Mac Users Identify Yourselves!

Mirth is referring to an official Apple User Group. You need 100 users (I think). Once we hit that, if we want, we can try to form an EN World Apple User Group (that Apple would recognize).
 

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Enforcer said:
In the first post Mirth says we're 2/3 of the way to an official user group. Is that for a user group here at EN World or for somewhere else? Just curious.
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Dimwhit is correct. The info below comes from here.

To be approved as an online-only group, you need:

100 members on your listserv and/or web discussion board
A digest version of your listserv
A method for Apple to view postings
Three leader contacts in the database
A generic group email address
A group website

Enforcer said:
And congrats to Mirth for all his new accomplishments!
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Thanks!
 

Wanted to switch for awhile, from windows and linux. So when Compusa offered the new powerbook floor model for 500 off. I bought it.

I love it. :cool:
 

Mac Mini Update - Things are going very well. I have set up PCGen, NeoOffice/J, iTunes, iCal, Mail. I am using my PC's KB/Mouse through a KVM (iogear... very nice.. I highly recomend it.)

So far I am hooked. Still need a visio clone... going to look into OmniGaffle and see how that works.

Two things about the Mini that could have made this a home run:
1) 64MB of Video RAM (32 is barely enough to not be enough)
2) 512MB standard

The downside so far... it looks like Virtual PC will be a necessity for me for the short term, until Visio for the Mac comes out and until RPG Toolkit from CMP comes out, as I use both E-Tools and Visio.

Freeware stuff:
Fink
Fugu
Firefox
Fink Commander
Adium
AquaEthereal
CVL
FreeDice
DropDMG
iEatBrainz
IpodderX
iStumbler
jEdit
MacTheRipper
NeoOffice/J
OSXvnc
PCGen
Skype
Text Wrangler
Xnmap

Tools I got with the Mini that I love:
iLife
XCode

Things I wish that I had bought with it:
.Mac Account (The things you get with it are worth the $69/a mac price...)
iMic (for Skype and Podcasting)
USB 2.0 Hub - Ran out of ports fast.



So that is my impression after a month.
 

Mirth said:
I wasn't sure whether to add Rackhir or greymist to the list, so if either of you are Mac users, tell me and I'll add you.
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Mac user since '85 (Would have been '84 if we'd just waited another 4 months before buying that thrice accursed Epson Qx-10 CPM machine). Sign me up.
 


Mirth said:
I wasn't sure whether to add Rackhir or greymist to the list, so if either of you are Mac users, tell me and I'll add you.
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I'm not a Mac user...yet. I think I will buy a MiniMac later this year, but until I do, I am solely a PC user.
 

greymist said:
I'm not a Mac user...yet. I think I will buy a MiniMac later this year, but until I do, I am solely a PC user.
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Well, in that case, I'll go ahead and add you. Don't be afraid to step out of the darkness...

Added isidorus, Rackhir and greymist to the list. Welcome!

On another note, a friend of a friend gave me his copy of Freedom Force. I really want to play it, but I have a feeling my Mac's specs aren't sufficient. Anybody played Freedom Force on a G3 before (mine is a G3/400 iMac with 384MB of RAM (soon to be 512MB))?
 

Raevynn said:
Mac Mini Update - Things are going very well. [SNIP] Tools I got with the Mini that I love:
iLife
XCode
[SNIP]
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Maybe enworld is not the right place to ask, but I ask it anyway ;) ->
I've an old G3 -366 MHz Ibook with 192 megs RAM with a small HD (so no Xcode for me). I consider buying an mac Mini 1.25 GHz with 512 megs RAM.
Does XCode have decent code completion for JAVA? Is the Apple JAVA compiler fast enough? Do you have any experience with using PHP in XCode? Does it work well with CVS?
 

pdkoning said:
Maybe enworld is not the right place to ask, but I ask it anyway ;) ->
I've an old G3 -366 MHz Ibook with 192 megs RAM with a small HD (so no Xcode for me). I consider buying an mac Mini 1.25 GHz with 512 megs RAM.
Does XCode have decent code completion for JAVA? Is the Apple JAVA compiler fast enough? Do you have any experience with using PHP in XCode? Does it work well with CVS?
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Not exactly an unbiased source, but

http://developer.apple.com/internet/scripting/phpappledevtools.html

Conclusion

Mac OS X is my environment of choice for developing PHP and Perl applications, primarily because Xcode does a better job than any editor I know at making it easy to navigate a large collection of files. It helps me grasp the interdependencies in a big collection of source files, and I can always find the code I’m looking for quickly and easily. When running Apache and PHP on my Mac OS X machine, debugging becomes very easy. And when I decide to work on code in Java or C, I get to keep working in the same environment and take advantage of even more of Xcode’s features.

This might also be helpful

http://www.macosx.com/forums/printthread.php?t=48820
 

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