The Macintosh (also known as Mac, is a line of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.
Its main target market is the home, education, and creative professional markets, current products that are sold are the iMac, the entry-level Mac mini desktop model, the Mac Pro tower graphics workstation, and the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops.
At IDR Solutions I spend a lot of time working on our Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter and use a MacBook Pro as my main machine. With a new OS update out I thought I would update my 2013 MacBook Pro with the latest version of OS X, I am now running…
Particularly observant Safari users may have noticed something different after upgrading to OS X Yosemite. In case you still can’t spot it, the underline breaks for the descender of the font (the bottom of the ‘g’). Naturally, a small number of apple fanatics have treated this like the second coming of typography*, but should the…
Bash is a very flexible cross-platform scripting language with multiple uses and can integrate with lots of other tools (ie DIff). It is built into OS X and Linux and you can download it for Windows. This post is about some uses of Bash and how you can use it with Java. We will show…
My 2011 17 inch MacBook Pro died recently 🙁 As a professional software developer this was a major issue (we spend a lot of time together). So I went out and purchased one of the new 15 inch MacBook laptops to replace it. What is it like??? Firstly, it is the most portable machine I…
JavaOne is in full swing once more in San Francisco, and one of the highlights is always the technical keynote where Mark Reinhold rallies the faithful, shares some of Oracle’s plans and always likes to pull some surprises… Some parts of the talk deserve an article on their own, so I will try to give…
