Clean Lion install for Ruby Development
I know there’s a few of these posts around, but I wanted to do one purely for my own notes if nothing else. Particularly as I will be setting things up a little differently (partly because I have just...
View ArticleHow to install a SSD in a Mac Pro
It really is quite simple! Buy your SSD (I purchased the Crucial M4 as it seems to have the best reviews) and get a mounting kit depending on where you want to install the disk. I opted to install it...
View ArticleHow to do a clean Lion install
This guide is based on doing a clean Lion install from an existing Lion install (via upgrade). The reason I upgraded first was because I wanted to make sure all important files (such as Mail/keychains...
View ArticleHow to restore your mail, keychain, and other important files
This post is part of my series on Clean Lion install for Ruby Development. Following on from your clean Lion install, we’ll now restore important files to make life easier, my list is below yours might...
View ArticleSetting up a Ruby dev enviroment on Lion
This post is part of my series on Clean Lion install for Ruby Development. Next we’ll set up our fresh dev enviroment for Ruby. Here we’ll cover installing and setting up: GCC (or Xcode) Homebrew Xcode...
View ArticleHow to set up photoshop for web design
Firstly calibrate your monitor. Then in Photoshop: Go to Edit > Color Settings and set the working space for RGB to Monitor RGB. Open a document then Edit > Assign Profile, then set it to Working...
View ArticleHow to split your home folder onto multiple drives
This post is part of my series on Clean Lion install for Ruby Development. Firstly, as far as I know there is no perfect way to do this – ideally you could tell OS X where each directory in your home...
View ArticleHow to install MySQL on Lion (Mac OS X )
If you want to install MySQL on Lion it’s pretty easy, just head on over and download the DMG from mysql.com (for lion you’ll need the 64bit DMG Archive). Then double click on mysql package to install...
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