Archive for the 'Mac OS X' category

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Generating SSL certificates that will make Firefox 3 happy

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Firefox 3 is annoyingly picky about SSL certificates, which has been an issue for people trying to access my Trac wiki or Subversion repository. I finally had enough and decided to nail the problem. So here are clear steps for generating SSL certificates that will make Firefox 3 happy. I will be using Leopard’s [...]

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Xcode 3.1 preview included in the iPhone SDK

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Update: I initially had stated that LLVM was the future of Apple compiler technologies. This is the case in-so-far as I believe LLVM is the future of the gcc compiler backend. This is a personal blog and I’m obviously not speaking for anyone but myself.
While watching the iPhone SDK announcement video, I noticed some odd things [...]

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CUDA for Mac OS X

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

CUDA is NVIDIA’s architecture and API for GPGPU – general purpose GPU programming. The fact is, those graphic cards are hugely powerful parallel computing units, and everyone stands to benefit by exploiting them to do far more than just outputting images to a screen.
Well today, NVIDIA made CUDA available for Mac OS X. This is [...]

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One of the best Mac OS X application has just gotten better

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Omni released the first public beta of OmniGraffle Pro today. Version 5 boasts an impressive list of new features and refinements, such as GraphViz powered diagram layout, tables, bezier curves and better Visio and PDF import and export.
Give it a try. As far as I’m concerned, my only deception so far is not being able [...]