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18th Aug

10

5 Mac Apps You Should Try

Nearly two years ago I published a post on 15 mac apps web designers should have in their dock.
I thought it was about time I updated this list with any new apps I’ve started using but turns out I’ve been using pretty much the same lot since then.
Here are 5 new apps I’ve been [...]

7th Jan

10

Northern Ireland creative resources: Blogs, events, free wi-fi

Sometimes it’s hard to find out what’s happening in the web/tech scene in Northern Ireland so here’s a list of useful sites that I recommend you keep track of so you don’t miss out.

29th Nov

16

Connecting to MAMP in Windows using Parallels on a Mac

I use MAMP for running Apache, MySQL and PHP on the Mac. A simple click and all 3 are up and running in 5 seconds and you can easily configure your ports and root folder.
However, I was having trouble accessing my MAMP server through Parallels. I use Parallels to test my sites on Internet Explorer [...]

20th Oct

93

15 mac apps web designers should have in their dock

Back in June when I was converting from a PC to a MacBook Pro (best decision I ever made) I asked around to see what apps people recommended for the Mac. There are a lot of nice apps available for Mac OSX that aren’t available for Windows.
I’ve compiled a list of Mac Apps I have [...]

16th Oct

7

How to connect to a MAMP MySQL database using CocoaMySQL

I came across this problem when I converted to a Mac and I was trying to connect to a MySQL database on MAMP using CocoaMySQL. CocoaMySQL wasn’t able to connect to the database. Thought the solution may be useful to others.