Tag Archives: mac

Since I started playing with mechanical keyboards a few months ago, I was totally amazed by how satisfying they feels. I couldn’t even believe I have been stucked with membrane keyboards (regular keyboards) for so long! However, I am a mac user. Since the day I fell in love with mechanical keyboards, I started the search for a mac compatible one. Sure, most of the keyboards do work on mac, but I think what I am looking for is a keyboard not only “working”, but also having mac’s look and feel. Which is hard.

The closest match is the Matias Tactile Pro 3. It’s a beautiful keyboard

Lion has been here for a while. And my games PenguinLinks 2 were out as well. Now it’s time to upgrade my hackintosh to the latest OSX — Lion.
In my previous post — A Perfect Hackintosh Machine, I have described how I installed Snow Leopard on my almost-4-years-old, but still pretty decent desktop. And installing Lion is pretty similar.

(Disclaimer: The following process potentially violates Apple’s End User License Agreement for Mac OS X. Please check the Aggreement before following these steps.)
To make things less complicated, I decided to do a fresh install and then migrate all my stuff from Time Machine backup (that’s one of many reasons why I love TM!). The whole installation process is actually very easy — thanks to this really good tutorial: Lion installation via USB stick using Chameleon, DP4, GM and FINAL. I just followed the guide and after about …

About four years ago, I was tired of all the issues on Windows, moved my working environment to Linux. I installed OpenSuse Linux on my desktop, and was really happy about it.
Two years ago, I started iPhone programming, which can’t be done on Linux. So I bought a Macbook Pro. Once I got use to it, I found this is a really neat device — it’s sort like a perfect marriage between Windows and Linux: very intuitive and polished UI (much better than windows), plus powerful low level tools when you need it. It’s perfect for a developer.
And then I noticed I used my Linux desktop less and less, which is a pity, because my desktop has a really nice setup — quad cores at 3.0GHz, 8G RAM. But, I don’t have a choice, Steve Jobs doesn’t want me to do Mac programming on Linux. Hence I had the idea …