HiveLogic is host to a quick-and-dirty tutorial on Turning a Mac Into a Fax Server. Using your phone company’s distinctive ring service and any Mac capable of running Panther, your Mac will automatically detect and receive fax calls and (optionally) send them to you via email. [Note: It appears this link is no longer active.]

Posted at 11:39 AM PST with these tags: mac

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When installing and using UNIX software on Mac OS X, one must often set environment variables. Sometimes these only need be set temporarily, and other times these variables should be set whenever a Terminal login session is started. Environment variables were previously set in Jaguar’s tcsh default shell using syntax such as:

setenv DBI_USER postgres

Panther includes bash as its default shell and uses the following syntax:

export DBI_USER=postgres

To set these at login session startup, take a look at these tips from OSXFAQ.

Posted at 11:15 PM PST with these tags: mac, cli

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John Gruber has a handy tutorial on setting up PHP syntax checking in BBEdit over at Daring Fireball. While this provides only basic PHP syntax checking, it’s better than no check at all.

Posted at 3:00 AM PST with these tags: mac, tools

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Flash animations, QuickTime movies, and Java applets have been seamlessly integrated alongside web content for many years. But the next Windows version of MS Internet Explorer, due in 2004, breaks that seamlessness by prompting the user before downloading each active content element (i.e., anything placed using object, embed, and applet tags). Thankfully, Ronald Northrip has written a $15 shareware application called IEWebFix that will scan and modify HTML, XHTML, XML, ASP, JSP, PHP, and CFM files to get around IE’s new behavior. For those curious about the details, Apple’s Developer Connection has more information about preparing sites for these impending changes.

Posted at 3:30 AM PST with these tags: web, tools

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MoinMoin, a Wiki application written in Python, has been updated to version 1.1. The first update since version 1.0 was released 18 months ago, MoinMoin 1.1 includes access control lists (ACL), a new diff interface, a slew of new configuration options (like user-definable smileys), and numerous other changes.

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Posted at 12:17 AM PST with these tags: wiki, tools

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