Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

Since I’ve been using VMware Fusion a lot recently, I’ve started looking around for performance tips (both to get the best results from inside Fusion, and avoid slowing my MacBook Pro to a crawl when it’s running in the background). Besides buying more RAM or a faster Mac, here are a few things you can [...]

Mac Giving Tree; free OSX software from the folks behind the MacHeist promotion. No requirements, except signing up for a MacHeist forums account.

Last week the inevitable finally happened, and one of the drives in my RAID-0 array (attached to a PC I keep pretty much just for file serving) started to fail. Since I built it a few years ago the RAID has pretty much been temporary, until I could find some sort of redundant storage system [...]

Anxiety is a new lightweight task management tool that uses the systemwide task API in Leopard. Simple to use, good looking design, and freeware; I like it.

Great writeup from Daniel Jalkut on examining crash logs with the atos command line tool:
Many developers seem to think that gathering useful crash logs requires shipping a symbol-laden application, but aren’t willing to do so. The fact is, you can have the best of both worlds by shipping a symbol-stripped version of your application, but [...]

From TidBITS Networking:
Leopard includes more information about Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity of your computer than meets the eye. Mac OS X 10.5 updates the AirPort menu in the system menu bar after you select, which is a neat feature and provides more accurate results. It also shows a lock icon next to networks protected [...]