Wget is a great command line  for grabbing things from the web, but it doesn’t ship with macs. So if you want to install it here are a few steps:

1. download the source file: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.tar.gz
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I’ve recently decided to give Mac OS X a try. For the past week or so I’ve been spending a good few hours a day working in Snow Leopard installed on a MacBook Pro borrowed from a friend.

While Mac OS is unlike any Unix-like operating system I’ve managed so far, there are certainly some of similarities. I can honestly say that I’m enjoying the Mac Book Pro so far, and hope to discover most of the differences compared to my previous Unix-like desktop which is Ubuntu 9.10.
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Chances are, you may want to change the product key of your Mac Office 2008 upon finishing an update from their site because the product key used to install your Office 2008 installation used an invalid product key. If after the update it does detect that an invalid product key was used, the office assistant will keep on popping up while the application that you chose to open will never be seen. To reset the product key, delete the following files and send to trash.

• /Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 settings.plist
• /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist

[username] would be the username of your laptop. Run any Mac Office 2008 application and the office assistant will now have a textfield of the product key for you to input.

Nokia not having an iSync plugin for the phone (they seem to have one for every other device).

So I’ve put one together with some info from the web (and looking inside the available Nokia plugins) and now have it working successfully over Bluetooth. It has full iCal & Address Book (with photos) support, and a nice pic of the phone for the iSync panel.
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I recently tried an antivirus application (ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Mac OS X) for mac os x, I’m in a mixed mac/win environment at work so why not check if I had any windows viruses on my box

The application runs rather smoothly even if it’s a beta. At least until it messed up a bunch of different cache files in /private/var/db/dyld. The line “dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache” was showing up whenever I worked in terminal. Amazingly irritating!
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