So you develop PHP 5.3 on a Mac? Mebbe you, like me, are a fan of Symfony2? Then you might have noticed a few deficiencies in the pre-loaded version of PHP 5.3 on your computer.

How to install Apache, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB and a whole bunch of other useful packages on Mac OS X 10.6.

Seriously. It even does realtime updates.

Coda is awesome. Here’s a quick way to make it awesomer: invisible visible invisible characters!

I’ve been using Pukka — a Mac client for Delicious — for a bit, and it’s pretty great. (More on that later, it’s already the subject of a half-finished Technophobe review).

iTunes hates me:

I love my phone. But it sucks to use it while lying down, because no matter how I turn it, it tries to stay right-side-up. But I’ve figured out a coping mechanism. So here’s how to use your iPhone while lying down in bed:

I love playing games on my phone when I have a minute or two of downtime. Because I live in the city, this downtime is usually on the subway. I’m constantly searching for better games. And the ideal subway app is an elusive beast.

You should keep an eye on the iPhone app reviews over at Tech.nopho.be.

iTunes’ iPhone backup is absolutely horrid. I’ve just about decided to completely replace it with rsync, so I figured I’d give it one last go. It’s been 2 hours since I plugged my phone in and iTunes auto-synced. It’s been over a week since my last rsync backup. How do they compare?

What does your phone look like?

Every once in a while someone asks me what cool software they should install on their computer. Invariably, I say something like “check out the OS X tag on my blog.”

Apparently I’ve been lying to everyone, because I looked at the software categories on my blog the other day and realized that I haven’t been posting much there at all. So I decided to do something about it.

One of the reasons I like OS X is the consistent user interface…. So you can imagine how excited I was when the Firefox team announced that they would be releasing operating system targeted themes for Firefox 3

This post goes out to all my fellow Mac mouse haters:

3.2 ghz core 2 duo
4 gb PC2-6400 ram
10,000 RPM SATA hard drive

A few weeks ago I purchased the MacHeist II bundle, a program that hooks up Mac users with great deals on software and earns money for charity in the process… This year they donated almost half a million dollars. I’ve got no beef with MacHeist. I do, however, have a problem with Yazsoft, the vendors of Speed Download, which was included in the MacHeist bundle.

Several people (including my buddy Jacob) have posted lists of the supposed failures of the MacBook Air, Apple’s latest offering in the notebook computer market. I didn’t listen to any of the naysayers. I bought a MacBook Air.

I’ve been using Leopard for a couple of weeks now. I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time telling at a glance which stack is which…

Think is my new favorite productivity app. The other day I was trying to read an ebook on my computer. but computers have a tendency to distract me. There’s always something interesting going on. Twitter, instant messaging, email and blog feeds each clamor for my attention. In looking for the mac equivalent to a Compiz-Fusion module called “ADD helper”, I stumbled onto think.

I love Firefox. Really, I do. It can be speedy. It can be extensible. But apparently it can’t be both at the same time… All my development plugins make it slow, and all my browsing plugins make it even slower.

Firefox for Mac has something seriously funky going on with the scroll action on my blog. Not sure what’s causing it, but I’ll look into it when I get a minute. Until then, I guess you’ll have to use the scroll buttons on the side.

Take that, Apple.

Hey kids, I hope the campout was worth it. One of you should show me your iPhone when you get a chance, because it might change my mind about how crazy and obsessed all you fanboys are.