Apple don’t make this obvious in Safari’s preferences pane, however after some digging I figured out you can actually switch between tabs using the keyboard:

   <- Switch to Left Tab               Switch to Right Tab ->
Command + Shift + [               Command +Shift + ]

Update: Tha Shell suggested a way where you can configure the keys you want to use to switch tabs…

Step 1: Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > then choose the Keyboard Shortcuts tab
Step 2:  Press the + key at the bottom of the window:

Do the same as above, but now type ‘Select Previous Tab’ and assign a key as before.

Voila! you can now switch between tabs with a keyboard shortcut that you prefer. I wasn’t able to get command + right/left to work, if you get it to work, let me know by leaving a message

Okay, so a few days ago I decided that I needed a new hard drive for my Macbook Pro.
I’m going to share with you my experiences of doing the upgrade and giving Vista a go instead of XP.

I ended up settling on a Western Digital 320GB Scorpio drive which has been an awesome drive that i would recommend to anyone.
Doing this upgrade meant that I needed to clone my current hard drive to the new one and I needed to find a way to move my current Boot Camp partition to the new drive along with it. For moving the Leopard partition, I used Super Duper!. The great thing about this program is that it’s fast, does a perfect bootable copy to the new drive and it’s free. I used another free Mac app called WinClone to backup the Boot Camp partition to a file, which contained Windows XP SP2.

Next I attached the Scorpio drive was attached to an external USB caddy, and while was booted into Leopard, Super Duper worked it’s magic. I find it really is amazing that this program is able to backup while the OS is running and thank you to the developer for making it free. Anyways after it was done, I used Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant (in the /Utilities folder) to partition the drive for Boot Camp. I now had 300GB to play with so I gave 40GB for Windows… just enough space for Visual Studio and a few games.

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An artist has created images of how Mario, Bowser and Sonic would look like in real life.

I love the Mario one although it’s quite creepy.

via Essenmitsosse 

FLOSS Weekly, a podcast to which I listen regularly, has some really prestigous and interesting guests who are usually, really great programmers such as the famous Ward Cunningham. He is a Perl and Smalltalk programmer and the inventor of the Wiki. Ward appears on Floss Weekly, Episode 27.

This episode is a really interesting insight into one of the most important programmers in the Open Source community who speaks about programming, how he invented modern Extreme/Agile programming and his techniques for designing software.

Another really interesting individual in the open source and gaming community is Ryan Gordon. Ryan is a games porter who has ported games such as Postal 2 to the Mac. You can find him at icculus.org he has appeared on an older episode of Floss Weekly, Episode 8. This is my favourite episode of Flossy Weekly to date. This is definately worth a listen, especially if you want to know about porting games or some interesting bits about programming in general.

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I write this post to you from my MacBook Pro, in its restored state as of last night when I finished writing an important university assignment. This is important because without Leopard’s Time Machine backup feature, I would have lost at least one or two full days getting my machine restored.

Presently, I am running a Developer’s release of Mac OS X Leopard (9A557 build) in a production environment. This is particularly dangerous because you don’t know if (or when) something is going to break. As I write this in Safari I remind myself to click ’save’ because I can’t write this again if Safari decides to crash. I paranoidly (is that even a word?) backup everything on my 250GB internal laptop’s drive. This is not bad at all, something which everyone should do. And we all know everyone does their backups frequently right?

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I couldn’t resist. It’s Caturday…. every cat has his day…Oh and dis cheezburger iz mine, K?  (Click here for the full article…)

Just a quick tip. If your menubar crashes in OS X it can be restarted by typing a simple command in the Terminal.

killall SystemUIServer

You can also restart the Dock by typing:

killall Dock

or the Finder by typing:

killall Finder

All these commands are case-sensitive.

Changing file permissions on the Mac is something you need to know how to do if you want to create your own non-home directory only shares on the Mac. Leopard implements folder sharing similarly to the way SharePoints does. I find myself needing to change permissions regularly because certain programs like to change file permissions on their own. The Terminal is generally better for changing permissions because it is much faster and also because you have more control. Sometimes you may need to do this is the file permissions get messed up in Leopard’s File Sharing under System Preferences. 
Here’s how it works:

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Electronic Arts chief creative officer Bing Gordon at Apple’s latest Developer conference stated that EA would be moving some of their most appealing titles to the Mac coming available in the next few months. The first games to become available for Mac will include Command and Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This is certainly great news for Mac gamers and now it sounds like I should finally be able to decommission Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro’s hard drive. However there is one issue that was conveniently skipped over at the keynote.

Although these games are coming to the Mac they aren’t being ported, well not in the traditional sense anyway. TransGaming’s Cider which acts as an interpreter between the game’s original code and the Mac OS frameworks will be used as a wrapper to get the games to run under OS X. The problem lies in the fact that interpreting code uses much more resources rather than running pre-compiled code, which pretty much every game is.

If you have ever used Azureus, a java bittorrent client you will know that it is much slower than say Transmission. While Azureus does more than Transmission, it is significantly slower considering than all it really does is display text and download files. The same thing would in theory apply to gaming under Cider. Since most of these games already require all the hardware you can throw their way, it doesn’t sound like Mac gamers are getting a fair deal.

Worldwide the Mac platform accounts for roughly 5% of the installed base of PCs. However since most Mac users aren’t gamers, rather than designers, power users and technically challenged folk, etc. I can understand why EA would not go to the trouble of investing more money to properly port their games to Mac versions. The bright side is that EA may only be testing the waters with Cider and hopefully all new future releases from EA will be proper fully compiled Mac versions.

If the EA Cider titles run close to the performance of their Windows versions then I will probably run the Mac versions. In the end, this is only good news for Mac gaming.

I have started writing Java programs at uni and i’m required to add a Java package called B102.jar to the compiler.
Well, the university doesn’t support anyting other than Windows so it was a pain trying to figure out how to use Xcode and use their ‘B102.jar’ package. Anyway to add a .jar package to Xcode for compilation, all you need to do is add your .jar package to:

/System/Library/Java/Extensions/

That’s it. Now when you type import B102.*; for example, it will compile correctly.