Platform Peace

WebWorkerDaily writes up a nice comparison of VMWare Fusion 2 and Parallels Desktop.

This post details the steps to take in order to get the “Edit in TextMate” input manager working in Leopard

The WideMail and Letterbox plugins give the ability to use three vertical panes in Leopard’s Mail.app similar to Outlook.

A comparison of Parallels Desktop 4 and VMWare Fustion 2 from theAppleBlog.

Evernote 1.1.6 brings much needed updates for formatting notes.

I was editing a bunch of files on my server via FTP and was a bit annoyed by multiple TextMate windows for every file that I needed to edit. After a quick search, I found this great post that describes how to configure a TextMate project for files opened via Transmit.

Use Tabs in Textmate for [...]

I haven’t actually tried Boot Camp for a few reasons:

I like the idea of running Windows and OSX side-by-side* AND I don’t have enough hard drive space (I run all my VMs off an external drive) AND I haven’t rebuilt my Mac in a long time to free up enough space

Yes, I am aware VMWare Fusion has [...]

So, after about a year of using a Mac as my primary computer, I decided to share the list of applications I consider essential on OSX. This is not a comprehensive list of every application I have installed; it only includes the ones it would be really tough to deal without. What are your essential [...]

Nice example and video about using the VMware Fusion 2.0 Keyboard Mapping feature. VMWare Fusion 2.0 is a huge improvement over 1.0 - highly recommended.

I use the Homebrew theme in Leopard but found that the default blue color was very difficult to read against the dark background. I found this which lets you customize the Terminal colors on a per-profile basis. Very useful.