Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, Wi-Fi Cards/Base Stations, Newton, and Mac OS versions.

The software is packed with not only Apple desktop and laptop computers but also devices and peripherals such as iPhone, Servers, LaserWriter and Apple TV that Apple introduced between 1983 to 2008! It automatically detect your Mac and provide its in-depth profile.

Here’s a collection of Snow Leopard wallpapers I found from various places. For those who’ve heard the news that Apple will be naming the next OS Snow Leopard, here’s a little desktop visual to prep our waits for the next OS X.

I found a post on how to set PATH environment variables via the terminal, but for those who like to be escorted with GUI, here’s a little tip for you.

If you haven’t already do so, download TextWrangler. It’s a free text editor for Mac

Here’s the interface for TextWrangler.

With TextWrangler, you can edit hidden files on the Mac WITHOUT the ’sudo’ command. Here’s how:

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This is a beginner’s guide for installing MySQL (mysql-5.0.51b-osx10.5-x86.dmg) to a OS X 10.5.3

I’ve run into so many problems, frustration and problem trying to install MySQL to my Leopard because the documentations for installing MySQL have changed so much throughout different versions of MySQL and Mac OSX. I basically had to prowl through all sort of sources on downloading, installing and configuring MySQL on my OS X 10.5.3. After going through the nightmares, I thought I should document all my steps so people after me are better off than I am.

Note: If someone is expert in this matter, please help out this post by providing some of your experience and tutorials on improving this post, thanks!

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