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MacOS X and classic links

After getting some used to, MacOS X has turned out to be a very promising operating system that has the best of both Mac and Unix worlds. Here are some links related to MacOS X. Date after each link is the date it was added.

	News sites
	MacNN (11/9/01) Macintouch (11/9/01)

	Technical info and discussion sites
	VersionTracker: Tracks the latest versions of tons of software (11/9/01) Accelerate your Mac (11/9/01) MacOS X hints (11/9/01) AppleLust (11/9/01) MacOSX.com (11/9/01)

	General MacOS X tips
	Performance tuning OS X for G3 Macs. (3/6/02) MacOS-ify MacOS X. (Helps smooth transition from 9) (3/6/02) Various guides on using OS X, setting up XDarwin, Terminal tips, Apache SSL, file utils, etc. (11/9/01) MacOS X unofficial manual (11/9/01)

	Application-specific tips

	Development tips
	Common errors when programming MacOS X screen savers (11/9/01)

	Games tips
	Modifying StarCraft battle.net server list in 1.08b (11/9/01)

	Internet tips
	Connect to MSN on a Mac (3/6/02)

	Networking tips
	Using VPN on MacOS X (3/6/02) Integrating OS X with Microsoft Active Directory. (3/6/02) Setup a software airport base station on MacOS X. (11/9/01) SSH port forwarding for POP3, SMTP, and FTP using MacSSH. (MacOS 9) (11/9/01) Joining a 128-bit wireless network (MacOS 9) (11/9/01)

MacOS X software

These are some sites with downloadable software that I've found useful for MacOS X

	General software resources
	GNU software on Darwin, containing a list of GNU software that has been ported over so far. (11/9/01) Some list of Unix software ported to MacOS X. (11/9/01)

	Development tools
	VisualWorks for MacOS X (a SmallTalk environment. Still beta) (11/9/01) CPLAT, a cross-platform C++ framework targeting MacOS 9/X, Linux, and Windows. (11/9/01)

	Internet utilities
	MacASP, a server side processing CGI system. (11/9/01) XFree86 X server on Darwin SourceForge project. (11/9/01)

	Audio, graphics, and multimedia utilities
	Fairuse, a utlity to turn off Macrovision when playing DVDs to external video. (3/6/02)

	Networking utilities
	gNAT: Share one Internet connection with multiple machines. (11/9/01)

	User interface
	Icon factory, offering tons of Finder icons (11/9/01)

Other computing links

These links are not directly related to MacOS X, but are helpful to my needs.

	Humor, stories, etc.
	Technology for country folks (11/9/01)

	Graphics
	DjVu, a very compact file format for scanned images (11/9/01)

	Programming/markup languages
	Not-so-short guide to LaTex (11/9/01) Guide to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (3/6/02) C# flatters Java (3/30/02)

	Unix and apps references
	CVS documentation (3/7/02)

	Internet and networking technologies
	Free dynamic DNS names (ending with dyndns.org) (11/9/01) Peacefire's lawsuit against spammers, and what you can do if you're a WA state resident. (3/26/02) Hackers find new way to bilk eBay users, cNet. (3/26/02)