https://akos.ma/tags/mac/Recent content in Mac on akos.maHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/my-faithful-logitech-c930e-webcam/Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/my-faithful-logitech-c930e-webcam/I like boring technology that lasts decades: 2 years ago I was raving about my Harman Kardon SoundSticks (spoiler alert: they are still in service) and today I’d like to rave about my faithful Logitech C930e, an HDMI webcam that’s been with me for 10 years this month.https://akos.ma/blog/conway-in-c89/Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/conway-in-c89/Another year, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time for C89, also known as “ANSI C”, targeting quite a few compilers of the early 1990s, and some others from our more recent times.https://akos.ma/blog/share-your-terminal-live-on-the-web-with-ttyd/Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/share-your-terminal-live-on-the-web-with-ttyd/If you’re in the business of giving demos or talking at conferences, webinars, or other gatherings, sooner or later you’ll have to show your terminal for a demo; in this case, this week’s article will surely interest you: ttyd.https://akos.ma/blog/automatic-dark-mode-via-css/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/automatic-dark-mode-via-css/Dark mode (or dark theme, depending on whom you ask) is a great thing, and major operating systems have adopted it in the past few years as a native feature: Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop environments such as GNOME, Xfce, and KDE have a dark mode built-in.https://akos.ma/blog/word-5.1a-and-excel-4-for-mac-on-basilisk-ii/Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/word-5.1a-and-excel-4-for-mac-on-basilisk-ii/I’ve been using some famous versions of Microsoft apps lately, of the “pre-Office” era: Word 5.1a and Excel 4, which were both running on the Macs available to students at the high school I attended in Geneva around 1993. This article provides the instructions for you to do the same with Basilisk II.https://akos.ma/blog/mini-vmac-on-fedora/Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/mini-vmac-on-fedora/Mini vMac is a very common “Classic Mac OS” emulator, and this article contains the instructions required to get it running on Fedora 41.https://akos.ma/blog/32-years-of-pc-configurations/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/32-years-of-pc-configurations/I’ve been keeping track of the various characteristics of personal computers I’ve owned during the past 32 years, and here’s a table comparing those data points.https://akos.ma/blog/adopting-wezterm/Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/adopting-wezterm/I’ve recently discovered WezTerm, also known as “Wez’s Terminal Emulator” by Wez Furlong, and I’ve adopted it completely, becoming my default terminal application.https://akos.ma/blog/foss-in-developing-countries/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/foss-in-developing-countries/The other day, I had friends in Bolivia asking me if they could install Windows on a laptop they got through an NGO that initially came bundled with Linux.https://akos.ma/blog/technology-stacks/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/technology-stacks/For the past 20 years there’s been this trend to give names to a particular set of operating system, programming language, database tech, and something else.