native computer language of Mac), Cocoa and even programming for iPhone. Much recommended.

Linkage: MacProgramadores.org

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It changes the names of your Mac.

When we buy a new Mac or símplemente we reinstall the operating system it happens that our Mac OS X decides to call our team just as we and the truth that it can be a little annoying. I study in a public university in which there are hundreds of persons connected to the network Wifi and the truth does not turn out to be comfortable to me that everything the one that wants it could see if I am tuned in or not since (if they have a Mac it is easier for the topic Bonjour) in his list of teams in network there appears my name and my surnames. But not only here my name appears but, on having opened a Terminal, also there appears my name and my two surnames, and as they are short they occupy only half a window. In this simple post I am going to tell how to do to change both your user's name and the name that proves to be your team on having got connected to a network.

The first thing that we must do is to enter Preferences of the system and there, according to that let's want to modify to puncture on "Sharing" to change the name of our team into the network or “Accounts“ to modify our name in the terminal and on having initiated meeting.

Once opened one or only we have left other to put the name that let's want that it appears from this moment and I list, from now on we have changed name. Simple truth?

Since I hope that it should have served to you, a greeting and up to the next post!

aMSN, plugins and skins.

When you discharge aMSN you can see that it comes accompanied from a few bundles that we do not know very well how to install. I am referring to the plugins and the skins (skins) designed to personalize our installation. But: how do we install these additional bundles?

Since you can verify the installation of this plugins it is not as Windows would be in a system, in this one we would go to the folder of the program in program Files, would look inside for the folder Plugins and there we would copy them: truth?. And why is not it equal of easy in Mac?

Since simple, simply because we are not in Windows and here the things are thought otherwise. It is not that here it is more or less difficult or intuitive, simply we have been very much years working otherwise and now it is necessary to change a little the mentality.

In MacOS X every application contains inside everything what he could need, that is to say, if an application uses plugins inside itself it will have a folder plugins, equal with skins or with extra any other. To gain access to all this internal structure simply we must place ourselves in the folder Applications and with the secondary button on that let's want to examine we choose “to Show the content of the bundle”. Inside this content we will have almost always the same structure: MacOS, which contains the feasible as such one and Resources, where there are the folders for that we are looking. In the particular case of aMSN we must enter Resources/Scripts and there we will find skins and plugins, we copy here what us dá the installation file and ready.

It looks like an a little complicated form, but bearing in mind that with all the applications it is done of the same way learned with a solved with all.

A greeting and I hope that it should have served to you. We meet in the next post.

Trick

Since you will know iTunes it has assigned a curious functionality in what to maximize refers to the button, when other applications grow up to occupying the whole possible space iTunes shows us the Minireproductive way.

If we want that this button acts in iTunes as in all other applications simply we must keep the key Alt touched while we touch it.

And so far this trick. I hope that it should have served to you

To turn image.iso to.dmg and vice versa

The Mac users we are very used to using images.dmg in our system but we must not forget that not only we exist in the world. For a user of Windows the images.dmg do not even exist since they are used to using them of the type.iso. But the fact that there are different images it does not bear that they could not be compatible and even convertible between them. Today I you am going to teach to go on from one to other one with hardware of the proper system.

Let's start by the method of the terminal. The habitual readership will know that I like to use the Terminal for these things. We open a window of new Terminal and escribirmos:

hdiutil convert / route / of / archivo.dmg-format UDTO - or / route / of / archivo.iso

To happen of.dmg to.iso or

hdiutil convert / route / of / archivo.iso-format UDRW - or / route / of / archivo.dmg

To happen of.iso to.dmg. But since I know that many of you you have him panic to the Terminal I am going to teach you how to do it in a graphic way. We enter Utility of Discs and pulsate in turning, the program will ask us for the file origin (that can be a.iso or a.dmg) and then he will ask us where to keep it, there we choose compressed File and modify the extension of the file this way to decide in which to keep it.

Easy truth? I hope that it you should be helpful

He installs other operating systems in your Mac – Presentation

East is the post of presentation of the next section of Dedicated. In this occasion I am going to tell how to install other operating systems of a native way in our Macs so that they could coexist placidly.

If you are interested in this topic I recommend to you to pass somewhere here in the next days.

To install Windows XP in your Mac

To begin this series of post relative to install other operating systems in our Macs we are going to see how to install the S.O. most extended between the users of computer, MS Windows XP.

With the step to the processors Intel Apple a new door created to the possibility of coexistence inside ours machines between systems that previously it would have been unthinkable, but not only it created the door but it did not give the key to open it, this key is called BootCamp.

BootCamp is the tool used in Mac for particionar the disc, to create the starter agents … in our team to facilitate the installation. But I am not going to center on how it does it since we are not interested in too much either, simply we are going to use it and see that it works.

Well the first thing is to start BootCamp, it is in the folder Utilities, inside / applications. When we start it there will go out for us an agent in whom, continuing step by step we are guided to prepare the team for the installation. As detail to say that unless you should have an external disc FW (FireWire) you will not be able to install Windows on an external disc, since BootCamp will not leave you.

As soon as the division was created with BootCamp the computer will be begun again, in this moment we must have our disc of Windows XP in the reading unit. Automatically he will read the disc of Windows and the installation will begin. Of the installation of the basic system of Windows I am not going to make comments since this topic does not concern us but yes I will do a note: When elijáis assure division to you of choosing the division created with BootCamp since if you choose other one probably you will destroy the installation of Mac of an irreversible way (unless you have a TimeMachine copy).

Once we will lack installed Windows to install the Drivers so that everything works perfectly. These drivers us the dá Apple in the DVD of installation of MacOS X, simply insert it and he will entrust that everything settles. In case you do not have the installation DVD you can unload it of the official Apple page.

Easy truth? Since so far this first post of installation of other systems, we meet in the next one with Windows Sight / 7.

Hello to all

Hello to all,

My name is Javier and from now on I will collaborate with principiantesmac in the content creation. In my case, I go in this world created by Jobs for nearly six years, when I bought an iBook of 12 ″ with processor G4 to 1GHz and 256MB of RAM in what today I see like one of the best things that I did in my life. Very much it rained since then (lately the average to increased) and hoped to be able to bring to this community the little that I know.

Without much ado, receive a cordial greeting and we will be in contact.