Working with my MAC

Yeh .. At last after fighting all the inner pulls and pushes, I have got a small MacBook. Not Pro, just the lesser of the laptops. Its my first time actually doing something on a Mac. But good friend Rajeesh helped me with some things but I need to get into the BSD (Darwin) shell and all the installations, applications that are possible in the system. Its a Leopard with 2GHz and 1Gb Ram. The HDD is just 80Gb but I intend to have an external Hard drive as well. Now I read what Cocoa, Carbon, AppleScript, Xcode etc were. But to get an idea I have to try something out. Its still early days and the console is the major thing to explore. Added most of the best rated softwares and looking for more great stuff. The UI is great. The XCode IDE is great as well. The Expose and Spaces are also nice, reminds me of the Fedore Core that used to use.

I am trying my hands with MacPorts and it looks very complex. Great Ruby On Rails, Java and python support. I am currently working in RoR and I feel this system would give me more that I ever wanted. I was disappointed when I understood that TextMate (on which the major RoR development is done worldwide) is to be paid for. I choose to have Aptana and develop in that IDE. I will download Eclipse and see if I get Red hat Developer Studio to work with Mac.

With my minimal interaction I feel that Mac is not devoid of viruses. How is that possible (the admin rights asking for execution of programsis great) when it uses executables? Have to investigate. Lots of questions to be answered thou. And I feel I would love using the Mac.

Imified Posting

This content that I am sending right now is from a service called Imified. I was just cruising through the net when this one just hit me. Just add imified@imified.com to your list in gtalk ( or other jabber systems) and then you could post items like this into your blog, live ournal , twitter, Jaiku and other stuff !! Isnt that cool or what !?? This is just great for me coz now Gtalk becomes a one big hub for all the activities. Messenger (duh !) and information passing to other applications (sites), content management (this even works with Base Camp !!!! ) and loads of stuff. The saying 'The world is a small place' is materialised by applucations like this !! Kudos to the Imified team for such a great idea (concept ) !!!