This paper thoroughly covers Mac OS X application management. Topics include: licensing models, security considerations, reviewing installations, missing Mac OS X applications, missing Mac OS X features, distribution tools, and deployment and distribution solutions
White Paper On Mac OS X Applications
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Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
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OSX NEEDS something like streets and trips so i can have some sort of map software while on the go.
Kinda sad that there can be missing apps on OSX, seams like any such holes would have a company diving at the oppertunity, but then again it might still not be worth it. I think native apps is a big thing to. Since many apps, are using X11, not native, such as Matlab, it’s just their unix version, it’s horrible.
“Since many apps, are using X11”
eh… you mabe should try http://www.macupdate.com or http://www.versiontracker.com... cause by your words it seems as if you get you apps from freshmeat…
please notice that there is thousands of native apps for MacOS X
Other applications which currently lack any Mac OS X alternative.. AutoCAD
That’s completely false. I used MiniCad and Vectorworks even back on OS 8 and 9. They were able to read and write .dwg and .dxf files even back in those days, and the situation has improved thanks to http://www.opendwg.org/
What we want is the open exchange of data, not duplicate applications; especially bizarro convoluted apps like AutoCAD.
I never said there wasn’t lots of native apps, of course their is lots. I’m simply stating that a lot of apps use X11 instead of being native. Big companies that make a perfessional apps that all ready had them for unix just took the easy way out. Things like CAD programs and such.
Keath, I think you missed the point that people want autoCAD, not a replacement, it’s just like people wanting their windows and mac apps for linux, not substitutes. Far as CAD programs, most all the big players do exchange their formats with each other since companies often use various programs, or have to exchange files with companies using other software. That said I can’t stand autoCAD. I’d really like to see Solidworks ported to OSX, but thats not going to happen anytime soon.
Read/Write FTP volume support in the finder
I know Windows doesn’t have it either, but it would be lovely to use the Finder as an FTP client,using my website as an online backup volume and being able to drag and drop files into it.
They do almost an identical thing with .mac, so why not?
“I know Windows doesn’t have it either, but it would ”
Ummm… Windows does have this… Try ftp://blah.com in the address bar of explorer. You will get a folder view of your website.
Jeff
Ummm… Windows does have this… Try ftp://blah.com in the address bar of explorer. You will get a folder view of your website.
Yeah, the Mac Finder has this functionality too, I think CDBee was referring to the fact that you can’t write to the folder – Just browse and download contents. It’s incomplete as an FTP implementation.
I can’t comment whether Windows has FTP write capability in Explorer or not. Anyone?
Yes, Windows Explorer does allow uploading files via FTP.
If you want a street-level map software, check out Route 66 ( http://www.66.com/route66/products.php?cid=US&sec=1&ssec=0&prodid=7… ).
Route 66, its great i’ve used it in the USA and canada and its superb.
Combine this with a TripNav 200 USB powered GPS receiver (size of two domioes side by side) and you are OS X and navigating bro….
I remember my first time in NYC, click find a pay parking lot with its extensive database, auto nav to that lot, and when done visiting, just say to it, from here, take me the hell home, and it found an on ramp i could not see. Superb. The TripNav rocks BTW, even while driving down broadway in the bronx under the L-Train track, i had full signal lock and was able to guide the driver to out destination(s).
I just whish IBM/Lotus would update Improv to the newer cocoa APIs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
Ludo
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