Category Archives: mac

C# code development with Windows 8 on Mac

Downloaded VMWare fusion and installed it on my Mac. Created a new virtual machine ( 2 GB RAM and 60 GB HDD) Downloaded and mounted the Windows 8.1 ISO. Mounting ISO is done as follows Click ‘Virtual Machine‘ menu and choose ‘CD/DVD‘ and then click ‘Choose Disc or Disc image‘ After this again click on  ‘Virtual… Read More »

Logic Pro X 10.2 – Additional content

The holy grail for any music producer would be the 30 + GB worth content of Logic Pro, helping you realize any music concept that you have in your mind. Just like anyone else, I tried downloading the packages from the Logic Pro software itself and it was extremely slow, even though I was running on a… Read More »

M Audio M Track – Audio Interface on Mac

Connected M Audio M Track to the USB port of my mac. Everything was so fast. As soon as I plugged in, it was detected and I was on my way to start recording in Garage band. The only change I had to do was, go to Preferences ( Garage Band > Preferences ) and… Read More »

Character animation software

I have lot of ideas that I want to convey to the world in a very easy way, visually. That means I do not want to work on character sketch, perfecting the hair strands for weeks together. I am more concerned about the content, the story line and the message that I intend to convey… Read More »

HP wireless printer in MacBook

For wireless printing using HP 8600 printer, you could use the very useful HP generic printer driver from apple : https://support.apple.com/kb/DL907?locale=en_US The list of all the printers supported are shown here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP I was able to wirelessly scan photo. I will try the printing features tomorrow.

C# development on Mac

PrologueI am pretty excited to begin C# coding on my new macbook pro.The primary reason is to begin coding whenever my heart sets in, without waiting for the system to load up and open Visual Studio 2015. Back from the days of linux yore and Linux for you magazine, I was aware of Mono, the… Read More »

Android development on Mac

Installation Installed java Downloaded and installed Android studio ( around 1.1 GB) Took about 5 minutes. There was additional download and configuration, and that took about 4 minutes Creating my first hello world program When you first open the IDE, you might see nothing. Don’t freak out. At the bottom of the screen, you can see… Read More »

Installing Java on Mac

Before I executed the the ‘sudo’ command, I made sure I enabled the ‘sudo’ account ( Google if you don’t know how to do that ) Next I wanted to find the location and version of the java installed in my system.>>sudo find / -name javaIt listed several directories, including /usr/bin/java. I proceeded to execute… Read More »